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Best Gen Poems

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


Premium Member Just a Tree - a Requiem
Someone who knows
Said You were an old ancient Tree,
But at the time, it didn’t really matter, 
Or seem important to me.
I knew You only for...

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Categories: gen, conflict, earth, heartbroken, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member That Was Then, This is Now
Your paradigm's a relic, a plea from data's cemetery,
While I sculpt luminaries on screens, a sable sea.
"Company loyalty," a myth, spun in your reverie,
But AI...

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Categories: gen, dad, daughter, father daughter,
Form: Sestina
-this Is the Day the Lord Gave-
THIS IS THE DAY THE LORD GAVE!
Looking out life’s window,
Trying to find out why I am so sad and down.
I don’t blame the Lord for...

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Categories: gen, baptism, birth, character, devotion,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member Revolutions
"Revolutions"




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We are all for the Fall
in the seasons of His hands
where He pulls in the strings 
of all His puppets 
calling in cold legions 
in...

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Categories: gen, faith, god, i am,
Form: Free verse
Master Artist
Gen 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth




pillow clouds frame the earth
shrouds the beauty of your master
flowing fingertip....

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Categories: gen, faith, hope, inspirational, nature,
Form: Haiku



I Am Moonbee
" I  Am  MoonBee ... "

( Matt. 5: 14 - 16 )


I Am The Full Moon Rising
... and The Faithful Bee That Stings
I...

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Categories: gen, allegory, identity, metaphor, moon,
Form: Light Verse
Addicted To Hypocrisy
Heroin lies the irony — 
Segregated babies are weaned on
milk-of-the-poppy
doctrine of Equality

Emancipated notion on the nod:
A false sense of freedom
is taught in every syringe-scattered schoolyard

Children...

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Categories: gen, identity, metaphor, perspective, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Y and Z
Gen Y and Z- one cryptic crowd!
Manage, by text, to Laugh Out Loud!
Not loud enough?! Well, there is more -
Laughing While Rolling On The Floor!
LMBO...

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Categories: gen, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Books a Resource V
Books are resource for them who deplore
Idiocy, silliness, folly. Where absurdities encore
There books no place get and can’t decor
Them into ideal from idle I am...

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Categories: gen, books,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member From the Hymns
**Is it weird that someone my age (Gen Xer) actually likes the hymns at church?  I mean I like the much more modern songs...

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Categories: gen, bible, christian,
Form: Free verse
Apoplectic Begat Comatose

Eh, Bebe ... 
clueless you with the wide eyes open, 
which can’t see

So apoplectic of heart,
paralyzed by the cobra sway
of changeling channel charmer words

Gen Z...

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Categories: gen, allusion, imagery, perspective, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Generational Tea Time
Hear grandma’s tea-kettle whistle,
quaint-blessings…out-moded thistles.

Soak mighty generation soil,
leaves steeping…ancient toil.

Stir mind over matters Gen-Z,
while you and bestie, spill the tea.


*spill the tea - gossip
**bestie -...

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Categories: gen, drink, friend,
Form: Sijo
Goodbye to hello
Goodbye is a feast finished
The last morsel down the hatch
Improper to ask for seconds
No aperitif to this lonely hunger

For every goodbye must be a hello
Even...

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Categories: gen, anxiety, good morning, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Soldier of Ages
Dedicated to  Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) 


I'd fought a hundred battles 
   ...

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Categories: gen, memorial day, patriotic, soldier,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member 10 Things To Eat Instead of Red Meat
Is your go-to lunch roast beef sandwich?
Tomorrow you might want turkey instead
Here is why
In gen. red meat- such as roast beef

Not as healthy as other...

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Categories: gen, baseball, boyfriend, brother, child,
Form: List

Book: Reflection on the Important Things