World Poems - Examples of all types of world poetry to share and read. This list of world poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. The beauty of our planet is incredible; however, the issues associated with this society are mounting. We hope that the world will become a better place and we write poetry about this hope, as well as, the reality of life in this world.Read
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Love And Kind Intent
If all we did in our lifetime
Came from a place of love and kind intent
The world would be a better place
Not perfect…though many sufferings it would prevent
It is such a shame it is not that...
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Categories:
life, peace, world,
Form: Rhyme
The Mercy DogI watched a dog sweep across the land where no man stands:
So delicate in his every step. He manoeuvred across it
With very little fault, and he didn’t worry for the mud
That clung his feet like...
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Categories:
world, animal, death, dog, feelings,
Form: Free verse
On The Verge
On The Verge
Beady eye, horse riding dictator
Replacing peace with violence
Using conventional weapons against
A sovereign, democratic nation
His wanderlust and ideologic hatred
Remain unabated
Now beginning to see non-edible mushrooms
Rising in the sky
On the verge of world war
Inevitable...
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Categories:
world, death, fire, war, winter,
Form: Free verse
Rainy SundayRainy day Sunday
Sleeping all day like cat
My world halt awhile....
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Categories:
engagement, life, sleep, world,
Form: Haiku
they were not humanWe’d already beaten Japan
But the A-bomb was Truman’s plan
To tell Russian reds
We’ll cut you to shreds
And that’s how the Cold War began
We flashed two targets civilian
And killed point two of a million
Of sub-human trash
Just burned...
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Categories:
racism, world war ii,
Form: Limerick
Ketchup PacketMy worst nightmare sat down beside me
With the most angelic face
And whispered things too hard to swallow
His smile sweetening the taste
“All that’s wicked has the upper hand
“All that’s pure has gone...
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Categories:
world, angst, child abuse, dark,
Form: Free verse
Moscow IIt caters to an arrogance of hate
when war becomes a method of despite.
Through vile contempt, he seeks to cultivate
a dogma that defines inhuman blight.
The devil’s plan has given due consent
to let annihilation be the goal.
Let...
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Categories:
world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Moscow IIAs swift assaults endeavored to prevail,
the magnitude of death was asinine.
‘Twas such a toll above a measured scale
that no explicit value could define.
As battles raged, no exploit could surmount
the endless waves that fell within the...
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Categories:
world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Moscow IIIAnd all the world would change forevermore,
for solitude’s content has come undone.
Its island bliss could harbor it no more
as destiny unleased the rising Sun.
The sleeping giant woke to see its rays
unfurl their wrath...
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Categories:
world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
An Open Letter
All the days of my life, nobody helped me with money except myself and limited number of family members. I never asked any favor from anybody, but I'm very grateful to God...
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Categories:
appreciation, people, world,
Form: Other
Cornish poem We Cornish are a NationCornwall is almost an island,
Thanks to the river Tamar and the sea,
Its indigenous inhabitants are us Cornish and
We Cornish are a nation - and will always be.
Kernow (Cornwall) boasts its own:
...
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Categories:
world, encouraging, england, hope, poems,
Form: Rhyme
4- A sight to seeThe Mountains to high
The Rivers to clear
The forest o’plenty
Truly a sight to see
Yet no mortal eyes
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Categories:
allusion, beauty, death, world,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
beauty, death, world,
Form: Free verse
The StateThe problem seeks to end us.
To show its fangs.
To show its wrath.
In the end no blood was spilled.
No rips.
Nor tears.
Only a quite sombre.
As the Problem consumes us all....
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Categories:
death, deep, sorrow, world,
Form: Free verse
The BeginningThe World we know is ending.
There is nothing we can do.
There was once but not anymore.
The problem is unforgiving.
A poem on the world by JCS/Melancolia...
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Categories:
world, death, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of World Poems
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beauty, changing, day, end of the, hope, issues, out of this, peace, population, problems, war, we live in,
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