Ancestors Poems - Poems about Ancestors

...A ladder of nine rungs leads up to a loft in my home, a storehouse of memories wrapped in brown paper bags, collecting dust. Poetry books, photo albums, framed pictures of my ancestors from O......Read the rest...

... The ashen bones of my family mixed with the blood of our ancestors creates the ink from which the deepest of secrets emerge.  ......Read the rest...

...Change vomited dark entrails Of the bald vulture on my clan; We were buried, One after the other, In the belly of the village stream, And pulled out Almost immediately To choruses that ha......Read the rest...

..."Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey" I. Anthropocentric Dissonance - Daniel Henry Rodgers Do you hear that rumbling? That's the a......Read the rest...

...We go and come We come again and go again ...a ring Like water that ascends ...to return as rain ...to smoke up again... A circle An order My ancestors are back Staring into my......Read the rest...

...“Make America Great Again (MAGA)” Make America Great Again (MAGA) Where shall we begin MAGA has a negative connotation Greatness has never been in this nation A segment of the population f......Read the rest...

...Sitting by water pondering on ancestors many memories......Read the rest...

...For My Children - Daniel Henry Rodgers As dawn's first blush ignites the eastern sky—a cool Caress of dew upon the breeze—and the birds' serenad......Read the rest...

...I see beyond the sea-snake crown of thick-leaved jewels, as a gossamer veil conceals jealous goblins shape-shifting above a snow-dappled forest of freckled weeds… there third-eye......Read the rest...

...Look closely, feel the harmless heat enveloping black-diamond petals in the glistening garden of glossy geraniums. There, sprouts rosemary dreams from an u......Read the rest...

...Jahore Pakistani kind of terrorist driving a Tahoe shooting into my home attempting to impersonate me gain royalties from my American poetry sorry my ancestors served Wwll Vietnam Korean Afghanistan ......Read the rest...

...The voice of my ancestors The genesis of mankind never exclude my forefathers Cos they were the beginning from the beginning So i am never alone in this cold world The connection between me ......Read the rest...

...Used in festivals as lighting the way for the souls of our ancestors......Read the rest...

... I feel like a polka dot stew! The kids all make fun, No matter what I do! My skin color, I can't change! It's not as if I have mange. My ancestors lived i......Read the rest...

...In the West, stories are heard, shining at the threshold of a new era, That we can mold again the raw clay of human nature, Reconstructing from the ashes of time, a dream Eden, fresh and new. As i......Read the rest...