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Best Rationalizing Poems

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


Love Means Loyalty
Longer than twenty years it took me
Of steadfast faithful simplicity
Voicing reassurance, for her to truly get that I’m not you
Explains just how much you put...

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Categories: rationalizing, character, childhood, father daughter,
Form: Acrostic



Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll
Diabolical, villainous
Experimenting, killing, hating
Murder, schizophrenia, man, husband
Loving, caring, rationalizing
Gentle, friendly
Mr. Hyde...

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Categories: rationalizing, death, fantasy, father, mystery
Form: Diamante
The Road To Nowhere
It seems I’ve traveled this path,
too many times to count.
A road which leads to nowhere,
mentally unable to dismount.

It was an easy route to follow,
for demands...

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Categories: rationalizing, introspection, life, loss, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Seafood Valencia Paella
It's morning as I make a special trip to the
fish market. There, I will look for the freshest 
mussels, large shrimp, and Maine lobster. 
...

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Categories: rationalizing, appreciation,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Buffy's Song
I just heard Buffy's song
for the first time in many years.
It brought me to tears,
because it reminded me of 
how much I have changed,
how far...

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Categories: rationalizing, introspectionme,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Exquisite Pain and Joy
There is exquisite pain
In being offered a beautiful gift
Fine the wrapping
The bows beautifully beguiling
The attached card:
Love’s testament in writing

Everything indicates
The contents are perfect
What lies inside
Can...

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Categories: rationalizing, giving,
Form: Free verse
Tangible Thought
The typical intro,
A moment of reflection,
Philosophical conversation with my glass veil is ago,
I swear she's the perfect audience lacking in cognition but excellent in reception,
Shameless...

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Categories: rationalizing, age, computer, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
New Blood
Defenses of the Mind

Mechanisms employed as defense
Unconscious pretense
Unrevealed
A protective shield
Inner truths hard to bare
Held safely there
Defenses, the living ghost
Rationalizing, one of a host
The do not...

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Categories: rationalizing, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Fear Not the Time Is Now
Fear not for the time is now
Erected, stand and declare freedom
Arm yourself with axioms of humanism
Rationalizing the essence of being...

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Categories: rationalizing, allegory,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Great Interfaith Revolutions
Executive Summary:
To optimize Great Faith Revolutions,
combine all toxic ingredients 
of Make America Great Again,
and then feel
then hear
then do
then say
then cooperatively touch
then develop a compassionate taste
for...

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Categories: rationalizing, faith, gospel, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Abecedarian Aka Alphabet Poems
Alphabet poems are sometimes called, “a,b,c” poems.
But that is incorrect because a.b.c. poems only have 25 words in them.
Commonly, that mistake is made because the...

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Categories: rationalizing, angst, word play, words,
Form: Abecedarian
No's
No’s


Talking to themselves in the third person
Detached, separate, 
ominous—a stilted nuance that does want to know  
Abrupt attention spans lashing out as the deadends...

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© Dm Swanson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rationalizing, political, urban
Form: Free verse
Hope - Part One
for you, m
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pale horse led by shrouded spectre through foggy thicket
dark days behind them illuminated by soaring ember skies
saturated soil slick under their feet impeding...

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Categories: rationalizing, anger, devotion, hope, lonely,
Form: Narrative
Just Like My Daddy
Just like My Daddy
 
It started a long time ago as a kid, I was still young
 
Rebelling against the law, back talking adults, but...

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Categories: rationalizing, depression, family, life, people,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Truth In Thoughts
Rationalizing cost humanity Paradise
with burden to choose right the price
an ego to be awaken to rise
when the herd falls asleep to vice

Snake pride tends to...

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Categories: rationalizing, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs