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Best Born And Raised Poems

Below are the all-time best Born And Raised poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of born and raised poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Walk Tall
I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...

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Categories: born and raised, america, death, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Across the Border
"La Voz"

La Noche sin agua --- I spill my loving lips
Dancing, laughing, and celebrating life 
I am his queen, aka' dulce Nina
A night he must...

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Categories: born and raised, anger, corruption, how i
Form: Free verse
Who Am I
Daughter  of Mary and  Louis
(Named after my late grandmother ) 

My name is  Charmaine
a name originated from latin
Charmaine means -a song

Eldest of...

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Categories: born and raised, prejudice, , western,
Form: Bio
Mysterious Ways: a True Christmas Story
A true story, based on family oral tradition
from the oldest part of the city of Bern,
capitol of Switzerland, where my mother was
born and raised, in...

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Categories: born and raised, devotion, faith, holiday, inspirationalhouse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Is White
Lost in a Land of Gold and Honey


What is white?
 
What do you call white?

White can be a mixture of races like shepherd pie.
A mixture...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: born and raised, racism,
Form: Free verse



Robin Gass
Born and raised in New Jersey,
  A true hearted Jersey girl.
With a natural gift of wordplay,
  Poems emerge as her pen swirls.

With a...

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Categories: born and raised, dedicationlove,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Judging Behavior
I was on one continent and she another.
Both of us were always writing letters to each other.
I felt that we were headed in a romantic...

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Categories: born and raised, culture, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Crazy
I was born smart, raised blind , died undefined....

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Categories: born and raised, life
Form: Ode
Elegy 'N' Eulogy For Mohammed Ali Clay
A very famous champion,
 an inspiring enthusiastic man was he
Who has  now departed , yet is quoted, 
for many pearls of wisdom
Vociferous king , 
of...

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Categories: born and raised, boxing day , eulogy, goodbye,
Form: Elegy
Texas Girl
Texas girl born and raised,
Try our BBQ and ya'll will be amazed,
I'll tell ya somethin' about livin' in the south,
Ya'll will hear, " down yonder,"...

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Categories: born and raised, funny, humorous, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
An Inuit's Longing For Home
Oh that I could speak with the Northern Lights,
And commune with the Spirits therein.
Or dance to the tunes of the Arctic wastes,
Return to a life...

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Categories: born and raised, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Harmonic Spirits
Harmonic Spirits 

In a time of past; so far away
just beyond where night meets the day
two little children were born and raised
in the deepest part...

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Categories: born and raised, adventure, childhood, children, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Black Witch
Born and raised as a little child in a Witches’ coven,
the Black Witch was indeed a very precocious child
whose hell-spawned soul was seared in Hell’s...

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Categories: born and raised, allegory, angst, betrayal, evil,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member True Values
True Values (Rich)


I have seen America from sea to shining sea, but have never left its sandy shores.
I’m older now, but when younger, I longed...

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Categories: born and raised, adventure, america, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Prose
My Real Home
I understand now! I hate that I 
went back to my childhood and 
birthplace!
It was a mistake! They made 
me ,a success, look like a...

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Categories: born and raised, absence, abuse, city, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs