Best Abolished Poems
Below are the all-time best Abolished poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of abolished poems written by PoetrySoup members
I LIVE FOR THE DAY - A Visual Video PoemPOTW 12th May 2019
Thank you for visiting my third Visual Video Poem, more or less a continuation of my previous poem – ‘The Dreamer’
(I invite...
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Categories:
abolished, hope, inspiration, motivation, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
I Will Remember You MostI am not sure whether I am missing you or that you are missing life~
...
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Categories:
abolished, brother, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Mountains of my countryJust drop once, when you happen to go by.
A tale they may count, mountains of my country;
Of paradise invaded and forests destroyed,
Of vessels adrift and...
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Categories:
abolished, appreciation, best friend, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
StrugglesSTRUGGLES
WE AS A RACE HAVE HAD OUR STURGGLES AND TESTS
WE’VE COME OUT VICTORIOUS BUT NOT BECAUSE WE ARE THE BEST
IT IS THE LORD WHO SAW...
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Categories:
abolished, black-african amerrace,
Form:
Narrative
Social Justice
What a clamour
What a noise
To bring social justice
To answer the cries
That's gone on for centuries
That they keep maintaining
With promises and lies
Black lives matter
So we shout
But...
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Categories:
abolished, america, angst, black african
Form:
Free verse
GOD KNOWS YOUR ENDGod knows your end;
Death* comes unannounced...
How will last breath find...
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Categories:
abolished, courage, death, faith, god,
Form:
Questionku
THE INSATIABLE WHITE CREATURESBeneath the cold glare of the desolate night,
They came, greedy and insatiable white creatures,
Cloaked in prim pretense,
Every curve of their features seemed to express a...
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Categories:
abolished, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
Caradog's Fight
Faithful companion, Caradog, without necessity
Habitat fed his needs, our bond rapidly developed
Fierce competent hunter amazingly adopted me
Heritage unable to continue, thylacine near relic...
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Categories:
abolished, animal, appreciation, bereavement, best
Form:
Rhyme
Love for NatureI love all those who are never seen
Either met those or I keen to meet
From rural generous to urban polished
Either created or have been abolished
I...
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Categories:
abolished, love, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Trending ChangeInflicted is this society
Of depicted truths to matter
Does it matter
When every life doesn't matter to the same accord
Accordingly, slavery was abolished
To what effect...
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Categories:
abolished, change, conflict, hate, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
From The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - THE RUINS OF THE ANCIEN REGIME
Farewell, then, AUKN boss,
The next this year makes three.
By the time they find a substitute,
Slovenes will be at sea.
He tried to cover his behind;
AUKN boss...
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Categories:
abolished, absence, allegory, analogy, animal,
Form:
Ballad
The Lack of Appreciation for the Foundation of this NationSuffering and pain for our nation’s gain,
but no one recognizes what those before us went through
because in today’s self-centered society the only thing that matters...
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Categories:
abolished, appreciation, freedom, history, patriotic,
Form:
Free verse
The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it is pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko for trade.
To be tossed in...
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Categories:
abolished, africa, america, history, racism,
Form:
Verse
President's Day~President's Day~
(Rhyming couplet)
Today in the USA we honor two great men
They both did wonderful deeds for our country, Amen.
George Washington, is our founder...
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Categories:
abolished, celebration, heart, history, usa,
Form:
Couplet
Feather Electric -
The art of thought is our lovemaking connection,
histories a ladder to hypnotic healing, corrections uninvited
to our planet of puzzling passion
where a man and a woman...
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Categories:
abolished, devotion, planet,
Form:
Romanticism
UncertaintyThere cannot be two identical things in the world. Two
hydrogen atoms
offer infinite locations within their shells for electrons.
Thus, nothing can be definitely eventually known.
All to...
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Categories:
abolished, basketball, bird, history, hope,
Form:
Verse
Presidents Day - The Couplet Style~President's Day~
(Rhyming couplet)
Today in the USA we honor two great men
They both did wonderful deeds for our country, Amen.
George Washington, is our founder...
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Categories:
abolished, celebration, history, love, usa,
Form:
Free verse
Divorce on the DocketI have seventy five cents in my pocket
A picture of him in my locket
My mind is spinning fast as a rocket
Cuz a divorce is on...
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Categories:
abolished, divorce, song,
Form:
Lyric
Akbar, the Great 1542 - 1605
Can a man – all alone - foist a god upon his fellows
Even if it’s only himself
And they his subjects
G.. is Akbar!
Does the muezzin from...
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Categories:
abolished, adventure, , atheist,
Form:
Free verse
Thiru-Valluvar on Praising Ladies of their qualities: Canto 112 - Nalam Punainthu UraiththalThiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal
[The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to...
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Categories:
abolished, beauty, culture, relationship, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
Is There No Place for UsIs there no place for us ?
In this world of work and fuss ?
We came to fulfil our dreams
Leaving our noble motherland with goodbye...
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Categories:
abolished, race, racism,
Form:
I do not know?
Year ZeroCambodia, the Khmer Rouge movement, the leader Pol Pot,
Killed twenty-five percent of the population, a fact most people forgot.
To spare you is no profit, to...
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Categories:
abolished, conflict, history, people, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Jack
Late nights, ill motives
Drive good men to do bad things
When right becomes wrong
And justice looks the other way
A man takes a woman
without her...
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Categories:
abolished, devotion, inspirational, love, mom,
Form:
Blank verse
A MomentA moment
(the full lyric is embedded on the video)
A moment just a moment
give it a chance let it take you
it will guide you and seduce...
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Categories:
abolished, beauty, nature, peace,
Form:
Lyric
Mayflower 2017The hearts of white men are silently fuming
The spirits of angry widows steadily grow bitter
The bosoms of weeping mothers open...
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Categories:
abolished, abuse, betrayal, community, conflict,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue