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Affront Poems - Poems about Affront

Premium Member Tossci Bolt '
...Harshly treated at 'so called' court.. whose only scales Are visual.' In pure truth' such ruling is naught..No precedent of goodlaw given .' The judge surely needs to Be forgiven.' Such blatent an ......

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Categories: affront, abuse, addiction, assonance, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Alexander Pushkin translations by Michael R Burch
...Habit is Heaven's tame redress: it tugs down the skirts of Happiness. —Alexander Pushkin, translation by Michael R. Burch Till, conquered by gusts of cold air, as Winter approaches, I find, on......

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Categories: affront, dream, heaven, life, love,
Form: Free verse



Snow In April
... It is a pitiful display To belong where you don’t belong Wanting to rule a former day A worn out tune of a love song No longer loved by the crowd Down with the old King, so long! The bliz......

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Categories: affront, heartbreak,
Form: Terza Rima
drought reigns supreme across much of the United States
...drought reigns supreme across much of the United States..., where sorely needed precipitation necessitates affected population to perform a collective rain dance (decked out in electronically s......

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Categories: affront, america, anger, anxiety, bible,
Form: Rhyme
drought reigns supreme across much of the United States
...drought reigns supreme across much of the United States..., where sorely needed precipitation necessitates affected population to perform a collective rain dance (decked out in electronically s......

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Categories: affront, america, anger, anxiety, bible,
Form: Rhyme



What will you give up
...What are you prepared to give up to save our marriage? What are you prepared to give up to save the planet? What are you prepared to give up to save money? What are you prepared to give up to have......

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Categories: affront, absence, abuse, addiction, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Shikata Ga Nai
... Pervasive personal questions people ask, shredding to shards what truly is me. The pieces are of no use to them though, the effort seems at times to stem from veiled spite, incisive curiosi......

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Categories: affront, character, psychological,
Form: Free verse
The Dagger's Cloak
...Secrets ... callous on your heart stone around your neck cellar of respite weight upon your soul Deception ... bane upon your conscience affront to voices hiding sire of excuses — trut......

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Categories: affront, truth,
Form: Free verse
long way home
...long way home Evening transit murderous slowing down to a standstill I'm a part of a long necklace fascinating colors, a circus is coming to town A sea-gull in peeked cap  knocks on the wind......

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Categories: affront, age, anxiety, appreciation, assonance,
Form: Free verse
Affront of an alien hand
...On snake’s fangs, miser’s money chest, On lion’s mane, chaste woman’s breast, Hand of an alien man’s affront On proud, honoured and eminent, Can be had if they’ve surrendered, Or in case are li......

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Categories: affront, pride, woman,
Form: Rhyme
This ''Masterpiece''
...This masterpiece a work of art, an affront to all my senses. Tombstones of the dreams I've killed have built up my defenses. Still further blurred the years I've learned to hate all we've become. ......

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Categories: affront, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yield
...Yield? Not to you, I certainly won't. I'll parry on hot coals, I'll lunge to your affront. Succumb? I'll not breathe your air of lies, Since no honeyed sweetness makes me compromise. Supplicate?......

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Categories: affront, love, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nearer My God to Thee, Be A Cross That Raises Me
...The hour matters none ... for the energies have exhausted. In the year of our Lord ... nineteen hundred and twelve, April fifteenth. Writes a future living star ... wish their joys so h......

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Categories: affront, anxiety, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Sijo
Judas
...Betrayal's kiss was liquidly subtle, wet with firm intuition It's knowing lips soft & unassuming exuded an aura of lust Full of temptation it beckoned me portraying illusions of trust, but behi......

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Categories: affront, betrayal, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trudeau Should Go
...I think its plain, there is no gain..on prevarication About white powder on a plane.? Another plane Of parliament, created to sow unity and cement To foster benefice encourage accord, for there a ......

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Categories: affront, conflict, courage, education, growth,
Form: Verse

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