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People Familiar Poems

These People Familiar poems are examples of Familiar poems about People. These are the best examples of Familiar People poems written by international poets.


Familiar strangers
When you saw me on the carrousel
You knew you had found love
You waited till I had fun with my friends
Before approaching me with steady steps;
When...

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Categories: familiar, devotion, heartbreak, longing, relationship,



Away From the Familiar
Away from the familiar
There are things to stop and see
That the locals take for granted,
Not worth uttering a “Gee!”

Honking geese above the water
Where a pair...

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Categories: familiar, travel,

Familiar Faces
In this familiar room where my soul 
was ripped out of my body,
were faces whom I once deeped hands 
in the same bowl with,

In this...

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Categories: familiar, abuse, africa, art, betrayal,

The Away
I do not speak their words.
They're full of clichés and ideas that will never truly form.
I have tried to bend my tongue that way,
But it...

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© Bantu West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: familiar, courage, family, fear, solitude,

Premium Member Loner
he wears his heart
like an old familiar coat
out for us and them to see
thrown across his shoulders
loosely wrapped
so nonchalant
I recognize the solitude
and how he wears...

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Categories: familiar, anxiety, identity, loneliness, solitude,



Premium Member Sound Familiar
Have you ever talked to someone
who on the one hand is telling you
that you need to be more forgiving...
while they...
without much effort tell you
about all...

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Categories: familiar, conflict, education,

Familiar Trappings
Fifth dose, same overdose
I've got a nasty habit of gorging on low hanging fruit
It's fruit, right? Gotta be sweet
But these grapes are sour and apples...

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© Derek Chos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: familiar, introspection,

Does This Sound Familiar
What is it that causes a contrite heart
Tearing you into pieces and all apart
And I have heard some people say
You were spoiled wanting own way.

Now...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: familiar, allegory, analogy, inspirational,

The Familiar Phrase, the Windy City
I’ve a vast store of mem’ries about Chicago
as I’ve lived there for a couple of years
helping out in the parish of many immigrants,
especially Mexicans and...

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Categories: familiar, faith, happiness, history, introspection,

The Familiar Cadence In Autumn
Cold spells get to a slow start this year,
with this month's full moon -
known as the Beaver moon.
It makes me think though;
of my homeland where...

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Categories: familiar, imagination, introspection, life, seasons,

Familiar Setting
A place where people can connect is home when the world seems cold and lonely.

Family stands together when the sun is shining, the moon is...

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Categories: familiar, familylove,

Familiar Setting
A place where people can connect is home when the world seems cold and lonely.

Family stands together when the sun is shining, the moon is...

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Categories: familiar, familylove,

A Familiar ~black Bird~
The sun spoke not a word to me,
its voice enshrouded by arrays
of ever thick'ning cumuli,
though silent too their whites and grays.

Peculiar not was such a...

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Categories: familiar, fantasy, people

An Old Familiar
An old familiar,
all too clear;
as you roll on your back
and new tempo appears.

Repeated chug 
of train runs through;
no nightmare is this
for it’s all from you.

Constant...

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Categories: familiar, dedication, devotion, funny, health,

Too Familiar
this place no longer explodes
in the usual disarray
of being new,

and I've lost the acute freshness,
the crystal vitality
of strangers' eyes;

now tentative, indefinite
the past has slowly become,
surely,...

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Categories: familiar, people, places, seasons, ,


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