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Best On The Defensive Poems

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Premium Member Deleted Poems and Farewell
I have deleted the 2 poems I posted earlier today, and instead I offer what will be my final write.  I have read the...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the defensive, moving on,
Form: Elegy



Bunyip Forest Revisited
Along the road called forestry, the silver ash weeps over me
as I meander 'round the dell and glade.
Pass scars of sand pits long disused, where...

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Categories: on the defensive, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Childhood Inequality In School
Some children come into the school building dancing, singing, hopping, bursting with uninhibited glee.
They exchange giddy, happy stories about their day at the mall, dropping...

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Categories: on the defensive, child, child abuse, children,
Form: Narrative
Woman In 2017
Fight hard 
as long as you're not too defensive
or worse, stronger than him
so we can't tell that he hit you
so we don't have to pick...

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Categories: on the defensive, society, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Door To Your Heart - Collaboration With Chris Green
In silent hours till nightfall
When shadows grow long before fading
Heart thumps, a deep longing,
a soft knocking on a door still closed
Shy and introverted
As if saying:...

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Categories: on the defensive, love, metaphor, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse



Future Superstar
The world welcomes a newborn baby boy. 
To the mother and father, he is a bundle of joy. 
Right now of course, he is so...

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Categories: on the defensive, baby, basketball, football, future,
Form: Rhyme
The Tiger and the Dove
The tiger, majestic and proud
Fearless, strong and solitary
A predator by nature
Domineering yet wary

The dove, gentle and harmonious
Passive and apprehensive
A free spirit by nature
But always on...

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Categories: on the defensive, devotion, friendship, love, tiger,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Superbowl Sunday
There’s a new American Holiday, guess what it is my football loving friends,
It’s a classical sport of champions, where helmet headed, game geared
Warriors challenge raw...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the defensive, adventure, conflict, football, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Vietnam War
The pro-Hanoi Vietcong many years ago
In the 1950's Diem's government they'd overthrow
All opposition was crushed killed or jailed
These elected ones to their people they failed

This...

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Categories: on the defensive, death, history, hope, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member We Became Friends By One Click
WE BECAME FRIENDS BY ONE CLICK

I am from east you are from... west? North? South?
to whichever place you're from, hear my happy shout! :D
Remember ...

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Categories: on the defensive, friend, friendship, happy, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Through the Looking Glass
The mirror reflected her face, pained with
Hate and self-loathing
Rueing her actions from the night before
On waking to find herself naked, lying beside him
Under the influence...

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Categories: on the defensive, angst, lost love
Form: Acrostic
The Road To a Championship
Early one morning a group of rookie's and veteran's ballplayers emerge onto the prac-
tice field destine to began an grueling season of hardwork and a...

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Categories: on the defensive, adventure, art, devotion, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member England - Gleaming In the Distance
across the Doggerland dogged people trudge
  Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
  hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
  the mighty maw of...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the defensive, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tourette
"Can you sit still, for a change?
and stop the annoying clicking?"
I'm trying hard! It doesn't work!
I click, and keep on ticcing

"Sit in the back, don't...

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Categories: on the defensive, body, boy, i am,
Form: Quatrain
Does the Message of Christmas Offend You
Does the Message of Christmas Offend You?

I know of many who got somewhat “defensive.”
It has to do with something, they find “offensive.”

This seems to be...

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Categories: on the defensive, america, christmas, culture, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs