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Best Resistance Poems

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Premium Member tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand

I planned for you, an...

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Categories: resistance, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Infatuated Love Limerence
Lost in your elegance,
if only time could stand still
to capture this memory eternally.

Reflection of the moon shimmers
upon tranquil waters
in congregation with the stars,
as we sail...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: resistance, desire, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dance To Love - Part 2- POTD - The Grand Finale - a Visual Art Poem Tribute
POTD 6th August 2019

The clock ticks down the passing day
Tedious seconds count down my existence
Time for my pills ~ Time to call the nurse
Time ~...

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Categories: resistance, romantic, tribute,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sunday Musings
Judgement
You light the fire, then play the victim.
It's not my fire, yet you let it burn.
Rage and pain drive you insane,
creating a parody of hypocritical...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: resistance, emotions, judgement, muse,
Form: Free verse
Robot Revolution
Abandon futile attempts to run
Behold the process has begun
Step toward your darkest fear
Let’s flip the switch to a new frontier

Penetrating deep within
Evacuate your mortal sin
This...

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Categories: resistance, computer, dark, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Jallianwala Bagh
The occupation of India began, with the East India company
And prospered across large swathes of Indian territory
Then the British Crown took control, bringing military might
And...

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Categories: resistance, death, england, garden, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tiger In the Sea
I thought I had hooked the world’s largest grouper
After struggling for hours, I was still reeling
Refused help from a friend; I was a trooper
Somehow I...

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Categories: resistance, adventure, animals, seame, tiger,
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member Images of Feathers
"Once upon a midnight Poe"

Underneath the midnight mask, I remove the makeup at last,
The moon is an anvil to my mood, mooring along the vacant...

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Categories: resistance, allusion, devotion, loneliness, muse,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Your Body, Your Touch
Your feelings in a group of touring innocence
travel up North towards trust and sincerity
in sweet submissive care like a carefully rubbed suede.
You put day light...

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Categories: resistance, emotions, i love you,
Form: Romanticism
Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design

When there is evidence of intelligence, 
there is an intelligent mind
From an intelligent mind comes thought 
and purposeful design

Everything we see has been made,...

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Categories: resistance, creation, education, god, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - In the Power of Death and the Depths of Darkness -
In order to obtain true freedom in our lives
Close your eyes and see the light of an angel
Wondering what this life is really all about
That...

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Categories: resistance, confusion, deep, destiny, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Walls Make Bad Neighbours
Walls Make Bad Neighbours

‘All in all we are just bricks in the wall’ deconstructed by Pink Floyd
        ...

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Categories: resistance, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wall
Winnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain, 
while she washed away her bloody pain.

Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: resistance, birthday, character, child, child
Form: Rhyme
Hostile Head Takeover Part 1
I'm near cuckoo
This Monday blue
A day not eas'ly recommended
for making sense
I'm way too tense
And hung-over to comprehend it
 
My mind's on the bend
my imaginary friends
are...

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Categories: resistance, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ship In a Bottle - POTD
POTD 6 Mar 2020

Oh, where are those waves
of bygone days
that caressed and rocked
on hearing you cry?
‘Sleep little ship’ I'd murmur low
while ocean crooned her soft...

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Categories: resistance, love, mother,
Form: Rhyme

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