Best Public Domain Poems
The Air We Breathe...The Air We Breathe
Whatever death hides in the dark forest?
The Man attentive to death-defying chances
with sinister low sweeping branches, strong
confused as to the hierarchical level
......
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Categories:
public domain, devotion, discrimination, god, hope,
Form:
Verse
Living Rooms.... for public domain
Where we hung our overcoats I don't remember,
or at what time winter snow fell late December,
I barely recall the living room
with the television or radio on,
snuggled in......
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Categories:
public domain, family,
Form:
Free verse
Tenement Tombs.... for public domain
Every crack in the ceiling,
dries up every river of dreams.
When idle eyes can't view their skies,
wadi minds flood over with schemes.
And every hole in the floors
becom......
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Categories:
public domain, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Ukrainian Prayer...If my tears were a river
Would they flow to the sun?
Would they laugh, would they chatter
And before its course run,
Would they open to an ocean
Holding childhood dreams?
And in the tides of ......
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Categories:
public domain, conflict, hope, hurt, joy,
Form:
Lyric
Respite Under a Linden Tree...I yearn for every moment to be a delight
For worry and stress to give way
To endless days of leisurely respite
From now until forever and ever
Let me fear no more and have no need for hope
Let ......
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Categories:
public domain, anxiety, beauty, dream, tree,
Form:
Free verse
The Mid Autumn Festival...Night falls and the mirror moon illumes the
heavenly starry skies with gleaming ivory beams.
Shiny and mellow, a splendrous silver orb,
the delight of the night sky!
It is the evening of th......
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Categories:
public domain, appreciation, autumn, beauty, mirror,
Form:
Free verse
Memento Mori: Twilight In Paradise...The lament of an evil man on the eve of death:
“It is twilight in paradise
And the end of my idle life
Of lavish pleasure is nigh.
My dreams benighted,
Crumbling before my eyes,
I sorely ......
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Categories:
public domain, allusion, anxiety, character, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
My Dream, My Yearning...My dream, my undying yearning,
Is to dwell in a dream-world of my own,
In a misty city amid teal lakes and white peaks,
Filled with clear waters, lush groves and majestic pines,
With marvelous m......
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Categories:
public domain, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Lord Wen Chang's Tract-Taoist Inspired Dramatic Monologue, Released Into Public Domain...The August Sage recounts,
For the 17 past lives I have been a Scholar Official, I was neither imperious nor inhumane. I saved the distressed, aided the desperate, succored the orphaned and borne ......
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Categories:
public domain, blessing, devotion, forgiveness, religion,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Thousand Acres and a House...My dream shines brightly with ambitious gleam,
And in my heart, its vivid brilliance rivals even sunbeam.
I dream to be among the ranks of landowners,
To have thousands of acres and a hanseatic ......
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Categories:
public domain, art, beautiful, beauty, desire,
Form:
Sedoka
A Modest Man...He grew his own food,
And sewed his own clothes,
He owed no one,
But shared with everyone.
He rejected larceny,
Refrained from intrigue,
Spurned lust, lies and malice,
Spoke only kindness ......
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Categories:
public domain, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The Firewall (A Computer-Lingo-Love Analogy...You Are My Formidable FireWall
My Memory Image Chip, Thru Flash Floods
You Search Thru and Rescue my Heart-Site…
With A Barricade that Blocks Viruses – like Blood
You Are My Screen-Saver and Li......
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Categories:
public domain, computer-internet, funny, introspection, love,
Form:
Narrative
Click, Click...Click click, that's the name of the game
Click click, you're going insane
Click click, is it nice outside?
Click click, should I even try?
Click click, it's the name of our generation
Click click, hy......
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Categories:
public domain, funny, life, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Iceland: This Ancient Windswept Stone...Let us drink to this
Ancient windswept stone, the pearl
Of Atlantic sea
All rights released into Public Domain......
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Categories:
public domain, age, allusion, beauty, imagery,
Form:
Haiku
Pure Land Buddhist Liturgy and Prayer Book...Hi all, I have recently completed a short and easy to use Pure Land Buddhist Liturgy and Prayer Book, based on the 48 Vows of Amitabha and Infinite Life Sutra. Here is the first verse:
O Amitabha,......
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Categories:
public domain, art, beauty, forgiveness, prayer,
Form:
Ode