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Ancestry Poems - Poems about Ancestry

Ancestry Poems - Examples of all types of poems about ancestry 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 ancestry.
NATURE'S WARNING
... Waves break at the seaside ancestry screams in fury... keep waste out of here!......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, 7th grade, allusion, caregiving,
Form: Haiku



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 dust. O black water days. Colonizatio......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, africa, confidence, courage, family,
Form: Free verse
Totality
... We find deep inside ourselves The traits of ancestors therein dwells Grandpa’s eyes, our Mom’s hair Our stature from … who knows where? What we claim as thought process We may be forced to r......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cabernet and Dragonflies
...cabernet and dragonflies - red and green fireworks flitting about tall trunks; the woods is dark. patio lit with tea lights, amber and ebony. pink-crèpe jellyfish, in uttermost t......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, engagement, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Let Me Be
...It has been said: That if, just one person remembers, your life after you are gone, then you may still be forced to walk this earth tied to a false memory. My prayer, is to be entirely forgotte......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Mediterraneo
...El ambiente del Mediterraneo Where one finds the people proud, One finds a harmonious crowd. The light of the people, the fidelity of tradition. The people of the triumphant are victorious ......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, appreciation, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Wonderment at existence
...Wonderment at existence ™ With my scrunched and bushy furrowed brow I often ponder the precise circumstances that any thing to be born tracing back lineage of self or arbitrary individua......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, adventure, animal, atheist, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sins of Ancestry
... Burning in black flames of eternal woes, my heart yearns to find answers it's needing. Skin begins to wilt like a winter rose, bruised from deep wounds of internal bleeding. Haunted by sad so......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, angst, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In Crowning truth
...Ivan Talbot in W A, has some lineage; online today Claims Rollo and Miliesius, and Hezikiah are all his Forebears such 'could be dire' I know this line of the Irish King, for he's my blood too (my......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, education, endurance, today,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pledge Allegiance
...A union in ourselves flags wave Unite in freedom, die in vain House divided, republican it saids stand One nation, under God; only good rules A stand for liberty as we ourselves A pledge allegi......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, absence, adventure, character, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Wonderment at existence mine
...Wonderment at existence – mine a sixty four year old married bloke born January 13th, mcmlix under Capricorn sign in general, and January 13th in particular who dons online personage with cus......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, adventure, age, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
... He was an ancient warrior from times of old back in the days when the sun was new and the stars at night were brilliant blue like the Canopus star he once knew Often, he was found ru......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, analogy, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Proof from the Apple
... Seems that all women are against sexual atrocities Only if - committed against women of non-Jewish ancestry Proof once again, the apple of antisemitism falls not far from its t......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, fruit, hate, irony, tree,
Form: Rubai
Premium Member We Are All Colored--
...We are all colored, What is this; Term in the US in contrast with "white" Colored Middle English; Coloured was first used in the 14th century; Binding to be anything non Caucasian, European ......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, analogy, appreciation, discrimination, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member We Burned the Tree
...We broke the world and now we’ll see The wrath of nature’s revenge, violently. Cities burn, towns flood. We think we’re the owners? We think we’re the good? Billions of years before you and me......Read the rest...
Categories: ancestry, abuse, corruption, fate, grave,
Form: Free verse

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