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Potentates Poems - Poems about 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......

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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......

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Categories: potentates, christian, heaven, jesus,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hate's Campaign
...The world is changing in a profound way, by the philosophy of fear and lies. You can't trust a word politicians say; they connive and editorialize. And legislate laws that legitimize cor......

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Categories: potentates, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Ballade
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......

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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. ......

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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......

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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......

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Categories: potentates, best friend, blessing,
Form: Blank 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......

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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......

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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......

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Categories: potentates, courage, war,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Easy Pickings
...People, prepare for chaos; democracy is struggling. Worldwide ideologies lean far right; dictators, potentates, and tyrants rule unconstrained by any semblance of law. The young don't re......

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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......

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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......

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Categories: potentates, allegory, sad, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Self-Tutoring Translation of Rimbaud's Final Version Vowels In Contemporary Terms
...A Self-Tutoring Translation of RIMBAUD's Final Version " Vowels " in Contemporary Terms (" Vowels " (final version, without the definite article, with the poet's corrections) in RIMBAUD Œuvres......

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Categories: potentates, analogy, color, sound, surreal,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Food For Thoughts
...Russia has indefensible missiles that can carry a nuclear warhead. And climate change triggers bells and whistles, for future predictions look bad, filled with dread. Kim Jong-un has b......

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Categories: potentates, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Sonnet

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