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Best Colombo Poems

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


Combo In Colombo
21/11/2013

In a warm morning in Colombo
There is a package in a bow
And a letter say, "Love, I'll be home tomorrow"
A gift and love memo, what...

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Categories: colombo,
Form: Rhyme



The Thief of Colombo
Turn off  the dark nights,
To catch him up,
The Colombo thief,
Coming in the midnights,
Stealing our life!...

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Categories: colombo, dark, environment, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All I Want For Xmas Is a Poetry Membership
All I want for Christmas
Is my two front teeth
All my back teeth
A Mercedes or Bentley
A life time membership to Hugh Hefner's mansion
The rights to the...

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Categories: colombo, birthday, christmas, funny, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Who Would Milk the Tigress
Who would milk the Tigress
				
                				    wears...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: colombo, freedom, mother daughter, peace,
Form: Free verse
The Great Lie
The Great Lie

Dulce et Decorum est pro Patria mori
I believed that once
I laughed and chatted to my friend
As we boarded the troopship
To take us to...

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Categories: colombo, war, death, me, death,
Form: Free verse



Columbus Day Dream
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            Columbus Day Dream
 
Christopher Colombo was the very one.
    ...

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Categories: colombo, holidayday, columbus day,
Form: Verse
Sympathy For Cervantes
When I was a child along with my cousins we listen to heroic tales about our ancestors and in someway the mill was always mentioned....

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Categories: colombo, childhood, family, friendship, mountains,
Form: Prose
Twain Tweak
King's forest and the Indian turnip like twain a good story never dyes blue           ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: colombo, on writing and words
Form: Burlesque
Lee Kuan Yew
LEE KUAN YEW

A shining star in the Asian sky,Lee  fondly,Singapore friendly.

What’s the definition of dedication? if one asked,say Lee.

Masons build mansions but nations only...

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Categories: colombo, adventure, blessing, care, character,
Form: Blank verse
A Letter To a Star
Little 
may my love sound,
yet a bright star I do love,
Stella,
Who in the center of the sky,
being lulled in her mother’s lap,
does blink and wink...

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Categories: colombo, earth, love, sky, star,
Form: Free verse
Tender the Sky
Pain resonates in the mud. Unbalances
you, sticks you in centuries one can only
imagine. Toppled spheres atop
consecrated pews littered with charred
Easter missalettes. Doesn’t count as
abstract art,...

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© Robin Ray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: colombo, anger, easter, environment, horror,
Form: Free verse
What Formerly Got Celebrated As Adventitious Age of Exploration
What formerly got celebrated as adventitious age of exploration...

1492 unleashed, jump/
kick started, and downloaded
a bittorrent götterdämmerung
spelling genocide of indigenous peoples
occupying Turtle Island,
now surviving tribes
just a...

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Categories: colombo, absence, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hold Me Close
No lie, I'd be in grave trouble, 
               Should you slip...

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Categories: colombo, analogy, devotion, encouraging, love,
Form: Free verse
Capital
Colombo 

Sri Lankan 

Capital

In Colombo

Chinese

Capital!...

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Categories: colombo, abuse, bereavement, conflict, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
Happy Place
Sri Lanka is
His happy place
And he
Loves Colombo,
It’s great
To be back.
...

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Categories: colombo, international, travel,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs