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Best Cultural Poems

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


Premium Member Last Letter
Oh my dearest love, how longingly I recall
Amorous wink of joy, teasing zealous eyes
When you held my hand on journey of life
And never let go...

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Categories: cultural, farewell, goodbye, love,
Form: Verse



Premium Member I Am More
I am more than your definitions
more than affixed labels
placed on my anatomy
more than your misconceptions
or even valid perceptions
I am more

I am more than what's written...

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Categories: cultural, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Adrift In Fiction
Placid rain gently kisses unblemished windows
as leaves fall in an Autumn breeze.
In the distance cinereal clouds congregate,
converging upon the city's royal citadel.

Oblivious to the storm,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cultural, analogy, appreciation, books,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Arikara Born
I like many others have lived in our dreams
In this world where I lived amongst forests and streams
Where the Great Plains stretched and our rivers...

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Categories: cultural, america, childhood, places,
Form: Rhyme
Love
Love
Love is a thing

You can't see it nor can you touch it
But you sure can see and feel its effect

A deep affection that fills you...

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Categories: cultural, happy, inspiration, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Chapter and Verse a Live Poetry Recital
Good evening Ladies 
May I say, I am honored and privileged
As this is the first ever time
I have read in front of a woman’s only...

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Categories: cultural, animal, farm, humorous, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Elegant Dance
Rhythmic pose arcs lifting elegant ambience
Graceful dance enshrines artful renascence
Visceral posture invites emotional response
Festive celebration of aesthetic renaissance.

Attired in red and blue of simple elegance...

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Categories: cultural, art,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Pearl of the Orient
"Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan, 
hindi makakarating sa paroroonan".
(A person who does not remember where he came from 
will never reach his destination).
Filipino proverb.

Gift me...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cultural, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Savage Garden
sergeant pepper smokes his stogie in a capsized submarine-
lucky lucy clad in yellow wears her purple diamond ring
rainbow demons play gin rummy on a sunlit...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cultural, allusion, society,
Form: Rhyme
Prophecy of Sand
Men, they say
Dominators
Slayers
Conquerors

We have been subjugated by their culture and rules
The norms and the religions of masculine fools
The laws and the clowns
The world one day...

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Categories: cultural, dedication, divorce, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Doctor Ram: the Soup's Golden Voice
our beloved brother from India
Dr. Ram’s words are better than gold

board his magic carpet
woven with wit, intellect and insight

soar through sagas steeped in mythology
captivating revelations...

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Categories: cultural, dedication, peoplewords, work, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Voices
When cover of a book teases us to pry
Courted we're by sound of their voices:
Writers, creators, poets, and scholars--
Inviting us to virtues of wisdom inside.

If...

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Categories: cultural, art, culture, literature, music,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ignis Fatuus
Okay, okay, I confess. We stole the only hyperdrive ship that wasn't destroyed in the war. But what choice did we have? Our world is...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cultural, destiny, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A World Without War
Peace and unity sing in harmony, echoing worldwide,
When acts of humility replace revenge-infused pride,
When narrowness of mind, naked ambitions subside,
When nations of goodwill, stand together...

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Categories: cultural, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Senseless ( Part One )
Senseless

What is it inside the heart of man
That cannot appreciate another’s suffering
Were we born with this senseless implacability

Is it from life itself we grow these...

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Categories: cultural, lifewoman, dream, dream,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things