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Best Human Race Poems

Below are the all-time best Human Race poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of human race poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member No Such Thing As Forever
We all arrive alone naked and vulnerable,
crying our eyes out, not knowing -
this is the first day of the rest of our life.
I guess the...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: human race, analogy, death, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Writing Unwraps My Soul - Potd
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as...

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Categories: human race, life, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fallen Star
I tracked along a silver trail
carved out from Earthly dust
by rays persistent in the dark 
and midnight wanderlust.

It led me to a bubbling fount
of sulfurous...

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Categories: human race, earth, hate, heaven, life,
Form: Quatrain
One For All
God is all colours
And He is no colour,
For He lives in the black
And He lives in the white.
He lives in the mixed,red
Olive, brown and yellow,
For...

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Categories: human race, life, love, peace, people
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I shall find a way or make one
(Inveniam viam)

Far beyond these eerie things, where limits have no scales
Fish are replacing gills, with turbine aerated tails 
Sea level’s losing all meaning, for the...

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Categories: human race, dark, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Truth About Women
Bestowed with femininity,
     wisdom, elegance, and grace,
 exemplifying dignity, 
     daughter of the human race.

X chromosome integrity
...

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Categories: human race, daughter, mother, people, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thats a Sin
A whole new twist to the same old story
Evil scientist in their laboratories
Creating monsters that live in the night
I often reflect on mankind's plight
As mankind...

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Categories: human race, confusion, faith, life, people,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Middle Aged White Guy
How do I shed the label
of a white oppressive man
Do I listen to the message
of Obama's "Yes we can!"
Perhaps I'll go out marching 
With women...

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Categories: human race, angst, racism,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Don'T Try To Change Me
I don't mind being your friend
Or even possibly loving you
But don't try to change me
I love being me
I have my own voice
We see things differently...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: human race, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chasing Pandora
Prometheus had erred and caused great ire
when stealing in stealth secrets of fire.
But Zeus could not forgive this deed.
The chieftain of gods punished his greed.
The...

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Categories: human race, hope,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Vicious Circle
to be immortal
strange wish for the human race
history repeats
lessons misplaced by culture
still---war supersedes logic

© Harry J Horsman 2022...

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Categories: human race, angst, time,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member A Time For Heroes
The child stands valorous before the door
    With nary a tinge of fear or dread.
Armed with a spatula and a pancake flipper...
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Categories: human race, appreciation, inspiration, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...

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Categories: human race, creation, dark, evil, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Thief Called Time
A THIEF CALLED TIME

“Time is the thief you cannot banish”
Phyllis McGinley writer 1905-1978

All that live upon this earth
dwell on borrowed time,
for the human race every
single...

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Categories: human race, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Poetry
Oh where could one sweet person go
          Who craves a phrase to ebb and flow
 ...

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Categories: human race, appreciation, philosophy, poems, poetess,
Form: Rhyme

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