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Best Honouring Poems

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


Honouring the Wartime Dead
They fought with grit to save the nation, 
From poverty, squalor and infidelity, 
And when they marched it was the Nazi’s or them, 
Who would...

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Categories: honouring, dedication, history, memorial day,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek
The sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...

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Categories: honouring, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Who Silence the Silent One
On a reminiscing of a poet I thought I would make a call
 
But on searching for this name sake I was left appalled

The name...

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Categories: honouring, absence, abuse, bullying, endurance,
Form: Couplet
Pledge of Love and Loyalty
This pledge that l,Ntando, make today serves
as my guideline that I shall follow
happily, ungrudgingly and tirelessly
for the sake of our love life.
Indeed l am well...

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Categories: honouring, anniversary, beauty, caregiving, christmas,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Ramayana
Ramayana, a Hindu epic, 
written by saint Valmiki, in Sanskrit
one of the two largest ancient epics,
the first ever poem ever created
many many centuries ago.
It ...

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Categories: honouring, inspirational,
Form: Narrative



Put Them Out of Sight Now
Lay down your old ink pen...
Rise from the table...
Push back your chair.
Gather them all up...
Put them out of sight now...
Place them safely in the cupboard...

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Categories: honouring, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Kirk By the Sea
John chapter 15 verse 12--- 
This is my commandment, 
That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
			~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There’s a wee Kirk overlooking the sea
Lowly...

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Categories: honouring, nostalgia, religion, love,
Form: Couplet
Living the Dream: How the Sca Was Born
We started, all of us, with a dream
A need to be more than we might seem
Add to our lives a bright, new shine
To honour those...

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Categories: honouring, adventure, community, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Too Many Poppies
Too Many Poppies  

I don’t want a poppy
I don’t want a shield
I don’t want to visit
Rows in Flanders Fields

Another young person 
Yes a young...

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Categories: honouring, emotions, war,
Form: Quatrain
To Luyanda
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
     And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
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Categories: honouring, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stoicism
                    STOICISM

    ...

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Categories: honouring, how i feel, life,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Multicultural Britain - An Unapologetic Statement
Multicultural Britain
(An Unapologetic Statement)

Two “Festivals of Light” there are
Each and every year
The Jewish have their Hanukah
And Hindus their Diwali cheer

The end of Ramadan brings Eid...

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Categories: honouring, appreciation, celebration, christian, christmas,
Form: Verse
Good Night ----- My Queen
Closed eyes in world of sweet dreams,
With waving smiles & dancing echoes of sensuality,
My wish winding your squashy lips in excitement,
Creating wobble in the heart...

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Categories: honouring, fantasy, girlfriend-boyfriend, world, universe,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T Wignesan
Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
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Categories: honouring, religion, spiritual,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Fantasy
Dangling in between my legs was my stoned tail
Making every effort to peep out of the zip
Just appreciate the the glory of God displaying wonders...

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Categories: honouring, adventure, imagination, romantic, romantic
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs