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Best International Poems

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Premium Member One World
Love is not a color,
No hue, neither a race.
All of our blood is the same, 
That runs deep within our veins.

If we could lift up...

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Categories: international, america, for her, for
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Broken Doll
Walls of silence hold,
 Me prisoner,
The child held within,
 Cries out for release.
Relative solitude comforts, 
Not the tortured soul,
Inward coiling withdrawing,
 Deep inside. 
Shedding its...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: international, abuse, childhood, conflict, fear,
Form: Free verse
Proverbs of Life
Proverbs Of Life

If you don't have a purpose in life, then
you don't have a life.

It is not what the world can offer you. It is
what...

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Categories: international,
Form: Free verse
We Are Not So Different
 I'm a Catholic,You're a Muslim

I'm an Orthodox ,You're a Protestant

I'm a Hindhuist,You're a Buddhist

You're an Atheist,and I am a Mormon too.

You're an African,I'm American

You're...

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Categories: international, introspection, love, ,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Terrorism Knows No Geography
hate knows no limits
Boston or Beirut Bombings
innocent ones die

in Paris or Pakistan
atrocities unlabeled
innocent ones die

Baghdad or Berlin
Lives should have the same value
innocent ones die

innocent ones...

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Categories: evil, international,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Autumn On Fire
God’s inspirational napalm set ablaze upon the trees of autumn,
Welcome to the ascension of the fall season, bursting forth onto
The leaves once evergreen.
Colors of crisp...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: international, autumn, beauty, heart, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Prince of Purple
Beneath the opal white moon, the crying doves shed their precious tears,
Causing the purple rain to fall, melting at the lavender notes of musical dreams,
Camelot’s...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: imagery, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Ruled the World
If I ruled the whole wide world there's so much that I would change
I wouldn't be Mr Popular and they'd think me somewhat strange
First thing...

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Categories: conflict, environment, hate, international,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Heinrich Heine Revisited
I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your...

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Categories: history, international, philosophy, poems,
Form: Narrative
Fake News - Real Storm
Wicked news flash - torrential storm - Purple 
streaks of confusion striking. Violent grey 
clouds spinning its evil. Hatred scattered 
in shreds of hail. Waves...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: international, angst, anti bullying, courage,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Paul, Peter and the Tweeter
Paul, Peter and the Tweeter
Why not choose, 
a billionaire leader?
One who is not 
an eloquent speaker.
Trouble rises,
he robs Paul to pay Peter.
The bold rich need...

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Categories: international, anxiety, celebrity, confusion, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The ***********
The ***********

It has no brain
yet it outsmarts
many little red funny caps
thanks to them
xi virus
will be great again...

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Categories: america, death, international, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Edger All Poe
Our dark founding father, of American literature,
A sinister beacon of darkness, lighting the way
Into the darkened abyss of mankind’s soul.
Within the galleria of madness, he...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: international, character, dark, history, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pile On--Let's Blame America
America, trillions in debt
gives to many nations!
Alas, what for, we are seen
as a selfish nation?

Homeless populate the streets 
of LA.(thanks to governor Newsom)!
Yet don't you...

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Categories: america, angst, international,
Form: Rhyme
A Tribute To My Late Wife Shashi
A short Poem as 
A Tribute to My Lost Wife.


Countless voices and memories 

May get foggy or dim  

By the flow of time stream,...

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Categories: international, memory, tribute,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things