Best Subsequent Poems
Below are the all-time best Subsequent poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of subsequent poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Lady of the HouseIt’s siesta, yet one can hear from the second floor of the house the animated sharing of juicy news some visitors have brought to the...
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Categories:
subsequent, abuse, analogy, black african
Form:
Haibun
Mankind's Greatest Mystery (Inspired By Chris Higgins)If 2012 prophesies prove true
And Earth’s life cycles again renew
Mysteries of man will be more than a few
Challenges may await future life forms
With intellects far...
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Categories:
subsequent, dedication, inspirational, mysterylife, may,
Form:
Rhyme
Prisons of ConceitConfined within the steep banks of a narrow mind
is a cryptic river where men stumble in and go blind
They construct reinforced dams that hold...
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Categories:
subsequent, character,
Form:
Rhyme
Some Rain Must Fall Upon Every RoofWhen life gives a choice don't ask why
Don't dwell in dark under a star-lit sky
If music starts playing go find your voice
Don't ask why when...
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Categories:
subsequent, life, meaningful, metaphor,
Form:
Quatrain
A "hopeless" Diamond (In the Rough)French trader Tavernier in a greed-inspired way
Glared at an idol of a temple in Mandalay
Prying a gem from its eye socket, a curse prevailed
Tavernier died...
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Categories:
subsequent, history, mysterylost, hope, lost,
Form:
Quatrain
Tattered FlagThe other day I sat beneath a sycamore tree on the court house lawn.
Old Glory fluttered in the breeze and to my eyes it was...
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Categories:
subsequent, patriotic,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tribute To GoldaA Tribute to Golda
It was a clear and bright sun shining morning in May.
As I came out my front door into the breezeway,
I saw coming...
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Categories:
subsequent, animalshusband, dog, cat, dog,
Form:
Rhyme
A Mutiny On the BountyIt was a sight that I could not forsee
Ambushed by my own men at morning hour
Hands tight with cord and naked from the waist
A mean...
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Categories:
subsequent, words, me, men, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
To God Be the Glory - Great Things He Has DoneTo God be the glory - great things he has done.
‘I am Eddie Rowlands, I became a Christian in 1985, at that time I also...
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Categories:
subsequent, god,
Form:
Narrative
Children of Entitlement
They won't let us have
the same things ...
things that once was given to them
They say we deserve it not,
because we're of the rejected seed ---
those...
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Categories:
subsequent, black african american, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
The Agony of WarBarbarous reason rejoices
and draws strength dispensing death.
Its celebration comes with
cold effigies of blood soaked,
ravaged, masked graves of silence,
leaving any subsequent regret
within the heart of the...
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Categories:
subsequent, conflict, death, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Screen FlickersThoughts flood my mind
when I’m alone
Close to my computer
I am sin prone
These flames of lust
they flicker within me
Images intertwined
begging me to...
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Categories:
subsequent, conflict, desire, lust,
Form:
Prose
You Echoed My VoiceLook to the sky to witness morning glory
As rising vision writes an amorous story
Painting cosmic canvas delightfully spry
To witness morning glory, look to the sky
Listen...
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Categories:
subsequent, emotions, friendship, longing,
Form:
Quatrain
FutureFuture Contest
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron
Before time was created lived an hourglass draining of sand,
the sand sank and there came the desire for true destinies,
Before the...
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Categories:
subsequent, beauty, blessing, destiny,
Form:
Quatrain
In the MeadowTwo travelers with different destinations, we met before our paths diverged,
and in that span between our first encounter and subsequent farewell,
we read in one another’s...
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Categories:
subsequent, lost love,
Form:
Prose Poetry