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Best Posterity Poems

Below are the all-time best Posterity poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of posterity poems written by PoetrySoup members


Jesus's Love Matters
Jesus’s love matters when the garden of eden turns to grey,
The fertile ferns frown as spirituality has been driven away…
A rosette reverence redeems within the...

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Categories: posterity, conflict, evil, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Truth About Women
Bestowed with femininity,
     wisdom, elegance, and grace,
 exemplifying dignity, 
     daughter of the human race.

X chromosome integrity
...

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Categories: posterity, daughter, mother, people, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memories On Branches
Memories on branches live on and on -
multiplying since the world’s first dawn.
Fresh and beautiful in spring are we -
buds that blossom on our family...

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Categories: posterity, family, life, seasons,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Walls Make Bad Neighbours
Walls Make Bad Neighbours

‘All in all we are just bricks in the wall’ deconstructed by Pink Floyd
        ...

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Categories: posterity, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Immortality
The poet dies, but does not die
if he has left a line
black inked upon enduring page
or lingered on the mind.

With no thought than to see...

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Categories: posterity, truth,
Form: Rhyme



Matchstick Bikes
Matchstick Bikes 

To tinkers and toilers 
     I salute, 
From mending boilers 
     to weaving jute, 
Man...

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Categories: posterity, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Now It's Up To You and I
We have the left; we have the right.
In the political arena they both fight.

Always claiming to be on our side,
With ferocious rhetoric, opponents they deride.

Vote...

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Categories: posterity, education, political, voice,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Oasis
Written: January 1st, 2023 

Rumi's verse, "The desert beckons us as if it were the oasis,"
         ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: posterity, adventure, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member We Marched For the Madness of Mortality's Mayheim -
Warriors of austere adventures,
soldiers for suffering and tribe survival,
children,peasents,women & men,the penny poor & candid criminals,
proud peoples,honest heros,

we marched on all the flesh of earth,
no...

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Categories: posterity, history, march,
Form: Imagism
Why - Genocide Contest
I lay in my hospital bed after giving birth, Could hear the murdering, raping 
Hutus approaching my bed
My baby was no more. They ravaged me....

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Categories: posterity, life, murder, , memorial,
Form: Prose Poetry
On the Outside Looking In
I was talkin' with the Lord when He said to me
"Are you okay?  Need some company"?

I told Him that even with all His creatures
I...

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Categories: posterity, funny, husband, loss, wifeme,
Form: Couplet
Daisy Chain
Each generation
		is the next link in the chain
But our ancestral past
won’t let the future children 
		of posterity go, to run free
Adam and Eve put the...

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Categories: posterity, children, culture, love, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Old Friend Gettysburg
My old friend Gettysburg came to visit me tonight.                ...

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Categories: posterity, abortion, america, july,
Form: Personification
Monet's Magnificence
Monet

Brush strokes of elegant refinement

within eloquent sighs of awed inspiration

fluid scenery grasping Nirvana's refulgence

emotions painted vividly seasoned 

music ringing from canvas's power

clinging to old master's...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: posterity, art, beautiful, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Hobbies Revisited
With time on my hands now that I am retired,
To hobbies I have returned,
And I am not disappointed.

I am back into stamp collecting,
Still find it...

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Categories: posterity, addiction, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs