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Granaries Poems - Poems about Granaries

'To the Lord I Inquire'

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"Our Father, who art in heaven,"
In opulence, you reign, yet your children suffer.
With subjects singing praises to your name,
While the son you bore is ravaged by predators,
And the daughter y...
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Categories: granaries, devotion, earth day, evil,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAutumn has Arrived

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Autumn steps in as summer’s bright shine glimmers and flee,
After the heat begins to abate, autumn arrives as nature’s gift.
The soft melody of the leaves
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Categories: granaries, appreciation, autumn, beauty,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberAn Old Shovel

...Memories go back to my vanished youth,
And I reminisce clearly my master’s beautiful farmhouse.
With its granaries full of corn and wheat.
He was once a zealous farmer working day and nigh...
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Categories: granaries, best friend, loss, relationship,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThere In Morning Sun, Hope Circled Enticing Dreams

...There In Morning Sun, Hope Circled Enticing Dreams


From inside gaping jaws, golden honey slow drips
its taste as if bitter hell came with deadly judgment
life turned into a bevy of sunken ship...
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Categories: granaries, art, dark, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberFleeting Glory of November

...After scary Halloween and its ghoulish pranks
November dawns with all-saint’s and all soul’s day
Carrying a pious note in the balmy wind
Along with the haunting memories of our dear de...
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Categories: granaries, appreciation, autumn, farewell, nature,
Form: Free verse



I Need An Asylum

...I am tire of being a Kenyan,
I didn't intend to say this,
But allow me to talk about it.
From the time I was young.
I have learnt how to be patriotic.

I am tired of being a Kenyan.
Not becaus...
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Categories: granaries, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe King's Dreams

...Seven cows, fat and plump,
Feeding in the reed grass,
Emerging from the Nile.

Seven cows, ugly, thin,
Stood beside for a while,
Swallowing the fat cows up!

Seven ears, plump and good,
All ...
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Categories: granaries, bible, dream,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThoughts From My World

...they say 
your thoughts
create your world
my third world was birthed
when the white storm
swept across our homesteads
do i get to recreate it
by simply thinking
of meadows and prairies
cryst...
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Categories: granaries, africa, color, corruption, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Breeze From the Streets

...On the streets where striplings beseech
Sweet benign breeze swept my tears dry
For some nibbles, they beg and preach
While some granaries choked and sigh.



Submitted on February 04, 2020, fo...
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Categories: granaries, 4th grade, children, cry,
Form: Rhyme

Flooding Tears

...Sweet benign breeze swept my tears dry
When my heart bled and spilling out
On madness, loathing minds awry
Lead to crime where love fading out.

On the streets where striplings beseech
Sweet be...
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Categories: granaries, cry, humanity, poverty, society,
Form: Quatern

Premium MemberGrassy Gardens of Blessings

...God-endowed resources present
     grasses serving as pasture haven 
          with vegetable terraces for well-being nourishment
              upon flower parks cheering with their beauty
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Categories: granaries, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Imagism

The Love of Tiamat

...behold now everything on this earth;
    the fields with abundance of grain,
    palm-grove harvests rich and fruitful,
    the forests that separate kingdoms and the fires that scorch them;
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Categories: granaries, mythology,
Form: I do not know?

Mother Without Breasts

...I live as orphan but I am not orphan
I live with mother but she is no mother
Her fingers cannot  feed me, her child
As she is a mother without breasts

Whenever visitors come she gives all
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Categories: granaries, leadership, mother, satire,
Form: Free verse

Eat Mangoes

...I know I’m  bat and bird
other birds chorus to me
hunger, hunger, hunger
Do we have any factory
to manufacture hunger?
look at  birds kingdom
they live healthy lives
in the bush they are okay
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Categories: granaries, metaphor, political, satire,
Form: Free verse

Greatness

...Greatness of a nation and her people
Rests not in her fire-belching mouth
Emanates not from huge stomach of her granaries
Appears not in lethal power of her spears
Twitters not from upstairs of h...
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Categories: granaries, imagery, inspirational, political,
Form: Acrostic

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