Best Survivors Poems
Below are the all-time best Survivors poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of survivors poems written by PoetrySoup members
Survivors GuiltIt's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...
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Categories:
survivors, death, grief, how i
Form:
Narrative
Musings On FaithWhat if love is the religion,
and heaven a voice
with no ego;
synchronized in
harmonious hope,
speaking dialects
of kindness?
What if hell is a myth,
and evil...
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Categories:
survivors, gospel, heaven, imagination, muse,
Form:
Free verse
A Rose For RitaHere’s to the travellers,
the passengers, the tourists
who trek this alien landscape
in search of experience.
Here’s to the resilient,
...
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Categories:
survivors, death, family, life,
Form:
Free verse
Human BeingYou are a human being they told me, something you should treasure
But isn't a human being the only animal who kills for pleasure?
Man's inhumanity to...
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Categories:
survivors, confusion, social,
Form:
Couplet
we're sinkingand I'm cold so cold icebergs loom through dark lethal as fins of sharks fins or frost flowers or firework flares ...
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Categories:
survivors, boat, death, sea,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The 1918 Spanish Flu PandemicIn nineteen eighteen there was an outbreak of flu
Caused little concern, only affected a few
But it returned with a vengeance later that year
And the world...
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Categories:
survivors, natural disasters,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
survivors, crazy, evil,
Form:
Free verse
Mortality's Own Friend(Inspired by Abe Lincoln’s poem “Memory”)
Mortality's Own Friend
So sadly here, among the dead,
I live - mortality's own friend.
Recalling all that's lost, I tread
so sadly here,...
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Categories:
survivors, memory,
Form:
Triolet
Escaping the MedusaThis Medusa had no power to turn us into stone
but when she ran aground over Poseidon's throne
his anger stirred, and into the sea the crew...
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Categories:
survivors, death, sea,
Form:
Narrative
Blàr Chùil Lodair - the Battle of Culloden16th April 1746
The day a country ceased to exist
British Army, Hanoverian scum
Defeated our Jacobite's
Scotland is on the run
Our Tartans banished, bagpipes no more
To lead...
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Categories:
survivors, political, warmen,
Form:
Rhyme
The Red BabushkaNineteen twenty-four and the wind was cold,
When men in uniform entered our town;
Forced us to leave in their boxcars,
Made us believe that it was for...
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Categories:
survivors, death, sad, old, angel,
Form:
Free verse
AftermathAFTERMATH
War is final but incomplete,
bodies littered like spent ammunition
along the ravaged bloody street.
But who hears the voices of condemnation
on profit-only Wall Street?
In the dirt...
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Categories:
survivors, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Eve of EternityShe couldn't contain her rhapsody demeanor much more
hugging her husband and gushing with excitement as he closed the door
the third class cabin was modest but...
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Categories:
survivors, boat, death, sad love,
Form:
Rhyme
Absinthe LeavesIn the firmament of trees
October's eye
looks down in cruel azure
on summer's absinthe leaves,
flocking like survivors
to a mortal haven.
Autumn's blood magma
creeps through leaves
bequeathing fire
and brittle...
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Categories:
survivors, autumn, imagery, sky, tree,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Poets of a New Dawn
Taking a long ink dip in a desert pond,
rejected drake words
ripple echoes in the wilderness: Tread with care!
Dreadnought thoughts silicate crystalized,
glass menagerie opens to a...
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Categories:
survivors, poets, truth, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry