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Best Backs To The Wall Poems

Below are the all-time best Backs To The Wall poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of backs to the wall poems written by PoetrySoup members


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...

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Categories: backs to the wall, society,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The World Around Us
Awaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and...

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Categories: backs to the wall, earth, environment, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dissecting the Declaration 2
Herein lies the identity of their enemy
Herein lies the description of the abuses
Herein lies the claims against their tyrant
Herein lies the picture of their fixed...

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Categories: backs to the wall, america, celebration, july,
Form: Verse
Watch Me Die
The petals of a rose, they tremble and they fall
Just like my aching heart, my backs against a wall
so I Scream- but no one seems...

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Categories: backs to the wall, confusion, death, depression, music,
Form: Lyric
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...

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Categories: backs to the wall, imagination, life, night, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sacred Ground
Those who stand their ground...
Their sacred ground...
With their backs against the wall.
Making bold their full intentions
While the slings and arrows fall.

Laying waste an air of...

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Categories: backs to the wall, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It Never Really Mattered
I look back to the sixties, standing for a cause
Change society, from the world remove the flaws
How the seeds of discontent were scattered
We walked with...

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Categories: backs to the wall, introspection, political, social, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Peace For Troubled Hearts
As I hang the shining “Star of Bethlehem” atop my Christmas tree
I recall with joy, the greatest miracle there was to be
Two thousand years have...

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Categories: backs to the wall, introspection, christmas, christmas, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
Speak His Name
We are often burdened till our faith becomes undone
So torn between what's right and wrong and our last song has been sung
Days of endless stress,...

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Categories: backs to the wall, christian,
Form: Ballad
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...

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Categories: backs to the wall, addiction, drink, hope,
Form: Lyric
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...

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Categories: backs to the wall, art, childhood, growing up,
Form: Free verse
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
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,...

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Categories: backs to the wall, care, career, caregiving, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Dirty Disgusted Looks,
Dirty disgusted looks 
Is all it took 
For one to feel shook

Pulling out all the stops
To feel like your not 
Blood is boiling hot

That hurts
Makes...

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Categories: backs to the wall, anger, angst, change, death,
Form: Rhyme
Testify
Tell the truth and TESTIFY...with a heart full of hell and a head full of homocide
Backs against the wall by the lord of lies
the weak...

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Categories: backs to the wall, faithtruth,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs