A Horse with No Name's Enduring Ride
From desert winds to ocean spray,
A harmony that lit the way.
Three voices blended soft and clear,
A sound that soothed the listening ear.
Dewey Bunnell with words that flowed,
Of horses wild and paths untrod.
His melodies, a gentle breeze,
Rustling through the sunlit trees.
Gerry Beckley with chords so bright,
That painted landscapes in the light.
His soaring vocals pure and true,
Reflecting...
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Categories:
tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Life with hemophiliaYou say you love me now
But wait until I can't get sleep,
cause my elbow is in pain
And all I can do is sit and brave it out
Wait until I need that quick drive to the hospital
When I'm in pain I barely speak
And my face turns into the despair I keep inward
When all I care...
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Categories:
tribute, community, fate, life, pain,
Form: Free verse
I am I say
I am the sunrise
the spark of creation
the breath of nature
the whisper of twilight
the rustling of leaves
the touch of rainfall
the drums of thunder
the colour of rainbows
the kiss of moonbeams
the spring of compassion
the voice of love
...
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Categories:
tribute, creation, faith, mystery, nature,
Form: List
Transitory Tiara
A crown,
not always metal, not always bright,
sometimes, a halo of sweat-soaked hair,
earned beneath a scorching sun, a laborer's quiet triumph.
Sometimes, the delicate curve of a newborn's skull,
a fragile promise, a universe unfolding,
a reign just begun.
A crown,
the silver dusting of wisdom, etched in lines,
a cartographer of lived experience,
a silent testament to battles won and lost.
The artist's...
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Categories:
tribute, truth,
Form: Free verse
Tabernacle
Where golden hues in grandeur softly gleam,
A testament of faith, a vibrant dream,
Stands Tabernacle in its storied might,
A beacon burning ever pure and bright.
With lines that speak of purpose, strong and bold,
A history within its walls unfolds.
Each arch and angle carefully conceived,
A space where hearts in unity believed.
The hallowed...
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Categories:
tribute,
Form: Rhyme
In Loving Memory of Natalie WoodNever forget the California glamour girl
Actress that graced her beauty on the silver screen.
The fancy necklaces and earrings made of pearl,
And how Hollywood made her a movie star queen.
Living a fast-paced life that was never foreseen,
In a world where everyone seemed to know her name
Everywhere she went—with no escape from her fame.
Wonderful were her many...
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Categories:
tribute, beautiful, beauty, celebrity, memorial,
Form: Acrostic
Thinking Of You
Thinking of you in everything I do;
gratefully, deep thoughts of you live on.
You are so missed- yet, promise it is true-
until my days expire and I am gone,
live memories remain while I pursue
exclaiming, “Mom, I love you still,” each dawn.
...
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Categories:
missing, mom, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
sacred mount fuji
sacred mount fuji
breathtaking meditation
prayer in the wind
posted on April 13, 2025...
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Categories:
mountains, peace, prayer, tribute,
Form: Haiku
Awaken the Giant: A Tribute to Swami VivekanandaThey called him Narendra first—
a boy with fire in his heart,
a mind that danced with stars
while the city slept in the dark.
His questions shook the ground:
"Where is God? What is the truth?"
"Don’t give me words or songs—
I want to feel it in my youth!"
Then came the storm—Ramakrishna—
a saint who smiled at the sky,
and said,
"You want...
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Categories:
tribute, art, beautiful, blessing, blue,
Form: Free verse
Love is a PhoenixLove is a phoenix,
Barbarously burning,
Longing and yearning,
Mysterious mystics.
To love is to die
And rise once more
From the ashes to sing the lore
Of love, until the blood gets dry.
Love is velvety and richly red,
Its silky stains stay sincere,
Tragic turmoil it may appear,
Miraculously Maroon love's words bled
Just like the wings that phoenix shed.
Love...
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Categories:
tribute, emotions, feelings, first love,
Form: Rhyme
The Immortal Ink
A quill of bone dipped in the midnight's ink,
He carved the souls that on the ages think.
No crown he wore, no armies at his call,
Yet empires rise and crumble at his thrall.
From Stratford's quiet to the London's roar,
He conjured worlds that never were before.
A king's ambition stained with bloody hand,
A lover's sigh upon a foreign...
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Categories:
poets, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Screamin' Jay HawkinsWe sit silently in prayer.
and we praise a man so rare.
We give thanks today -
for Hawkins, Screamin' Jay....
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Categories:
tribute,
Form: Epigram
Gifts Of Spring
The
gifts of
spring uplift
our hearts to know
winter scenes are gone
replaced by brand new arts
only newborn spring can bring;
as budding blossoms spread out wide
full, green lawns lay down a velvet sheen-
and spring's new magic paints the gray away.
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Categories:
spring, tribute,
Form: Etheree
Ode to a True Poet - Apr 6O’ Pat Pattison, you, my brilliant teacher,
I would shower in praises, had you not
taught me better! for cliches void of thought
are as worthwhile as a couch surfin’ moocher!
O’ masterful and deepest sort of creature,
shocked then, in the thrall of churning wounds, distraught
I found your grace—and for my breaking clot
you gave me poetry, this soothing suture....
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Categories:
tribute, appreciation, creation, love, poetry,
Form: Italian Sonnet
They Come And Go
“The seasons of all things hold much in store;
for life brings death- which brings new life once more.”
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Categories:
seasons, tribute,
Form: Dizain
Specific Types of Tribute Poems
Definition | What is Tribute in Poetry?
Poems Related to Tribute
gratitude, memorial, gift, eulogy, appreciation, accolade, recognition, respect, honor, compliment, salvo, applause, commendation, citation, panegyric, encomium, offering, esteem, recommendation, salutation, acknowledgment, laudation,