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Best Forfeiture Poems


Tribute To Horatio Nelson
...Thou 
great 
son 
of 
the 
land!

Salute! 
Salute!! 
We 
Salute 
thee!!!
An 
unwavering 
patriot, 
undaunted 
mountain.
British 
admiral 
and 
nava 
hero.
Toulon 
submitted 
t......

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Categories: forfeiture, tribute
Form: Elegy
Haiti
...January twelfth two thousand and ten
   witnessed near annihilation and destruction 
   of the Haitian nation
whereby countless/ nameless individuals 
   e’en the strongest Herculean type men
  ......

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Categories: forfeiture, abuse, anger, black african
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Two Way Street
...Two way street 
a common road
so much esteemed on the way one go's
Those who build a world with hands
and the bodies beaten to build those plans
Others figure with minds of brilliance 
while ch......

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Categories: forfeiture, brother, identity, judgement, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member This Is War
...These are not wars,
These are not soldiers.
These are games,
These are pawns.
Pit against one another by Kings, Queens; their Bishops and their Rooks.
Hiding, yet again, behind what they took.
......

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Categories: forfeiture, games, metaphor, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Naked To Nurture Naked, To Nurture
...Naked to Nurture.  Naked, to Nurture.



Why not naked into woods?
We yank up gumboots.
Enshroud our piggies in wicking and itching sockbags.
Hoping to holdfast against the forfeiture o......

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Categories: forfeiture, art, philosophy, tree,
Form: Free verse
Tyrannical Colonial Kings....
...Fallacy....inappropriate fantasy

Fantasy.....anticipated reality

Reality.....imaginative stability

Stability.....exacting security

Security....forfeiture from fallacy......

Vain glory ......

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Categories: forfeiture, political, war,
Form: Free verse



Bent Elucidations
...A Foreigner in a land of chicanery, can't see the forest nor
 destiny aimlessly adrift tween dusky skylines searching
 'pon comet-like nights, 'neath the shine of absurdity
 mistaking stardust for......

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forfeiture, allegory, analogy, confusion, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
When a Tree Is Felled
...When a tree is felled....!

When a tree is felled, a sad ring of deathknell,
With it goes for many - their tiny places to dwell!
How much of Earth will man's greed consume ?
Very many forms disc......

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© Ram Ram  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forfeiture, environment, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Stranger Man
...]=           THE STRANGER MAN  (1)

Once a foetus when I began the venture
And sloughed from the cove of the womb
Now closer the monstrous possessions 
I built of life on the foundation of a tom......

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Categories: forfeiture, adventure, death, feelings, freedom,
Form: Free verse
The Moral Mortgage of Mice and Men
...The moral mortgage of mice and men 

Yours truly quite astute,
especially regarding cute
little field mice, also known 
as meadow voles,
which imprecation one doth emote,
when aforementioned a......

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Categories: forfeiture, adventure, animal, appreciation, august,
Form: Rhyme
Theater of Utter Charm - Part 25
...part 25

there is enough pretense to deal with
when the future delivers
disappointment after disappointment
and the roles you play become stale
and you cling to the trend in the graph line
bre......

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Categories: forfeiture, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Thirty-One
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Thirty-One

The Tent-Vendor’s son kept whining and wailing on the road
Such that none could even hear their own thoughts mocking aloud:
“Now what doth yon Sir......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forfeiture, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month Mini Chap Book 1
...this just one example of many peoples
   UNFAIRLY subjected
to subservience and exempt
   from enjoying the fruits of their labor.

January twelfth two thousand and ten
(original date this comm......

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Categories: forfeiture, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Imagism
A Mandrake's Gesture: Vol. Iii
...- - - -
To the gardens. . . of celebration!
- - - -
As the birds chirped,
the sunlit golden,
the merry cries of 
glee, for upon this
day a proclamation
of love ever-after.  Though
ne'er yet ......

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Categories: forfeiture, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Epic
Hidden Hand Inurned
...
Snake oily palms
got a-plenty 
under the table plans

Synthetic sly reptilian smile
bewitching many
Picking pockets with a hidden hand

Real filthy lucre fingernails 
have the zirco......

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Categories: forfeiture, allusion, corruption, money, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry