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Best Margaret Mead Poems


When the Conch Shell Loses Its Roar
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment." 
- Margaret Mead 



It's time to face the facts, Jack, Jill; 
give the marsh back to the ocean, 
move uphill. Give the river back 
its mouth, the shore to the sea. 
It's way past time...

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Categories: margaret mead, nature, passion, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Keola Choka
***Margaret Mead***

the world is ALWAYS
pushing me to REMEMBER
THAT each creature, flower, plant

pale in the shadow 
of YOU, for you ARE the one
ABSOLUTELY pure

and purely UNIQUE
JUST as are each creature, plant,
flower are more LIKE than not

EVERYONE is just
a reflection of beauty
and utterly nothing ELSE


For: Keola Secret...

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Categories: margaret mead, beauty,
Form: Choka
Premium Member Utterly
Quote: “It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age”. -- Margaret Mead 

On a spring morn bathed in golden light, 
I'm enchanted by the...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: margaret mead, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



The Widow
The Widow

Some time, ago a man went climbing an icy mountain on his own, why? I don't what was on his mind maybe he was the type of a man who had no friends because he was eristic and
fed up with his wife, wanted to...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: margaret mead, anti bullying, break up,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member My First Kyrielle
Conceived with unique DNA
a soul-- on the very first day
wonderfully made, our lives begun
we're all redeemed by God the Son

Always remember -- you're unique :-D
the way you think, the way you speak
well, granted, so is everyone
we're all redeemed by God the Son

But sharing our humanity
lets...

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Categories: margaret mead, god, jesus, life, love,
Form: Kyrielle

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry