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Ruins Poems - Poems about Ruins

Ruins Poems - Examples of all types of poems about ruins 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 ruins.
We press on, bound to yesterday, dragging chains through time’s tight whirlwind
...We press on, bound to yesterday, dragging chains through time’s tight whirlwind, The prisoner is not the one who has erred, but the one haunted by their mistakes. We are all guilty of the great cri......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Relevance of Unspoken Poetry
... "The Relevance of Unspoken Poetry" These are “my people”, are they not? I spread my wings like a Cormorant and went deep diving deep deep deep full speed, into the......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, muse,
Form: Free verse
Life is a picture
...History awaits for it's train to the past. The future awaits for it's train to the present. History blows a kiss of comforting memories. You linger on to History, Yet History is quick to board hi......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, art, destiny, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where I grew up
... Your heart remains in the same place where its memories belong to.- quote by author Small, close and warm neighborhood. Only a few children inventing toys to play with or ......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, beauty, best friend, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Vancouverite Metropolitan Hellscape, part 1 of 5
...(prelude) the buzzing of the evening insects presage evil ! here are black wolves ! here are ghosts and fiends and here are blackest of demons ! and black be the murk ton......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, abuse, addiction, america, angst,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Maritime Metallic Mind
... The cobalt mind of ancient mariner of the seven seas, the surfing sailor tosses on the waves of youthful life, rolls on the curled crests with the splintered moon, drawn into dark agony trough......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, analogy, surreal,
Form: Free verse
THE MURMURES OF THE FIELD OF MARS
...They were exhibited as strange curiosities, They all had a face, a name, an identity on this land soiled by negrophobia. They looked without seeing, their eyes lost in the ruins of their humanity......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Below the veil of twilight, memories sway in the moon's oaring
...Below the veil of twilight, memories sway in the moon's oaring, Effigies of the departed rise like incense smoke amongst ruins. They have sprinkled us with pale dreams, and now, flowers of forgetfu......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
On The Line
...I can hardly believe that you are leaving after all the places you have been, I can hardly believe that you are leaving to start a brand new season. Winter is still hanging around and the ground hog......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, america, bereavement, business, city,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Discomfort
...I can't relate how I feel within metaphor For I'm unpoetic in this frozen state Any move I make ruins my life But stillness means I don't live it I can't paint a poem atop these days See them......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Confluence
...“Forget the injuries, never forget kindness” ~ Confucious To the faceless names I’ve phased, forgive the silent sunsets, frozen in time, and remember thin cinnamon skylines, how ink c......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, angst,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
After the Floods
...After the floods, We were left with nothing, Our homes lay in ruins, All we had gone leaving us torn. It was an unprecedented downpour, Twilight’s gift to us, Spring was in full swing, The w......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Rose Coloured Glasses
...I want rose coloured glasses, To watch the world burn and misty mushrooms fill up the sky. I want rose coloured glasses, To watch the sun's rays shine from window tops. I want rose coloured g......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, fate, future,
Form: Free verse
can’t denyyy
...I beg for your forgiveness once more I said too much again…need I say more? It’s been a crappy, snappy day for me and today will be my day An attitude of gratitude instead of dismay would be nice ......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, emotions, fear, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Maestros Of Vaulted Skies
... Under Florentine sunsets, once home to maestros and Pope's, Ruled Medicis shallow ego, carved in marble from impassioned breasts, A Renaissance of heart creating visions of Man's Hope's, Donat......Read the rest...
Categories: ruins, art, history, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

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