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Best Provoking Poems

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Provoking Thougts
Where is our defense? Suspense!
Where do we go from here? Fear!
Stop the nonsense. No pretense.
Stop the mad Bear coming near
Seems the time is right, to...

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© Simon Amu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: provoking, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Provocation and Provoking Anger
 I AM ......NOT  GOING TO GET OUT OF YOUR CAR:..........SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT? THAT IS THE CONVERSION! ...

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Categories: provoking, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Ballad
Thought Provoking
THOUGHT PROVOKING

How can you break the ice
if you're not drawn by it invites?

Vick Manuel Poetry {VMP} 
Copyright © December, 2020....

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Categories: provoking, 1st grade,
Form: Couplet



Provoking Thought's
Before we can realize , should'nt we first recognize ?
don't we have to first cognize , to realize ,
only to recognize , our sense of...

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Categories: provoking, life, nature, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Provoking Reaction
A word that lately gets little traction
     though when used provokes quite a reaction

   I find it singularly persuasive...

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Categories: provoking, words, world,
Form: Couplet
Thought Provoking
thought provoking silence
makes a girl
sad

a shattered mirror
where shards glisten
of dreams  although beautiful
are dead

Internal
reflection I
am still searching for something

But firework sparks
have glistened in the monlight
where
I...

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© Laura Hew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: provoking, life, teen, uplifting,
Form: Free verse



Thought Provoking
paradoxical
    concisely informative
    an oxymoron...

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Categories: provoking, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Provoking Ire
Ah Anger! One of the seven deadly sins
A scourge that ravages the mind of man,
Alas! In an imperfect world only evil wins
A tiny spark consumes...

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Categories: provoking, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Thought-Provoking Pause


Whose clay shell is about to be interred,
returned to the earth? 
I wonder as I sit waiting for the procession to pass.
Ashes to ashes, dust...

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Categories: provoking, death, funeral, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Utopia
Two great minds had a tete-a-tete
to apply their intellectual grace
to the achievement of a utopian state
and improving the condition of the human race.

Said one, "Religion...

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Categories: provoking, assonance, humanity, philosophy, society,
Form:
Conscious
Are you really conscious? Aware of your world?
Or can you just not comprehend a life that is so unfurled?

It's this degree of consciousness that needs...

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Categories: provoking, dark, earth, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bad Things Good People
You don’t like love.
You love it,
Don’t you?
Always have,
Always will.
Necessity is the mother of all creation.
But what about the Father? 
In due time you will see,
You...

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Categories: provoking, deep, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wet River
Hey wet river.
Hello dry bones.
Feel the rhythm?
Hear the tones? 
Wet, wet,
The river gives.
Wet, wet,
The river takes.
Walk along the brooks and streams,
Run along the ponds and...

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Categories: provoking, deep,
Form: Rhyme

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