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
Survival In the Midst of IgnoranceMy 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
The Black CloakIt'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
Petals and PoetryIn 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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Categories:
survival, appreciation, child, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
Too Much Sadness For Methere'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
Poetry PillarWhen 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
Life Is A SongLife 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
A Face Like Thunder POTDI 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
Midnight Brings the DawnIt 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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Categories:
survival, introspection, life, lost, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
The BillabongThere’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
Love Was Sent, Treasure That Healed Two Crushed Hearts - a Collaboration With Robert LindleyLife 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
Alone I WalkI 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
The Demise of a Newborn DragonflyIts 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
Santa Goes ElectricNow 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
Categories:
survival, pets,
Form:
Concrete
Love BurialThe 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