Best Defeatist Poems

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As the glow of 2022 has died out
When a new dawn’s...

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Permanently resting upon steel tracks,
 a retired rail car passes the time, 
weathering away.
Contents empty,
 it is a lonely shell, abandoned
 on an unused track
in...

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Of all things I have learned about the world it is this, 
Anything is possible. 
And nothing has yet shaken that belief

Of course just knowing...

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FEEL AFRICA

Silence!
Silence Africa!
One can hardly get Africa to be silent;
Africa habours a pulsating bubble.
Everyone in Africa bounces to rhythm resilient.

Africa, like Zambia, or
Zambia, like Africa;
Dear...

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Ruminating over the droning sound deep down my heart
Is a nerve wrecking experience of my hidden fear
Not of any suffering nor death of my loved...

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The deep and sonorous voice of
his defeatist self-talk was paternal,
and torturous, 
reinforcing the force fed message,
"There is no happiness,
only gradients of misery,"
leaving him indifferent to...

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Enslaving Love
             by Odin Roark

An eagle rides the updraft
Peering down at the happenings

Man's...

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1963

I sent you away from me to look for our beloved.
I watched you fade in the distant as you walked down the dusty foot-path...

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At Last
09/08/2018

Old thoughts in my mind
Found it hard to be kind
Undeserving, unnerving
Unwilling to unwind

So positivity blind,
To myself unkind
Defeatist, hedonist
True pleasure find

Searching for moderation
Full of resignation
Obsessive,...

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Some seek—and find--the brighter side of life;
we call these smiling people optimists.
Some only see the bad. These pessimists
are grim, defeatist, and quite often PISSED!


July 25,...

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Every now and then, every so often,
I'm approached by they needing advice regarding their poor situation.
I offer them what I know to be a most...

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she was of gypsy descent 
life's' hard lessons learn t- 

my grandmother warned 
as I was growing up, 

she said only two duties 
a man...

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"Gazing at the rising sun and telling yourself- 'the new day has newer promises for me' fills you with gallons of fuel to run the...

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Mist and Blaze 

Mirror and my face
Down in sorrow a fraction of me 
A ice burning tea .

In a Place of  flakes of fake...

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Family should be loyal and caring
and not instigating. Accusations fly 
In the blink of an eye, they have no
appreciation of how hard you have 
tried.

When...

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