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Best Defying Poems

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Premium Member Defying Predictability
With hair ablaze, a jester unconfined,
I scoffed at the mundane, its life declined.
My wardrobe, a riot, a rhapsody bold,
Mismatched socks my standard, stories untold.

In classrooms...

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Categories: defying, angst, character, conflict, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Shout Into the Void
Upon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...

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Categories: defying, anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form: Verse
Premium Member If Only My Wish Would Come True
Images of children dwelling in developing world
In plight of poverty~~ some two billion strong,
Fly a flag of existence, waving distress unfurled,
Crooning mournful song: is this...

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Categories: defying, children, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Invitation
December 25th-  The Christmas Wedding

Head-to-head,
Surrounded by seasonal silver bells
Scarlet passionate pink poinsettias sit
Foliage scenery 
Entwined by Christmas and Wedding bliss
Frosty winter weather warmed up...

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Categories: defying, anger, celebration, christmas, december,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Gate
Regally it stands, the staunch guardian of her lonesome heart,
Reminiscing in revelries of yore, treasured memories impart,
Defying glum turbulence of now, hanging on to seasons...

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Categories: defying, emotions, memory, missing,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Wire Walker
There’s the tightrope for you to walk, wire walker —

defying the gravity of reality and the reality of gravity
you know damn well he won't catch...

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Categories: defying, betrayal, conflict, husband, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Butterfly Dance
Dance for me beautiful butterfly 
Flutter me wise
Carry me upward to blue skies
Reveal rainbow effervescence to my eyes

My perfect moment encased in time
Within my heart...

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Categories: defying, beauty,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Forlorn Hope
Sitting on the cusp of dusk and evening
Placidly he ruminates where life has been 
When she still believed in vibrant springs
And exulted dawning of purple...

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Categories: defying, lost love, moving on,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Inner Sanctum
Privileged is the right of ingress, bearing your beloved name, 
To chambers of your heart, where burns a sacred flame,
Of inner sanctum divine, in sanctity...

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Categories: defying, deep, peace, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Periodic Table of Elements
Periodic table of elements





Periodic table of elements,
the true heart of chemistry,
Law of periodicity clements,
Mendeleev is not a history !

Bonding between two hearts,
ignoring all the negatives,
When...

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Categories: defying, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Neverland
On the south-western side of the old mission school,
on the corner of 1st,  where the blackberries grew
a field claimed by children, was crosshatched with...

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Categories: defying, childhood, nostalgia, places, ,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Female Spirit
women of dusk and dawn
who love to feast on their senses
in a banquet ripened by love and courage,
chilled to last till the moonlight
bequeaths more hours...

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Categories: defying, mystery, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Zenith of My Prime
the zenith of my prime has come and gone
and here I sit and wait my setting sun
with dreams and wishes longing to come true
I won't...

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Categories: defying, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member September
Stepping gently in, on the edge of summer
You are the one who mellowed glorious sun
On playgrounds, picnics, frolicking in fun
In euphony of birdsongs of amiable...

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Categories: defying, seasons, september,
Form: Verse
Thought Changer
Catching sight of unwanted reflection 
through my eyes I observe my murky mind
lifeless, inactive, defying action
just a blank canvas, raw, pure, unrefined,

desire to inject substantial...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defying, beauty, change, color,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs