Best Gruelling Poems
Gabriela Andersen- Schiess
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Gabriela Andersen-Schiess was a long-distance runner
Who ran a marathon in the heat of a Californian Summer
It was the Los Angeles Olympics in nineteen eighty-four
You might remember it well and......
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Categories:
gruelling, dedication, inspirational, race, sports,
Form:
Narrative
I Look Back and Smile
...I remember how I would cry myself to sleep
Night after night then I would wake the next morning
Dreading the moment I stepped into the
School's doors where you would all be waiting.
You'd smile......
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Categories:
gruelling, abuse, anger, anti bullying,
Form:
Free verse
60 Seconds
...60 Seconds
Gruelling nights with haunted dreams
Explosions tearing at my seams
The worst, last night; I couldn’t sleep
My expendability made me weep.
With dawn awoke a brand new day......
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Categories:
gruelling, heartbreak, love, miss you,
Form:
Rhyme
The Forest At Midnight
...The moonlit trees
Sway drunkenly against
The kaleidoscopic backdrop.
Their lunar shadows
Stagger merrily
......
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Categories:
gruelling, nature, night, tree,
Form:
Shape
Our Peace
...I looked at the horrible faces,
agnostic,
I look at the beautiful faces,
pristine,
I looked for a summer in the midst of winter,
and for repose in a gruelling duel with death and oblivion.
I ......
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Categories:
gruelling, care, devotion, i love
Form:
Free verse
Little Things Mean a Lot
...It's the little things in life that mean so much
That steaming cup of hot coffee waiting for you as you greet the day
The cheery hello from a neighbour
As you stumble out of the hous......
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Categories:
gruelling, life, , cute,
Form:
Narrative
What Discursive Poetic Theme Shall I Write About
...Hmm...What Discursive Poetic Theme Shall I Write About...
Today (a rather brisk, chilly,
and otherwise sat
tiss factory twirly delightful
December 18th, 2018) matte
her of fact quite
refreshi......
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Categories:
gruelling, abuse, allusion, america, analogy,
Form:
Bio
Translation of Eric Mottram's Poem 33 In Interrogation Rooms 1980-82 By T Wignesan
... Translation of Eric Mottram’s Poem 33 in Interrogation Rooms by T. Wignesan
33. on a vu un homme courir/ de la scène de crime un homme est maintenant en train d’aider/ la police avec leurs in......
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Categories:
gruelling, america, conflict, culture, ,
Form:
Free verse
Hireath
...I want to return home
I'm sick of being alone
the green house, my warm room
without this dense feeling of gloom
i want to be with the people i know
where the days arent so gruelling and slow
th......
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Categories:
gruelling, confusion, depression, family, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Hypocrisy of the Village Flock
...Hypocrisy within the Village Flock
As the seasons of my life changes, glorious it may not be!!
Valley bells summons the flock to chapel.
Heavily polished Pews squeak, as Village f......
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Categories:
gruelling, betrayal, character, christian, conflict,
Form:
Pastoral
Soul Stance River - 16
...Now that December has descended
with it's roots of ice and skies of snow
our timber fortress is a sanctuary of ethnographic enlightenment
and embassy that entreats the exchange of craftsmanship,
......
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Categories:
gruelling, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Spirit of a Champion
...gaping mouth kiss to canvass
on my jugular death’s caress
my spirit’s quenched combust
a champion in defeat’s bust
eyes swollen shut, “and he’s out!”
down for the count on my gut
prey food ......
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Categories:
gruelling, inspirational, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Overarching Genocide
...Overarching Genocide
Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God
to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life
raft rescue boat of sorts with three decks and ......
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Categories:
gruelling, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Just Happy To Be Alive
...My approach to life has always been
One of lightheartedness and just happy to be alive
However, I recall my early years, especially my teenage years
When I was filled with self-doubt......
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Categories:
gruelling, happiness, life, love,
Form:
Narrative
Coca-Cola Jingle
...I taste suburban bliss
On your journey to my heart
In the breath of your kiss
You whisper, “We’ll never be apart.”
A shower of living colour
The shade of the highest tower
My thirst has nev......
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Categories:
gruelling, cute love, light,
Form:
Lyric