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Best Clenched Fist Poems


Equality At the Hands of Men
...Man so mighty and wise
still has to define this
that another living being's life
has the same value as his 

Boasted, brazened
written in stone
raised above 
these highest places 
where powe......

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Categories: clenched fist, history, humanity, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Once Willows Wept Not
...'Tis now known why the Willow weeps, 
a tragedy of love, its memory keeps.
For once a young man and young maid, 
on tender grass, beneath branches lay.
Though pledged by birth to another, 
from ......

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Categories: clenched fist, death, fantasy, lost love,
Form: Ballad
That's So Gay
...That’s so gay.

You say,

As I’m brushing off the slang you defend.
My cheeks burn red trying to comprehend,
But I wont.

I wont grasp this trend.
I wont hear the monster.
I wont permit you......

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Categories: clenched fist, abuse, anger, peace, social,
Form:

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Beauty, Yes
...Beauty, yes I have striven to be you, before hibiscus fades
Before the stars sprinkle night that covers ocean sunset
After the icicles thawed and swans inhabit the blue lagoon

We cannot know the......

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Categories: clenched fist, hope, imagination, philosophy, love,
Form: Sijo
Something Odd Goin' On
...What's up?
What's going on?
How come it's 3AM?
And bright as noon?
Have I finally made it
Into a Looney-Tune?

Who left me a hot breakfast,
Then disappeard?
How the hell did I
Overnight gro......

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clenched fist, adventure, angst, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse
Black Stregnth
...In believing there is seeing
And a hope of understanding
That black strength is power
Of our black brother and sister put together
As they carry forever 
As one kind of race
Putting many minds ......

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Categories: clenched fist, black african american, identity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Dark Side of Life
...Inner cities churn like a dark raging sea
             Where fear stalks the rusty broken unchained door

           where people wear masks of hunger plastered to skulls
           they walk the......

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Categories: clenched fist, city, life,
Form: Verse
Are You Guilty
...Is there anyone who can explain to me
why someone in the Soup community
would gripe about those on the lists,
ranting on with their pen in clenched fist?

How important can the lists pos......

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Categories: clenched fist, angst, happiness, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ready Made Unbroken
...Comes a time of unbreaking
what's broken
maybe broken to the point
a thing can't be fixed
ever
forever
severed.   

To be sure prayers can find a home
but not when a divine plan's mark
is m......

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Categories: clenched fist, faith, life, raven, smile,
Form: Rhyme
Molecules
...Poetry for the blind
Songs for the deaf
An audience of living and breathing pulsating through the soul
they are waiting for the melody to push through the cracks
of gasps and moans
waiting for c......

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© Te Indi  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clenched fist, creation, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As Yourself
...Inspired by Leviticus 19:18

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

Let go the clenched fist,
the smoldering w......

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Categories: clenched fist, bible, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Will Triumph
...In an era long since passed, an Oriental carpet adorning the 
floor from far off lands seems to object to the
leopard skin beneath a fair maiden’s feet, yet this English lass 
seems oblivious as s......

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Categories: clenched fist, conflict, family, first love,
Form: Narrative
A Little Bird
...A Little Bird"
      (Refer to= Matthew 10:29,31)

One of the first things that I hear
As dawn breaks in the eastern sky
Is a cheerful song, of a little bird
Another bleak night, it does defy
......

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Categories: clenched fist, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
'fixed'
...The first time someone called you brave, 
It was because you crossed the street without looking. 
You didn’t do it out of bravery; 
You just didn’t think to look. 
But you liked the punch of B on......

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Categories: clenched fist, inspirational, spoken word, women,
Form: Free verse
Poetic Justice - Part 1
...When stretched forever is my day                   
I while the empty hours away                          
in courtrooms dank with men of silk                
proud and tall                       ......

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Categories: clenched fist, funny
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry