Best Culture Poems
Below are the all-time best Culture poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of culture poems written by PoetrySoup members
Dreams of IndiaDreams of India
Her music haunts me
in such a knowing way
it makes me weep
and causes my heart to ache.
I become homesick for her
scents, her sounds, her...
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Categories:
beauty, culture, desire, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Ancient WarriorI see the wrinkles in your suntanned brow,
You carried burdens then; you see them now.
You’ve heard the cries your people who in pain,
Have shed their...
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Categories:
angst, culture, native american,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Listen For the Drum
listen to the drum,
talking to the dance
listen to the elders,
whispering their chants
listen to the hooves, pounding on the plain
listen to the birds, prophesying rain
listen...
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Categories:
appreciation, culture, environment, native
Form:
Rhyme
Cyber RealHas the convenience of technology
inoculated us from reality?
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
I pray the code my soul to keep?
Does your universe live within 4G
Or...
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Categories:
computer, culture, identity, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Selfie Or Call Me InsensitiveYou call me insensitive,
But I don't believe that's true;
Because, you see,
It's all about me.
It's not about you.
You say your opinion doesn’t matter,
That I’ve no respect...
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Categories:
angst, culture, funny, giggle,
Form:
Rhyme
Lifes Simplicity MaintainedYou were born in a specialist clinic
I was born at the front door of my house
we both came into this world and survived.
You’ve been eating...
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Categories:
culture, career, character, cheer up,
Form:
Epic
Hell's HospitalityThe sun cries for us, its heat fades away
snowflakes sprinkle round its orbit, yet go unmelted
it feels like evening, but its yet noon
time never changes...
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Categories:
africa, anger, corruption, culture,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Threadbare CloudsGray smeared sky like a quilt of rags
Winos sip rot gut from brown paper bags
Threadbare cloud crotch splits up the side
Rain pours down, you got...
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Categories:
angst, beautiful, change, culture,
Form:
Rhyme
Of Road Rage and the Poetrysoup Profanity PolicyAs Joe was biking down the side of the road
He ran across a chap with a dearth of driving skills.
Or more accurately, the...
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Categories:
anger, conflict, culture, funny,
Form:
Light Verse
The Light Within Earshot at the Gas Station Snack Bar
Our oldest light goes by the name cosmic
microwave background radiation—
CMB for short. She's everywhere:
fluorescent birdsong of modern offices,
hum of corner store ice...
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Categories:
age, allusion, culture,
Form:
Free verse
On the subject of BORROWED DESCRIPTIONS ----My quest to appreciate my island rootsI live on an island in the Pacific region
The largest body of water is the OCEAN
Like, can we be more Pacific?
I think Christopher Columbus got...
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Categories:
appreciation, culture, history, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
Made In China"Made In China"
They can have my money
If it saves me money
The toys I played with when I was young,
Says I enjoyed their hands
The Labels read...
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Categories:
business, culture, dedication, funny,
Form:
Free verse
Broken EnglishI love my broken English
Am in love with my broken English
Am honored to have two other languages
The ability to think from language to language is...
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Categories:
culture, africa, appreciation, birth, blessing,
Form:
Bio
Well of SoulsHow many souls live on the edge,
Between the gutter and the ledge?
A hopeless fear crawls in their gut,
Each day, another endless rut.
The moments pass profoundly...
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Categories:
culture, discrimination, imagery, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Mirror BallI'm sure this hill is where it stood.
Amazing shapes of stuccoed wood.
A glass-brick, neon stream-lined place.
As if it flew from outer space,
A swing band auditorium,
An...
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Categories:
culture, allegory, allusion, analogy, color,
Form:
Rhyme