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Best Important Person Poems

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Premium Member If You Love Her
Listen to her with all of you
   Your fists clenched
   Your lips together
   Your head moving, slightly, side to...

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Categories: important person, devotion, heart, love, spoken
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Why Not Me
Why Not Me?                      ...

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Categories: important person, loneliness, sad, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Lament of My Life
Lament of My Life Contest
Sponsor: Casarah Nance
 

~My Bereaving Eulogy~ 


Time seemed to pass so much faster than I expected,
All the love, loss, passion and...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: important person, bereavement, blessing, death, eulogy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I Love You More Than Anything
Dear Mama,

I can’t believe this time has come
When you’ve always been the one
To comfort me and help me to see and believe
That everything will work...

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Categories: important person, death, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Let Us Not Lose Sight of the Moon, While Counting Stars
Let us Not Lose Sight of the Moon, While Counting Stars
 
Sometimes we are so busy in our life with some unimportant things that we...

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© Jan Jansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: important person, life, philosophy, poems, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry



Jacob Marie (Ton Pa)
By looking at your picture
Is like you are still alive
Your face is still fresh in my mind
Always proud to tell your suffering
And your moments of...

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Categories: important person, black african american, dedication,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Lost and Found
Lost and Found

My name is Daniel. For 70 years--from age 14 to age 84--
I was incomplete, bereft of mother, father, my identical
twin brother Joshua, and...

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Categories: important person, family, forgiveness, freedom, joy,
Form: Free verse
Mirror and Me
Historically
What did I see when I look in the mirror at me?
Reminding me of what I didn’t want to see
Critical and self loathing –frustration of...

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Categories: important person, introspection, visionary,
Form: Free verse
If You Were Still Here
If you were still here, the world would be a better place.
But you died nearly two years ago and it's a disgrace.
If you were still...

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Categories: important person, death, dedication, mom, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Her Nibs
Day in, and day out, from the ripe old age of five
I’ve take to sharp objects and whittled at their sides.

Plotting the precise angle with...

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Categories: important person, funny, language, metaphor,
Form: Couplet
The King of Salem
Hebrews 7:1-7

Melchizedek was the king of Salem and a priest for God the Most High. He met Abraham when Abraham was coming back after defeating...

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Categories: important person, angel, bible, blessing, christian,
Form: Free verse
Security Blanket
SECURITY BLANKET....

YOU were my security blanket
nothing on earth quite like it
I LONG for you to wrap me tight
miss the MOST important person in my life
this...

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© Diana Vee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: important person, absence, death, grief, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Without Fail
He is driven to the Day Hospice each week without fail,
Walking with a cane, hunched over, tall, thin and very frail.
He kisses his wife goodbye...

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© Lee Ramage  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: important person, caregiving, death, love, day,
Form: Rhyme
My Super Hero
Jesus is My Superhero!
Ever since I was a little kid he was there
He would remove all of the monsters beneath my bed
And help me count...

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Categories: important person, best friend, christian, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Zoey
You are wonderful thing,
An important person
A best friend, A cherished daughter
You have an adventurous life
Full of twists and turns

You have some amazing friends
Who are waiting...

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Categories: important person, 7th grade, death, death
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things