Short Descendants Poems

MAL AND JAY GOT MARRIED AND HAD 2 BABIES....

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Mayflower
ship of legends
writer descendants...

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Lonely Autumn leaf,
Descendants blown through the years:
Calico landscape....

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I am a descendant of a slave
You are the descendant of a criminal and prostitute
But all of us are descendants of Adam and Eve...

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side by side
descendants of
the African Slaves
souls lost
in the
chains and
the cotton fields
where we died
in secret but
we listen
to our past...

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Behind me are all my ancestors giving me strength.
Life passed through them to me.
In honor of them I will live life fully
with integrity and kindness.
...

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missed whips of Egypt
missed share of bread and  water—
stillborn golden calf

9/29/2021

*Perhaps you’ll read the companion poem THEY WERE NOT GROWN...

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memories of love
and family loyalty
mama’s legacy

honoring her by
passing that devotion on
to her descendants

mama’s legacy
reflected in the faces
of great grandchildren

4/26/11...

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Keeping the lights on using your children's future as fuel
Give despots destruction on demand
Nuclear wastelands and contaminated land 
Desperate nations damning your descendants to nuclear decay...

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genetic mutations
two toned faces of
true hermaphrodites
claws at the end of the trap
cannibalistic rituals
guiding the souls to the 
living descendants
shedding shells pheromones
copulins controls male
hypothalamus...

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In 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants
If humans were that prolific, the world would not be pleasant
We'd be living in trees
No space for tiny fleas
So murder a bunch, we'd want space to get down and dance...

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If for poems, you have a knack
Punch them out, and don’t cut slack
For fame is just one measure
That marks a poem a treasure
So keep on gifting poems uplifting
Well deserving of preserving
Each one placed inside some album
For descendants as an heirloom....

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Fair Lady


Brown, hazel, green eyes and blue. God made the descendants
of Europe beautiful too.

Brunettes and blonds,
Reds, highlights - various disguises.
Displaying God’s beauty
in various shapes and sizes.

God made us all beautiful in his sight....

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Man against man
Who shall it be
Descendants from trees
Hunters and gatherers
Conquest or wars
Achieve power and immortality
We kill with both hands
This curse from our past
We pray to our Gods
Enslave or genocide
Forgive us Lord,
We are descendants
From trees...

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Family
                                                         Sponsor: Silent One
           

                "Loving fellowship of descendants, full of joy, laughter and contentment".

                                                 Date Written: December 6, 2015...

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shifting sands
riding upon the winds
gritty curtains

curtains billowing
like a ships sails
ghosts

ghost flitting 
on the horizon
dry leaves

leaves skittering
across the sand dunes
tiny lizards

ancient reptile
descendants on journey
living legends

...

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My heritage was birthed from a small seed,
roots of cherry trees could desire no sprout-
A thirsty bud blossoms with a nurturing need,
for without waters of love and faithful creed
descendants would wither away from a barren drought. 



Rooting 8 to 5
Nette Oclaud
January 3, 2017...

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invasion
descendants deposed
cunning cuckoo

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(c) John C Michaels, February 2017

I've posted two Haiku variants on the same theme: one is the traditional 5-7-5 form ("Cuckoo - A") and the other is me branching out to try a more contemporary style ("Cuckoo - B").  I hope you like them both....

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Climate Change has been mocked, laughed at and denied,
Reporters rejected and told that they lied.
Man has brought on his downfall with decades of misuse.
Our descendants will pay for Mother Nature's abuse.
We must not let our grand-children pay for our crime,
We must turn it around and pray there is time.


Written 2/15/19...

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The Native American Indians believe that the world
was created on the back of a giant elephant,
that steps the back of a giant turtle;
by supernatural beings.

Today, the descendants of England
have brought with them their architecture and culture
to the Turtle and Elephant World,
making the Turtle's and Elephant's load heavier....

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have I the right
to think all things are 
products of conditions

past or present
in which direction
does the real self lie

how much of what 
we create will be
our descendants' must-haves

ever seeking
meaning and purpose
will it be worth the price

change will make us
we will produce change
which will be the most true...

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pixie dust of creation's oasis
               strategically placed to shine
   Abraham's descendents of faith
            ~each given a name

Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
Genesis 15:5 NKJV

4-29-2021...

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All of our family roots can genetically
be traced back to just one woman who lived at the dawn of humanity.
All people of earth are descendants of she.
All in all, we're all just one big dysfunctional planetary family.
L I T E R A L L Y.
All of this has been scientifically proved.
We are all for the most part cousins, many generations removed....

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I wonder what she dreamed when

She walked barefoot over cobblestone streets

In 1864.

Did she fancy where her future would take her

What her descendants would be?

Would they remember their veteran,

Her husband from the Civil War.

As crows perched on his wooden cross?

She dreamed of an assortment of children;

Maybe she even dreamed of me....

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He stands on the slippery crag of Simon’s Seat
has done since time became tradition
from the Lupus a call to the Luna moon
howling at the illuminant of the night.
His descendants thrash the poignant air
a reminder of a fear once gone, forgotten
yet, today there are many still hold them fair
but it is the moon that drives the begotten.

© Harry J Horsman 2018...

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