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People Poems | Examples of People Poetry

People Poems - Examples of all types of people poetry to share and read. This list of people poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of people poetry. This list of works about people is an excellent resource for examples on how to write people poems.
Premium Member New people
Interesting conversations started as a strangers chime in...Read the rest...
Categories: people,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Oil change
Waiting patiently in the customer area with a room full of quiet people...Read the rest...
Categories: people,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Vs Vs Vs
Statesman vs politician Priest vs Holy Man Truth vs Falsehood Evil vs Good (Love can never hate) Heart Attacks: God cuts man slack in which man foolishly ties knots – Soul Clots....Read the rest...
Categories: people, christian, humanity, inspirational, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Cowards
You paint me as the bad guy Colored in flaws from head to toe A priestess of dark magic Inciting men to wrecking havoc Though I'm not sure how this could be so For if I've authored...Read the rest...
Categories: people, child abuse, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
An Open Letter
All the days of my life, nobody helped me with money except myself and limited number of family members. I never asked any favor from anybody, but I'm very grateful to God...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, people, world,
Form: Other



The Scoop
Waiting for ice cream And looking around, All versions of people Are there to be found: The old and the toddlers, The skinny and fat, The bald and the bearded, The full-bodied tat; The neat and the slobby , The antsy and calm, Each there...Read the rest...
Categories: people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Great Scott
My maintenance man's name is Scott and boy that man can do a lot.. Always cutting the yards and raking up leaves, a constant need with Sycamore trees.. In snow and ice out there he'll be, clearing sidewalks and streets...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bad people
Don't let bad people take the good out of you...Read the rest...
Categories: people,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Smokey Filled Speak Easy
In the dim-lit alley of the soul's bazaar, Were jazz and jive spill from ajar, We tap our feet, snap fingers, under stars, And speak in verses, raw and without pause. The city breathes, a living, pulsing beat, Its heart...Read the rest...
Categories: people, 6th grade, anxiety, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gun Shop
The gun seems gun-shy in this space where deer hides hang on rustic walls and granddad-tick-tocks beat, instead of hearts in hollowed skins. The gun a “trophy-bagger” in its rack, a loud-mouth predator at rest, this motherless,...Read the rest...
Categories: people, animal, conflict, death, life,
Form: Quatrain
Who's Coming Down The Trail
I’m moving down a forest trail, wooden canyon on my right side, above, on thermals, raptors glide, always inspires without fail. I hear a rustle before me, and wonder just who that could be? Perhaps it is an Indian, face painted, war...Read the rest...
Categories: people, dream, history, imagery, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Comedy
Entertainment by people who make an audience laugh -i enjoy meeting new comedians at our local coffee shop...Read the rest...
Categories: people,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Differences
As Space knows no true vacuum – (in a vast sense always exhibiting abundance of space) -- so near Nature, fills with infinite mystery, delights in difference though rudiments may compare no two blossoms exactly alike a slight, odd, curl in a...Read the rest...
Categories: people, corruption, humanity, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's Not the Money
Wanton decay daily displayed In cities all across the USA Parks abide in these urban scenes Taunting insults at concrete memes Asphalt is the ghetto's grass Decorated with the indolent's trash Why men choose to live in squalor Has no connection with...Read the rest...
Categories: people,
Form: Rhyme
Family Reunion
Breast beat for her I doubt you fathom crude Understand thus gravitas of thy actions true This must entrust you knot the thread bear Bang thy drum roll knees follow you we share Needless pain inflicted as I stroked...Read the rest...
Categories: people, crazy, dark, daughter, death,
Form: Prose

Specific Types of People Poems

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Definition | What is People in Poetry?


Book: Shattered Sighs