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Best Against All Odds Poems

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Premium Member Against All Odds - July
News
heard through
the grapevine
when a heatwave
threatened July’s joy
a baby girl was born
against all odds (while on air
Phil Collins sang to make a point)
tears ran down a...

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Categories: against all odds, birth, july,
Form: Etheree



Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: against all odds, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from...

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Categories: against all odds, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Little Fire
I witness you fading away,
The winds blow frantically
They are against us, as all are

Little fire, rise in my cupped hands
Be it my life I shield...

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Categories: against all odds, courage, death, fire, growth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Genuine Friendship
You, are not a stranger to me
Neither are you an alien or an unknown.
You are me and I am you in 
Another body.

You are:
My soul’s...

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Categories: against all odds, courage, friendship, trust,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Survival In the Midst of Ignorance
My prayers are not asking you to
 
save me from my enemy.
 
My children have turned their backs.
 
They praise dance with many
 
Adversaries-
 
When...

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Categories: against all odds, analogy, spoken word, wisdom,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Crimson Rose
Crimson Rose 

Against all odds, your destiny, 
To live and grow, your history...
You grew and bloomed with all your might 
With drops of rain and...

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Categories: against all odds, allegory, art, mythology, rose,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member The Battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift
In eighteen seventy nine; twenty second of January 
Was the day of a great battle and for the Zulus victory 
At Isandlwana the Zulu army...

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Categories: against all odds, africa, england, river, soldier,
Form: Narrative
Flowers Emerge
Flowers Emerge

Impose your will on the pretty flowers as you may
Trans-formative wonderment of nature 
Entrenched, defiled, they pop up any way in clusters
Vivacious are the...

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Categories: against all odds, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eve of Storms
EVE OF STORMS

As I look towards the horizon,
Without hesitation,
But with determined yet 
Heartfelt trepidation,
And see a distant angry
Storm forging forth
Its spluttering vicious curvaceous
Fearful advance holds...

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Categories: against all odds, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dallas Cowboys
THE DALLAS COWBOYS

Can you not hear the rumblings of that distant herd coming,
The loud thundering of destiny’s champions crossing, the NFL
Field of dreams, beware the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: against all odds, dedication, football, heart, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tattered Flag
The other day I sat beneath a sycamore tree on the court house lawn.
Old Glory fluttered in the breeze and to my eyes it was...

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Categories: against all odds, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Butterfly Flutters By
As I stand on the shore of lake Huron in Ontario, Canada 
Marveling at all the beauty with autumn at her peek
I see what I...

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Categories: against all odds, miracle, nature,
Form: Prose
A Time Travel Panorama
At the moment
Of my restless teenage run
Your eyes emanated lights of million stars
Many times the size of our Sun.
Frenzy feeling for clinging to you, singularity.
But...

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Categories: against all odds, immigration, lost love, love,
Form: Verse
Temptation
I see this perfect moon-lit night
with million heart-shaped stars in sight
ill-clad with none but drooping leaves
a fig-tree fraught with a disease
its beauty once majestic spoilt
in...

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Categories: against all odds, girlfriend-boyfriend, nostalgia, passion, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs