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Surnames Poems - Poems about Surnames

THEY TOO WERE WORTH REMEMBERING
...How do these women cut with their bare hands- their surrounding net? Well, I refer to- Jane, Margaret, Aphra, Virginia and Charlotte, Who are well known even without their surnames, And who were w......

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Categories: surnames, art, beautiful, body, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
For My Protection
... For My Protection When I try to open my email a big black bordered banner with a flashing red X appears on my screen with the messa......

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Categories: surnames, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



The Fathers
... The holders of custom and bearings The teachers of manners and sayings The steerers of the leanings and standings The givers of surnames and blessings The fabric that makes priests and kings ......

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Categories: surnames, fathers day,
Form: Rhyme
GREAT BAVILA TRADITIONAL PRIEST
...Great traditional bavila priest, When you hear about the great traditional bavila priest called " Kasongo Nguni" from bahinga clan, Who worked for the bavila kingdom On the reign ......

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Categories: surnames, africa, culture, history,
Form: Free verse
Approximately Three Plus Days Elapsed
...Approximately three plus days elapsed... without yours truly experiencing urge to defecate Neither bloating nor constipation arose, but one nondescript anguished logophile anticipated intestina......

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Categories: surnames, adventure, america, anniversary, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wise Ass
...WISE ASS You know this person! In middle school his perfect sarcasm seems funny and bold and wise to our ears, makes adults and institutions seem hopelessly inept, disingenuous, insecure B......

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Categories: surnames, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's All In a Name
...This is a poem about surnames, Surnames we could hear any day. How their name was derived From how they survived, Their occupation will give them away. ARCHER is the first one, Shooting his a......

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Categories: surnames, career, character, destiny, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Parking Space
...Men with invisible hair or grey manes gravitate to city parks by chance to meet each other. They gather there to find long lost buddies in the company of strangers. The universe of unreliabl......

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Categories: surnames, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Courtesy the Mighty Amazon Successful Deliverance Reported
...Courtesy the mighty Amazon successful deliverance reported... Regarding unexpected Gadshill gift (as if delivered from Magi) tamper proof wrapped, thus an obligation goads me to communicate fo......

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Categories: surnames, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Redundant Giz a Job
...# Are we as human's and our labour becoming redundant ? By the means of our own technical endeavour ? Historically people's surnames where derived from the profession or trade they did #......

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Categories: surnames, slam,
Form: Free verse
Gratitude Cures Most Things
...I Ayanda is a Zulu name (A to Z already), my daughter Brindha is her aunt in KwaZulu-Natal, my "sister" - remember - Calling cousins siblings is common among us (Tina's daughter, by marriage to ......

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Categories: surnames, 10th grade, africa, age,
Form: Abecedarian
I Love F a I T H More Than Money
...ONE Faith and Money Are BOTH ... Gates I chose WRONG Thirty years later ... He chose me TWO: After Coming to Faith Writing Psalms Imitating David Israel's King Anoin......

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Categories: surnames, adventure, endurance, faith, gospel,
Form: Acrostic
The Burning
...The burning Let Rome burn, so spake Nero or one of his flunkies Towns and cities are burning every day in the Middle East Flames taste not of roasted chestnuts in the Alley Of peace but the stenc......

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Categories: surnames, absence, africa, allusion, anger,
Form: Blank verse
Lost Words
...Those thoughts not adopted and orphaned alone To never have surnames —all bastards enthroned (Villanova Pennsylvania: December 24, 2014)......

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Categories: surnames, words,
Form: Rhyme
Saint James the Fisherman Day
...Saint James the Fisherman Day Rohr family was nicest and kindest; They had found it so hard to resist; High point there, They would share; A new Episcopal Church does exist. James Thomas Ho......

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Categories: surnames, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

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