Best Inherited Poems
Below are the all-time best Inherited poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of inherited poems written by PoetrySoup members
World Day Against RacismYou asked me the other day, my friend,
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,
Look, how...
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Categories:
inherited, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...
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Categories:
inherited, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
It Took All My Courage To Write and Post This PoemI wish I’d had the courage to ask you
why you treated me so differently to my sibling
You gave her private education at Norland -
yet...
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Categories:
inherited, confusion, father,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
inherited, december, father daughter, how
Form:
Free verse
Granddad In HeavenYou left before you could meet them
"I want to live to see my grandkids" you’d say
Unfortunately you never got the chance
So let me introduce them...
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Categories:
inherited, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
Racism: Humanity's Deadliest Social DiseaseThe other day
you asked me my friend, who I am
I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true
look, how much alike we are,
no matter...
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Categories:
inherited, humanity, love, peace, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Spirits In the WoodStanding all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken...
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Categories:
inherited, death, earth, fantasy, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Gentle SpiritYou came when I needed an etheric friend,
though I never knew you in life.
An angelic guardian I see in dreams.
You died just before I was...
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Categories:
inherited, emotions, imagery, inspiration, people,
Form:
Prose
The Red WheelbarrowHow I loved spending a week of the summer holidays with my grandparents. Gramps would come and pick me up in his old pick- up...
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Categories:
inherited, childhood, garden, grandparents, memory,
Form:
Haibun
What HappenedWHAT HAPPENED
Darkness is enveloping sinister
and frightening,
Elusive, alluring, captivating and
Inviting,
Every night it falls like a
clock that is punctual,
And we accept it as a part...
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Categories:
inherited, dark, faith, light,
Form:
Rhyme
Heart Song On a Milk Carton. (Reposted)Wont you find me here?
Drifting in an expanse of swirling storm
Outstreched fingers graze debris...
recklessly...
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Categories:
inherited, introspection, loss, love, me,
Form:
Free verse
The Language of SilenceWe don't talk about it, I was mutely told,
Schooled in your nonverbal narcissism, I Attest
I became a linguist in the language of silence;
The tightened line...
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Categories:
inherited, father daughter, hurt, language,
Form:
Free verse
Measure For MeasureAn eye for an eye
Soon the world was blind
A place full of misery
Not one person was kind
People chose to get even
They believed in blow...
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Categories:
inherited, corruption, earth, eulogy, pride,
Form:
Quatrain
Lollipop Series- What I LoveMommy deemed the three-year-old me as an honour
Said that I should become a doctor
Stethoscope and thermometer are in her gift bag
To spark the zeal in...
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Categories:
inherited, birthday, boy, child, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
On a BenchI was sitting on a bench, by the sunshine being drenched
When a strange situation took place
Someone sat next to me; from where he came I...
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Categories:
inherited, death,
Form:
Rhyme