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Best Genetic Poems

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


Premium Member Simple Man, Just Striving To Have a Simple Soul
Simple Man, Just Striving To Have A Simple Soul

There was no great air of mystery about him
tho' kind, too much of his life had been...

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Categories: genetic, death, deep, endurance, farewell,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Cutting the Ties
For many

Long years

I’ve lived

In your

 

SSssss
HHhhh
AAaaa
DDddd
OOooo
WWww
 

Your eyes

Cannot hide

Your lies

 

Pure deception -

now rejection

 

I take my

 

 

         KNIFE=====

 

   ...

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Categories: genetic, conflict, dark, deep, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The God Machine
I really have outdone myself this time!
My ‘God Machine’ is finally in place!
I’ll never have to fret about a rhyme,
Or stop for a red light...

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Categories: genetic, god, humor, judgement, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Afflictions Feel Like Inflictions
I once was fast and so athletic. Bad afflictions? I had none.
Measles, mumps (the normal things). Youth was so much fun.

Then came my childbearing early...

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Categories: genetic, body,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Frilly Filly's Famous Story
FILLY’S FAMOUS STORY   

Although I am pink, don’t ever think
That this filly is just frilly and silly,
For I am a thorough bred filly...

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Categories: genetic, horse,
Form: Free verse



Dandelions and Roses
Of Dandelions and Roses

Among the bricks and stones
dandelions persist, finding
any smallest egress to pop 
through.

My Irish Grammie called me
her "Rose so sweet"
Truth is - I...

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Categories: genetic, writing,
Form: Blank verse
Canvas of Catastrophe
Canvas of Catastrophe



An outcast portait of society
Public opinion timidly restrained
Descriptive world of psychotic anarchy
Borderline genius, brilliantly insane

Artificial imagined ancient discovery
Sacrificed human, silenced little lamb
Red drifted...

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Categories: genetic, america, change, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Kneaded Life
I’ve watched him whither. He came to me a decade ago, stooped in pain. The fine-boned features of his face and the clarity of his...

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Categories: genetic, age, dream, love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Penny For Your Thoughts
Inspired by the following quote:  "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be...

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Categories: genetic, angst, confusion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Skeletons and Songs of Samsara - 1
The skeletons and songs of samsara eternal
fleshed, fattened and flamed in karmic harmony,
your heart begins to beat in dark plethora roll
an in utero thunder thumps...

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Categories: genetic, birth, death, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Farming As a Terrorist Act
Going on down to the demos today
the last farmer has been put away.
They shot him down
just outside of town.
Police found him in his own cornfield,
where...

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Categories: genetic, allegory, funny, on work
Form: Rhyme
Written When Most Are Proud Cyborgs
In pleasantries, orchestrated on our screens,
We live the lives of many men and women,
As if sex could be! We grow, composed of well-cooked pablum
Eaten between...

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Categories: genetic, philosophy, political, science fiction,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Weak State of Affairs
The people of the state oppressed 
should have a referdum by rights 
God given unto them by speech 
words draws the sword 
To back anything...

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Categories: genetic, betrayal, conflict, earth day,
Form: Narrative
Annus Mirabilis-1905
March is a time of transition
winter and spring commence their struggle
between moments of ice and mud
a robin appears heralding the inevitable
life stumbling from its slumber
it...

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Categories: genetic, celebration,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Father
A tradesman’s son and temple secrets die
in sixty nine years, never knowing why.

Contempt delivered their first child perfect,
your childhood gauntlet galvanized neglect.

A mother’s son and...

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Categories: genetic, bible, childhood, christian, faith,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Book: Shattered Sighs