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At Loggerheads Poems - Poems about At Loggerheads

Premium MemberThe World Is Bleeding

...
who's got a tourniquet?
         the world bleeds out of her limb.

she's anemic. the ship of world peace 
has sailed; existential chaos reigns supreme.
recourse to arms now the go-to solu...
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Categories: at loggerheads, angst, death, horror, humanity,
Form: Lyric

She said her name was Amahle

...Mere gaze to her direction, goosebumps perforates my skin
There's something out of this cosmos in her aura. 
Sense and meaningful in me, 
at loggerheads trying to define her. 
Tap into my senses,...
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Categories: at loggerheads, beautiful, cute love, dedication,
Form: Free verse



Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom

...Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom

Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene

All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(swea...
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Categories: at loggerheads, analogy, appreciation, beauty, crush,
Form: Rhyme

Zionism Fever

...The Middle Eastern watch
As the Zionist regime tries
To assert its territorial area

Territorial integrity now threatened
They unleash terror on their enemies
Its called the holy land but why n...
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Categories: at loggerheads, arabic, conflict, emotions, fate,
Form: Blank verse

Lend me a pen

...Lend me a pen, Xhosa's reverberates in me, with honour, one kneel on the ground, hail the tongue clicks, yesterday I was my mom's lil boy, today I woke up a husband, Eastern cape transformed me to a ...
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Categories: at loggerheads, africa, butterfly, culture, cute
Form: Free verse



REALITY OF THE STREET

...REALITY OF THE STREET

Bellow of a delinquency 
Wrapped in the dust of lust 
To the brim loaded with crust 
Made its way to the prime lord
Who says to the dagger to strike!

Will say of the l...
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Categories: at loggerheads, 5th grade, addiction, body,
Form: Free verse

The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorder

...The monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder

As origin of *****Sapien species surged ahead,
harboring nascent predominance
asper said primate reproductively bred,
(albeit via incr...
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Categories: at loggerheads, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Romeo and Juliet-Prologue Too

...ROMEO AND JULIET – PROLOGUE TOO


The Montagues and Capulets never saw eye-to-eye.
A feud so deep, eventually, someone had to die.
At loggerheads for decades (no-one remembered ...
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Categories: at loggerheads, love hurts,
Form: Couplet

The Two Unlike-Pole Analogy

...THE TWO UNLIKE-POLE ANALOGY 

Analogically, this simplicity of poles might communicates 
extensive comparison of things life usually complicate. 
Just as the tale of "magno magnets", 
Like-poles...
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Categories: at loggerheads, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme

Open Arms Welcome Poetry Muse

...Ideally yours truly prefers 
a she/her who never got prosecuted for a felon, 
yet who most deaf fin knit lee  
possesses sound blinding killer instincts
think miracle worker Anne Sullivan
signif...
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Categories: at loggerheads, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAn Answer For Maurice

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Five thousand years or more ago
A man, in peace, lived with his wife
But then, her father passed away
And thus began the days of strife.

They built a room and moved her in;
She qu...
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Categories: at loggerheads, history, humorous,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberOn Everest

...I stand on top of world. I’ve won!
I’m a statue frozen solid -
On tippy-toes I’ve reached the sun.

I took a showering from cloud.
I’m bitten up with frosty snow.
Too late for me to...
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Categories: at loggerheads, angst,
Form: Rhyme

A World We Seek

...“All minds and hearts connected with love and light of universal consciousness, in a flicker free continuum ~ what does life on such a planet look like?”
      -	Unseeking Seeker



Together as ...
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Categories: at loggerheads, desire, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberImpasse

...
I
always
imagined
things would have changed
we would have moved on
yet here we are
loggerheads
impasse
still

If
enough
pressure is
applied to a
bad situation
pressure builds...
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Categories: at loggerheads, conflict, relationship,
Form: Ninette

Premium MemberIt Saddens Me

...It saddens me...

       Seeing folks who once stood so tall;
        Still towering giants in our society.
        I speak of heroes who shed blood,
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Categories: at loggerheads, perspective,
Form: Lyric

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