Best Resistant Poems
Below are the all-time best Resistant poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of resistant poems written by PoetrySoup members
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
resistant, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Reaching Deepest Oceans ,RevisedMy cherished one How far will I love you
As far as where moons dissolve in deep seas
Beyond the edge of a tide's crimson hue
where your...
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Categories:
resistant, love,
Form:
Free verse
If the Gods Aren'T Sick, Then Crazy They Must BeI felt the touch of the breeze on my face from my sleep
Oh! With the morning sun, i woke with a flip
And there staring at...
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Categories:
resistant, africa, allegory,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Darkest DestinyOut of hell’s breath the Devil’s Coachman comes and turns
around the tale to woe twists as the world creeps backwards
underneath the clay slithering sacrificial savagery...
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Categories:
resistant, dark, halloween, horror, imagination,
Form:
Terza Rima
Darkest DestinyOut of hell’s breath the Devil’s Coachman comes and turns
around the tale to woe twists as the world creeps backwards
underneath the clay slithering sacrificial savagery...
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Categories:
resistant, dark, halloween,
Form:
Terza Rima
Dear HeartDear Heart,
You are the great fulcrum of the human machine
So integral to keep us alive and leave us healthy
I know you work incessantly...
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Categories:
resistant, appreciation, health, heart,
Form:
Free verse
Forgivenesswhere some people beg,
forgiveness is resistant.
have another look
at the Savior’s eyes— the sea
teeming with mercy and grace.
2/6/2021...
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Categories:
resistant, christian,
Form:
Tanka
Reaching Deepest OceansMy cherished one How far will I love you
As far as where moons dissolve in deep seas
Beyond the edge of a tide's crimson...
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Categories:
resistant, absence,
Form:
Sonnet
Dinner Guest: Me(After Langston Hughes)
I hadn’t known
my infertility was their problem;
The adult table contracts
from a toddler’s wide wobble
while over a gavel — I mean,
a rattle...
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Categories:
resistant, emotions, longing, rude,
Form:
Free verse
A Curious SpiritShe entertains fantasies
of unicorns and dragons.
And a curious spirit,
she oft thinks outside the box.
She is an illusionist;
famed for her vanishing act.
And breaking with tradition,
she cuts...
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Categories:
resistant, beauty, character, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Blank verse
Retort To the Devil...They call you the fallen one,with short tuffted curls
the one responsible for the chaos in the world
you may be the cause,as we live the effect
but...
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Categories:
resistant, satirepride,
Form:
Free verse
An Existential CuriosityHuman ingenuity leapfrogs beyond ordinary
Buoying upon wings of intellectual curiosity
Sustaining innovation, creative imagination,
Breaking barriers once thought impenetrable,
Daring to conquer the arduous, unknown~
Resistant to understanding,...
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Categories:
resistant, endurance, inspiration, science, technology,
Form:
Free verse
Ireland - a Divided Island Part Twochieftains trade their loyalty behind the clouds
high mountain king Carrantouhil commanding his Macgillycuddy Reeks
men of begotten rank, scheming skulduggery
secrets...
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Categories:
resistant, community, history, ireland, time,
Form:
Narrative
The Smallest ShofarThe rabbi had a lot of trouble
Blowing the shofar.*
The congregation waited
But the sounds were just bizarre.
Some strangled bursts of air came out
But music was resistant.
The...
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Categories:
resistant, holiday, jewish, music,
Form:
Rhyme
Constipation Hell Worse Than PerditionLess than twenty-four hours after dashing off a poem
explaining why i wanted to die
found me experiencing physical duress vis a vis,...
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Categories:
resistant, angst, anxiety, blessing, conflict,
Form:
I do not know?