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Potentates Poems - Poems about Potentates

Potentates Poems - Examples of all types of poems about potentates to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for potentates.
Becoming our Parents, Take it Easy
... My mother and father never wavered in their routine. After each one of my siblings sprang into life, my father sat on the porch and spit ‘Day’s Work’ tobacco juice down his chin while my mother sna......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, family,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Utopia
... Whether you are a red state or a blue state, A Dictatorship, Socialist, or Democracy; Let us be clear about one thing. Although it's clear that some man-made systems are decidedly better th......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, christian, heaven, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hate's Campaign
...Our world is changing in a profound way through the philosophy of fear and lies. You can't trust a word politicians say; they connive and editorialize. And legislate laws that legitimize ......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Ballade
Gilded Mules
...Gold-laden mules, beasts of burden, laboriously toiling in their quixotic quest to become princely potentates, Spinning in a joyless cycle, sparked by embers of short-lived pleasures behind britt......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, allegory, extended metaphor, god,
Form: Free verse
Listen
...Listening is the most beautiful things, I have ever experience in my entire existence. Given unto me the power of silent by the silencer. As the blackness removes the colors from my eyes......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, color, emotions, meaningful, poetry,
Form: Free verse



When the Sun Shines With the Rain
...There is a call of the night. The lantern throws scattered light. The windswept voices calling. From on high stars are falling. A wandering silent street. Where the darkness and light meet. ......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, life,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Green
...Petrichor perfumes the air, storm violence unleashed; the force of raindrops on the ground, the heat of lightning in the street cleanse earth’s stagnant atmosphere and primal fragrance is releas......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, beauty, nature, rain, spring,
Form: Free verse
Ethical Poem
...An ethical poem A big crow and a sparrow which had painted itself in the colour of a big bird to look masterful became friends Both suffered from a bombastic belief they could take on the elder......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, best friend, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Hidden Flaws
...Hidden flaws are often seen through the lens of an aged eye. When shadows collaborate to hide hate and pretense helps bigotry go unseen, just open your eyes; it's all there to see. A c......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Penetration Privileges
...Like God amassing gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh, vain potentates, possessed by pride that riches will confer, depleted pillaged villages in pagan days of old… With penetration privilege......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, conflict, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Merry Christmas
...Make no mistake, in spite of 2020's terror, God's Mercy is being served on planet earth.* Every morning, day after day, year after year, God's magnanimous mercies are endless. Righteousness exa......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, christmas,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member King Richard's Crusade
...“Make love tonight as if it were your last Then hold your youngest; memorize his face Next time you see your sons, years may have passed Hold fast to moments time tries to erase “Our lion-h......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, courage, war,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Easy Pickings
...People prepare for the worst, for democracy’s struggling. Worldwide ideologies lean fascist right, dictators, potentates, and tyrants rule unconstrained by any semblance of law. The youn......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, 10th grade, anger, angst,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Bullies, Dictators, and Potentates
...By what perverse mental capacity Does the bully gain satisfaction In administering agony upon another By what human deficiency Does the dictator righteously believe Their dictates should circ......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, anti bullying, betrayal, courage,
Form: Free verse
Landing
...LANDING Big Brother's eye beyond the sky Saw it not sneak nigh, round valley and hill, gripping necks at will; No Global Hawk, Predator, Brigadier, Mirador, nor fortress and tower high......Read the rest...
Categories: potentates, allegory, sad, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

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