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Best Rite Of Passage Poems

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Premium Member Rite of Passage
Rite Of Passage
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My Walk to Remember

My father takes my hand,
   tucks it in...

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Categories: rite of passage, love, weddingblue,
Form: Free verse



Rite of Passage
i journey chasing
imaginary wisps, in
reality bound....

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Categories: rite of passage, life, symbolism,
Form: Haiku
Rite of Passage
We seem to have it all
As we want for nothing
In the darkness of the womb 

We are evicted into the light
Sadness, then happiness 
Unaware of...

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© Okoi Nkanu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rite of passage, bereavement, death, grave, journey,
Form: Elegy
Blue 1
BLUE


The rain startled the clouds and fell like 
a scare of possibilities. The day  toggled
from then to now like a withering widow

A flustered squirrel...

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Categories: rite of passage, color,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Come With Me To Jesus
1. Facing life courageously with eyes downcast
happiness and peace not part of the forecast
amidst proud siblings, the only one timid
uncertainty in the air, densely humid
fine...

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Categories: rite of passage, bible, christian, jesus, life,
Form: Lyric



Paying the High Price of Gas
I feel a blockage has occurred...
It must have been all that stuffing and Turkey bird...
The gurgles, the rumbling, the passing of gas...
It’s beyond my control...

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© Kj Force  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rite of passage, bird, food, holiday, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Asian Epicurean Quest
Asian Epicurean Quest

At the heart of China Town, Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) is Petaling Street.
  
Domain of hustlers, hucksters, cheap-jacks and diblers; purveyors...

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Categories: rite of passage, food,
Form: Prose Poetry
The End of the Beginning
It began with a tiny black hole in my mind,
bit by bit it gravitated me into the void;
making me a slave to silence.
I had never...

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Categories: rite of passage, birth, deep, depression, faith,
Form: Free verse
When Poetry Steps Off the Page
When poetry steps off the page,
It has come of age,
And is ready for life as a sage.

When poetry steps off the page,
It can many voices...

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Categories: rite of passage, analogy, appreciation, beauty, celebrity,
Form: Personification
Premium Member THANKFUL
THANKFUL

I am thankful for many things
Unlocking universal truths of life’s journey
we all share 
Shared experiences that make me feel connected,
less alone and isolated
In all earnesty
My...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rite of passage, feelings, thank you, thanks,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Wait
The world awaits with bated breath
pause, listen and most all feel
there it is, a deep sense drumming
in the back ground coming to life.

we all feel...

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Categories: rite of passage, birth, color, feelings, flower,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian

This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.

Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless...

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Categories: rite of passage, allegory, analogy, emotions, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Patriarchy
He ruled his kingdom with an iron fist
all looked up to the earl of otherworld.
Women sighed over his handsome face,
his manly stature and his sense...

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Categories: rite of passage, leadership, son, wisdom,
Form: Verse
Empty Feeders
The feeders were empty, dejected, forlorn.
The lady who filled them had suddenly gone.
Her time here now ended, she wakened no more:
Gone from her gardens, departed...

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Categories: rite of passage, bird, environment, january, nature,
Form: Narrative
The Sentry
Posed such, in its formidable array
would guess that all protection in refer
not deem my soul respectively, relay
but from some archway's character of serve!

That guard of...

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Categories: rite of passage, caregiving, dedication, devotion, soldier,
Form: Munajat

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