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Best Dueled Poems

Below are the all-time best Dueled poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dueled poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Royal Changeling
Deep in the dungeon in the back left corner 
Was a mere shell of what was once a man.
He was shackled to the wall of...

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Categories: dueled, adventure, death, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Prose Poetry



Gods and Devils
Gods in time have come and gone
To salvage life for the forlorn
And Christians came from Jewish lore
A prophet from the Middle East
To spread the word...

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Categories: dueled, religious,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's a Matter of Honor
Where are the days
Where a man's word was his honor
A reflection of his character...

Where are the days when
"You have my word for it" meant something?
Where...

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Categories: dueled, men, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Battle With Insomnia
Sitting here exhausted. Exhausted and drained. 
Exhausted and drained and beat.
I battled and dueled with insomnia all night,
And now I can touch defeat.

I parried with...

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Categories: dueled, anxiety, grief, sleep, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
The Rock and the Lizard
Out in the middle of the boundless sea,
As far away from land as ever it could be.
An island stands alone with water all around,
And the...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dueled, funny, water, water,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Golden Opportunity
Myths of deductive distinctions,
like white could not come from black,
are disinformed 
when severed from contrasting inductive integrity,
greyscale dualdark co-passions 
within light's future shadows 
of golden...

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Categories: dueled, earth, education, games, god,
Form: Political Verse
Free Cee Like a Song
LIKE THE SONG

All of them are unforgettable
Each in her own way
Now I face the regrettable
And what remorselessness has to say

Their names are etched upon my...

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Categories: dueled, angst,
Form: Quatern
Year of the Mask
At last you've been laid to rest, twenty~twenty
A plague on mankind with tragedies aplenty
Since February, you've given up total control
abandoning us as a wicked germ...

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Categories: dueled, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
Just 'fore words formed inside my head 
as my mother put me to bed
her sweet voice would rhyme to lull me
tales of children wild and...

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Categories: dueled, adventure, caregiving, childhood, love,
Form: Quatrain
Last Season
Together we dueled and alone you wept,
Deep-down I eked out
Which made me to read your mind.
I asked for your hands
And averred you to have it...

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Categories: dueled, depression, faith, forgiveness, girlfriend-boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
The One Emotion of a Teenage Rebel
Blood is heated 
Anger fueled
By lust of an enemy dueled.
By ever taunting
Make it stronger
Before it’s free, won’t be much longer.
Rage released
Hatred free
Venting leads us to...

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Categories: dueled,
Form: I do not know?
Lady In Waiting
She sits in her room in a dark corner,
Just a hint of Sun through the shade!
Not a sound in sight, for they all fade.
Her dreams...

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© Ann Rich  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dueled, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Her First Ladder
She remembers that day as if it was yesterday…the first time her fear and courage dueled.
She was standing at the bottom of the ladder of...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dueled, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wild Willie
There was a cowboy from Arkansas
Who bragged that he was quick on the draw
   They superglued his holster
   Before he dueled...

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Categories: dueled, fantasy, fun, silly,
Form: Limerick
Ruled By the Road
Ruled By the Road

There are those who may be fooled,
When we by road  have been ruled;
Road rage,
Never engage;
Always will win when we are dueled.

Jim...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dueled, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs