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Best Civilisation Poems

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Premium Member Penny For Your Thoughts
So many pennies,
lost in the system,
rejected, neglected,
dejected -
cursed by '99' price tags,
a charity box favourite,
nobody wants nor waits for.

So many forgotten pennies,
lost on the streets...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: civilisation, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Free verse



India Shining
India, my motherland best as any mother
To me, at par with best world over

India's invention of Zero and Decimal 
Critical to scientific calculation, invention

Rich ancient...

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Categories: civilisation, motherworld,
Form: Couplet
Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with...

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Categories: civilisation, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member England - Gleaming In the Distance
across the Doggerland dogged people trudge
  Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
  hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
  the mighty maw of...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: civilisation, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative
Why Oh Africa
Oh Africa, my Africa
You have the birthmark of civilisation
But shaped like a question mark of nations
Asking us why we flee
When we claim to be free
Your...

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Categories: civilisation, africa, immigration, war,
Form: Ballad



Wonder Clouds
Wonder Clouds

Sometimes I wonder,
And then I wander, in my thoughts.
What lies above those clouds up high?
Beyond the bleached, yellow sometimes blue sky.
Some say that clouds...

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Categories: civilisation, 10th grade,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Ireland - a Divided Island Part One
born under the sea, an irresistible force
  two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
  alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
  equatorial deep-time...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: civilisation, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The American
On the Greatest country on this Earth
The American, country of their birth
Sioux, Cree Apache
Native Indians all of thee
 
For generations they hunt and live
Summer bloom,...

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Categories: civilisation, black african american, native
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Only Black Roses Live Now - Act 1
Word has reached
A distant planet out their
Semaj, this ancient Celt
In ancestral despair

His droid Etto
Has bulletins relayed
The last human on earth
In final death display

Civilisation as he...

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Categories: civilisation, fantasy, placesdeath, world, death,
Form: Rhyme
My Identity,My Heritage
I represent a culture so deep in history
The history our ancestors passed on to our generation
The foundation that lead to the greatest civilisation
Which has open...

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Categories: civilisation, emotions, friendship, health, heartbreak,
Form: Epic
The Herb
The herb
A plant of richness 
To  understand 
the mystery of the herb
Is the source of good health
Oh I love the herb
Give me the herb...

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Categories: civilisation, africa, nature,
Form: Epic
Aroma Poetry
Mother nature oh! Rose of roses!
Mother of all flowers' and smell,
Ylang Ylang! You don't know what it causes!
An aphrodisiac turns you on like hell!

Sandalwood with...

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Categories: civilisation, beauty, flower, rose, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Mother Africa
Let me explain the dawn of her beauty.
Perharps in one word or two.
This to me isn't my duty.
Her wanders, a strange fiction to the world...

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Categories: civilisation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Media Power
Media power
Is obvious that we grow 
In what we call civilisation  
Yet moral value grow less 
Is funny how all
 we use to know
is...

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Categories: civilisation, abuse, africa, change, future,
Form: Epic
Alien Invasion
Predator drone recording:- 6.00am
 
The dawn sky dramatic 
Multi-coloured in rainbow array
Mutating flares of crimson reds
One portent Wednesday.

Overhead the predator drone motionless
Metallic silver it's planed...

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Categories: civilisation, science fiction,
Form: Free verse

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