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Best Oppose Poems

Below are the all-time best Oppose poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of oppose poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member World Day Against Racism
You asked me the other day, my friend, 
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,  
Look, how...

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Categories: oppose, love, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Waging War
If you're going to wage a war, there's a few things you must do
Like having robust logistics in place and a battle hardened crew
You'll need...

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Categories: oppose, conflict, people, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Visitor Finale - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked...

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Categories: oppose, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Prisons of Conceit
Confined within the steep banks of a narrow mind 

is a cryptic river where men stumble in and go blind

They construct reinforced dams that hold...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oppose, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thorn of the Rose
Thorn of the Rose
Beware thy fragile gentle sweet rose
When a dragon holds you to his nose
With those nostrils that ignite and flare
Or thou will no...

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Categories: oppose, fantasy, fear, fire, rose,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Intolerable
I cannot tolerate the ones with haloed head
Who boast of their achievements, put on an act instead.
I cannot tolerate the perfect, always right
Who claim to...

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Categories: oppose, abuse, betrayal, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poetic Justice
As legend has it, there lived Bai Balkhash, a rich man
In the North regions of the then Soviet Kazakhstan
Had a beautiful daughter Ili who was...

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Categories: oppose, romance,
Form: Burlesque
Shedding Thin Skin
Held unyielding in your narrow mind
is the ignorance which keeps you blind.
Building dams will only hold you back
from accepting that white is not black.
Like a...

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Categories: oppose, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Befriending Fear
To release me from hellish nights
let's talk now, Fear...
I leave, yet your shadow follows me;
a darkened grime blowing on my mind 
like an uninvited guest...

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Categories: oppose, courage, fear,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Racism: Humanity's Deadliest Social Disease
The other day
you asked me my friend, who I am
I replied:
I am you in another body!

Yes, it is true
look, how much alike we are,
no matter...

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Categories: oppose, humanity, love, peace, racism,
Form: Free verse
The New Nigerian
Chosen for a reason
In a season
Not by the dozen
But individually
To be born
A Nigerian
One who can run
Through the thorns of life
Without being cut
By its spikes
Into a...

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Categories: oppose, black african american, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Between Faraway Distance Is the Poet and I
BETWEEN FARAWAY DISTANCE is THE POET and I

Treacherous stretches mounds of greens feed fresh the mind. . .

never ever upon a spangled heavens or in...

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Categories: oppose, inspiration, love, poetry, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Doctor Jekyll Hides
In the office, he smiles so charmingly.
Saying and doing all the right things,
he puts all his female patients completely at ease.
Even the women hard to...

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Categories: oppose, mystery, people,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member That's What Hippies Do
They grew up in the ’60’s…and as their lives unfurled
They discovered they were righteous…laid back…two groovy kind of girls.

They had long hair…down to their shoulders…some...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oppose, love, peace,
Form: Verse
And In Reply, I Wrote
What a load of malarkey I just read... 
befuddled in disarray inside his head,
but let me make it clear.  The message I see
is a...

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Categories: oppose, baby, birth, women,
Form: Rhyme

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