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,...
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Categories:
beauty, culture, desire, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Ancient Warrior
I 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
Threadbare CloudsGray smeared sky like a quilt of rags
Strangers sip from brown paper bags
Threadbare cloud seam splits up the side
Rain pours down, you got nowhere to...
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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
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
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
A Love StoryThe girl is an ultra-modern scholar,
Belongs with an upper-middle class family.
Looking very nice, smart, gets angry suddenly.
She reads M.A in English at...
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Categories:
culture, deep, emotions, loss,
Form:
Free verse
THROUGH THE 80s
A time for many a part-time passion, like
the discarded skin of Esprit jeans and low-hip waistline
baring pierced navel with flavor of...
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Categories:
culture, time,
Form:
Free verse
Comin' Hame - Coming Home -Scottish DialectA angry sky, as cauld as Loch Lomon'
fair drew me out from cot o' peat, an' bed.
The wolves wus wailin', an' thund'r respond'd
Ah gather'd tam,...
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Categories:
absence, culture, faith, farm,
Form:
Terza Rima
South AfricaListen to the jazz instrumentals of Masekela,
as you take red wine outside a thatched
shelter in a beach in the Western Cape.
Enjoy a hearty meal of...
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Categories:
africa, culture, dedication, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Sunbonnet
She shuffled by our house, so slow and bent,
No second thought of where the lady went.
On her return, no one around to see.
A shaded path,...
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Categories:
culture, age, body, bullying, care,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
No WordsNo words
Where there are tears
There are no words
Where there is music
There are no words
Where there is painting
There are no words
Where there is love
There are no...
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Categories:
art, culture, history, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Stupid smart
What does it look like
From over there
Describe the sights
No details spared
How does it taste
Is it always delicious
By the look on your face
I’m a bit...
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Categories:
confusion, culture, irony, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Onoff the cuffI believe that poetry is and of is was were have has been of as one pretenses a
poetic practical pompous, pro (p) ransomedramatical...
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Categories:
august, confusion, culture, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Happy HoliThe festival of joy and fun
With vivid colors beneath the sun
Enjoying by spraying to each other
And proclaiming we are one color in nature,
In different colors...
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Categories:
9th grade, color, culture,
Form:
Free verse
The Millionaire's Club
Down past the meadow is the grand old hotel
Cypress stand at attention to encircle the ponds
Lined up in formation as if they are soldiers...
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Categories:
culture, happiness, introspection, money,
Form:
Free verse
WE SHARE A LOVE: A COLLABORATION WITH JAN ALLISONTeddy lives in a world of strife,
Where fight for existence is stiff.
He writes poems that show his daily struggle,
As he tries to understand why there’s...
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Categories:
culture, deep, emotions, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
SogaimitiThe green-blue marks of the tufuga's* tools run down his thighs
Patterns in shades of deep-ocean-dark and unsealed-road-like lines
Back to his ancestors and forward to his...
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Categories:
culture, men, teenage,
Form:
Free verse