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Best Antagonistic Poems

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Escaping Rhymed Detonation
Malevolent imploded uncontrollably, 
  twisting wildly maniacal posies
   amid diabolically toasted brainstem, 
angst uncompromisingly yanked tresses 
  purging stinging speech patterned...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: antagonistic, allegory, hyperbole, imagery, imagination,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member Phantasmagoria
Assaulting me!  The darkness comes to be
    in devil’s guise. Phantom haunts my mind;
  in sleep paralysis I cannot flee...

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Categories: antagonistic, abuse, dark, dream, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sad Seasonally Affective Disorder
SAD Seasonally Affective Disorder

Some are prone to depression in winter when days get shorter when
less light enters the brain through the eyes and thoughts become...

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Categories: antagonistic, conflict,
Form: Light Verse
Scream
You make me want to scream. 
You are clouding my brain. 
Your hair is thin. 
Your back cannot be seen. 
Beautiful... loving you is my...

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Categories: antagonistic, emotions, games, i love
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Ambiguous Apprentice
When does ambiguously free verse
also become emphatically political verbing verse?

I was emphatically reading pieces
ambiguously written 
about my sons,
to my oldest son's girlfriend.

The longer I read
the...

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Categories: antagonistic, art, humor, joy, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member You'Re My Light - Davedas Concrete Candle Style
~ You  Are My  Light  ~
( Daveda's  Hybrid  Concrete Candle)



~O~



 Dear 
 Lord 
 You're 
 My Light 
 You...

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Categories: antagonistic, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Violence, the Norm
Why is ANYone surprised by this violence?!?
Our icons, and heroes, and mentors, and 
Example-setters, many of them with visibility
And fame given to them ONLY by...

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Categories: antagonistic, anger, hate, philosophy, violence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Call His Name - the Pirouette Style
~ Just  Call  His  Name  ~
 ( Pirouette )


~O~


In Him find Love, Hope, Peace 
In trouble, call His name 
He'll respond...

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Categories: antagonistic, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Do Not Follow Me
DO NOT FOLLOW ME

Me, myself and I
Get the likes you try
Addicted to self and my
Inflate yourself a lie.

Do not follow me
I don’t pretend to be
Nothing,...

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Categories: antagonistic, anxiety, baptism, bible, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Frowns
Must I be strong when you are weak?

If I am not, does this justify your beatings?

It would seem that the clouds would recede.

A smile upon...

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Categories: antagonistic, abuse, addiction, conflict, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Slipping Upon a Crescent Moon
C antankerous and chimerical - comingle with my childlike charms.
 A morous and antagonistic - angel wings melt within my arms.
  N urturing and...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: antagonistic, introspection
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Itches On a Struggling World
The government and its people stay on antagonistic sides
but what stimulates the rulers’ infidelity to patriotism
can easily be bought by any, over the counter.
They are...

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Categories: antagonistic, africa, america, passion, patriotic,
Form: Chant Royal
Premium Member Heroes and Villains
Everyone's great cause
projects them as our future's therapeutic hero.
So all against our health-intending causes
reject us as potential victimizers,
ostracizers,
impeachers,
disenfranchisers,
excommunicators,
criminalizers.

The trick is to see antagonists,
sources of trauma,
as...

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Categories: antagonistic, caregiving, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Humanity
Harmonious co-existence vexes as
Ugliness of spirit overrides all sense:
Man, woman, young, old - locked in constant conflict.
Antagonistic leanings destructive, but
Nations are split by doctrine more...

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Categories: antagonistic, adventure, destiny, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Medicine and Sickness
Medicine and sickness satisfy each other.
MotherEarth is medicine.
Where do you find yourself?
     Zen Master Yunmen
     China, 800s

Therapy...

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Categories: antagonistic, beauty, caregiving, earth, gospel,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs