Get Your Premium Membership

Heritages Poems - Poems about Heritages

SENSE PLEASURE

...SENSE PLEASURE 

Red honeyed apples
        autumn leaves dewed 
           ****** merge with sun streams 
             whilst children sleep dear dreams

Bobbing bubble baths
        yogurt ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, beautiful, children, color, earth,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)

Little Oil and Five Stones

...I.

I dreaded those days before they came
When I had to look at you laying down, weak as I stared at your frame
And many treasures that couldn't make you stand up
Glory is nothing to those gone,...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, christian, gospel,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberMy God, Thank You For Helping Me

...July 23 Scripture Meditations Based on Isaiah 49-52

Key Verse – Isaiah 49:8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will p...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTreasures To Walk

...Brecon Beacons
        for pony-treks
Cumbrian fells 
      & bubbling becks
Dartmoor 
  with rocks rain scarred 
Lake District views
     beloved of bards
Northumbria on moor & hill
where R...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, nature,
Form: List

Memories- Our Country of Past

...Memories of a country past

Growing up in a simpler time
when things were unplugged
fresh air was the norm
playing ball with family and friends
riding bike fast on the gravel, scrapped knees
p...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, freedom, growth, memory, patriotic,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberChristmas Tree,Menorah Meet-Up

...Christmas Tree, Menorah Meet-Up





A Christmas tree and a Menorah,woke one morning right next to
one another!
Both were shocked to be so placed, thinking this was such a total 
disgrace!
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, chanukah, christian, christmas, inspiration,
Form: Free verse

Python Dance

...after Odumegwu Ojukwu
after Chinua Achebe 
after Christopher Okigbo 
after Dele Giwa
after Kofi Awoonor
after Kwame Nkrumah 
after Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
after Nelson Mandela 
after Wole  Soyinka ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, absence, abuse, africa, ,
Form: Blank verse

Elixirs

...beautification of painted imageries)

Like these broken shadows spread on the floor of my father's tattered room,
Like those weeping spirits by the corner of my mother's excited kitchen singing, 
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, abuse, adventure, africa, allusion,
Form: Blank verse

Silent Whisper

...There,  they are with their scary galaxy of thoughts! 
Those that wanted us to sing those songs they never
sang with the moon and the sun.
Those that wanted us to dance the dance they
never dance...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, abuse, africa, age, art,
Form: Ballad

Race-Ism

...Race-Ism

What makes one man or woman better than another?
Should we think differently of those who adapted
to another environment and adapted another color?

If our differences are only skin d...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, black african american, immigration,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSome National Treasures

...Brecon Beacons for pony-treks,
Cumbrian fells and bubbling becks;
Lake District views beloved of bards
Stone-bridged hamlets in the 
Dales with enclosed leas along its vales.
Snowdonia ,one thou...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, beautiful, places,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)

Premium MemberHow God Labels Us

...Would that we stamp these words
On foreheads, as soon as an infant slides
Through the open birth canal:

White privileged
Underprivileged
Poor
Rich
Thug
Fat
Terrorist
Hater
Lover
Etceter...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, identity, prejudice,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCul Du Sac

...Cul du sac

Blood tears
Leaking
		slowly
      the empty face
emotions raped


red raindrops
	fancy lollipops

	empty glass
filling with sanguine color

 		drip
	drip
 drip

We are...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, art, dark, death, gothic,
Form: Free verse

Superstition

...Superstition


A belief in the mind 
Learned from another kind
Baseless only a customary
Born from cultural shine

Easy to preach but difficult to practice
Educated brain and grown up scienc...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, social,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberSorrow's Holocaust

...Where have all my people gone, the Navaho, Lakota,
And the Sioux,
Choking for a breath of life's sustaining air,
Smothered beneath the white man's blanket.
The beating heart of native drums, are ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: heritages, dedication, emotions, heartbroken, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things