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Uprooting Poems - Poems about Uprooting

Premium Member Nervous
...I keep thinking about this summer—about starting a new school—and as soon as I do, I find myself internally monologuing and getting all high-schooly. It’s hoot, I know, but I can’t seem to help it. ......

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Categories: uprooting, feelings, future, humor, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member IN THE GARDENING OF THE GENESIS AND REVELATION OF LIFE
...For the blessed fruits of the blessed tree of life’s being, Persecution and crucifixion have their time in life’s seasons; Their demise coming with seasons of resurrection and ascension:- Season......

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Categories: uprooting, allegory,
Form: Pastoral



Premium Member OF AN OXYMORONIC OLIGARCHY
...An immigrant nation Imprisoning immigrants Not equally born or not born Of its natives and considered Criminals is indeed oxymoronic In a country founded by immigrants Thru usurping and upro......

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Categories: uprooting, allegory, political,
Form: Prose
Premium Member OF OXYMORONIC OLIGARCHY
...OF AN OXYMORONIC OLIGAR An immigrant nation Imprisoning immigrants Not equally born or not born Of its natives and considered Criminals is indeed oxymoronic In a country founded by immigra......

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Categories: uprooting, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vines in Winter
...Passionflowers winter-wilted and passionless, twining around the treillage of a wintry world, winter-weakened, flower-frail in the ice-vice of cold's hold. Ice-ivy creeping and strangling; a cru......

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Categories: uprooting, abuse, metaphor, winter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rooted: A Goodbye Letter to Chicago
...Chicago, you rooted me down while lifting me up. Providing the nourishment I needed since I was a little stump. I’ve grown so much over the years and now ready to brave a new frontier. My root s......

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Categories: uprooting, sad,
Form: Free verse
Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
...Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation Otherwise titled deep into my fiftieth year of passive aggressive rebellious puberty. Yes, I chickened out getting a haircut yesterday August twen......

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Categories: uprooting, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member CAN'T FIND HOME
...Never understood why my family had hate and contempt for one another, definitely not wanting to be together. Never felt like home as a child only relentless worry and fear, rejected in an unsa......

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Categories: uprooting, destiny, environment, family, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unshackle the Classroom
...This is a call to arms, not with guns, but with pens In the battleground of classrooms, where history pretends Textbooks are prisons, locking away truths untold Lessons are handcuffs, keeping mi......

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Categories: uprooting, culture, education, home, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the temple of the shadows of the century, where moments are lost in metallic echoes
...In the temple of the shadows of the century, where moments are lost in metallic echoes, Technology has wrapped its cold tentacles around the human soul, without us realizing, A worldly instrument, ......

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Categories: uprooting, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love is a catastrophe, a bittersweet madness, a wild affliction that invades your soul
...Love is a catastrophe, a bittersweet madness, a wild affliction that invades your soul, Disturbs your peace, devastates your routine, transforming you into a shadow of what you once were, Each mome......

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Categories: uprooting, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To surrender
...Joshua 6:15 NIV? [15] On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times. ?Joshua 6:2......

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Categories: uprooting, faith,
Form: Free verse
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
...April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and fil......

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Categories: uprooting, absence, age, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme
Preposterous Eros
...Preposterous Eros by Michael R. Burch “Preposterous Eros” – Patricia Falanga Preposterous Eros shot me in the buttocks, with a Devilish grin, spent all my money in a rush then left my heart......

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Categories: uprooting, desire, love, love hurts,
Form: Epigram
Save Environment: inspired by The Last Truck Ride by Ruskin Bond
...Nathu a sturdy boy, Comes to the valley to work instead of playing with a toy. He says that for the daily essentials for his family he has to come down, But still misses his hometown. When he see......

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Categories: uprooting, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme

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