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Best Thwarting Poems

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Premium Member Thwarting the Bullies
Shelly said that Darlene said that
Tina said that you are an ignorant fool.
So?
Jinny said that Zinna was rolling her eyes at you.
Farina said you have...

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Categories: thwarting, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse



Know What Matters
No matter what you have gone through,
No matter what you have accomplished,
No matter what you have manifested to the world,
No matter what difference you have...

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Categories: thwarting, motivation,
Form: Free verse
I Wish To Be
I wish to be the gentle breeze
Sweeping tearful eyes
Of the weary midday flower.
Or to be the horrid shadow
Casting fearful darkness
For a passer-by to rest.
A rippling...

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Categories: thwarting, emotions, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Monet's Impression, Sunrise
Monet's Impression, Sunrise

First impressions leave memories
That can linger for a very long time;
And give a sense of peace and understanding,
That rewards the solitude of the...

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Categories: thwarting, art, change, culture, education,
Form: Verse
Rattle the Chain
Ta'likra
was a most stubborn slave
He loved to rattle the chain
It was a sound of pure defiance
that echoed across the lush plantation terrain

Son of Antuk
had a...

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Categories: thwarting, america, anger, black african
Form: Epic



Reveal
Reveal

Revealing hidden treasure
Opening to view
Bringing unknown pleasure
Embracing something new

Romance long defended
Thwarting every chance
All the times expended
Movements through the dance

Advancing every dream
Repairing moments past
Inviting as they...

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Categories: thwarting, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Circuitous Discourse
Who are we really?  It’s my nature to—to what and how do we know it’s our nature, an inherent part of us? “The Scorpion...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thwarting, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Keeper of the Flame
I am called to be a true keeper of the flame,
Of love, the ever greatest teaching, with the aim;
Of entwining the humans and other beings,
With...

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Categories: thwarting, god, life, light, love,
Form: Rhyme
One More Thing
3/25/19
"One More Thing"

This morning
Clouds forming
Soon to be storming

Most ignoring
The warning
Continually warring

Waters forking
Rapids roaring
Avians soaring
As events continue coursing

Heard enough recordings
That were reporting
About global warming

Whether it's sunny...

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Categories: thwarting, deep, fun, heart, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let Us Speak Clearly
Let me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,

A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.

A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival...

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Categories: thwarting, caregiving, culture, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Martha Graham, a Maverick
HANDMAIDEN OF MOON DANCING



fly me to stars in the thrill of one swan night
over a crescent arc to feel a flame of sighs,
teasing dreams so...

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Categories: thwarting, art, inspirational, me, age,
Form: Free verse
My Life For Yours
I gave my life for you, 
My grit was your prosperity, 
So that you could do. 

I swallowed at the task, 
Girded myself bravely, 
Prepared...

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Categories: thwarting, bereavement, character, children, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Lady of the Night - I
You were born in a war ravaged state
You lost your man to the caprices of fate
You fell prey to your wayward ways
Victims of betrayal, greed...

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Categories: thwarting, social, sympathy, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Glow
Glow


Surge of expectations are emerging out
Democracy you developed I believe that
Civilization to civilization might be differed culture
Opinions, creed, beliefs manner disciplines other hurdles

These days everywhere...

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Categories: thwarting, august, beautiful, birth, change,
Form: Concrete
Rain Man
we got a lot of rain man's wearin ray bands tryin to shake hands
with baked fans it a staged plan to get carly rea pants...

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Categories: thwarting, adventure, america, analogy, bible,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs