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Best Honourables Poems

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


Honourables
At eighty he is still a coolie
toiling in paddy lea;
reaping pods and
heaping the seeds.

His sagged muscles working
in wonted harmony
But his brain tired of thought;
of his...

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Categories: honourables, angst, family, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Stolen Illumination of the Star
STOLEN ILLUMINATION OF THE STAR

This journey has not been a fanciful adventure, 
we're all settlers in  these dynasty of neo-colonialism 
united only by what...

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Categories: honourables, political,
Form: Narrative
Our Building(4 University of Ibadan Students' Union Building
Our convergent joint
The rallying  point
Mecca to the Pastors and Sisters
Jerusalem to the “Alhajas and Alfas”
Refuge to the weak
Shield to the strong
Nowhere on campus like...

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Categories: honourables, adventure, nostalgia, philosophybody,
Form: I do not know?
Bench Warmer
The Bench Warmers! 

I Always confused 
About the ladders we called 
I wonder, where things went wrong 
I'm thinking thinking 
I keep asking myself 
Where...

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Categories: honourables, allusion, anger,
Form: I do not know?
Chiefs of Mischiefs
Chiefs of mischiefs are-
Vulnerable honourables
Who wear the outfit of oppression
And vicariously dishonourable
Upon putting our nation to recession

Chiefs of mischiefs are-
Magnanimous messengers of doom
Offspring of greed,...

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Categories: honourables, corruption, freedom, humanity,
Form: Rhyme




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