Best Successors Poems


Two
...Star-crossed lovers? Not even close
The two were brought together at first sight, it seemed no future
Came from different families. One  with an alcoholic mother. The other, never even saw a glimpse ......

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Categories: successors, life, love, poems, seasons,
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Under the Father Land
...UNDER THE FATHER LAND
 We serve under the father land
 In huminity we render 
 Selfless services in cosmopolitanism 
 In peace-less and troubless downtown   
 We inhabit as national stuccoers
 ......

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Categories: successors, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Pastoral
Her Name Is Poverty
...She tells me, 
Of the belt of hunger that clings to her waist, 
Of how it's only ever loosened by rampaging and rummaging through waste.

She tells me,
How her journey through payments, predicaments ......

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Categories: successors, loss, social, sympathy, riddle,
Form: Alliteration

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Us Marine Sniper
...Specter of a Hero's Tortured 
Soul
Forfeiting faith to successors to 
sacrifice self for others...he 
believes not in himself but his 
progeny...
Eternal life and inflexible 
determination pre......

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Categories: successors, warself, self,
Form:
Ancient Prophecy
...The tender, torpid sun floats bored and heavy over vines
And casts his gentle, crimson rays upon the Apennines. 
Above the calm and golden hill, Agrippa’s villa stands:
A marble mansion reigning f......

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Categories: successors, destiny, history, mythology, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen - Xxiv Part One
...Unquotable quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen* – XXIV-Part One

The Uhr-Father of the embodiment of spiritual power since the Middle Ages must certainly have been the Witch-Doctor of primi......

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Categories: successors, allegory, heaven, humanity, leadership,
Form: Epigram


Blue Iris
...Blue Iris, 
Grimoire gondolas steal unbound human yawns,
Each Charon poised with sallow spear along the River:
Austere laughter of headless boughs 
sipping grave-scented spiritual kisses.

Grue......

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Categories: successors, anger, anxiety, beauty, dream,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
New Year
...It's Hogmanay the 31st 
Only alchahol to quench the thirst 
Its time again for the new year plan
Let's start the calendar with a bang

Resolutions, solutions and promises
Each with their own th......

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Categories: successors, celebration, deep, desire, meaningful,
Form: Acrostic
A Frog
...A Frog

Frog, what did he do wrong?
He was run over by a car, dead.

Long and bitter cold winter months
he was hiding in a cave, frozen,
did not move like a rock. 

When the earth began yawn......

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Categories: successors, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Church Called Apostolic
...Father Christ called apostles
Be His collaborators
They were His eye witnesses
Apostles are priests and teachers

Holds fast their tradition
Governed by their successors
Successor was first pope, St.......

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Categories: successors, christian, religion, religious,
Form:
Premium Member The Thiruk-Kural On Not Offending the Great: Canto 90, K899 and K900
...THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90, K899 and K900

[* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and wise people whom the King ought t......

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Categories: successors, political, power, tamil, ,
Form: Epigram
Breaking Barriers
...If we could breach this gap,
Abolish chains separating us from the right track,
If we could read this untapped map,
Unlock the enigma from butterfly to cocoon sack,

Age would be a meaningless f......

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Categories: successors, caregiving, childhood, education, faith,
Form: Didactic
The Beer Summit of 2009
...He said, he said
I am history it is not dead.
I do testify,
that they ask for more than an alibi.
My face alone! Metal to bone.
See how their discretions lie,
as trampled footpaths to my home.
......

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Categories: successors, history, judgement, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Rites and Wrongs
...Rites and Wrongs  

This write suggests the search of many slants
Pursuing words of truth you hold most clear.
Stand sober toward the charlatans whose rants
Exact belief in those susceptible to ......

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Categories: successors, abuse,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Thiruk-Kural On Not Offending the Great: Canto 90, K895 and K897
...THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90 K895 and K897

[* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and wise people whom the King ought to......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: successors, leadership, political, power, tamil,
Form: Epigram
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