Best Tug Of War Poems

I’m being pulled in an emotional tug of war
From side to side I sway
Waiting for someone to win
I watch you pull harder
Then you drop the rope
And there I stand motionless
Not falling toward the loyal player
I stand waiting for you to take back the rope

Sometimes I...

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Push-Pull leaders
demand your gripe
at either end of their
hangman's rope
Your willing hoist
of their own petard,
the Devil's foist
of his own retard.


"retard" in this sense="delay," as in delaying tactics. 

1John 5:19.
Luke 4:5-8.
John 17:14-16.
Daniel 2:44,45.

"For tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar, and't shall go...

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Villanelle: One or the other has to give in a tug of war

One or the other has to give in a tug of war
If for altruistic reasons you invite the foreigner
In order to accommodate the guest from afar

You cannot make him feel welcome if you...

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Driven mad by all this pulling-
Tearing me limb from limb!
Who do you think you are fooling?
Ah, this feeling- great and grim!

Grieving Goddess fits the bodice,
And embodies my Despair.
At this Tug of War- am no novice...
(Oh! All the Hurt I can't repair!)...

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Snoopy is a crazy dog
His heads always in a fog
Thinking of some fun new ways
To steal a blanket each day
That Linus loves very much
But its like an evil rush
That turns Snoopy really "mad"
He wants this blanket really bad
Hiding in trees way up high
He'll pounce Linus...

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Life is a game of chance,
between two worlds,
Reality and imagination,
between two paths,
of existing and Legacy.

Life is a game of Tug of War,
between Life and Death,
Living and Dying,
Coming and Going,
and you are the rope....

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The force that pulls me out is here
It’s been here – all along
The force that pulls me in is weak.

The need to be pulled out is strong
So strong, there’s no denying
The force that pulls me in is weak.

But however strong
However willing
However it’s been here
I’m scared...

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This tug of war we're playing is no game
Especially when my love is the rope
The back and forth is causing such a strain
That all I'm holding on to now is hope

It seems that's all of you that's left to hold
When once I had you in...

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Life is a tug of war,
Between right and wrong,
Justice and injustice,
Truthfulness and falsehood,
In life's trying pathways,
We are faced with the choice,
Between two contrasting options,
We should have the courage,
To choose one of them,
That can fit into our mindset,
To lead a victorious  life,
In the tug of...

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Please see it's the rope
Inside the game tug of war
Uniting them all...

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welcome to this game of tug-of-war, where i always fall on my ass and always get back up for more. 

(i can’t tell if that makes me hopeful or stupid.)

welcome to this game of tug-of-war, where you are nothing but the apple falling from the...

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Standing here at this alter 
I don't know what to do 
I'm suppose to be happy
But I'm feeling sad and blue
Torn between what I want and what I need
Lord, give me some mercy please
Looking into your eyes, makes me realize
That I have been lying to...

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The face undergoes gradual change
Time cannot affect the orange


Time lashes our body in its chains
The child at the bottom sees and smiles
He dreams along for miles and miles
All through our life the tug of war remains
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There it goes again,
disturbing the calm and quiet of my mind
from its peaceful setting.
The shrieking begins; my poisonous parrot
shrills loud that piercing song of my doubt.

My decisions come hard...
always a tug of war, between negative
and positive thinking.
My weak inner self and that mocking parrot
each takes...

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Written on February 17, 2020
By Gail DeBole

I read a quote the other day.
It said you must improve today.

I read a quote the other day.
It said to love yourself – don’t change.

Which quote was right?
Which quote was wrong?

Both made me weak.
Both made me strong.

And thus, the...

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