Best Nationalities Poems


Premium Member The Red Poppy

...The symbol of remembrance is the red poppy
When I look upon it, this is what I see,
I see courage, sacrifice and extreme bravery
See thousands enlisting to defend their country.

I see other nat......

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Categories: nationalities, appreciation, remembrance day, tribute,
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Darkest of Confessions

...Darkest of Confessions


Voices in my head
Dancing abreast with the abstract
Shattered glasses and shattered dreams
History repeats many a lovers’ defeat

I demand a duel
With my heart
I we......

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Categories: nationalities, angst, appreciation, french, funeral,
Form: Free verse

America, Why Did You Stray?

...America, why did you stray from the old way.
A constitution put forth, the foundation of our land,
barely recognizable what was originally Jefferson's hand.
Tarnished and smudged by misinterpretat......

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Categories: nationalities, depression, devotion, education, history,
Form: Narrative

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Homelessness - You Have the Power To Help Us If You Like

...You all walk past me and you don't bat an eye,
Not even when you can see the pain in my cry,
You tar me with the same brush as them all, that you cant deny,
But ignoring me, you cant justify.

N......

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Categories: nationalities, abuse, allegory, betrayal, community,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Quiet Creek In a Forest

... 
There is a place where poets gather,
From every country in this earthly realm;
Poet's mingle, no matter race, color.

Such a diverse group of people sharing souls,
Poems varied as......

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Categories: nationalities, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse

Riding the Train

...RIDING THE TRAIN

Catchin' the train to the city makes an interesting day
Peak hours all the workers going to earn their pay
Many nationalities all different in their own way
And then there's th......

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Categories: nationalities, day, people, travel,
Form: Rhyme


You Want To and Can Write Poetry

...Dear budding poet,

Regarding modern poetry this is a result of poets such as you redesigning forms of poetry written through the ages by different nationalities, famous and just ordinary people li......

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nationalities, age, devotion, imagination, me,
Form: Prose

Premium Member Evesham My Town

...I was not born here but I’ll probably see out my years here.
Circumstances brought me here twenty or so years ago and I’m still here
It’s a river town, a fisherman’s town and a day tripper’s town.
......

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Categories: nationalities, dedication, england,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Acrostic: recipe for friendship

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A-  Appreciate the love between you
B-  Believe in their inner beauty
C-  Console them when needed
D-  Delight in their presence!
E-  Encourage their works and dreams
F-  Faithful-not a......

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Categories: nationalities, feelings, friendship love,
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Life Between Loving Friends

...A-  Appreciate the love between you
B-  Believe in their inner beauty
C-  Console them when needed
D - Delight in their presence
E-  Encourage  their works and dreams
F-  Faithful not a sometime......

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Categories: nationalities, appreciation, friendship, relationship,
Form: Abecedarian

Premium Member Ashes In An Urn

...ashes in an urn
a lovely new urn

whose ashes are they
who was burned that day

what races
what religions
what sexes
what nationalities

maybe they’re all mixed in 
ashes indistinguishabl......

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Categories: nationalities, color, death, discrimination, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member What If the World Were Black--

...WHAT IF THE WORLD WERE BLACK--


What if the world were black;
I mean every single person all nationalities;
All they could see would only be tan, brown, bronze black;
How would you react?
Wou......

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Categories: nationalities, adventure, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium Member Stop the Madness

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Men and women in blue,
I write this in honor of you.
How you can even leave your
husband or wife?
When a bullet from organized 
madmen might take your life?

I have no such courage!
......

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Categories: nationalities, abuse, america, patriotic, rights,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Empty Swing

...Is it still there, swaying in the
Chicago air?
I dream of myself with dark,
ribboned braids, being just seven.
And swinging my tanned legs as
hard as I Could,,trying to kiss God's 
cheek in hea......

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Categories: nationalities, america, angst, freedom, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Unique

...A snowflake fluttered down
Without making a sound
I examined each as they sat on my arm
Intricate details on each one
Each with a beautiful design
Each with it's very own unique lines
How diffe......

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Categories: nationalities, hope, imagination, introspection, beautiful,
Form: Blank verse
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