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Best Displacement Poems

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


Premium Member Mediclueless, a Hypochondriac's Lament
I feel I have appendicitis,
Or a bad case of bursitis,
And I think I need another tonsillectomy.
I'm sure I got a staph infection
From a tetanus injection
While...

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Categories: displacement, health, humor,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Raked Leaves
autumn fills sparse spaces we occupy,
               seasonal change that closes in...

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Categories: displacement, 6th grade, autumn, change,
Form: Free verse
Love Is
True Love is Sacrifice 
A life where you don't have Ever to ask twice
Where two rights are never Wrong
& The nights Last so long
But Go...

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Categories: displacement, emotions, fate, i love
Form: Rhyme
Peace Is My Big Love
Peace is My Big LOVE in 3 languages
Philosophy of Peace

Peace is sweet Science
Science of Peace
Sience of Truce

Peace is a Silence
Silence of our province
Silence of Armistice

Peace...

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Categories: displacement, humanity, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Kind of People Are We
What Kind of People Are We

In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the...

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Categories: displacement, conflict, fear, humanity, immigration,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Ouija Board
The shifting of many corporeal hands move across this dead cell,
A vacuums vortex, a psychic sponge, charging this battery of
Energy called the spirit board.
Paranormal phenomenon...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: displacement, evil, fear, halloween, history,
Form: Free verse
Catt-Er
Echo blasts,

as it's all hunky-dorey in an iconoclasts contrasts,

displacement of my courageousness on a dumb-fast
tele~cast,

the resumed movement 28 days later wasn't even just as fast;

it...

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Categories: displacement, age, garden, giving, grief,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Lost In Darfur
A sea of people is overcrowding the displacement camp.

Today another village burns, while families are killed. 
    It’s not safe here because...

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Categories: displacement, africa, change, conflict, confusion,
Form: Prose Poetry
One Wish of a Refugee
We were free and safe
Facing the challenges of life
In much more desirable manner
We were at least happy
For the peace we were enjoying
On our land of...

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© Simon Amu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: displacement, home, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wisdom's Marching Council
I know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.

Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I,...

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Categories: displacement, deep, health, poverty, race,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Vanished
VANISHED

We are the echoing voices crying within the darkness,
Melting mists of vapor co-existing amongst the living,
The ambling drifters shifting between reality and limbo,
The vanished.

Displacement malfunction,...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: displacement, adventure, history, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Angry Earth
The power we now witness is only the start
An angry earth she is, her tectonic plates in depart
Seconds later they again meet with abrasive force
The...

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Categories: displacement, loss, natural disasters, sadcare,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Horsepower Makes Us Proud
Rednecks make parts in the basement 
They've mastered piston emplacement
They'll bore out a block
To be bigger than stock
Displacement has no replacement

Author's note.  A really...

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Categories: displacement, home, house, humor, identity,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Plenitude
"Plenitude" 

a full circle 

centre point 
the dream, it 
swiftly approaches

through storms
walking on oceans
like devotion 

bare feet take

glass surfaces
breaking 
the vigil

for the mirror bleed 

part...

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Categories: displacement, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Train / Lali Tsipi Michaeli
Train

At the age of 7 I left Georgia as an immigrant to Israel with my parents and two brothers. 
We arrived at the train-station with...

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Categories: displacement, childhood
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things