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Best Defence Poems

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Premium Member The Tempest, Painting by Michael Cheval
You pull me from the depths of forevers of thought
elegantly twirled, though evidently caught
shaped by the vortex, virtuoso of pain
fluctuating truths from half flailing to...

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Categories: defence, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Hard of Hearing
I know that I’m not perfect, just go and ask me wife.
At times she’s kind of said - I’m the bane of her life,
but on...

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Categories: defence, humor,
Form: Rhyme
No More Worries For Tomorrow
Whatever tomorrow may bring,
Today is in my hands, 
My God has thus far made me sing,
He'll lead me through time's sands.

Today is in my hands,
I...

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Categories: defence, faith, future, god, song,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Crushed Concrete
CRUSHED CONCRETE UNSTEELED / SEPTEMBER BLUES

BOMBS xxxxxxxxxx           HOPE       ...

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Categories: defence, confusion, earth, freedom, september,
Form: Concrete
Computer Error
I’ve always been a cash man, so when me cash was blown,
I might be sitting back all stony broke and pleading for a loan,
at least...

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Categories: defence, computer, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member - Darkness and Demons -
Defence was
    built up over
    many years and
    impermeable
    Nobody knew
  ...

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Categories: defence, deep, life,
Form: Free verse
Childhood Spirit
From the kitchen sink at the window sill,
I see a house on the distant hill,
when as a child I had time to kill,
where now my...

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Categories: defence, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Finding the Plot
Finding the plot

Of lost innocence
engrained in untold memories

The silenced absence 
in past present unspoken
stories well hidden
and therefore evoking
my past and my future
not mine and mine

Quite...

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Categories: defence, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shadow Play
Shadow Play

While Freud sits at the mind end of the couch phallus in hand
shapes others’ dreams in unspoken imposition ‘must-abation’
analyses abuses his daughter in metaphorical...

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Categories: defence, courage,
Form: Free verse
Man Made and Manufactured
The human synchronized synthetic sympathetic empathy I robot schizophrenic mechanism
My lifelines technological I think therefore I am and showing potential
Experimental experience my influence controls the...

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Categories: defence, creation, future, hip hop,
Form: Rhyme
Love Raid
Love raided the heart

And occupied my mind

There was no chance

But to surrender

For, the love army surrounded the gates

Hopes failed

Wishes shattered

Army encountered

Ceasefire was restored

I began to...

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Categories: defence, lost love, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Narration
Another prompt, just another poem,
but are these genuine feelings I'm showing?
I think of past versions of my existence,
changing with each season without resistance.
But now I'm...

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Categories: defence, absence, emotions, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Victim - Through Their Eyes 2
You stood in the dock when the guilty verdict was read out …
Just a spotty youth with a cocky look in your eyes
Now sentenced to...

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Categories: defence, addiction, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She Loves and Needs Seven
I know her routine, she told me today, 
I know what lives in her soul,
I know her small quirk, that she thinks of the most,...

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Categories: defence, math, mental illness,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Nursery Rhyme Land
Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse,
Ran up the clock,
But the crooked little man
In his crooked little house,
Who caught this crooked mouse
After Humpty Dumpty's fall,
Could not prevent...

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Categories: defence, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme

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