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
Just a Tree - a RequiemSomeone 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
That Was Then, This is NowYour 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
Revolutions
"Revolutions"
7
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 ArtistGen 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
Y and ZGen 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 VBooks 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
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
Generational Tea TimeHear 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 helloGoodbye 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 AgesDedicated 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
10 Things To Eat Instead of Red MeatIs 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