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Best On The Back Foot Poems

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Premium Member 'don'T Go In Broken'
Ensure that when you walk away 
You don't rush into someone new 
Just because you are fearful 
Of your own company
If you are not at...

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Categories: on the back foot, growth, life, love,
Form: Free verse



Keep My Heart Safe
It's time to move on from the past and leave the dark days
I've got a few remedies to ease the heartache
In order to love you,...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the back foot, betrayal, forgiveness, heartbreak, lost
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dante's Divine Comedy Hell Translation Canto Vii
(Continuing the trip through Hell of Dante with poet Virgilio)

Pah-peh Sah-tan, Pah-peh Sah-tan al-ept!”,
Started Pluto with his hoarse voice toss
And that gentle wise, who any...

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Categories: on the back foot, fantasy, universe,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Dante's Divina Commedia Translation Canto Viii
I tell, to follow, that long trait before
We reached the  back foot of the tower tall,
Our eyes went up to the top core

For two...

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Categories: on the back foot, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
George Bernard Shaw
Back foot Irishman

Who remembers his
tripe 
Major Barbara 
Androcles and the
lion 
are we all asleep !

Just a man of his
time 
like a five minute
pop star
friend of...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the back foot, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse



My Mother
My Mother

Oh mother!! You are such a blessing in my life,
That I hardly ever had to bother,
to share my feelings with nother.
   ...

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Categories: on the back foot, dedication, emotions, mom, mother,
Form: Light Verse
George Bernard Shaw
Back foot Irishman
who remembers his tripe 
Major Barbara n Androcles and the lion 
are we all asleep !

Just a man of his time 
like a...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the back foot, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ringer and the Cleanskin
The True Story

A Poem of the time, when as a 16 year old young fellow, and fresh from Blighty I spent 7 years as a...

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Categories: on the back foot, nature,
Form: Ballad
Gootle Loves Footle
vvvvvv
                        ...

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Categories: on the back foot, fun, nonsense,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Judged
The book is judged by its cover
As one comes across as clever
A doctor is judged by his stethoscope
As his words are signs of hope

A smoker...

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Categories: on the back foot, community, feelings, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Swear Word Covid-19
Another year comes to a close
We've gone in circles, trying to follow our nose 
So many lies and confusion, overexposed 

Everyone's on the back foot,...

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Categories: on the back foot, allusion, america, animal, boxing
Form: Rhyme
Cat Foot Complaint
CAT    FOOT   COMPLAINT

I have received a complaint from 
My cat’s back foot,  starboard side.
Why is it always me for...

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Categories: on the back foot, funnyme, me,
Form: Free verse
Forgives the Past
Going back foot
he looked inside himself and felt a breeze
on empty stomach.
Mother-of-pearl,
he was a sand grain in the eye
of a storm.

He wanted to shut off...

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Categories: on the back foot, mystery, native american, nature,
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs