Best Homage Poems

Do you ever ponder on the purpose of life?
wonder why things turn out the way they do?
ever look back and think I did that wrongly?
then go and make exactly the same mistake?

("If you can dream- and not make dreams your master
If you can think-and not...

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There once was a bunch of nice poets 
Who always wrote glowing comments 
They remedied  my rhythms
They helped with my haiku
They are poetry soups, super hero's  




inspired by jans rainbow poem...

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              hot cup of coffee
              compassionate poet friends
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I'm the dead-eyed stare,  
tied up in stories of self I can't feel.  
Lighter than air, the breeze  
stole the blue from my eyes,  
tangled me in who I wish I was.  

Every scale lies flat -
I can't move forward,...

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An abandoned cottage holds
                           remnants of secrets unexplored.
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Homage to Bon Jovi
	
I’m going out in a “Blaze of Glory”
So “Bang A Drum” as I tell my story

With “One Light Burning” “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead”
“Chained” to the “Right Side of Wrong” in my head.

“Shot Through The Heart”, “You Really Got Me Now”...
Your “Bad...

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I wonder how a titan
rose from the country
of dwarfs.
Recalling him now seems
Like talking about dinosaur
where with no living forms of
that magnitude in vogue
We get the idea of enormity
from fossils:

His relentless insistence on truth,
No gulf between
preaching and practice,
Ceaseless struggle for swaraj,
Humble ideal of trusteeship,
Heroic crusade against...

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A Knight from the vast Kingdom
of The King of Holy Throne.
Michael slept within a castle
on beds of peat moss, and of loam.                       ...

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His most famous picture
Heaven painted red; "Scream"
Highlight a work of art
Hence a breath of sadness
Headache, stomach empty
Human by suffering
Hands work by: Edvard Munch









February 19. 2017
Pleiades; 7 lines 
- Sun :)- A-L Andresen :)
www.howmanysyllables.com
29 words
6 X 7 - 42 syllables...

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Homage to Johnny Bench

The greatest catcher ever was
With one hand  'hind his back
Was Johnny Bench. Yep, that's the buzz. 
And never did he slack. 

He broke ole Yogi's home run hits. 
"The Little Colonel"'s claim:
Three hundred eighty-nine and gets
The Baseball Hall of Fame. 

His...

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Fibs --
Poems --
Not lies --
Poetry --
Based on a series
That slowly unfolds like a seed,
At first you hardly notce that the fib has started,
Then the lines that were once so constricted suddenly open like branches of a tree;
This is its nature and ever-expanding essential meaning and...

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Homage to Catalonia?

Policeman wielding batons or shedding a welled up tear,
Flag waving populace or staying home in fear,
State defence of self, or defending an historic lie,
Should we pay homage, or should we just weep and cry?

Turning out to vote, or disobedient serf,
Democratic abuser or defending...

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Little boy ill and in bed every day
couldn't join friends or go out and play.
Little lead soldiers marched on his bed,
many adventures whirled in his head.

The land of counterpane lay on the bed
his landscape sewn with needle and thread.
That quilt all wrinkled, crumpled, and more
are...

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Across the sea in a far off land,
Hunkered down in a bombed out farmhouse, a soldier makes his final stand.
Seriously wounded, but no fear does he show,
As the enemy approaches, he’s locked and loaded and ready to go.

As darkness nears this may be his only...

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 5 Homage to Humphrey Jennings by T. Wignesan

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