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Best Surname Poems

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


Premium Member Her Son Nathaniel
She is searching for the son taken  from her arms 
 simply because she was believed to be a child herself.
She was unable to...

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Categories: surname, baby, cute, sad,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Go Ask Alice
Ah, Divine influence, it has come to many, so they say,
as to their nameless or named God’s they do pray.
The light came to Carroll, he...

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Categories: surname, allegory, devotion, fantasy, introspectionmen,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Song of Life
There abated consumed lust 
Dusting the shelf
Off from molding musk
Due to LOVELESS rust
Lovingly I trust do fuss

With heart felt musts
Relinquish all to love
Do send loving...

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Categories: surname, life, lost love,
Form: Lyric
What Is In a Name
Either silent or eloquent
A name there must be
To be a speck in the infinity
Without the speck, high or low
Where the heck you can go

So I...

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Categories: surname, color, conflict, courage, image,
Form: Free verse
The Devil & the Kennedys (Part Two)
His voice the hiss of serpents,
he acknowledged the pact unmade,
but now he was here to tell him
how the debt would be repaid.

"All your sons, and...

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Categories: surname, death, political
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 'white Privilege' Does Exist
Abandoned as a child believed to be no more than five, the matron of the orphans home, was...other than my mom...
The first to have to...

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Categories: surname, discrimination, racism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Charlotte Angel
I was a minister of the gospel, very happily living my life for the Lord,
Preaching the Word every Sunday, in the spirit of affinity and...

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Categories: surname, angel, christian, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member This Is a Dedicated Verse- This Is the Story of Poetess Jan Allison--
This is the Story of Poetess Jan Allison--

This is a dedicated verse,
About a woman whose a poetess;
She said her name is Jan; 
And…
Jan is gracious,...

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Categories: surname, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Walk of Shame
Starlets tender their heralded names
Just another pretty face; another superficial dame
Brokered pawns in tawdry, transparent game 
Bartered tinder is their trite acclaim
Stars that twinkled then imploded...

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Categories: surname, on work and working,
Form: Rhyme
Title Destination

Ladies say, I’m an everyday gentleman
Haters say, I’m a dark knight
I was born on poor ground fit for a pauper,
never lived a prince Waldo life
Honorific...

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Categories: surname, perspective, truth, wisdom,
Form: Bio
The Right Answer
Caught a whisper in the breeze, asked
the whisper what's your name. It
answered softly my names Forever. I
said how sweet do you have a surname,
the whisper...

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Categories: surname, love
Form: I do not know?
Gender Discrimination
Who are you
Your father's son or daughter
Or your mothers?
If you are your father's
You gotta have his surname
But if you are your mother's
Her name you don't...

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Categories: surname, child, father, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
The Spirit of a Slave
Where did all those black people go in Black History such as W.E.B Dubois, 
George Washington Carver, Sojourner Truth,and many more that came before.
 ...

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Categories: surname, baptism, bereavement, black african
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'a Part of Me - Integral Part of You'
Sometimes all it takes is a song
To transform me to that place
Where laughter was my name
And your smile my surname

Time has played her part
Sometimes I...

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Categories: surname, love,
Form: Free verse
The Awakening Spirit
>>1111>>THE AWAKENING SPIRIT<<1111<<

My analyzing subconscious telling me I have minor confidence in our people,
Full of resistance as high as church steeples,
Heads in the sand uneducated...

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© Quincy Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surname, allegory, people, slavery, society,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things