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Best Crisis Poems

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Premium Member 12-31-23: A Number's Existential Crisis
'Twas the twilight of the year, a twinkling tiara,
December 31st, digits dancing dunes in the Sahara.
One, two, three, one, two, three, it's a prance,
A numerical...

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Categories: crisis, celebration, hilarious, holiday, humor,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Hope
When dark clouds converge
                As cold winter plots
  ...

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Categories: crisis, hope,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Premium Member Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"




The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson 
Life spent in The Hard Sell

Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia 
mouth sucking a loaded gun

blue ribbonned...

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Categories: crisis, abuse, addiction, angel, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Refugee
Running from an economy full of hate
hunger will place him behind bars unless he relocates
war and crisis lingering with the hope to end soon
have pocketed...

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Categories: crisis, adventure, africa, death, depression,
Form: Couplet
Let's All Drink To Lockdown
Let's All Drink to Lockdown 
by Jan Beaumont ©

I'm normally a social girl
I love to meet my mates
But lately with the virus here
We can't go...

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Categories: crisis, encouraging, friendship, fun, giggle,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member The Power of One
The Power of One

Slowly shadows devour the day’s light,
The silhouette of fear draws breath 
From the soul left gasping,
A firestorm of fury gathering,
Like mists of...

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Categories: crisis, courage, hope, power, sick,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vicious, Is the Unwelcomed Stranger
Conclusive is the board meeting by death’s merchants in Wuhan
the planet is rich, now placed in a temporary ban.
Grey hair is condemned in the statistics...

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Categories: crisis, anxiety, bereavement, death, earth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Mountain-Moving Love
Rumi Verse
("I want that love that moved the mountains.
I want that love that split the ocean.
I want that love that made the winds tremble")
 ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crisis, analogy, appreciation, love, mountains,
Form: Free verse
People Who Feel Like Hugs

they are unusually soft inside 
with a smile that flourishes 
at the sight of you 

they take everything in stride 
nothing is ever a crisis....

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Categories: crisis, appreciation, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am a 4
President Barack Obama
Credited for getting Osama
Now along comes Isis
"Lord help me, another crisis!"


path - 12/1...

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Categories: crisis, conflict, leadership,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Salieri Soliloquy
You give me the desire
a love for composing 
word symphonies
yet you give me
the cross of mediocrity
to bear
day by day to know
there are others 
who are...

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Categories: crisis, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Skin Deep
I love you just the way you are
(after they buff that awful scar)
and laser the tattoos over your heart
I'm sure we're destined never to part
...

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Categories: crisis, business, health, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Kingdom of Ruin

Rising from the desert sand
was a shimmering mirage
of a thousand shouts
	Heated winds of fanaticism,
	intense and blowing violently loud
Shrill calls to blood prayer seethe,
breathing fiery invocations
of...

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Categories: crisis, death, judgement, religious, truth,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Free Falling
"Free Falling"



You have to believe in Magic
to believe in the poetry of You

If you don’t believe in Magic
you are nothing but a black line 

bleeding...

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Categories: crisis, christmas, family, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - You Are the Giver -
We are now facing the biggest
                   ...

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Categories: crisis, caregiving,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things