Best Document Poems
Below are the all-time best Document poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of document poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Poet and Thee Greatest Poem Never SpokeWAIT!
the poet laughed
there's love to document
there's passion, there's hate!
WAIT!
where's my pen, my typer?
my life is my art
Living passed by and the world did it's...
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Categories:
document, death, life, poets, sad,
Form:
Free verse
The ConstitutionThere is much to be loved and appreciated about the United States Constitution, and
Heaven, I believe, breathed upon the founding fathers in their pursuit of...
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Categories:
document, america,
Form:
Acrostic
Journal"As water flows down when a faucet is turned on, thoughts and feelings pour out into a journal cleansing the heart" ~ By Poet
I keep...
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Categories:
document, best friend, how i
Form:
Free verse
Quest For Tolerancenew nation to craft
founding fathers sought to draft
a declaration of independence
document that made sense
Thomas Jefferson sought to free slaves
but was warned not to make waves
five...
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Categories:
document, discrimination,
Form:
Rhyme
Lucky Numbers 2, 10, 24, 65, 93You don’t know this but
we’re all ISBN’s. At birth,
we’re tattooed across our asses
with barcodes, ID tags, social security numbers.
The only doctors allowed
to perform this surgical...
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Categories:
document, conflict, nonsense, pain, scary,
Form:
Concrete
The Fool That Is YouWhat knowledge do you have of my home?
Have you taken a walk through the cemetery?
Walking on my tracks, footprints of eternity.
Have you read about the...
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Categories:
document, africa, anger, beauty, culture,
Form:
Blank verse
Talkin' Bout My GenerationWhat has happened to our kids?
Why did we become the type of parents we did?
Is there a name for us?
Slower, easier, then turned...
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Categories:
document, appreciation, farewell, heartbroken, race,
Form:
I do not know?
1776 - Jefferson, Franklin and AdamsAnd so they sat, this learned three
in full pursuit of liberty,
the turkey, eagle and the dove
looked down upon them from above.
The declaration almost writ
they rubbed...
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Categories:
document, america, funny, history,
Form:
Quatrain
In 2118In the Great War’s aftermath a handful survived,
though seven billion had perished.
Time to excavate a country’s history arrived
and much speculation had been nourished.
Survivors sought signs...
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Categories:
document, faith, history,
Form:
Quintain (English)
The Treasure Map of Our FamilyFamilies, Legacies and History,
Things are known,
Rumors told,
And secrets hidden.
Yet hundreds of years pass in time.
The legend passes thru,
The lips and ears of the descendants.
The stories...
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Categories:
document, adventure, encouraging, family, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Freedom's BlessingMany blessings we are given.
Some of us receive more of some blessings
than we do of others.
However, there is one blessing
which needs to be equal...
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Categories:
document, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
The ImmortalTHE IMMORTAL
“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree
You will go to the land of Oblivion to...
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Categories:
document, faith, fire, fruit, giving,
Form:
Prose Poetry
I Say This With OptimismFor now I am in pieces.
I say that optimistically,
Forever hoping that the pieces will come together and form a beautiful puzzle.
I've awaited this moment,
But waiting...
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Categories:
document, confusion
Form:
Prose Poetry
Resonance of Separation
Dying on the inside,
withered tears falling on fallow hope
Bittersweet memories
rooted in moist pain of barren joy
Too many loving words left unsaid,
drowning silence
suffocates every wet pillow...
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Categories:
document, allusion, loneliness, loss, sad
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Pass the TrashPASS THE TRASH
Poem sure to sound familiar,
Catholic church scandal recall.
Pedophiles bounced just everywhere,
predator list … kept growing tall.
Clergy, priest but now teachers, are
problematic in...
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Categories:
document, child abuse, school, teacher,
Form:
Rhyme