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Best Humus Poems

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


Premium Member The Old Oak Tree
Oh I am but a simple leaf
         withering within the gutter
      ...

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Categories: humus, autumn, life, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wake Up Oh Africa
With the heavy load you suffer
a substance not needed
yet drags you
cushioning your efforts
and deterring your pace, forgetting that
the Train is already moving
with passengers determined
for this...

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Categories: humus, africa, dark,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Tea Leaves On the Bosphorus
Tea Leaves On The Bosphorus

Seated at a table by the stirring water,
My eyes absorb the shore of Asia.
Minerets and aged worn stone
Stand haphazardly along the...

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Categories: humus, adventure, inspirational, life, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Germination
Ah, the fortitude of a circle
the circular wisdom 
of  spring to summer  fall to winter  
the spinning wheel’s twist of threads -
at...

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Categories: humus, birth, faith, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Invitation a Culinary Greek Destination
Let’s begin with
A strong fresh
Brewed Greek coffee
The aroma alone,
Will wake up 
Your senses, 
Allow you to
Let go, to keep 
An open mind to delight
And excite...

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Categories: humus, fun,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Century-Twenty Two
A future world rule by Trillionaires and Billionaires
Each country with segments of puppet regime governments,
With exceptions of course,
The drug lords the cartel those with the...

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Categories: humus, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Until a New Dawn
Returning from the date, he hides impressions 
into the nooks and crannies of his mind
like a fed dog hides bones and then can’t find.
Don’t, filthy...

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Categories: humus, death, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
She Is the Liquid Night
She is the liquid night
The fluid obsidian chalice
She engulfs me

Her breath is frangipani
It is the air I breathe
She permeates me 

In her starlit vision
In her...

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Categories: humus, desire, love, lust, sensual,
Form: Free verse
In the Farmer's Song
so, i got to thinking
about all those words
planted in my language
where fertility grew them
to leave and stalk and pod

the farmer's words scatter
my fields like seed...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humus, inspirational, nature, on work
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Harry Horsman
Harry Horsman's treatment was withdrawn over a week ago and they are making him comfortable, he is now in Hospice care.

Susan Ashly…we can only hope...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humus, caregiving, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Boy / Bridgeport Ct 1981
The images plucked from a full soft drive like over blown berries
threatening to fall……blasted to the humus. Swing chains creak.
The high-backed, heart carved, chalk white,...

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Categories: humus, childhoodhouse, school, house, school,
Form: Free verse
Purple Majesty
We had saved our precious stock of grandpa’s grape
prepared the ground and amended the soil.
After laying out the orchard, we planted cuttings with our own...

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Categories: humus, family, life, work, work,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member A Rich Girl Dreaming of Poverty
If she were poor, she would go to the rough side
and talk to tough strangers with rough haversacks.

Having done that, she would go in their...

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© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humus, humorous, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Born To Live-Difficult To Conquer
The birth place of world war II
after an invasion void of any declaration.
Stamps on history’s book by feminine hands
to ascertain the first death sentence of...

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Categories: humus, community, education, environment, history,
Form: Ode
Undefined Stream of Consciousness
After all is said and done, cliché style
(Forgive me if this does not rhyme, I'm moving
Past rhyme for the sake of rhyme)
You will have gone...

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Categories: humus, perspective, philosophy, rap, slam,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things