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Backs To The Wall Poems - Poems about Backs To The Wall


Future Imperfect
...Good morrow merry citizens Here’s another Brexit gain We may have our country back But we can’t go live in Spain. Record numbers now Are all giving thanks For the almost empty Essential food b......

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Categories: backs to the wall, anger, irony, political, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Farty Party
...newly deceased ghost lit his own caustic farts wearing aluminum kitty cat ears with red jeweled hearts our resident wild man Count Dracula laughed as wisconsin cheese's weird math wizard graphed ......

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Categories: backs to the wall, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Future of the Children
...THE ELITE CORPORATIONS, HAD KNOWN ALL ALONG. WHAT THEY WERE DOING, WAS TOTALLY WRONG. HUMAN CELL TOWERS TO SPREAD THE WORD. THEY CLAIM THEY HAD TO THIN THE HERD. VACCINATIONS, WAS THEIR ......

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Categories: backs to the wall, humanity, imagery, independence day,
Form: Narrative
Waffen Ss Guard Nazi War Criminals
...When the Germans invaded Latvia and Estonia They decided these people would have 3rd Reich favours And so they recruited or drafted young men into the Waffen SS Who fought on the Eastern Front ba......

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Categories: backs to the wall, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Barry University Graduate's Parrot Ting Thought: One Should Not Doubt Thomas
...Finally got home in the dead of a cold night With the Gators starting to pull away in this holiday fight It seems like this is the end to the day full of games That featured college students wh......

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Categories: backs to the wall, america, education, england, football,
Form: Rhyme



Backs Against the Wall
...by Mark Miller © 03/19/2014 Waiting beside the seaside absent who never arrives after graven payment- Standing by Stan's shadow of ascent looks for loners promise repents, Sullen watch golden sold......

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Categories: backs to the wall, abuse, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
How Will It End
...How Will It End? When put to the test time after time, Our backs to the wall I've got yours you've got mine We've hugged and we've cried, yes, we've even lied For a mental health day so our ner......

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Categories: backs to the wall, care, career, caregiving, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unspoken Confession
...UNSPOKEN CONFESSION “Is there something you want to tell me?” the words echoed violently in my ears. I heard the grinding of the gears, releasing the latches on the trap door on which I wa......

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Categories: backs to the wall, art, childhood, growing up,
Form: Free verse
I Don'T Want To Give Up Drinking Again
...I’ve lost everything, my backs to the wall, Where are my friends, no one seems to call, I’ve heard the whispers, liar, cheat and nutter, So I’m always alone where I lie in the gutter. I reached......

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Categories: backs to the wall, addiction, drink, hope,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Plague
...as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE – silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) – with the world on OUR backs... ah! ......

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Categories: backs to the wall, society,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Picking Shoes Blues
...Mm, A limerick to write about shoes Now which ones can I choose Imelda Marcos I'll call Now my backs to the wall I've got the picking shoes blues......

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Categories: backs to the wall, funny
Form: Limerick
The Night He Returned
...Adam was a husband, misused by a wife. He was very sincere, and slain with a knife. Ann laughs at his funeral. She snickers to the bank. She escapes with his earnings, and leaves his life blan......

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Categories: backs to the wall, imagination, life, night, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Stranger and the Fence
...I held onto the top and looked over the fence with a mighty jump and lift. The fence was so high I struggled to see what was beyond. It had taken all my strength to get near the top. I had seen a......

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Categories: backs to the wall, allegory, hope, imagination, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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