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White Lotus Poems - Poems about White Lotus

Premium MemberDescent And Ascent

...I fall a raindrop from stratus to stratum
birthed from clouds pregnant with thunder
a lion’s roar —a pride in the sky— fierce!
armed with lightning’s rip and slit
the scythe of claw and tooth fin...
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Categories: white lotus, conflict, freedom, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGemini Garden - Silent One

...Around the lake on midsummer days,
A garden blooms in vivid display,
Red, yellow, white, pink, and gold,
Daisies, Bougainvillea, Dahlia, bold.

Palash trees with fiery hues,
Mirror pink and whi...
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Categories: white lotus, garden,
Form: Rhyme



Sassanid Sun reborn as the Divine Khan Part 2

...He awoke as Bögü Qaghan, Khan of the Uyghurs, Great East Wise Prince 
He heard the words “Visit the seven petal lotus of times since 
And breathe in that lotus flower’s scent, by the holy wind, to ...
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Categories: white lotus, conflict, light, religion, religious,
Form: Musaddas

Premium MemberWings of Warmth

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"Mother, 
             You are my heartbeat 
                  and I'm your lifeline,
         we both are 'one', 
                   as an inseparable hue of purity, 
            smeare...
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Categories: white lotus, autumn, blessing, deep, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

Trial of Red and White Fire

...Centuries ago

In ancient Hermopolis

A debate roared loud

Between a proud Christian priest

And a strange shepherd

Who was a Manichaean

Wearing ragged clothes

And who was looking f...
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Categories: white lotus, beautiful, fire, religion, religious,
Form: Choka



Premium MemberI Return To Share Poetic Gifts

...It was nearly two years ago, that I left the PS site
Bidding my friends fond 'farewell,' I took flight
If the door is ajar, I think I'll enter once more
Hoping things are better than t...
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Categories: white lotus, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhite Lotus of Love

...White lotus of love you are always a promise  
you with your petals soft and ready to open 
why do you entice me to dream like a sleuth 
looking for signs everywhere, are you youth?  

Egyptian ...
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Categories: white lotus, appreciation, hope,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberWhite Lotus

...
white lotus
unfolding in greens-
newborn
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Categories: white lotus, appreciation, beauty, flower, nature,
Form: Haiku

Island In a Lake

...Every morning... every evening,
he feels like an island in a lake,
a deep lake glistening in lithesome ripples.
His cranky old face sees an illuminated white lotus, 
withering in shades of shaggy...
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Categories: white lotus, age, loneliness, mountains, pain,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBrokenhearted Sunsets

...It's never anything big, just a nagging defeat
Of wanting to be exclusive in your ambit,
For in your eyes, I see an opportune disguise
Living as a friend of genuine vibes gone awry.

It was the ...
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Categories: white lotus, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

Within the Dream

...There are rights and wrongs, or so it seems,
in the most outlandish fancy flights.
When we’re asleep even in our dreams
there’s an awareness of wrongs and rights.

Yet are they the same for all ...
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Categories: white lotus, destiny, dream, life, self,
Form: Verse

The Dance On the Mountain Peaks

...At Paro of Bhutan I found the clouds
Gathering over the snow white peaks
Over the summit the deep blue shroud
Kept looking on in dazed disbelief

If one takes up my fountain pen
Or snatches my ...
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Categories: white lotus, absence, allusion, beauty, blue,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberElement of Water For Contest

...Drops of water serve as hydration
Requisite to efflorescence
Prismatic rose flower buds
Rain precipitation
Quenchs the thirsty soul
Under rainfall
Afternoon
Beach shore
Stroll

Impermeable ...
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Categories: white lotus, water,
Form: Nonet

Death Has No Glory

...DEATH HAS NO GLORY



For those who love life, death has no glory.
What pharaoh would not trade 
His pyramid, myriad years in the building,
For forty seconds worth of fresh air
Blowing over t...
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Categories: white lotus, death, life,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberWhite Lotus

...Full moon reflects in the unstained white Lotus that floats in the quiet pond.


















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Categories: white lotus, flower,
Form: Monoku

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