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Birthrights Poems - Poems about Birthrights

Premium Member Ravens and Lilies
...‘When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.’ - Lauren Eden lilies and ravens dance together making mud puddles thick as salve caked on deep wounds stemming ......

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Categories: birthrights, betrayal, childhood, first love,
Form: Suzette Prime
Premium Member Mayborn
...Fiery sun's endeavors to scorch the buds and blossoms fail As pre-monsoon drizzles cool and caress the environs Maia and Laxmi, goddesses of spring, slowly sail Optimism and adventure spread wings......

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Categories: birthrights, life, may,
Form: Sonnet



June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago
...June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at App......

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Categories: birthrights, america, anxiety, crush, evil,
Form: Free verse
Insomnia welcomed courtesy high test coffee
...Insomnia welcomed courtesy high test coffee consumed later at night than usual finds me bright eyed and bushy tailed amply lively to learn about an American radio and television personality ......

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Categories: birthrights, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme
February 29th, 2024
...February 29th, 2024 Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582 the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader (i.e. essentially paterfamilias among Roman Catholic flock) timely maneuvered around ......

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Categories: birthrights, 12th grade, age, birth,
Form: Rhyme



Rise Again
...Tak oor grund from beneath oor hurdies Burn oor birches aside the lough, Besmirch hard fecht fur freedom, Dictating oor days tae come, No from the pint o a gun, Fae laws an promis......

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Categories: birthrights, anger, conflict, freedom, heartbreak,
Form: Dramatic Verse
June Nineteenth One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago
...June nineteenth one hundred and fifty years ago Juneteenth hint: three hundred and sixty six days after eighteen sixty four. Major General Gordon Granger led the Union Soldiers to Galveston,......

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Categories: birthrights, africa, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Birthrights In Limbo
...In the beginning … the past and future were orphans Lost in a silence unnamed until spoken Waiting in anticipation their birthrights in limbo The present expanding its moment —christened f......

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Categories: birthrights, time,
Form: Free verse
Mixed Ancient Metaphors
...The words taste like music from worlds long ago Each letter resavored in harmonies old Coming to harvest their sweetness imbues A cave for an orchard in wall painted hues Old symbols ret......

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Categories: birthrights, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumn Trees-
...Our eyes are generally see brown, green or hazel They appear soft and muted. Undertone mustard rust golden brown TRUE autumns have warm, rich, earthy, golden undertones. The overall ap......

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Categories: birthrights, analogy, autumn, change, color,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bylines
...Beautiful, breathless, bloods Brave, bold beings… Bringing bounteous buds Blossoms, blooming birthrights Beneath blazing baby bluebloods… Bliss, bolstering, breathtaking Bushes, burying brok......

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Categories: birthrights, beautiful, word play,
Form: Rhyme
A Harlem Hoodlum Albeit Respectable
...A Harlem hoodlum, (albeit respectable)... ready for night time in bedlam after swallowing me favorite dram, cuz reasonable rhyme resembles flimflam. Whiling away his time playing solitaire.........

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Categories: birthrights, anger, city, corruption, education,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Day of Days
...*Image of Public Use by Wise Geek. a day of days birthrights claimed its day hark heralded glad tidings smiled fresh countenance 2022 January 28......

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Categories: birthrights, birth, rights,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Rebirth
...*Image of Old Empty Case by Pixabay. Rebirth Reborn here now without baggage, you are gifted midst distinction, referred by divine tutelage, ne'er stray from His homing beacon. ......

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Categories: birthrights, bible, birth, extended metaphor,
Form: Quatern
A Hoodlum Albeit Respectable In Bedlam
...A hoodlum, (albeit respectable) in bedlam whiling away his time playing solitaire... November second two thousand and twenty fast approaching the final countdown With less than twenty four, t......

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Categories: birthrights, america, change, conflict, destiny,
Form: Free verse

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