Long First world Poems
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RumorsRumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
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Categories:
first world, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
When Three Cousins PlayedThree cousins played a “game’ of war
A map of Europe spread across the floor
No adults there to keep the score
As each of them wanted more and more
Three of four empires lay upon that map
As they...
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Categories:
first world, war,
Form:
Verse
Tavira, Algarve, My Home TownTavira
Tavira is my town
The place I call my home
Rich in history
Much like me
Many secrets does it hold
Ancient times still apparent
Different people now
A different time
How many footsteps have trodden the cobbled streets?
With donkeys or on...
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Categories:
first world, beach, community, holiday, home,
Form:
Free verse
Ode To African ChildOh! African child, the temple
A redient beauty of nature
Thou are the cradle capital
Of humanity and creatures
The founder of patriarchal
Oh! African child,
The coy the toy of the wife
Beauty of nature and life
The belike of Bowie...
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Categories:
first world, africa, baby, birth,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflections of Cold WarsDad is that you? What are you doing there in the mirror?
I am trying to shave and I don’t need any help.
Do they shave in heaven or is it just cribbage and...
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Categories:
first world, war, drug,
Form:
Narrative
I Ask Myself a Rhetorical Question RegardingI ask myself a rhetorical question regarding...
the durability, longevity, and tenacity of Homo sapiens,
after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity.
How did the human species manage to survive
with many means
of self destruction at their disposal?
Atomic...
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Categories:
first world, africa, america, anger, april, black african american,
Form:
Free verse
War Is Hell - Born In '24I was born in ’24 near the California shore,
Where life was good, whether we were rich or poor.
We moved around a lot, but I never asked what for,
And my friends came and went like a...
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Categories:
first world, atheist, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
You Want To and Can Write PoetryDear budding poet,
Regarding modern poetry this is a result of poets such as you redesigning forms of poetry written through the ages by different nationalities, famous and just ordinary people like you and me.
When composing...
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Categories:
first world, age, devotion, imagination, me, poetry,
Form:
Prose
Hunger PangsThe sign actually said ‘Universal Disposal’ but the haggard squalid creature
Had no time for such ephemeral discourse he could just about spell his name
Kanja meaning water born and his parents had hoped he would...
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Categories:
first world, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
He Who Creates Re-Creates Himselffor René Passeron*
You may not grow old too soon
if
Things you have known...
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Categories:
first world, art, time,
Form:
Didactic
Paying Earth BackI hear at least two national conversations
that seem mutually contradictory
and equally impossible,
or at least revolutionarily improbable
as compared to normal win/lose capital extractive
hoarding habits
in robust competitive investment accounts,
business as not necessarily healthiness usual.
I listen to "Third...
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Categories:
first world, dark, earth, health, integrity, light, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
The GullibleI sat with a friend
discussing the corona virus
they are killing us she stated
the virus is a gas
I saw it on the internet
they're dropping it on people
the virus is not a gas I stated
a...
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Categories:
first world, inspiration, international,
Form:
Narrative
A History of War Allies and EnemiesBritain used to war with France and then the USA,
Allied with the Russian keeping Napoleon at bay
2 wars fought in 1812 Europe and North America
all in all no one did better, all...
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Categories:
first world, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Yellow Ribbon: In Memoriampause for a moment of silence
before continuing your day
to bless your lucky stars
that you were born within these
borders
which increase every day their campaign
to keep others out or to send those back
whom have established families...
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Categories:
first world, lifeyellow, , In Memoriam, in memoriam,
Form:
Free verse
PrincipThink of the first world war
think of young Princip
his mud floor house
with stones for walls
Poverty and shame
it was hard to make an existence
it was hard to make a life
the food that they were growing
Went...
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Categories:
first world, dream, inspiration, international,
Form:
Rhyme
Think WellEverybody says
money is the root of all evil
yet we tried a system of trading
swapping your products, service
for the goods and food you require
imagine the effort required
to make enough trades
to supply your needs for...
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Categories:
first world, inspiration, international,
Form:
Narrative
Aussie Cruiser SydneyOUR TIN POT NAVY so THEY SAID in 1914 Sydney in the first World War 1
In 1914 German cruisers were cut loose
and Emden she was one…………….…(fired 38lb shells)
the Indian ocean she did for hunting...
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Categories:
first world, war, war, world, war,
Form:
Rhyme
A Study of LifeNature nurture
The argument of psychology
yet what made Hitler
become the man
What made Hitler
become the racist
what made Hitler
become the murderer
Millions died
in concentration camps
millions died
on the battlefields of france
Yet What made...
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Categories:
first world, abuse, anti bullying, bullying, inspirational, political, prejudice,
Form:
Narrative
GrandmaShe measured only five foot tall,
With her stooped shoulders, even shorter.
Towered over by her strapping son,
My mother and each other daughter.
Grandma came from sturdy stock.
On her own strength, she relied
To raise her five young...
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Categories:
first world, adventure, devotion, family, people, life, granddaughter,
Form:
Narrative
The First World War StartedThe first world war started because of poverty
The first world war started because of greed
The first world war started because of an assassination
The first world war started because of Ideas
The first world war started because...
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Categories:
first world, war, wisdom, world war i,
Form:
Narrative
The Nigeria We Deserve 3THE NIGERIA WE DESERVE 3
Who could enter a dark room without breaking
The holy glasses therein?
Are we suppose to keep running from pillar to post?
We have come of age to eat the fruits of the land
Knowing...
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Categories:
first world, africa, age, art,
Form:
Blank verse
World War IiiComrades,Wars are the deadliest conflicts in human history ...
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Categories:
first world, 10th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Heirs of Eternal Silence
I wrote this poem about the young men and boys of various countries who fought in the first world war . Forever Remembered.
Heirs of Eternal Silence...
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Categories:
first world, betrayal, courage, remembrance day, sleep, truth, war,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am a SlaveMy ancestors had years of struggle
Trying to blend into their masters ideas
And to secure a slot in masters good books
They fought hard to disown who they are
Just to prove themselves worthy
Of their masters colonizing philosophy
I,...
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Categories:
first world, abuse, betrayal, conflict, cousin, crazy, culture,
Form:
Free verse
New World OrderSpringing up, like a cactus sprout, after the First-World-War,
The concept of New-World-Order did not touch deeper core;
Like, water drop on lotus leaf, it stood touched and untouched,
Sometimes it appeared ditched; other times, again, it got...
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Categories:
first world, life, world,
Form:
Rhyme