Best Surnames Poems
Below are the all-time best Surnames poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of surnames poems written by PoetrySoup members
Inlets and IslandsAmidst these inlets and islands
Lies a land of a patriot nation
Where clans decree their might
Together in mixed relation
From the Lowlands to the Highlands
Family names of...
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Categories:
surnames, history, inspirational, people, places
Form:
Quatrain
MY MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENTI worked in an Insurance office and loved my job
But the manager was an idle fat slob
He’d put in expenses sheets for work he hadn’t...
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Categories:
surnames, humorous, me, work,
Form:
Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
surnames, baptism, bereavement, black african american, death,
Form:
Free verse
What's In My NameWhat’s in my name? It’s Candler,
A name as old as English tax.
If you’re of English descent, yours may be too.
Let us take a short trip...
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Categories:
surnames, education, england, history, jobs, society, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Hicks in the SticksMy mama always told me that
"Hicks in the sticks"
was a thing way back when.
Timeless as mortar and bricks.
But who woulda thought
that someday she'd marry one?
Bet...
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Categories:
surnames, funny, me,
Form:
Quatrain
Midnight roll callInternational relations clerk on duty enters
In her hand is a list of nations from Africa
One by one she shouts out their surnames
The assembly monitors gives...
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Categories:
surnames, africa, leadership, satire,
Form:
Personification
Nom Prenom - Last Name, First NameNom Prénom (Last Name, First Name)
To address a person by their surname
Rather than the given shows disrespect,—
Attests this is vulgar and profane
To the individual referenced!
If...
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Categories:
surnames, allegory, education, perspective, satire,
Form:
Sonnet
Entertaining
The people who only eat lettuce
and nibble some nuts from a bowl,
are totally, utterly tiresome;
this ‘smugger-than-thou’ rigmarole.
But me? I am rather old fashioned
and faddy foods...
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Categories:
surnames, food, people,
Form:
Verse
Freckles They Called HimWalter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had...
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Categories:
surnames, race, retirement,
Form:
Prose
MARRIAGESMARRIAGES
Governor Gerry Brown marries Amanda Rice
She becomes Amanda Brown-Rice - look!
David Soul and Marguerita Cook? ...
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Categories:
surnames, funny,
Form:
Verse
Shreds of 254.
Welcome to Kenya,
Where prisons make criminals more than not.
Where justice is read off papers na sio za constitution.
Where economy is simply taking money from one...
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Categories:
surnames, absence,
Form:
I do not know?
Saint James the Fisherman DaySaint James the Fisherman Day
Rohr family was nicest and kindest;
They had found it so hard to resist;
High point there,
They would share;
A new Episcopal Church does...
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Categories:
surnames, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
I love F A I T H more than MONEYONE
Faith and Money
Are BOTH ... Gates
I chose WRONG
Thirty years later ...
He chose me
TWO: After Coming to Faith
Writing Psalms
Imitating David
Israel's King
Anointed One
Before Jesus
His lineage
Of Judah
THREE
Jesus answers...
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Categories:
surnames, adventure, endurance, faith, gospel, history, jesus,
Form:
Acrostic
the burningThe burning
Let Rome burn, so spake Nero or one of his flunkies
Towns and cities are burning every day in the Middle East
Flames taste not of...
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Categories:
surnames, absence, africa, allusion, anger, anti bullying,
Form:
Blank verse
Lost WordsThose thoughts not adopted
and orphaned alone
To never have surnames
—all bastards enthroned
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December 24, 2014)
...
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Categories:
surnames, words,
Form:
Rhyme