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Best Conflicting Poems

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Premium Member Conflicting Thoughts
she is scarred so deeply inside
yet she chooses to remain beautiful
gloom of darkness engulfs her
yet she dons a mask of brightness
stab of humiliation slices her...

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Categories: conflicting, angst, appreciation, beautiful, depression,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member OCD Overdrive collaboration with Ink Empress

Life is not as sweet as a bowl of golden glace cherries,
nor is there a golden illuminated future for a fruitless mind.
Trembling hands and gritted...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: conflicting, anxiety, care, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Theory of Positivism
"The Theory of Positivism"



It’s criminal
all theories tie that life 
in neat tight black bows

the presents under 
that tree of life
wide spread 

arms once wide open...

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Categories: conflicting, dark, journey, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dreams of Tomorrow
Without dreams of tomorrow,
shadows descend upon the light.
There is loss, bringing sorrow.
Day becomes endless night.

Pain that dwells within the soul,
leaves life devoid of color.
In time,...

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Categories: conflicting, absence, color, dream, light,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Musings On Faith
When I feel puzzled and perplexed,
When in the maze of conflicting thoughts, I am held,
Wondering how to proceed and reach the port, 
Then Faith in...

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Categories: conflicting, blessing, devotion, faith,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Memoir
Here in the final pages of her life			
She stops to rest a spell on empty lines		
Reflecting on the chapters left behind		
In valleys of a mind...

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Categories: conflicting, death, life, time,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Swimming Upstream
SWIMMING UPSTREAM

It seems I always 
swim upstream 
against the current.
re-creating struggles 
of conflicting contradictions
and unsweetened scripts
at odds with others
in deeds and words
a emotional dissonance 
played...

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Categories: conflicting, conflict, confusion, life, psychological,
Form: Blank verse
Without a Kiss
Has a tear of joy ever escaped from the window of your soul? A moment of realization that fell out of your control? Have you...

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Categories: conflicting, beauty, cute love, desire,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Learn To Dance
Got a party coming up
I need to learn some moves
so I listened to the all-time greats
for tips on how to groove.
These music legends from times...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: conflicting, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Enriched Personhood
Confronted with conflicting self-forces
my flesh groans in adversities’ braces
gripped by haughty human nature that reigns
over flawed sinful carnality strains.

Granted with grace of redemption by Christ
my...

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Categories: conflicting, blessing, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Minimalist: Song of Despair
Hanging to his dwindling sanity
he haphazardly weaves a net
of confused and conflicting emotions.
Weakened by pangs of futility
the strained fine thread snaps...

- - - - -...

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Categories: conflicting, conflict, depression,
Form: Free verse
Angles of Light
The faiths that bind our righteous hearts
  to the tenets of our devine
Principles placed to uphold our faith
  are the grapes that grow...

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Categories: conflicting, faith, philosophygod, god, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Isolated Isle
Damn this isle of mine...
solitary awkwardness surrounds
  stifles, and strangles, and estranges
    deranges, debases, encases, entraps
     ...

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Categories: conflicting, people
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Heaven and Hell
Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed the periphery,
ignored the grasp of time.

So great the span of...

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Categories: conflicting, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Heaven and Hell
Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed the periphery,
ignored the grasp of time.

So great the span of...

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Categories: conflicting, writing,
Form: Verse

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