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Backfiring Poems - Poems about Backfiring

Premium Member A Kindness Creed
...Kindness consists of love in action, not just feelings of warm fuzzies. It’s done not in self-interest, but is repaid in other ways. Staying selfless, not selfish, not transacting one-sidedly, ......

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Categories: backfiring, conflict, courage, friendship, giving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gaslighting
...Fake news covers up for every Biden lie projecting on to Trump to demonize Yet the truth leaks out to their own demise. Trump is Putin puppet yet Trump kept Putin in check Biden lost Ukraine wi......

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Categories: backfiring, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme



The Glue That Holds Us To the Canvas
...Like sparks trailing from a million, billion fireflies, a single thought limns a trillion suns. From the first small bonfire flickering across four million years, whose light imprints itself ......

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Categories: backfiring, 9th grade, poetry, space,
Form: Free verse
Backfiring Big Time
...Me good old mate Henry Hawkins is prankster intent through and through. He’ll play those silly practical jokes on the likes of both me and on you. But I don’t think that he ever thought, one alo......

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Categories: backfiring, humor,
Form: Rhyme
What If
...The human heart…the young human heart. I look at our lives, the confusion we live in. Falling in and out of love, having friends..with benefits…dreaming of perfect relationships…unrealistic ones. Som......

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Categories: backfiring, devotion, engagement, friendship love,
Form: Narrative



Before It Becomes Such
...A lustful obsession Mistrustful connection Sullied reflection Imagined dream In passion, seamed A thought intertwined Lost, enshrined In a fanciful bliss Romantic mist The kiss of shatte......

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Categories: backfiring, love,
Form: Free verse
This Time Now
...This time now Lord I need to go somewhere private to talk to you It seem like everything is backfiring on me Now what do I do All I did was pray and tell the truth I just prayed to you yester......

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Categories: backfiring, america, anxiety, august, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Darkened Madness
...A ghost began whispering inside the soul's echo there one Trojan horse enters defeated spiritually the battle ground stands firmly fixed against those whom denounce the King misery will follo......

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Categories: backfiring, abuse, conflict, life, rights,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night Noises
... Night Noises By: Tom Wright 1/8/99 Reverberations, of a summer's night. A lawnmower overhead, or that of an ultra light? Booming bass woofers, from a cruising car. With It's g......

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Categories: backfiring, night, nonsense,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Sadness
...Sadness turns into madness people explode in Movie Theaters; People explode on roads; People have road rage on this road called life." Say it soft shhh hush CAN you say "Zoloft " R......

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Categories: backfiring, corruption, death, mental illness,
Form: Blank verse
A Sum of Complex Life
...A day goes smooth with wind moves swiftly across sunrise earth rotates quickly dancing with sun gently here i lie down and wake up inside giant cupboard full of human living in complexity t......

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Categories: backfiring, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unopposed Oxymoron
...Unopposed Oxymoron This poem is light as a heavy contradicting complement and rhymes with no correspondence of sound sharp at the cutting horizon’s edge of melting confusing fission Serious l......

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Categories: backfiring, boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
Ambivalence
...What once was true love, has now become vengeance, we love each other better from a distance. Pride married Foolish, they begot Vanity, A sorceress who invented insanity. Under her spell, Foo......

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Categories: backfiring, betrayal, first love, hate,
Form: Couplet
Teased: D
...Destined to be a failed success...a successed fail...yes, I made up a bizarre name with a matching term to success...I'm clutter butter (margarine) when I should be the finest quality of butter when ......

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Categories: backfiring, deep, depression, desire, universe,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Ride of a Life Time
...Free wheeling down the hill chuck-a-bang out of fuel referring quickly to my map a gas pump is what I need. Right at the bottom of the hill appears a grand and wacky garage flying a flag and......

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Categories: backfiring, america, freedom, journey,
Form: Verse

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