Best Notwithstanding Poems
Below are the all-time best Notwithstanding poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of notwithstanding poems written by PoetrySoup members
Discomfort Notwithstandinghanging in the air
humidity’s heaviness . . .
the river’s slow crawl
On the Mississippi lies the beautiful little city where I once lived. How many times...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, life,
Form:
Haibun
DREAMS NOTWITHSTANDING RHYMEDREAMS NOTWITHSTANDING RHYME
Shape a picture
Shape your dreams
Dreams catcher
Dreams chaser
Chaser is fast
Chaser is slow
Slow runner
Slow track
Track of the costs
Track of the times
Times to...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, character, desire, faith, growth,
Form:
Blitz
Unlike Thee AthenianThose rarer men I once fondly
knew... ...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
SaudadeIt's been eons since
Life took us in diametrically different directions
Yet melancholic memories of you
Still bloom in my mind like a flower, filling me with glee
Our...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, emotions, fate, longing, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
notwithstanding, destiny,
Form:
Couplet
All Soft Feathers and Flight MusclesIn the intermediate zone between heaven and hell
opinions and complaints, after much moaning, may
come to be held in common.
The way a flock of chickadees
moves through...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, bird, change, day, happy,
Form:
Verse
In My Skin
In my skin,
I'm proud and free!
This beautiful dark skin
I was born with
And live in
Fills my soul to the brim
With unadulterated pride;
Notwithstanding
A few scars
and...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, appreciation, identity, perspective, pride,
Form:
Free verse
We're All Equal We must never forget that
we're human beings, above all.
We're God's children, all equal in his eyes.
We need to treat each other
with the utmost respect...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, how i feel, perspective,
Form:
Lyric
The Battle at Beaver CreekThe Hunters sallied forth... their hearts aglow
at the fearlessness they displayed.
A pugnacious and merry band of brothers
who...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, adventure, humor, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Protection of their ownAlma Mater in denial
Beckons proof of terrible sin
Congregation gather to witness
Defrocked disciple
Endeavours to catch her and hear
Flagellate in fear of the hounding.
Girl on a...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, confusion,
Form:
Abecedarian
Love, The Only Why
Because you were conceived in love
Because I sang to you each night in the womb
Because I was the first human being to hold you in...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, analogy, child, father daughter,
Form:
Free verse
At a Distance
Afar off you stand,
fearful of me
because of what ...
the color of my skin?
At a distance (you deem safe)
do you judge
the worth of me
As you...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, discrimination, hate, society, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
For Maya Angelou: Like A Cherished EffigyI hold it up again today; the world,
Pregnant with magical dimples
Of a child's reckless abandon,
And look at the face,
Then I look at the deep cut
And...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, bereavement, death, heartbroken, memorial,
Form:
Epitaph
passions fatedo you get hot with a passion,
with the right person,
close at hand,
the liquid state of subtle dampness,
when love is in a sweet...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, adventure, , fate,
Form:
Rhyme
I LOVE MYSTERY and share Godward Meditation
I
God had a thought
That is the Universe
Including you, sun, stars, grasses
Like the Eternal Author
All else are merely prop and personae
II
God's thought may be like an...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, 12th grade, adventure, allegory,
Form:
Haiku
Life Is an AdventureDown long lonesome roads of life, I traveled
only resting when I've grown weak and weary
or stumbling on memory lanes, pea graveled
that cause my mournful eyes...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, adventure, life, uplifting,
Form:
Quatrain
Categories:
notwithstanding, analogy, blue,
Form:
Verse
Fifty years ago this JulyFifty years ago this July
Three American astronauts put the lie to 'Why'
On the surface of the Moon they made a pinpoint landing
...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, courage, moon, space, today,
Form:
Rhyme
Common ColdAchooo!
It begins, almost always, with a sneeze,
Which, in some cultures,
Invites blessings,
But, in some others, a curse,
As it’s held to be ominous!
Blessing or...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, funny, irony, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
An Introduction: an introductionConsidering how many times I set out to pen a small,
Master piece of art, a gem that might underwrite,
The utter liability of being just that...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Women are priceless treasures
W omen are priceless treasures only mined with the loveliest tool of a caring heart
O ptimism is defined in their ingenuity with a worth irreplaceable...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, relationship, romantic, women,
Form:
Acrostic
In the eye of the hurricane, Translation of Carlos Bousono's poem: En el ojo del huracanIn the eye of the hurricane, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : En el ojo del hurracan
(Ninth in the collection : Metafora del Desafuero, published...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, natural disasters, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Little SparrowThunder roaring across heavens on a cold rainy day,
Her feathers all ruffled, Little Sparrow was in dismay.
Hungry and cold she was, with a broken leg...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, bird, children,
Form:
Rhyme
Conformityit is complete --
protestations of the existentialists notwithstanding --
the end of history.
Science is here.
slammed over me.
and everywhere
the necessity of Standardization.
in my labor
and...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, philosophy, work,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Cuppiramania Bharathiyar's poem: Kannamma, My Love by T WignesanTranslation of Cuppiramania Bharathiyar’s poem: Kannamma, My Love! (Kannamma En Kaathali) by T. Wignesan
Yet another poem by the most famous modern Tamil poet, written a...
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Categories:
notwithstanding, girlfriend, innocence, longing, love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue