Forebears Poems - Poems about Forebears

...Come! Bring forth the jar that for months had stood Patiently undisturbed in the shadow! Lift its lid, remove the leaves that serve as hood And help age the wine that’s about to flow. Cat......

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...I let your eyes to visualise a garden on a loom; Bluebells and marigolds in sway and lavender in bloom; And there to play in a luscious green two kittens wrestling; Up high in chirping swallow's p......

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...My heart of stone quenches its thirst in the dirty hands of misery. The tears of my family tree run down the scarred faces of their history. The pain of my color screams in silence the secrets thes......

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...I know their fears. I know their cravings. I know their reflexes. I know their thoughts. They know that I know who they are. I am exactly like them, but with a dose of Pan-African melanin. I’ve......

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...Rebellious nonestablishmentarian Pennsylvania Yankee... honored at freedom fête of course in my dreams where Tony the Tiger roars Matthew Scott Harris ranks as one hip cat gr-r-eat showcasing ......

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...Allow them respect, those who battle on.' In tents and cars Australia you are being guided so wrong.' I presume there's No voting facility 'for our disenfranchised?' I question the Morality? Where......

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... In depth, complexity, and transformation, reminding us that truth and understanding can be multifaceted and nuanced. Hallelujah Truth and clarity: "Veracity...Case in point, point of the mat......

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...Swath of pristine tractless snow white landscape... tell tale sign where winter storm Demi left her mark. Beautiful and bountiful visual scene (seldom seen around tri-state geographic area fo......

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...Is there anyone there? I read the eyes that stare Mouths appear numb..must have been struck till dumb? While media streams, out from foul drains (who cares?) Who cares? It seems no-one but fools? ......

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...Ah... methinks I could sleep forever Basking in a supine position with eyes wide shut while the space heater churns out fast moving molecules of heat solitudinarian drowsy thinker fêted by mi......

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...In the arteries of my ancestors flows a river of untamed hope, older than the first spoken syllable, Deeper than the caves where forebears painted bison and dreams with blood and burning charcoal, ......

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...The whole of Eastern Samar Is commemorating its historic Battle joined by local patriots Of Balangiga and neighboring towns On September 28 1901, the only battle won By fighting Filipinos ag......

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...I feel honored, and flattered to acquaint myself (a married youthful looking sexagenarian solitudinarian from southeastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania), yet feel awkward at jump/kick starting a r......

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...Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed made fibrous threads...constituting heavy blanket (crocheted by the missus) on a cool Autumn like morning... to stave off experiencing get......

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...Too Late When we have all been made to feel ashamed Of what our fathers and their forebears did; When we have lost a knowledge of the past And cannot comprehend how people thought, Believing t......

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