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Best Resisted Poems

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


What We Had Was Only a Tale
Here’s to a love that never existed!
And to the departing you insisted,
Let me give in to all I’ve resisted
It is true through our frivolous trail
Our...

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Categories: resisted, confusion, depression, family, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Heinrich Heine Revisited
I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your...

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Categories: resisted, history, international, philosophy, poems,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Thru Maritime Miles
Thru maritime miles of minions in motion
We hedge our opinions while pledging devotion	
To serving the Captain and sharing our smiles
Through barrels of onions and flea-bearing...

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Categories: resisted, adventure, fantasy, funny, humorous,
Form: Epic
Premium Member An Obedient Child
I salute you oh mighty time:

My best friend,

My worst foe 

For

To live without you is simply

Impossible!



Throughout my existence

I have, unsuccessfully, struggled to accept

Whatever you brought...

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Categories: resisted, endurance, life, time,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Having Enough-Remembering Thanksgiving
I awoke to the familiar sound of dishes rattling in Mother’s kitchen and to the thick scent of coffee wafting through the air. I glanced...

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Categories: resisted, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pleasure Becomes a Pain - a Tribute To Lord Byron
( The poem is based on the biographical details with quotes of Lord Byron the renaissance poet. The poem is Stand By Me appeal to...

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Categories: resisted, grief, tribute, , atheist,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Darfurian Girl
I enjoyed an almost idyllic childhood. This was marred only at the age of ten by my circumcision, a cruel and primitive custom among my...

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Categories: resisted, bereavement, character,
Form: Prose
Premium Member An Early Mother's Day
I had much to accomplish last Saturday,
But far too many  things got in my way:

As always when awaking, I  took a pee,
then went...

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Categories: resisted, day,
Form: List
Premium Member Tantalizing Love
Tantalizing love, how long I’ve known you.
How often I’ve succumbed to you, but
how often I’ve resisted too -
while wanting you so badly.
I’ll never tire of...

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Categories: resisted, feelings,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Farming As a Terrorist Act
Going on down to the demos today
the last farmer has been put away.
They shot him down
just outside of town.
Police found him in his own cornfield,
where...

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Categories: resisted, allegory, funny, on work
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Absolute Truth, Judgment and Lies
The Damnable Sin of Self-righteousness.
All of our leaders have their different views of human rights.

Our leader has repeatedly resisted calls to assume the moral leadership...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: resisted, america, children, emotions, immigration,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Wandering Ship
Dark thoughts emerging from a lifeless spirit,
a wandering ship sinking into the remotest depths;
denying itself reality and its sense of comfort...
and was ever there a...

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Categories: resisted, desire, sea,
Form: Narrative
If We Could Switch Shoes
If you could step into my shoes
Would you see the things I see,
Would your head feel dizzy like mine is now
Or would you still walk...

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Categories: resisted, song-lyricme, angel, angel, me,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Polite Fight
Today, I got into a Polite Fight
Over the last Wonder Woman night-light
"Oh, its yours," I insisted,
She demurred, I resisted,
Until I gave in and let her...

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Categories: resisted, funny, humor, nonsense, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My Generation
Rebellious hearts won fame and infamy,
And knew black nights of burgundy.
Then resisted we the merest tyranny;
For we'd so long longed to be free.

So hip and...

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Categories: resisted, culture, flower, freedom, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

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