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Legacy Poems - Poems about Legacy

Listener's Legacy
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Categories: legacy, birthday,
Form: Other
Legacy From My Dad
Dad passed away before I became a man A man whom he had found a wife A wife to build life with to mature Mature as she gives me cute kids Kids I have to toil for day and night Night when I think deep about life Life generating thoughts for solutions Solutions to life's current challenges Challenges strengthening my heart Heart residing...

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Categories: legacy, appreciation, caregiving, marriage,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Model twaddle'
Quyeer times emit blazing signs..And some ex-boy friends? Is this karma divine? mi5 say its Putin..' a prime topic for Them...And its taken a fortnight with henceforth..No why Where or whens..From them.' Yet it seems rather sloppy to Be (a Russian affair?) And arson too primitive.' I think thats Quite fair.? Just an ass-umption.' To try to open the...

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Categories: legacy, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
When I look into my grandmother's eyes
When I look into my grandmother's eyes I see what she's had to sacrifice When I look into my grandmother's eyes I see a lifetime of pain she's carried When I look into my grandmother's eyes I see the hurt of not being accepted When I look into my grandmother's eyes I see Someone who once despised her beautiful...

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Categories: legacy, color, discrimination, family, history,
Form: Free verse
Inheritance of Fire
My father never hit me-- he just taught me how to burn. Taught me silence was safer than softness, that anger was armor and kindness a weakness someone would use. I watched him carve the word weak into everything he feared, watched him drown my brother’s voice, cut my mother’s name from the air. Hate was our heirloom. Polished like silver. Passed down like gospel. I almost gave it...

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Categories: legacy, family, hate, truth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Marthas Legacy
Floral loveliness greets chateau guests with gorgeous blossoms Aroma of these plants bring nature’s best into the stone courtyard Martha’s legacy has survived the continuum of time Walter watches families collect their breakfast There is happy laughter and wide smiles, this is a sacred place He knows the guests can feel his angel, even if they cannot see her He pretends...

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Categories: legacy, angel,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Lantern Made of Suicide Notes: Suicide by Metaphors
I. The Hour of Approach The poem I was writing refused to end— it kept writing me. Blood didn't ink these lines— the ink bled me. Each stanza a hidden-hematoma across the white of nothingness. Somewhere, midnight faltered, and I was no longer alone. II. Visitation: Sylvia Plath Sivvy came barefoot, bees orbiting...

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Categories: legacy, creation, literature, mental health,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Legacy of Our Story
All that you'll leave behind for me are your memories The legacy of a story that was ill-fated from the beginning You have somebody else, but my heart still screams your name in silence Who will I think of when I’m being feasted upon by my ghosts? Your memories will soon join them—and eat me alive. I don’t want to...

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Categories: legacy, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Eulogy
I stumbled across the notice today, A name familiar from back in the day. A high school face, blurred by time’s gray brush, Yet his story recalled, stirring thought’s hush. Achievements listed, milestones carved in stone, A life in bullet points, a legacy alone. Still, beyond the words, the essence remained, A question lingered—how will mine be framed? I traced other obituaries, lives...

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Categories: legacy, bereavement, eulogy, introspection, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Of Love and Loss
Why speak of love with tales so grand, If you never learn to hold a hand? Why make promises sweet and wide, If you never intend to stand by their side? Why is it truth, that only when gone, Do we miss the light we had all along? Is value found only in absence and pain— Do hearts awake only in rain? The...

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Categories: legacy, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
Old Man's Face
Why do you stare in amazement? Look closely-really look Lines and wrinkles going this way and that The sad legacy of an old man--you say? Are those tears of sadness? Come closer-really come Lines and wrinkles going this way and that The falling of a once-stately oak--you say? Can you peer with reflection? See clearly-really see Lines and wrinkles going this way and that Road maps...

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Categories: legacy, allegory, appreciation, character, conflict,
Form: Free verse
MANTAKWENDE ' LEGACY
Looking at them I find myself,inspired Mesmerized Looking at myself I find myself, honoured Everlasting seed It has begun, As the sea Starts to roll over Embrace your individualism As the season Starts to manifest Embrace your truth It was written, Looking at their tradition I find myself,knowledgeable Amazed Looking at myself I find myself, respected Everlasting blessings It was concluded....

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Categories: legacy, adventure, africa, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Naked Legacy
I taste the beating of your heart As truth drizzles onto my soul Daring me to challenge this equation That turns two pieces into one whole I embrace a broken mirror As I am claimed by torment beyond measure Calling me to face the rigors of this legacy But instead I run toward pathways of twisted pleasures I am adrift on a raft...

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Categories: legacy, allegory, allusion, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Woven in Legacy
They were already awake, The sky dark as the work ahead, Hands stiff from la tierra, Feet bruised from the miles, Yet they never stopped. The nights were too short, The days stretched on, Sleep was a luxury they couldn’t afford. Still, they pressed forward, One step, then another. La tierra gave little, But took all they had. Baskets filled with fruit, Hands worn from the toil, Every mark,...

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Categories: legacy, blessing, culture, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
A legacy forgotten
Consider my grave your resting place too, An empathetic soul who rests here. Worry not poet, it haunts no more, Covered with maggots, I've rotted here for a while. These sockets are now emptied, I see nothing to judge. With my brains swallowed, I am no critique. Only bones adorning dirt and bugs. Justitia, you can call me. Lend me your ears and I'll...

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Categories: legacy, betrayal, corruption, extended metaphor,
Form: Elegy

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