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Paeans Poems - Poems about Paeans

Fledglings in parental nest

...Way-lost as if we live in hoary past-- 
In epics of hist’ry poets have sung, 
In portraits of culture, hoisted on mast, 
Still, where are old glories, save on the tongue? 
One knows of few people...
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Categories: paeans, bird, history, old,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberElegy for Old Growth

...Elegy – 7-17-24
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Elegy for Old Growth

Through measures of metered melancholy
The tattered winds sing a rent elegy,
A pensive wai...
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Categories: paeans, death, life, nature,
Form: Elegy



Premium MemberA Poet's Crush

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"A collaboration poem"

Oh, to be a poet like me
To be a muse, inspire, kindle someone's pen
To be the one they come to for help and encouragement
To be connected always by heart...
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Categories: paeans, art, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLIFE

...Laughter and love ,sorrow and pain
In times both good and bad
Finding the strength to meet the day
Ending with a headstone engraved

Even after death there is life
Faith leads us so to believe
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Categories: paeans, death, faith, hope, life,
Form: Acrostic

A prodigal son prays

...A begging bowl, I scarce can pay thy debt,
Let me then indebted to thee remain
For life, to cherish thy bounties I get,  
If I wish to give, wonder what’ll ye gain?
So then, I opt to sing paeans ...
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Categories: paeans, prayer, son,
Form: Sonnet



To flowers once said dour thorns

...I

For long faulted as wicked causing pain,
And condemned as crooks of a cruel kind—
Old prejudice or heartless brain’s refrain, 
Repeated ad nauseam a point to grind—
An error all the same of ...
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Categories: paeans, flower,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Premium MemberMelancholy's Garden

...Lost in a wistful arbor, where malaise blooms,
Mists flower in hypnotic bleak violet dusks
Shades of brooding melancholy  
Bruise my treasured bouquets of dreams
And plod through ponderous mists ...
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Categories: paeans, garden, sad,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLobster

...Life is so cool
On seas and oceans
Best steamed, served over a pool
Sweet and sour delicacy of paeans
Throat where its brain rests
Engulfed head where stomach and kidney nests
Ripping teeth in ...
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Categories: paeans, creation,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberWinter Winds Quiver

...winter winds quiver

winter winds quiver
 when ice mists ride on torrents ~
  cloudy vesper veils

solstice zephyrs glaze
 meadows with crystal glitter ~
  vanilla moons rise

raw breath of...
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Categories: paeans, wind, winter,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberSeraphim Blessing

...He fell to earth like a meteor
wielding his fiery sword 
but unlike seraphim
he was not here to cleanse the wicked
Soulless & motherless 
he would unleash 
his wrath upon the world
A wall ...
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Categories: paeans, angel, appreciation, blessing, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMusic of My Soul

...Music of My Soul 

The earth ever composes mystical arias for me
That taste the splendor in thunder’s profusion,
Then touch the silent metronomes of lyric waves free
To hypnotize my pulse in mov...
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Categories: paeans, earth,
Form: Rondeau Redouble

Premium MemberEarth Music

...Earth Music 

The earth ever composes mystical arias for me
That taste the splendor of rolling thunder,
To touch the silent metronomes of lyric waves
That hypnotize my presto pulse in movements ...
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Categories: paeans, earth, music,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTo Wand'Ring Minstrel Breezes

...The rapturous oceans roar
And shout their praise in gospel waves
That crash and smash
Against a cold and distant shore.

The mountains sigh and moan,
Lift suppliant arms, sing paeans and psalms...
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Categories: paeans, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAn Inspired Poet

...A weaver of words in deep quiet reflects
In his mind’s prism, many a thought deflects
Within him the rainbow colors of passion rage
He scripts songs of beauty and rhyme on page after page

He ha...
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Categories: paeans, emotions, passion, song,
Form: Rhyme

Synonym For Love, This Bench

...Synonym for love ah this bench,
For many a dream dreamt on bench,

The refuge of a last resort—
Felt by all that sat on this bench,

Of two happy souls’ hearty tales,
Filled to brim with joy b...
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Categories: paeans, eulogy, love,
Form: Ghazal

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