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Best Adversity Poems

Below are the all-time best Adversity poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of adversity poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Treasure In Adversity
i am no longer
lost in the labyrinth
of your twisted mentality

i kiss the lips of freedom

once you drove
me insane in the brain
now stubborn stains wash away

i...

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Categories: adversity, hope, recovery from, relationship,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Melancholic Tree
In the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.

Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below, 
an isolated tree - naked and...

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Categories: adversity, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dedicated To All the Poets
An untouched piano has no purpose,
like a lonely clown without a circus.
A boat has no destiny stuck at shore,
silent like a lion who's lost its...

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Categories: adversity, inspiration, poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Warriors
This one is for the broken,
hiding behind invisible bruising.
For the forgotten and the ones 
who have forgotten us,
like the misunderstood misfits.
Who howl at the moon,
look...

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Categories: adversity, assonance, dedication, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Poetic Garden
In my silent sanctuary,
my poetic garden blooms like sun kissed seeds,
carefully placed under a quilt of soil,
sprinkled with holy water.

In the vividness of morning mist,
spring...

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Categories: adversity, assonance, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member When Poets Come Together As One
Lets flatten the curve with our words and soften our quill.
We are world siblings, showing solidarity through will.
Words that heal are like a prayer in...

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Categories: adversity, hope, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                ...

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Categories: adversity, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Love's Chemical Derivatives
Can  love then,  be based
on an index of elements
from which one joyfully tumbles,
or drifts into equations, as we wander
toward a rush of serendipity...

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Categories: adversity, love, science,
Form: Light Verse
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: adversity, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry Numbs the Pain
One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?

As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood,...

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Categories: adversity, childhood, emotions, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I am

In uncontrollable destinies,
fate is visible, signposted with faith.
In limitations of the intangible unforeseen,
tribulations from tangible organisms,
leave a heart yearning to release 
the force from kundalini kismet.

What...

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Categories: adversity, i am,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Free - POTD - A Collaboration With Silent One
Last POTD for the year - 31st Dec 2017

An eagle spirit conquers storms of adversity,
like a silent soul floats amongst the sky's artistry.
Soaring higher, ascending...

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Categories: adversity, analogy, freedom, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Stand Here
I stand here with every step of my life etched in crisscross lines beneath these
well worn feet. 

Well worn feet that have carried me for...

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Categories: adversity, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Letter To My Future Self
Hey are you still breathing?
Are you still believing,
or is your heart seething?
Does life still have meaning?
How's the word weaving,
is the ink still bleeding?
Tell me, does...

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Categories: adversity, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Life Gets Rough
Here's a fact, life is no bed of roses.
        It has a habit of knocking us down.
 ...

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Categories: adversity, faith, god, inspirational, life,
Form: Quintain (English)

Book: Reflection on the Important Things