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Adversity Poems - Poems about Adversity

Adversity Poems - Examples of all types of poems about adversity to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for adversity.
Premium Member Lord Is Coming - The Linked Style
... ~ Lord Is Coming ~ ( Linked ) ~O~ Lord is Coming L Coming again O Again to Earth R Earth with Angels D Angels rejoice I Rejoice, wors......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Crazy Diamonds
...("Under a Swirling Sky" 2013, original acrylic, pen and ink) Crazy Diamonds To ride with bliss and lie in peace Is the measure of a life well lived. Does this mean there will be no p......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, celebration, life, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Metamorphosis Through Trials
... In life's deep caverns, where shadows dwell, Adversity looms a weighty spell. A crushing force, it seeks to restrain, The heart feels heavy, burdened with pain. The storm arrives with a furio......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, introspection, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Nadir
...Summer's salty doom knocked ruggedly as I lay on the sheets of tormented threats and turmoil. Jerks at the slightest beep. Gasps at a faint knock. Soaked in muddy debts of frauds. A muscle p......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, cry, dark, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Weeping Woman
...This poem is based on the painting 'Weeping Woman' by Picasso In fragments of fate, timeless tears seem invisible, but there is profoundness in sorrow, a beauty in the vulnerability - there ......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, angst,
Form: Free verse



A Brand New Destiny
...Tell your heart to beat again Your life has a brand new song When things went wrong You remained strong because You belong to a brand new destiny! There are some things we cannot control! The......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, destiny, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What are we?
... The mind is a phenomena, questioning a journey we are unable to predict, but what are we but specks of dust, floating in an endless universe. What are we but seekers of the unknown, forever......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, introspection,
Form: Didactic
2016's Trauma: Living with a Narcissist Part 1
...She spoke to the universe and calmly said That she wanted a marriage. She wanted to wed So she was sent to Johannesburg and into a monster's bed Where God taught her a lesson of life instead ......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, abuse, divorce, marriage, recovery
Form: Didactic
LONGING FOR A HAIL MARY
...A fine line separates hope and fear Fear, not being the absence of hope but hope taking a sabbatical when you need it near Thoughts wander off every inch of my convolunted atmosphere Wandering o......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, hope,
Form: Free verse
Life Is A Boat
...Life is a boat That travels on open sea Just make sure you're afloat Be bold and be free The whole world is for you to see Row your boat against the tide At times, you need it to succee......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, life,
Form: Lyric
The University of Adversity: Module 1-Adversity
...We all must attend the university of adversity The abounding nature of a problem is the emblem of certainty Witty and Brave is a product that lives among humanity The glory of our story will be f......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, education, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member FREEDOM
...Crammed in a Makeshift Vessel they embarked out to sea Seeking the air of freedom to be like you and me One mother held her child as the raindrops hid her tears The father held the mother's hand ......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, courage, death, devotion, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forever Fighters
...“You don't lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.” Muhammad Ali I've been struggling to exist, since the day I was born. A dehydrated butterfly in a garden without rain. A......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, inspiration,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Enigma
..."I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which." James A. Owen In a white man's world, I've become an enigma, feeling like I don't belong, trying to break the stigma. In these mental......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, abuse, racism,
Form: Rhyme
THE HERO WITHIN
... Right in the Ring of Life, I came one on one With Adversity, With ease and grace I triumph The race became greater and Tougher Pace by pace, slow and steady, Smoothly I keep moving I r......Read the rest...
Categories: adversity, allusion, blessing, confidence, faith,
Form: Bio

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