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Best Survival Poems

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


Premium Member Survival In the Midst of Ignorance
My prayers are not asking you to
 
save me from my enemy.
 
My children have turned their backs.
 
They praise dance with many
 
Adversaries-
 
When...

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Categories: survival, analogy, spoken word, wisdom,
Form: Classicism



Premium Member The Black Cloak
It's like a black cloak around our world bringing misery and death
Virologists are saying " you ain't seen nothing yet" 
If only our leaders would...

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Categories: survival, death, evil, goodbye, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Petals and Poetry
In a world full of unwelcome nightmares,
I recite dreams of poetry to the one who cares.

I'm pondering a perfect metaphor,
trying to portray my mum's devotion.
Thinking...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: survival, appreciation, child, mother son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Too Much Sadness For Me
there's too much sorrow...
don't you know
we are all going to die
a starting point always beckons a finish
sooner or later
no matter how
peaceful or painful
that final moment...

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Categories: survival, sad, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Pillar
When Light needed a body to behold, and color to kiss,
as Darkness dreamnt to die in the dawn of depth,
when Soul lustered to lust for...

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Categories: survival, beauty, creation, desire, love,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Life Is A Song
Life is not just the passing of the years
but the ripening wisdom of living.

Life is not just a toll taken
but a well of receiving and...

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Categories: survival, life, music, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Face Like Thunder POTD
I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.

Studying the said effects on...

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Categories: survival, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Midnight Brings the Dawn
It seems that all my life I’ve seen some darker times
Now and then the times I knew were more than I could stand.
But, learn we...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: survival, introspection, life, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
The Billabong
There’s an old river course with beginning and end,
now the river runs straight without this river bend,
where the water is still and the reeds do...

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Categories: survival, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Was Sent, Treasure That Healed Two Crushed Hearts - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Life shattered, soul crushed, another one has perished 
once gone from this world was all she ever cherished
No amazing and joyful tales to tell the...

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Categories: survival, beauty, fate, hope, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alone I Walk
I walk and walk
and in my mind
I walk toward
something someone you

I walk and walk
in a motion I wish was soothing
somehow it’s nowhere that I walk
never...

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Categories: survival, grief, loneliness, longing, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Demise of a Newborn Dragonfly
Its delicate wings no longer wet, it stretched well,
And flew up high holding onlookers in its spell.
Round and around it danced over the eerie pond
All...

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Categories: survival, destiny,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Santa Goes Electric
Now Santa is getting eccentric 
His sleigh is now fully electric
He made Rudolph retire
Pressed the red button - ‘Fire’
His world then went totally hectic

He searched...

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Categories: survival, christmas, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Cats Cats Cats
on...                        ...

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Categories: survival, pets,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Love Burial
The burial ground,  groomed to greet
the gatherers of their love apocalypse
with garlands grown and sown
from the rose fire of Athena's throne,
on this day they...

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Categories: survival, cute love, endurance, love,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things