Successors Poems

Our History

...Two millennia ago, a man told us to love.
500 years passed, and another told the same.
Another 500, a man’s followers killed his people in his name.
And they continue to my time.

Another 500 an...
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Categories: successors, history, life, pain,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJ The Roman Catholic Church

...
The Roman Catholic Church is a congregation of all baptized persons
United in the same true faith
The same sacrifice
And under the Holy Father
The Pope
Father Christ founded the Roman Catholic...
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Categories: successors, christian, community, devotion, god,
Form: Free verse


hinging on your successors

...there there personality
now and why
soldiers find when its you
who needs to stop
when you support me
on anothers list
and you figured 
buttons at home
on a couch
missing me
can't relay the ...
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Categories: successors, analogy, books, chicago, eve,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberContinuum - Part Three

...Wading through the surf toward the beach as we stand there
And strolling up to face us with a most alluring air
Though different in their looks; their hair; their build and in their grace
How beau...
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Categories: successors, future, humanity, time,
Form: Narrative

A Legacy of Forgotten Feats

...(The stage is dimly lit, with a single spotlight on the speaker, a wise and weary African leader. He stands, reflecting on his legacy)

My dear Africa, I rose like a lion, with Mandela's heart,
To...
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Categories: successors, africa, history, leadership, lost,
Form: Dramatic Monologue


Premium MemberRAPPING POETS

...Let’s Rap
That’s while
Rapping Poet Style
Words assured
Focused accord
Word verse by verse
Experience and influence
Striving endurance
No curse in any verse
Some say Rapping Poet’s won’t and...
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Categories: successors, adventure, appreciation, art, character,
Form: Rhyme

Suns of Crows

...The throne of the crow 
Dominates their subjects below
Scanning each plot of sow 
For the murders they can overthrow.
The two withered branches from the tallest trees
Seat the crow and its eyes ...
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Categories: successors, allegory, woman,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPoets Who Reign

...Sometimes I wonder…
As I read the past poets, great writers,
With offerings of words
Who will ever be, so sweet - they shall not fade.

But, then I read the current poetry –
Modern thoughts wit...
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Categories: successors, appreciation, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn the shadow of time, my descendants

...In the shadow of time, my descendants,
Both the known and those hidden in the corridors of ages,
From the first generation to those yet to come,
Please listen to this epic,
From one who was and w...
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Categories: successors, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Psalm 83 War has already just begun part seven

...The invasion of Western Europe went on for several centuries and was completed
in the year 476 AD, the year the Western Roman Empire fell.  Northern Europe,
is what now constitutes the European pla...
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Categories: successors, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberSeventy-Five Years of Seeking Peace

...For 75 years Israel has offered peace to her neighbors
   the Arab response, 'Never!' -- be Israel's leaders Likud or Labor

 From 1948 to 1967, before 'territories,' before 'occupation'
   when ...
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Categories: successors, history, peace,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberBrave Surveyor

...Cramped steps acquaint heavy hatch reluctant 
     Cushion hush cellar isolate, harsh sun migraines
     Catapulted myopic into apocalyptic destruction 
     Crumple of coastal community permits m...
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Categories: successors, anxiety, courage, river,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGreat Persons Think Alike

...Steven Grant : “ Every idea is a juxtaposition of existing concepts.”

Wilson Mizner : “ If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism, if you steal
                       from many, it’s research...
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Categories: successors, 12th grade, how i
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Heavenly Christmas List

...*Image of Until We Meet Again by MVid.

A Heavenly Christmas List

An endearing Christmas list too precious to reserve
as a blessed season occasions its heartfelt deserve;

My olde...
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Categories: successors, appreciation, christmas, family, heaven,
Form: List

Premium MemberApplied Science

...today's streamlined flying machines
would amaze the Wright brothers
and their successors I think, for they amaze me. 

They are electronic and mysterious 
like the secrets behind our glass front...
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Categories: successors, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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