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Best Progeny Poems

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


Premium Member Progeny
we ...
are strands ...
they, a strumming, resonant -
notes of an ambrosial
strain that tickles the tympans of
life and enlightenment ...
they are thistle on the breath of...

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Categories: progeny, appreciation, children, father, life,
Form: Free verse



The Woman They Know
 Her smiles of valor encase her agony--
   her fiery scars pound against her sanity
    struggling in twisted ropes of...

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Categories: progeny, analogy, courage, hope, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Manipulations Of Fate
I wait—

here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me   free me

here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts 
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end...

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Categories: progeny, death, fate, life, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yes Friend, It Will Matter
Say not to me,
that it will not matter a hundred years from now,
that I was here.
For surely I have touched one life in a positive...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: progeny, death, faith, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Green - I Have Seen You Somewhere Within
Green - I have seen you somewhere within my evergreen soul
Where the Omniscient plays his flute
To rejuvenate the tired ones - scattered by the humdrum...

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Categories: progeny, green, hope, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To War, From Youth
oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope,...

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Categories: progeny, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Flipped Hourglass
At the appointed time (you know not when)
your spirit will kiss this world goodbye.
Sands of your earthly time will then
have run their course. Folks will...

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Categories: progeny, life,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Play On
*”If music be the food of love, play on.”
Play hard, but with a sweet guitar, play softly too.
Each note you play, I’ll sing along with...

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Categories: progeny, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Frank E Einstein
I am the progeny
Of lightning and stitch,
A Franken-hybrid
Of genius and glitch.

My circuits buzz with
Einsteinian thought,
Unraveling secrets
The universe has wrought.

Existence, I ponder,
Through photon and quark,
Grappling with...

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Categories: progeny, computer, internet, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Willow Tree
Someday I'd like to wander free
like butterfly, like bumblebee,
perhaps to plant a willow tree
beside the silent solemn sea,

before these things exist no more,
from mountain top...

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Categories: progeny, daffodils, nature,
Form: Rhyme
I, a Red Skin Dog, As Some May Delight To Call Me,
I, a Red Skin dog, as some may delight to call me,
I have heard the tales of horror, from my dark skinned foes.
I have heard...

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Categories: progeny, death, war, woman, red,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Well Played
The photo is of Brennan, my three and a half year old grandson. He's fully focused on everything he does ~ sports, art, Pixar cars...and...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: progeny, grandson,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Be a Flower
"Be like a flower ... gentle, quiet and humble."
                ...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: progeny, flower, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sunshine From My Heart
   

    Hug the sun as if it were your progeny.
    Be filled with joy that you...

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Categories: progeny, confidence, encouraging, god, happiness,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Mocking the Dead
Here I stand before hundreds of moss grown graves
There is a mournful silence that extends
Through the weed grown path, no traveller walks
The place, some morbid...

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Categories: progeny, betrayal, death, farewell,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs