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Journey Verse Poems

These Journey Verse poems are examples of Verse poems about Journey. These are the best examples of Verse Journey poems written by international poets.

Message in a Bottle

I bottle my emotions,
Seal them tight like messages in glass,
Cast adrift in vast, uncaring seas,
Only to wash ashore, unbidden and misunderstood.

It was a journey long...

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Categories: verse, allegory, boat, grief, hate,

Pan-Africanism

Like twins, we share markers of a common history,
Civilization, and knowledge; a call for unity.
The carcasses of slavery and the slave trade
Are lost in the...

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Categories: verse, africa, confidence, courage, family,

Dead Reckoning


An ancient mariner in the seamless sea, 
I’m sailing for ages in the intuited undefined course 
in sparkling sunshine and tormenting tempest,
on the rolling timeless...

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Categories: verse, analogy, journey, life,

Yearn

" Life is the story of men who have strived, won or failed and of hearts that keep yearning against all odds"   ...

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Categories: verse, absence, allegory, love,

Better Pakistan

Tears in my eyes, pain in my heart
The country my forefathers fought for
Lost in the pathetic battle of politics
Bloodshed keeps ascending, dirty politicians
Forgotten land, hopes,...

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Categories: verse, corruption, education, patriotic,

Nocturn of the Alone

Drifting in silence, no haven in sight,
Alone in the crowd, under the pale moonlight.
Whispers of home, now ghosts in the wind,
A solitary journey, with no...

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Categories: verse, angst, deep, desire, hurt,

White Wind

Through the eyes that see
In the mind that think 
Faces are powdered white 
Like a kings face in horror 

Lo! The foes in light 
From...

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Categories: africa, anti bullying, art,

Double Minded

No coincidence 
that I have at the least
two of most everything
for navigation

generally favoring
one side over another

though mostly straddling
the lines between – the tight
I walk...life’s many...

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Categories: verse, christian, confusion, freedom, growth,

Feeling of death

Feeling of death

I feel death
Why? 

Everyday
Graveyard feeling
Crypt feeling
Why?

Master: Someone wants to kill you.
Vilmos: Who?
Master: Your love.
Vilmos: Master, don’t lie.
      ...

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Categories: verse, life,

A Time To Reflect


When the starless nights are bleakly opaque, 
and the sunless days desolately misty, 
to steer the astray life across ambiguity maze 
in the miasma of...

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Categories: verse, analogy, introspection, life,

The Mice Are Out Tonight

THE MICE ARE OUT TONIGHT

The mice are out, it is a wonderful night
The waxing moon is in a laid back mood
Mice pass through the grass...

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Categories: verse, imagination, uplifting,

climbing up

As  I climb  up – I wonder about what I am leaving behind. 
Am I leaving my roots or just some old boots...

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Categories: mountains, moving on,

Shine Like A Star

Author  Dana Redricks 
April 14, 2024

Amidst a sea of faces, you shine bright, a star so unique, a dazzling light. Your talent, a gift...

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Categories: verse, care, dedication, deep, encouraging,

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...

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Categories: verse, appreciation, beauty, body, growth,

Unbearable Heartbreak

The pain in my heart threatens to be my end,
I sought to show the 'me' that God did intend.
Yet, silenced I stand, to the skies,...

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Categories: verse, break up, desire, fate,