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Sustenance Poems - Poems about Sustenance

Sustenance Poems - Examples of all types of poems about sustenance 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 sustenance.
Premium Member take my words
...Take my words Gently As a thorn-crested rose Beauty Shielded by doubt Shivering In its self-ness Caress my words As infants Seeking Sustenance Toddlers Tumbling Over one another Adolesc......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, poetry, self, words,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Barbarossa II
...As Barbarossa roars into the East. its southern barb cut swiftly to the core. And as it raged the slaughtering increased, consuming any force that stood before. His swift barrage devoured the ran......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Barbarossa I
...When giants hide their heads beneath the sand, the body lies unshielded from the Sun. ‘Tis but a hedge to seemingly withstand the winds of war that nothing will out run. ‘Tis opportune for those ......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Most women have grown tired of just being women
...Most women have grown tired of just being women, Weary of always being the flowers of unending seasons, awaiting to be plucked And placed in vases for gazes that never feel their roots; They, the ......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Flesh Wounds
...The mirror reflects a lifetime etched upon my skin; a canvas of stories whispered through maturity. I stand before it, middle-aged and exposed, my nakedness laid bare. My image holds no ju......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, appreciation, beauty, body, growth,
Form: Free verse



Aint It Funny How It Is
... I like the accidental, incidental way- the mist kisses and lifts from the timberline, like angelic lung that breathes it all in, drifts to the next flowering, a honey bee in a land o......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Esthete
... The human body may be a marvel though he preferred his were of marble or gold or some other precious metal with a life approaching to eternal! For flesh and blood failed miserably as sui......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, dark, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Tears in the night
...Tears in the night In unwritten chronicles, time embraces me with its fear, On the shore of refusal, I withdraw, without wishing to be close to any soul. My tears, mercurial, weave experiences hid......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member SAVE THE MORIBUND LUNGS OF THE EARTH
... Biosphere's tropical respiratory rainforests are on the verge of extinction, the exclusive reservoir of biodiversity, the Congo Basin is shrinking rapidly. Deforestation dehydrates the c......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, earth, environment, pain, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Food glorious food
...Food glorious food Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gu......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
Rambling
...That rambling castle across the landscape bewitched my heart As though divinity has signed, gorgeous is its art. Are the cherubims relaxing, spreading out their legs and hands? Are these archaic, ......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, art, culture, life, technology,
Form: Rhyme
A POEM SIX THOUSAND YEARS OLD
...When Attis, in guise of maiden fair, did sing Unto her comrades, lo, the thiasus stirred! A cacophony of voices quivering, The delicate tambourine, it did swell With resonance, and hollow cymba......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
...Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke within noggin of average baby boomer bloke catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke positive growth experiences through......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Under the glow of a dead moon
...I have been here much too long. I ache for a varied vies of the stratosphere A spin on the rings of Saturn Bar hopping on the Milky Way I know way too much about you Earthlings, Making love ......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Givers Of The Red
...From all walks of life, near and far, you lie on a gurney, your own sustenance flowing out of you- givers of the red. Quiet heroes take the iron supplements, so you can give again and agai......Read the rest...
Categories: sustenance, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse

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