Best Defenses Poems

You won me in
the shard of a second 
I opened to you like an oyster
In that one moment you tore down 
walls, shattered towers. Opened shells,
devoured me, saw me, and in that instant, 
in your soft eyes, I saw no triumph, you 
were a mirror....

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Robin Red Breasts welcome Spring
in the melodies they sing.
Bearing breasts of crimson-red,
they return from whence they fled.

A splash of color on white
is indeed a pleasing sight.
And as the icicles melt,
Spring's tepid breath can be felt.

Daffodils poke through the ground,
and suddenly, sprouts abound.
Where white was, it's...

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communicated purpose sighs,
fated signs pressed in melted wax.
vandalized solution soon dies,
methodical confessions tax.

fated signs pressed in melted wax,
defending crumbled walls of need.
methodical confessions tax,
finding silence willing to bleed.

defending crumbled walls of need,
ambition grows an honest lie.
finding silence willing to bleed,
gather the memories passed by.

ambition grows...

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Prone to portray an image to have it all figured out 
Externally put together while internally pulled apart 

Ready to take off armor and start letting down guard
Reinforcing interior instead of constructing a façade 

Possible to flip the script to stop putting on a show
Displaying...

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We use five senses every day
As we work and as we play
They are useful and handy
I will list them so you see
We could never live without
What these senses are all about
Eyes can do so many things
With the looks that they can bring
Joy, passion and sensual
They...

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FENCES BUILT BY DEFENSES

I once said you and I had different definitions of love and what it's all about
now i'm left treading water in a sea of doubt
I know our feelings about love compete with one another
but it's all about the fire and the embers...

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He had tore down all of her defenses in a matter of minutes, he was the first man who even got that close to her. She never felt  vulnerable before in her life, depent on someone, trusting so completely and openly at all. She had...

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These are poems about war and defenses.



Defenses
by Michael R. Burch

Beyond the silhouettes of trees
stark, naked and defenseless
there stand long rows of sentinels:
these pert white picket fences.

Now whom they guard and how they guard,
the good Lord only knows;
but savages would have to laugh
observing the tidy rows.



Piercing...

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We long for relationships
that know no borders,
in which hearts can roam free,
frolicking with each other,
and galloping at will
through fields and streams
in broad daylight,
and spontaneous affections
can nuzzle unrestrained.

Yet on our humble ranch,
it is the broken horses
that we so often ride.
Connections become curtailed
that once headed for the...

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I woke up today,
to chaos
and expectations,
and demands.
my heart began pounding
and I threw up my defenses.
Walls erected a million miles high above me
I can finally breathe.
I get dressed,
and for the first time in a long time
I felt pretty today.
You were kind to me,
and for a short...

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Even if she were a whore
With a visible moral sore:
The licentious from her jaw,
Largely The Deprived or poor, 
A fool seeming to the core,
On all days A Bore  
But broke A Toothless Law,
You mustn’t her on paper draw, 
On her invective pour 
Nor bang...

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