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Handed Down Poems - Poems about Handed Down

Martha on the US Stamp
...My theme is, “Martha Washington – but why?” First Lady – how the Big Man’s wife behaves was fixed by her: so Jackie Kennedy was shaped by Martha. Coming through the rye, we learn that some are ......

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Categories: handed down, history,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Tale From The Loom - I to V
...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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Categories: handed down, adventure, fantasy, romance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member L The Communion of Saints and Forgiveness of Sins
... “The Communion of Saints” is meant the union of the faithful on earth The b;essed in Heaven And the souls in the purgatory With Father Christ as their Head The word “Saints means “the holy ones......

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Categories: handed down, christian, community, devotion, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cultural Mores Mirror
...the moral landscape changes with new blood surfacing amplifying the flaws inherent in the collective psyche my ingrained prejudices bubble to the surface harming my interaction with my f......

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Categories: handed down, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plagued by Memories
... Like an albatross enfolded around my silencing throat, squeezing ever tighter, asphyxiating on sins not of my own. A scarlet letter has been placed upon my weeping chest; without ......

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Categories: handed down, dark, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Rooted
...Beneath the shade of a tree On a blanket handed down In shoes that are too big still And a yard with untouched ground Someday you will stand To take your first steps here Someday you will rea......

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Categories: handed down, baby, change, children, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cubby's
...At Cubby's, the neon hums/ A beacon in the night/ A place for solace/ But now a source of plight/ I stood there, a truth on my lips, unplanned/ Asked the clerk to be kind, to lend a gentler hand......

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Categories: handed down, betrayal, corruption, evil, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Perpetuity
...Offensively defensive posturing No stopping in sight No reflection in view Poisonous to everyone around you Syphoning greed at record speed Unchecked unseen Hollowing the land Blindly defe......

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Categories: handed down, america, conflict, hate, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member LUCKY STONE
... I am not a religious person…I do, however, remember some things the Bible ingrained in me: So now faith, hope and love abide, these three; (I like to think this message was handed down from all t......

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Categories: handed down, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Abomination
... Abomination I wonder what it means to be called an abomination and if this has any relationship to being a damnation, as there must be certain things that people do in deserving condem......

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Categories: handed down, anger, christian, community, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thanks, Sorry, I Love You - Thirty-nine Minutes
...I accepted the sentence, handed down by the judge, got thirty-nine minutes to live; he wouldn't budge. I should read more carefully, but I understand, just one line per minute is all he will deman......

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Categories: handed down, death, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Miss
...I miss the days and nights whether sun or rain where I would run through a meadow of tall grass to reach the woods of Elm and Hickory trees where a shallow rippling stream covered limestone ro......

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Categories: handed down, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Off day
...Off Day I try to write And describe the colours of spring But apart from my shoulders Knotted and tight, I can’t seem to feel - anything. The sun may be smiling bright But in my head, a heav......

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Categories: handed down, anxiety, conflict, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ODE TO POETRY
...The poet with his mighty pen, Warrior for all women and Men. Using words that all can afford, Phrases mightier than a sword. With eloquent prowess a tale, Powerful thought for a ship to......

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Categories: handed down, poetry,
Form: Ode
Premium Member THANKFUL FOR THE ABILITY TO LAUGH
... Today I’m thankful for our ability to laugh… one of the many gifts handed down from our creators above…. and I pray all our laughter is genuine… and spring forth from a place of love.......

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Categories: handed down, thanks,
Form: Rhyme

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