Best Beaten Up Poems

For BATTER or worse!
 
Tired of facing this bat-less ball
My life tied up and beaten to a pole, 
like the color black, the pain is endlessly
Facing life with no possibility
Facing life's judgment
The envy of all matters
A slave to my grave, with no redemption
Gathering the lies...

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I hold my breath -

like a lover held against my breast;
not wanting to let it go
lest I forget
how to 
breathe ~


I cradle a thirsty thought -

nurturing its fragility like a nursing newborn;
not wanting to let it go
lest I forget
how to
think ~


I catch my free fall...

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A déjà vu?  What can I say?
I know the track so well.
It is so dark yet treacherous.
I am not afraid.  Careful, here is a curve,
it almost turns onto itself.
An old oak tree stands there,
just off the corner.  I can smell
its delicious odour...

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The wind persisted in blowing me about,
whipping the willow branches with its beat.
It continuously raged, a tempest storm,
a force of nature that never bows in defeat.

Now, its companion has soaked me through
Rain has chilled me right down to the bone.
It's brought weapons of hail, the...

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In the misty drifts that blocked my view
a certain figure became clearer.
A man with a cane and a mean scowl too
walked up the sidewalk and drew nearer.

I heard loud shouts as I squinted my eyes
then I noticed him dragging a little pup.
It was on a...

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off the beaten path we go
nothing like the thrill of newness
even when it gets old, something new is discovered like a dylan record
we embrace our respective kid at heart approach to things
it definitely brings us closer and alleviates unneeded stress
we already are graduates of lonely...

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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,"
as I ever so quietly stood.
Excitedly pondering which choice to make, 
but tempered by the fear of making a mistake. 
For what if the choice made was wrong, 
would I regret for my whole life long?
Would I ever truly...

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Frostily, your teeth clench when you say
Do not let yourself be so bush league:
Turn around, chin up and walk that way!
So, despite my self-doubt and fatigue
And, trusting you, I will go astray.

Having spent my life trying to prove 
Myself something more than a loser
Once again,...

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She was Chinese and only eight years of age.
On the noisy school playground,I found her.
Just beaten by fists of anger, fury and rage.
By a fifth-grade, tall boy,in no way demure.

But that year, San Francisco decided to 
integrate all its great schools.
I helped the girl rise...

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BROKEN IVORY, THE BEATEN ELEPHANT

Gracia El Mundo
Of our breaths revival
That got stuck in strange jaws this while
Now it's a song, broken ivory, beaten elephant
Yesterday He was an Elephant- King
Giant legs to stand on
Big ears for all secrets
Big trunk to reach for food
I am a country...

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Lay down your troubles and woes,
Worrying won’t solve them, plus it is showing distrust in someone special, so just let go.
Give thanks for all that you have, for many have less,
Thank God for this awesome country I would not want to live elsewhere and this...

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Strange sounds strike
In the heart can create a spike
Nerves also under pressure
The intensities you try 2 measure...

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Beaten down for centuries
Splattered in newsprint for all to see

It has been that way ever since
they came from Africa on hollowed ships

Enslaved, raped, hanged, broken
Traded for sins unspoken

Successful towns burned to the ground
Wiped from the maps never to be found

Protestors marched as sons and daughters...

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This year the farmers are celebrating
the greatest full moon harvest 
they ever had in the past hundred years
with a special field they sowed
to be reaped before the arrival of winter,
in the meantime, off in the distance
the church bell rings by way of a clapper 
who...

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I'm down on the ground,
My brain starts to pound,
It may not be fun,
But ten seconds aren't done.
10 seconds remain.

I still have time,
To arise again,
The timer hasnt hit ten,
Time isn't my friend,
8 seconds remain.

I punch hard, I kick,
I choke, I feel sick.

I try to yell, over...

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