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Best Age Of Man Poems

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I Declare Myself Blessed
As a child I wanted to be a pilot and writer I wasn’t interested in much else.
I became a Marine at 17 a husband at...

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Categories: age of man, family, funny, granddaughter,
Form: Free verse



Stifled Cries
Stifled cries
No concern for the black man until the black man dies
Images of black and blue flash before my eyes
How many times?
Unprotected our men go...

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Categories: age of man, black african american, death,
Form: Free verse
A Grain of Salt
A man, 20 years of age, another man, 40 years of age

The young man in his inexperience asks the 40 year old man
"You've lived twice...

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© James Moon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age of man, appreciation, encouraging, growth, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
The River
The river.


In waves it flows and rages full;
In moonlight it slows and trickles still.
In sunshine it roars a tumultuous call.
The river flows throughout the seasons...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age of man, history, life, nature, river,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Pondering Late Autumn and the Coming Chill
The golden leaves have made their show
that always comes this time of year,
but now as limbs are looking bare,
an umber blanket covers ground.

I’ve seen the...

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Categories: age of man, age, autumn, how i
Form: Blank verse



Us
Us, a term meaning together whether family or friends or total strangers.
Us, you see’ we are on the only thing that provides life, earth and...

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Categories: age of man, faith, father, god, world,
Form: Rhyme
Side By Side
A young Black man and a silver hair White man side by side.  I looked out my window, and I saw a rare and...

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Categories: age of man, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Anwnn
Coming from the misty lake Lough Leane
Came a beautiful maiden of the name of Niamh
Upon a mare, for she is not from the world of...

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Categories: age of man, adventure, animals, dedication, devotion,
Form: Ballad
Sands of Time
Sands of Time

these grains of sand passing by I find
are like the memories of lives gone past
and as these sands of time flow through my...

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Categories: age of man, philosophy, age, age, time,
Form: Rhyme
Quivering Arrows
You too would hide behind the hood                  ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age of man, allusion, celebrity, character, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
To Be Or Not To Be
The sands of time will cover all,
   Of mankinds birth in natures womb.
   From chaos to our final fall.

  ...

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Categories: age of man, conflict,
Form: Villanelle
The History of Fear
The History of Fear

To cite the galleries of Fear
This emotion driven here
And eons past how it began
Beginning with the age of man

To search for food...

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Categories: age of man, faith, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Technology Really
Nation's full of devastation,
Famine and drought.
In a world full of technology,
Yet we still can't work it out.
Have we come any further
From when we lived in...

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Categories: age of man, anger, emotions, humanity, society,
Form: Rhyme
Musical-Moonlight Sonata
A quiet...soft resolute theme plays
The low tunes of the piano ascends.
A sequence of sound radiates, 
The tones hum...words of passion,
Reverberating...serenading a quiet night.

Echoing...deep in his...

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Categories: age of man, education, history, music, passion
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Passing of Man
Distant clouds seem settled upon city towers bringing odd blend to nature and man. Odd in the thought for though of nature, man separates himself...

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Categories: age of man, nature, time,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Reflection on the Important Things