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Short Ancestors Poems

Short Ancestors Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Ancestors by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Ancestors by length and keyword.


Premium Member Astronomy
We have lost touch with our ancestors...

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Categories: ancestors, sky, star,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Woven
We are woven in the likes of our ancestors...

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Categories: ancestors, family,
Form: Monoku
America
America's Ancestors avoided Assault Arms 

12/10/15...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ancestors, america,
Form: Alliteration
Life
Present liferime
 legacy of ancestors
  eternity seeds...

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Categories: ancestors, allegory, allusion, analogy, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member pondering
Sitting by water 
pondering on ancestors 
many memories...

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Categories: ancestors, culture,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Skin
I was once told that we are wrapped in skin of our ancestors...

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Categories: ancestors, family,
Form: Monoku
Exile
Land of ancestors.
War destruction army.
Escaped scared hunger....

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Categories: ancestors, war,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member My Ancestors
I am an old soul,
a projection of my past -
My ancestor's skin....

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Categories: ancestors, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Family Tree
leaves like ancestors
high in our majestic tree
looking down on me...

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Categories: ancestors, family,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Lanterns
Used in festivals as lighting the way for the souls of our ancestors...

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Categories: ancestors, family,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Family foundation
Ancestors ago 
built the foundation we have 
setting course for life...

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Categories: ancestors, life,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Ancestral
ancestral spirits
visiting
her dreams



posted on September 21, 2018...

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Categories: ancestors, dream, inspirational, night, relationship, spiritual, surreal, trust,
Form: Senryu
Ascendant Beings
Ancient beings from afar
Did they bless our ancestors?
Or did they enslave?...

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Categories: ancestors, evil, history,
Form: Haiku
Battlefield
Prickly blades of grass,
Unlike their bent ancestors:
Praise the golden sun....

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Categories: ancestors, nature
Form: Haiku
Disinfectant Wipes
Disinfectant Wipes

Disinfectant wipes are
the existing ancestors of
flour.

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Categories: ancestors, humor,
Form: Free verse
Mr Narrow Neck
Mr Narrow Neck

Mr Narrow Neck inherited from 
his ancestors a 
bleeding 
anus.
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Categories: ancestors, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ancestry Whack-A-Mole
genealogy

family tree treasure hunt—

come to your census





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12/9/2019...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ancestors, family, history, people, tree,
Form: Senryu
Gizzard
Death is when you
Are alive in the shadow
Death is when you can
Sit and sing with your ancestors...

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Categories: ancestors, death of a friend, depression, fairy, farewell,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Irony of Times
blades of grass laugh at
strongest of trees falling down ~
ancestors are crushed



6 September 2021...

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Categories: ancestors, time,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Summer Heat Flashbacks
SUMMER HEAT FLASHBACKS…

Dry heat cracked the ground;
Wet whips cracked ancestors’ backs—
Juxtaposed flashbacks:-...

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Categories: ancestors, allegory, analogy, deep, extended metaphor, imagery, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Vanity - Edited
My ancestors searched
for immortality in caves,
trees, and earth. Immortality,
they didn't know, was 
part of them....

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Categories: ancestors, inspiration, inspirational, life, spiritual, vanity, world,
Form: Free verse
Last Breath
last breath
thanking the plants and animals
that have sustained me
my ancestors I honor
and the spirit enfolding me...

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Categories: ancestors, feelings,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Becoming foreigners
Amidst their poor land
Where their roots born
Ancestors' cherished land
Their identities shifting
Became foreign hearts....

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Categories: ancestors, absence,
Form: Tanka
Problems On Earth
if they could see us
 our ancestors in this world
 thinking of the past
 pain, death, and inhumane crimes
 on your world today...

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Categories: ancestors, abuse, anger, angst, change, corruption, dark,
Form: Tanka
Memory Pen

The ashen bones of my family mixed with the blood of our ancestors creates the ink from which the deepest of secrets emerge. 
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Categories: ancestors, 6th grade, family,
Form: Free verse

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