Best Self Defence Poems

By the steeple, all the people
That said no to Mr Needle
All the people too suspicious
Got diseases that were vicious 
For the reaper, avaricious 
Finds the...

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COUNTING SYLLABLES*

2/2

lacks pace
slow race

bombshell
death knell

3/3

one desire
to retire

wasted brain
down the drain

cobblers last
frozen past

common sense
self defence

rocking beat
happy feet

in the groove
on the move

4/4

an unsure cook
recipe book

5/5

confronting yeti
with palms...

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He deems the ways and dares to understand,		
a measure of a love that went astray,
from libelled forces, which compelled his hand,		
to lies, and morals left...

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Taekwondo
The way we flow
Our hands and feet
We put on show
Jumping spinning in the air
Striking out our target there
This mighty form of self defence
A contact sport...

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I’ll Never Understand Humans   

   Hi, My name is Lady, and I live a dogs life, yes I’m a lazy mutt,...

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Recently I spoke to a young man.
Let’s say his name was John.
He told me all about his life,
And the things that he had done.

Coming from...

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it feels good to escape
with authors and poets
and dream up new places
with tales that are spun.

but sometimes what's real
and sometimes what isn't
encroach on each other
and...

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If my words could be fashioned into a weapon,

I would write a poem for each of my brothers on the other side of the world...

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He was only a sheepdog
But his death has bitten 
Into my soul ever since.
As a pup we brought 
Him from his home
In Ireland
Where supernumeraries 
Are...

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Buttercups are dancing to singing daffodils
King Neptune, with his trident, is surfing down a hill
Rabbits playing hopscotch with rainbow coloured frogs
Snails with sparkly spinning shells...

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Maybe it's the bad boy attraction 
Maybe it's the need to spice up her life
Maybe it's the fire of her self defence mechanism 
That keeps...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 50

Each gets to keeping own while making up whole
No one need sacrifice distinct difference
Yet the total’s not a...

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Biological entities or angels of God; who are we? 
Ten times two, youth, we set to the island.
If day here is pleasant freedom and lost...

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LAW IS A COMIC RELIEF

Law is a comic relief
Subtlety amidst ardent belief.

Draconian legislation
That still wriggles out an exception.

Pitiless killer
Yet cleverest healer. 

Law is a comic...

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I 
just
took my
last self defence
lesson, so if anyone
feels like attacking me, 
very slowly, straight 
on, with a fake 
knife in their 
hand - I’m 
ready...

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