Best Civilisation Poems
Below are the all-time best Civilisation poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of civilisation poems written by PoetrySoup members
Penny For Your ThoughtsSo 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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Categories:
civilisation, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form:
Free verse
India ShiningIndia, 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
England - Gleaming In the Distanceacross 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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Categories:
civilisation, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form:
Narrative
Why Oh AfricaOh 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 CloudsWonder 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
Ireland - a Divided Island Part Oneborn 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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Categories:
civilisation, community, history, ireland, time,
Form:
Narrative
The AmericanOn 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
Only Black Roses Live Now - Act 1Word 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 HeritageI 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 HerbThe 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 PoetryMother 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 AfricaLet 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 PowerMedia 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 InvasionPredator 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