Best Benefactors Poems
Below are the all-time best Benefactors poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of benefactors poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Greatest GiftTo give is good, most would agree,
When helping poor feel more secure.
A splendid thing's philanthropy,
Though motives are not always pure.
We seldom sacrifice at all,
Our charity,...
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Categories:
benefactors, community, giving, humanity, money,
Form:
Quatrain
This Docile EarthThis world, never ours alone, but shared with other creatures great and small.
The Earth turns and new dawn comes, and will long after we're gone.
A...
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Categories:
benefactors, bird, cat, inspirational, nature,
Form:
Prose
Wealth Care For the Rich, Others Not"The Senate bill, unveiled today, is not a health care bill.
It’s a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class
and poor families to the richest people...
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Categories:
benefactors, america, people, political, sorrow,
Form:
Prose
Blasphemer's Lamentwhy do so many humans elect to be tended and herded like sheep?
should path to salvation require forfeiting self-determination?
long have golden trim and precious jewels...
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Categories:
benefactors, change, people, perspective, philosophy,
Form:
Monoku
The Alley of Dead Infant ClownsWe play in the streets shaded of grey
We sing and dance but in the saddest of ways
Duplessis turned us into little clowns
In boarding houses of...
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Categories:
benefactors, betrayal, care, childhood, history,
Form:
Light Verse
Domesticated AnimalsDOMESTICATED ANIMALS
Our friends, Animals,
Your name from the Greek word
“Anemos” comes,
That Anaximenes, the wise of old,
The divine wind, that sustains the
Universe, named,
Which...
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Categories:
benefactors, animal, dedication, love, endurance,
Form:
Epigram
WaterWater
To obey no law, but gravities very
own and harbor so much life; so
much death.
Power in every ounce to sway to an
unheard rhythm...
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Categories:
benefactors, beauty, birth, body, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Orb of the First Dynasty, Queen Merneith,Scattering spellbound in search of this utopia
Minds-eye in shortfall dissects one's monopoly
Through no choice of own approach it sloppily,
Exude to a position such promised, Ethiopia-
As...
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Categories:
benefactors, history,
Form:
Narrative
IngratitudeINGRATITUDE
“No surest enemy than the one who was benefited" SOCRATES
Ingratitude,
You ungrateful:
Traitor of trust
Destroyer of kindheartedness
Apostate of friendship
Annihilator of beneficence
Assassin...
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Categories:
benefactors, friendship, grief, life,
Form:
Epigram
Holy Orderstone for stone the building
had begat during
the nature of sudden
earthquakes a calling of holiness
beyond the greatness
of st Francis of assist
while my eyes focused on
the smaller...
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Categories:
benefactors, faith,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Pleasantly Awarei do supposed as ghost grow mold, that they would
reminisce on the past they hold, some grudges untold
so people past and become cold,
this be...
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Categories:
benefactors, adventure, love, passion, today,
Form:
Free verse
EndowmentsHow, oh how, can some endow
A building wing? Well, holy cow!
So many millions must impress
All comers, thanks to their largess.
Such lavish generosity
Is well beyond the...
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Categories:
benefactors, money,
Form:
Rhyme
IbadanRaise your voice aloud
And echo that which taints your heart
The days of the chain are laid to rest
And the closed eyes are made...
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Categories:
benefactors, africa, best friend, courage,
Form:
Blank verse
If You'Re Invited, Rsvp No
Pieced together
Blood, bone and brain
With another’s parts
Senses bring sparks
Of imagination, inspiration
Insight into the heart
Who is not Frankenstein’s
But his best friend
And confidant
Pieced together
Naked skin so...
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Categories:
benefactors, dark, death, funeral, obituary,
Form:
Free verse
What If I Rule the WorldShould I ever rule this World
Where thousands of Worldians
Inhabit so free;
I'll pray to God that this planet
Be as he first designated it to be,
Free...
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Categories:
benefactors, bible, blessing, humanity, imagery,
Form:
Free verse