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Best Comeback Poems

Below are the all-time best Comeback poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of comeback poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Rest, Don't Quit
What happens when the moon isn't up to her best?
She takes a break,
Dozes for a while,
And comes back shining brighter than she ever did!

What happens...

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Categories: comeback, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Queen Eileen Remembers
On day full of doom and gloom
With no strength to leave my room
With no hope to look towards light
With darkness closing in at night
I remember…..

When...

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Categories: comeback, friendship, remember, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Prosopography In Blue
waiting
with diaper on 
for this woman to get up 
off the kitchen floor and
stop bleeding while a man 
hovers over her with grimace 
and clinched...

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© Ricky Muse  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comeback, poetry,
Form: Narrative
Tree Stump Love
Dr. Seuss wrote of a strong Lorax
Who tried to save Earth’s Truffula Trees
From a foolish “Onceler’s” hacking ax

The Lorax warnings disregarded
Onceler used up the trees’...

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Categories: comeback, naturesad,
Form: Rhyme
Another Glorious Attack
i write slam better than anyone around
i leave you screaming without the sound
no-one can handle my lyrical style
i outstrip you all by a country mile
spitting...

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Categories: comeback, peopleme,
Form: Free verse



Poetry Destroyed
you claim to be the Poetry Destroyer
but i'll destroy you
i'll kick you into touch because I know Kung-Fu
in linguistics I own a belt thats black
i'll...

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Categories: comeback, funny
Form: Free verse
Memory of Nothing
MEMORY OF NOTHING

Listen:
Drag branches comeback
Across the forest floor:
Knowledge of the rough¡

At water’s edge
I gather some things up:
“Happy Ending Story”.

We’ve the time to give the Babel...

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Categories: comeback, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mirror of Two Girls
There I go…watching a young girl across my garden,
her body language exposing both pleasure  and piety—
soil   roots tended  with naturalness amidst...

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Categories: comeback, change, character,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Both of Us Got Away
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if ever i had two hours with you… or three,
the vacancy of this quaint café and barren
shores would be refilled with the pouring
of pink- frosted...

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Categories: comeback, dedication, lost lovelost, lost,
Form: Lyric
Scream, Gone
Stomp, stomp, stomp,
Scream, scream, scream,
Before the stomp, stomp, stomps,
He, she, they screamed screamed,
And screamed, at I,
Scream at I which the thoughts,
Of comeback come near, near,...

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Categories: comeback, angst, death, depression, family,
Form: Lyric
He Is My Rock
My Darling:
I have a confession to make why i walked away 
Let us connect to talk as it feels a lifetime has gone by
During your...

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Categories: comeback, confusion, heartbreak, sad love,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Rant With a Slant
I challenge you to a rhetorical
to prove me wrong else be unconventional 
‘bout a problem that’s gone systematical
everyone’s so radical and cynical   
once...

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Categories: comeback, culture, freedom, grief, love
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Almost Home
I believed in fitness and healthy living, including obtaining sufficient sleep,
To revel for years in buttery sunshine, which makes emerald willows weep.

I consumed only healthier...

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Categories: comeback, dream, fantasy, friend, home,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Jumping For Joy
For years I was a trained gymnast, and I'd competed in the Olympics,
Before my leg was injured in a car accident, among fate's cruel tricks.

I...

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Categories: comeback, career, fantasy, happiness, hope,
Form: Couplet
Tears of Wax
My once passionate life,
Charming crayola broads.
Came to a halt,
When she was sent from God.

But heartbreak burned,
As I dripped to the floor.
I cried waxy tears,
Like never...

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Categories: comeback, lost love
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs