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Best Citizen Poems

Below are the all-time best Citizen poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of citizen poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Being a Good Citizen
If you see 
   Something, or hear 
      Something 
        ...

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Categories: citizen, encouraging, how i feel,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Democracy
Oh, Democracy,* 
You, the most desirable bride among  
Political systems,
Your suitors many have been throughout 
History  
In every part of the world, you...

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Categories: citizen, people, philosophy, political,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Mistaken That You Loved Me
'My' biggest mistake was being born a girl 
I was never going to meet your expectations for you wanted a
Son and you got me ...mum...

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Categories: citizen, childhood, discrimination, father daughter,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Century-Twenty Two
A future world rule by Trillionaires and Billionaires
Each country with segments of puppet regime governments,
With exceptions of course,
The drug lords the cartel those with the...

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Categories: citizen, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Kingdom Within Viii
You, my friend, 
are not a king or a prince 
neither are you a nobleman  
of 
a higher or lower rank, 
you are just...

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Categories: citizen, heaven, light, truth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lili Marlene
Lili Marlene

In times of war, love can subdue cynical adversaries
(Men separated from their vocation, now filled with hatred)
And quell the beast inside their misdirected hearts,
And...

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Categories: citizen, history, memorial day, remembrance
Form: Verse
Premium Member For My Sister and Brother Poets
For My Sister and Brother  Poets

Mornings, again refreshed, I wield up a 
sledgehammer to strike the stone walls of 

the confinement of my assigned...

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Categories: citizen, friendship, giving, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member An Unshakable Identity
hospitality, peace and mutual respect; we’ve chosen
because the key to our prosperity is love, unity and cooperation
settlers now on the cheat as our true identity...

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Categories: citizen, abuse, africa, community, conflict,
Form: Epic
Premium Member My Purpose In Life
It’s 4:00 A.M.
and my alarm clock rudely awakens me.

As I wash my face, I look in the mirror I ask,
    “Why do...

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Categories: citizen, character, giving, introspection,
Form: Free verse
A Thrill Seeker - Part 1
A THRILL SEEKER (PART 1)

He is a sick man with no life that is running around in a world that cannot be lived.
All but not...

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Categories: citizen,
Form: Epic
Premium Member If I Were the President
If I were the president,
in our fatherland, no citizen will be a bastard
and mutual respect, our networking web.

If I were the president
the people will be...

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Categories: citizen, leadership, patriotic, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Kindness Is
Kindness is…

Kindness is the harmony of birds’ songs in the breeze
It’s the way the moon so hauntingly reflects with calming ease
It’s heaven’s chorus ‘round the...

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Categories: citizen, appreciation, beauty, care, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
50 Fallen Stars
50 Fallen Stars
There's a plague of insanity among us
Is it blind ignorance or just the blatantly ignorant?
A whole new land of despair and those with...

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Categories: citizen, allusion, america, anger, art,
Form: Verse
Ewmer Fudd the Easter Gwinch and Dis Weally Buggs Me -
Pweeze wet me expwain, officer - 
I taught it was dat wascally wabbit agin...
buwwowing under my ewectric fence,
eating up my cawwots. wettece, my bwoccoli
and-and...even my...

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Categories: citizen, funny, holiday, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Grand American Tradition
Voting day at long last has arrived.
Scrambling through closet,
a cavernous space in accumulation.
In the deepest darkest corner, 
purpose achieved, 
garnering my three by five inch...

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Categories: citizen, poetry, political,
Form: Free verse

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