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Best Defeat Poems

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


Premium Member Garden of Mum
Mum sat in her aromatic garden,
admiring its charm and grace.
It was a cold morning,
but mum never seemed to feel it any more.

Her eyes were tired,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defeat, mother, mother son,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Age of Poet Destroyer
A diamond in the Frost ... I am Emily, gazing through the years, 
Like Poe from rancid taste and dark smoke shadows
Florescent waste escaping a...

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Categories: defeat, community, pride, princess, strength,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Magic Beans
Our first awareness
      falling through time
      through blood-rain, pure white snow, green vegetation 
 ...

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Categories: defeat, adventure, chocolate, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Distinct Ballet
I've thrown my quill in quiet rage
   sometimes, when mocked by empty page.
I read such vibrant poetry 
  in awe, and ask...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defeat, butterfly, poetry, uplifting,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defeat, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem



Northern Slaves
In the silent breathing of night,
treading through 
the darkness and the hush
(A heavy band of slave)
like black ants snaking
through the forlorn distance.
Grieving with tears
Of yesterdays...

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Categories: defeat, emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Tears To Weep
When I lay me down to sleep,
And cry the tears that sinners weep;
To speak the words of a contrite prayer,
And know that someone listens there.

He...

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Categories: defeat, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Her Grace, Soft As the Silence of Morn's Falling Dew - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Her romantic letters, birth as heart pure and true 
supported deep vows we both swore to be held to.
Her grace, soft as the silence of...

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Categories: defeat, appreciation, beauty, loss, passion,
Form: Rhyme
There Are No Bounds To Where We Poets Go
Where on Earth or far beyond do we poets go, you ask. 
My thoughts willingly stretch my imagination with this task.
I would reply...in any direction...

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Categories: defeat, perspective, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Push the Pen
We push the pen to make you feel
the gentle tapping of the falling rain,
the stinging burn of the summer sun
the heavy heart of despair and...

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Categories: defeat, poems, poetry, poets, senses,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Return
A charlatan returns despite his earlier defeat.
After two years gone, he claims he owns a seat
But there is no throne for the jester who bears
His...

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Categories: defeat, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stars of Clarity
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defeat, analogy, perspective, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Battle
The menace of war in the chaos of life
The peril of ocean when tempests are rife;
The danger of jungle where feral beasts hide
The terror that...

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Categories: defeat, love, woman, love, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Her Grace, Soft As the Silence of Morn's Falling Dew
Her Grace, Soft As The Silence Of Morn's Falling Dew
 
Her romantic letters, birth as heart pure and true 
supported deep vows we both swore...

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Categories: defeat, appreciation, art, beautiful, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Feverish Fear - POTD - A Visual Video Poem - In Collaboration With Victor Buhagiar
POTD 13 March 2019

Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem. 

(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects...

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Categories: defeat, courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs