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Best Last Ditch Poems

Below are the all-time best Last Ditch poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of last ditch poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Blood Stained Bridge
Into the timeless wood he fled, running from the night
While demons of his past gave chase beneath the pale moonlight
The man dressed in soiled rags,...

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Categories: last ditch, allegory,
Form: Heroic Couplet



Premium Member Writing's a Drag
The Drag of Writing

A smidgeon of silly,
a scintilla of sad,
a wee gong of rhyming wit,

a sentence to start me
a participle dangling
a lead to bring me...

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Categories: last ditch, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Banana vs Orange
Written: February 23, 2024

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last ditch, fruit, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Hospital Stay - Part Vi
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Categories: last ditch, angst, body, confusion, dark,
Form: Free verse
Enter Muharram
And when the Barking Dog died
We saw the new tzadik arise
His face kissed and adored by the Prophet
His rights stolen for profit
Inherited by the Increasing...

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© Bilal Hb  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last ditch, hope, loss, religion, war,
Form: Free verse



Cliche Heaven
Cliche Heaven

Be it as it may I'll try my hand at some clichés
    and address the elephant in the room soon when...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last ditch, confusion, cool, crazy, satire,
Form: Free verse
Scare Tactics
It was on one Tuesday arvo shopping at the hardware store,
When I noticed Vicar Prendegast come walking through the door,
He walked up to the counter...

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Categories: last ditch, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Election Day Footles
Election Day Footles


Non-Voters

Passive
Asses



Unenrolled Voters

Selection
Defection



Last ditch pitch

Stand out
Hand out 


Crumpled and pitched

Pamphlet
Spam-let




3/3/2016...

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Categories: last ditch, humor, political,
Form: Footle
The Fist of the Polygamous Child
As war ends,
Another begins,
As peace is forced to stand,
So is fight empowered to stand.
Where blood strive against blood,
Where is the love in the blood?
''Blood never...

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Categories: last ditch, absence, anger, bereavement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Story of Snowball Latham
Down in the white famed plains of Western Kentucky in the 19th century, Alpha Omega Latham was born. Days after his father was shot on...

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Categories: last ditch, character, community, desire, dream,
Form: Verse
Premium Member New Horizons
I teeter on the brink of possibility. 
The sun on the new horizon glistens 
its rays on the undulating sea of change. 

I gaze a...

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Categories: last ditch, happinesssea, sea, sun,
Form: Free verse
The Soil
I had this old potted flower just sitting there on the window sill 
And with each passing day and hour it was none the better...

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Categories: last ditch, flower,
Form: Rhyme
The Confession of Dodge Martin
A lonely rider traversed the sand upon his sturdy mount, 
Beneath a sky so filled with stars that no man might ever count. 

A dangerous...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last ditch, cowboy-western, death, house, brother,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Attack of the Giant Insects
I miss the old time monster movies where the insects ruled the day,
Where disaster resulted from a mishap with a disintegrator ray.

Unleashing the wrath of...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last ditch, funny, for her, for
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member N'Iron
strife riven island corner, rough hewn by rival visitation
  vexed, looking in, looking out, on the edge of places to go
  thrang in...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last ditch, community, culture, destiny, history,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things