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Best Predecessor Poems

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Premium Member Wounded
Come and gone like small twister
like the cloud of debris he’s left.
Echoes of Charlie Brown’s buddy Pigpen
blow through the cobwebs in memory.
Left over coffee cups...

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Categories: predecessor, caregiving, childhood, depression, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Sorcerer's Apprentice
blasts of flames from his hand and staff
 
electrically charged spheres
 
turquoise orbs ignite the palace hall
 
Merlin taught him magical words
 
abracadabra, alacazoom
 
fear...

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Categories: predecessor, people
Form: Free verse
Assuming My Role In the Diorama
I awake with the question "Am I like my predecessor?"
Automated and fabricated to slave for the oppressor
I join the procession yet I am an orbate...

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Categories: predecessor, angst, conflict, day, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I wish I had
Line of inquiry:
The ego within forced me to resist
But now I wish I had effused a love mist
With aplomb and flair, just kind of left...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: predecessor, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member January
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Cold and bleak is its curtain.
The holiday festivities are over.
Time to curl up and hibernate until spring beckons
with its golden hand and floral call.
Just two...

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Categories: predecessor, january, winter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tooth
Sharing hard candy with her best friend Shirley
Impossible task if deciduous teeth are lost prematurely
Although each child progresses in a different rate
My predecessor took its...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: predecessor, addiction, candy, humor,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The End of a New Beginning
my Lord beaten profusely about the head and shoulders each
blow more devastating than its predecessor until 
thine eyes rendered nystagmus.

the strain of the world’s sin...

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Categories: predecessor, angst,
Form: Free verse
Plague
I mourn for your passing
for your family
for your friends
for those you held close
but do not mourn for you...

you came to our shores
you came and you...

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Categories: predecessor, africa, death,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Canto Xxvii Hell Transalation
Already was straight up the flame and steady
To speak no more, and yet away it went
Being the sweet poet to let it ready,

When another, which...

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Categories: predecessor, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
So Long Sacagawea
Poor Sacagawea we will no longer see.
She was replaced by the “Father of our Country”.
Just like predecessor Susan B. Anthony,
Sac’s image is no longer on...

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Categories: predecessor, history, native american, social,
Form: Rhyme
A Decloration of War Rap Lyrics
I tell u what shell b the first to tell you 
Tim is crazy he aint even jealous of the devil
he gots propellas on the...

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Categories: predecessor, me, heart, heart, me,
Form: Rhyme
Human Solutions
Human solutions

You asked for a change now you´ve got it!!!

I promise that the next four years will bring prosperity to all,
it will be the best...

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Categories: predecessor, business, confusion, hope, humanity,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Idols

When your idols are fragile
Is it any wonder kids lack style
Perhaps if we walked a mile
In the shoes of the soldier we'd attain guile

Look at...

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Categories: predecessor, america, inspiration, political, spoken
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetacracy
Politicians put their souls for sale
So they can sip cocktails
Riding the coattails of the working class
It's a mass barrage of phonies and poison gas
But everyone's...

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Categories: predecessor, america, anger, political, spoken
Form: Free verse
The Water Bearer
He carries a jar, full of water;
water that no one knows its source!

He pours water as he stands beyond
the stars, as Pisces, the twin fish,...

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Categories: predecessor, art, imagery, imagination, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs