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Best Heredity Poems

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Mother
You were gone before my mind 
could grasp the brush which paints
faces on memory's canvas.
Vaguely, flashes of an open grave
on a sunny winter's day -...

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Categories: heredity, mother,
Form: Free verse



Sorry
"Sorry" doesn't cut it.
Well neither does a butter knife.
I guess I'll have to say "sorry" 
For being in your life.
"Sorry" for being black.
And doing what...

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Categories: heredity, passion, sorry, teen
Form: Alliteration
Leaking Pen
Opening 
Fourth street and the divide meet 
Near the stream where it's waters Impede 
Five metres walk from the wooden bridge 
A little further away...

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© Kofi Amed   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heredity, fate, hope, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Whispering To Myself
Perhaps with stars in your joyful eyes my friend
You will recall the time like rainbow as you would
Hold your baby in your thrilled arms to...

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Categories: heredity, children, parents,
Form: Rhyme
An Immigrants Position
I came first but you did not write me in history
You made me mute, invisible, estranged
From my own heredity and great memory
With the slivering tongue...

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Categories: heredity, black-african amerme, me,
Form: Verse



Colorless
I am a product of my next of kin
so in their image, through evolution 
determined pigmentation of my skin
of human historic distribution,

a complexion that I...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heredity, color, history, humanity, identity,
Form: Sonnet
Immortal Gene
Irrefutable evolution conduits 
        Matter tip toes through tunnels
        Microscopic nano...

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Categories: heredity, baby, blessing, endurance, graduation,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Manners of Management -
They made mammon somethng measurable, mighty, & magnificent,
everywhere that labor, exchange, & entertainment exist monuments
to money, large and small,

the genesis was excess manufacture 
such as...

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Categories: heredity, education,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Jerusalem, the Jugular - Part One
You can't imagine what its like to march on a sacred city,
to plunder and pulverize a Peoples' promise to Deity,
demolishing centuries of lavish labor, wasting...

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Categories: heredity, war,
Form: Epic
The Family Tree
The Family Tree

The Family Tree has arm, that stretch out far and wide,
From each arm stems a legacy, which can never be denied,
Also affixed, are...

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Categories: heredity, creation, culture, family, future,
Form: Rhyme
Joan of Arc For Contest
The Cross-dressing of Joan d`Arc

Cross-dressing of Joan was perhaps heavily based,
On the bible’s principle in Deuteronomy 22:5 and viewed 
as a Rebellion against God. 
Tis...

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Categories: heredity, blessing, christian, dedication, hero,
Form: Narrative
Conversation With Cancer
Conversation with Cancer

What are you cancer? Help me to understand please, 
An invasion of your body, a complicated disease!

Where did you come from? I really...

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Categories: heredity, cancer, confusion, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Jerusalem, the Jugular -1
You can't imagine what it's like to march on a sacred city,
to plunder and pulverize a Peoples' physical promise to a Deity,
demolishing centuries of lavish...

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Categories: heredity, history,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Somebody Stop Me, Or the Way of the Respondent World To Be, I Hope
I will keep this one simple as it involves one with love
to get the full impetus this song fits like a glove
I am a lover,...

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Categories: heredity, adventure, journey, mentor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Home Is Where the Heart Is
heirloom roots dart unto tropical spaces
seven thousand islands stitched by dainty laces
where ripples of  meadows form formless
there, lovely women gather milkfish with kindness
of gumamela...

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Categories: heredity, inspirational, places,
Form: Couplet

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