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Best Columbia Poems

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An Excavation
Children as young as three years old,
    Killed for not doing as they’re told,
    Forced to forget their culture...

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Categories: columbia, abuse, children, death, school,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Fo'C's'Le - a Dream
fo'c·'sle    /'fohksel/  noun  deriv: forecastle
      1. the forward part of a ship below the deck,...

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© Ken Rone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: columbia, boat, endurance, history, native
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Dutch Hill Park
I took a walk down Columbia Street
Back to the place where we used to meet
Where we played as kids until after dark
And hung out together...

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Categories: columbia, childhood, friendship, life, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member This Is Who I Am
Xxxxxxx
Husband, son, father, friend
Mary's sweetie, Matthew's dad, Edith's son, brother to Teresa and Roy
Lover of family, friends and time alone 
Who feels passion, joy and...

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Categories: columbia, adventure,
Form: Bio
Journey To Spirit Mountain
Minter Bridge Road to Burkhalter Lane
Alpaca farms dot the hilly terrain, baby llamas
Wear thick curly fur, until the shears come
They look really funny when the...

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Categories: columbia, environment, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Thoughts of Heaven and Other Things
Who promised you life would be easy?
Who whispered this excuse?
How can pain be an addition to the life experience?
Answers provided are inadequate to the task.
Who...

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Categories: columbia, beauty, courage, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Richard Lamoureux
Figure of a man, constantly open

 Poetry marriage that makes him richer 

 Her heart and beauty a gift so golden

 Separate it would change,...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: columbia, tribute,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Ain'T America Great
Miz Liberty welcomed Luigi to America's shores to begin a brand new life.
He arrived at Ellis Isle with piles of baggage, three kids and his...

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Categories: columbia, funny, words, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tramp Persona
The Tramp Persona
Who was this boy, a pauper born?
Existing in despair and continual forlorn
Scandalized, accused of communist sympathies
Encompassing both adulation, and social controversies
Charlie Chaplin how...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: columbia, analogy, celebrity, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
One Day
The Lord brought to my path,a gentleman from Columbia to help each other in diverse equation and math.On our walk with Jesus on our our...

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Categories: columbia, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Saint Nickles
In a far off place in a cold cold land there lived a man called Mr. Mack. The place he lived in was called Kirkland...

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Categories: columbia, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, character,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Judgement Makers

        Note, photograph is of Salt Cathedral underground, in a closed 
      ...

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Categories: columbia, fantasy, god, heaven, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Asian Stereotype
A pair of monolid eyes, and I’m academically enlightened.
As if I’m some talented prodigy on his way to an Ivy League.
Able to quickly solve problems...

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© Jay Ojano  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: columbia, discrimination, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lewis and Clark
They were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,
Her name was Sacagawea.
On an expedition they did embark
Finding the passage to the sea.

Down the Missouri they traveled, 
Then...

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Categories: columbia, adventure, america, boat, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Handel's Messiah
A combination of Prose and Free Verse:

The most thrilling and inspirational piece of music ever to reach my 
ears is, without doubt, Handel's Messiah. I've...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: columbia, christmas, music,
Form: Prose

Book: Shattered Sighs