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Best North Korean Poems

Below are the all-time best North Korean poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of north korean poems written by PoetrySoup members


North Korean Rocket Boy
Countries should launch rockets for the exploration of space.
A little Asian nation wants to join the nuclear arms race.
The capital city is known as Pyongyang.
Its...

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Categories: north korean, political, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A North Korean Yo-Yo
This North Korean Yo-Yo is threatening disaster
With nuclear destruction, let's send him to pasture
He must be stopped
Whatever the cost
When Yo-Yo's crop up, they're like a...

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Categories: north korean, fear,
Form: Limerick
Yo Parents So Strict
My curfew according to my mom is, “before the sun goes down!”
She never gives me the time to meet with friends and hang around
My dad...

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© Anna Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: north korean, childhood, humor, metaphor, mom,
Form: Free verse
Knowing and Believing
I believe
Because I don’t know

I know the sun rises in the east and sets in the west
I know spring follows summer
Summer follows autumn 
Then winter

But...

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Categories: north korean, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Speedily Developing Through the Machines of Perseverance
A teenager with the expressions of a middle age individual
is the wonder-creating characteristic of its accelerating growth.
Dwelling in a land not presented with natural gifts;
it...

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Categories: north korean, community, earth, education, environment,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Freedoms Just a Lie
Kim Jong-un is a vile
North Korean leader,
who hides behind a smile.

He places himself first
inciting war and hate,
of all men, he's the worst.

Cheering his cocky strut
you...

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Categories: north korean, abuse, angst, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Human Being Shell Sleep No More
Human being shell sleep no more,
Lubits has murdered our sleep forever 

Right up we must get to the hard truth
and not blind out the fact
that...

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Categories: north korean, philosophy,
Form: Ballad
Politics: the Grimm Reaper
"Political power grows out of the barrel
of a gun" - Mao Zedong.


North Korea has nuclear;
current regime's fear
of falling out is clear.

China, Philippines, Japan,
and Taiwan all...

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Categories: north korean, life, political, power, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M Actually Half-Human
I awoke from my cocoon now knowing my time
I'm actually half-human from a dimension defined

But so honoured to be able to look back, and track
To...

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Categories: north korean, africa, appreciation, earth, future,
Form: Couplet
The Tragic Games Between Rulers and People
Look for this tragic dilemma: 
either people have reached the real powers
and  handled  the weal of engine 
or government  done  the...

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Categories: north korean, political,
Form: Verse
A Day In Our Life
A day in my life

She coming out of the bus she has forgotten the umbrella walks 
slowly and her face is more African now that...

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Categories: north korean, break up, butterfly, career,
Form: Bio
A Poem About That Person We'Ve All Encountered
T'es Ou?


That's all I heard for 10 minutes straight
one sautéed Brussels morning in the metro
with everyone, their brother, perhaps their dog
peeing on my leg, or...

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Categories: north korean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Preparing Love's Ways and Means
So, love is good for you?
Not too traumatic?

In a foreplay
Win-Win kind of way,
yes.

Now what?

Maybe some music and stretching?

How about another dance?

Sacred MotherEarth,
you wear me out.

I...

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Categories: north korean, caregiving, earth, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
London 2012 Worldwide Poets Still Needed For Festival Event
London 2012 Worldwide poets still needed for Festival event
More than 20 writers are still needed for an event to include a poet from every nation...

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Categories: north korean, political,
Form: Free verse
The West Really Is the Best
In the west any woman
can invite a man to bed,
but do that stuff in Iran
and they’ll huck rocks ’till she’s dead.

In the west any Christian
can...

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Categories: north korean, america, culture, how i
Form: Rhyme

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