Best Predecessor Poems
Below are the all-time best Predecessor poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of predecessor poems written by PoetrySoup members
WoundedCome 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
The Sorcerer's Apprenticeblasts 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 DioramaI 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
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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Categories:
predecessor, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
January~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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
ToothSharing 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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Categories:
predecessor, addiction, candy, humor,
Form:
Personification
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
PlagueI 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
Canto Xxvii Hell TransalationAlready 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 LyricsI 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 SolutionsHuman 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
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
PoetacracyPoliticians 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 BearerHe 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