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Best When Push Comes To Shove Poems


Premium Member Twisted Knickers-Collaboration Open to Poets
Some people wind up with twisted knickers
When they get insulted by nitpickers
Words are sticks and stones
Causing moans and groans
When they hear heckling whispers and snickers

Women used to call knickers 'underpants'
They'd get them twisted with tauntings and rants
Causing quite a rage
No matter their age
As if their...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when push comes to shove, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Lotsa Limericks - It Couldn'T Be Verse
1. Big Brother
Big Brother's protecting his mice
with a secret eavesdropping device.
          If you hang up the phone
          he'll just send in a drone
when a warrant won't really...

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Categories: when push comes to shove, america, society,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Tolerance
“If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and I don’t know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.*


Shouts abound, demanding equality
Yet, when push comes to...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when push comes to shove, america, anti bullying,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



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Ms. Rude is still writing her snide remarks
She sounds like a mad dog who barks and barks
Geeze, lady, give it a rest
Your thinking is oppressed
I'm sure some of your undies have skid...

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Categories: when push comes to shove, humor,
Form: Limerick
I'Ll Keep Chasin' My Dream Till the End
I've been told to let go
Of all that I love
They say, you'll never make it 
It's time to give up 

And even though I'm a man
Who don't believe in himself
When push comes to shove
I'll get back up, and....

I'll keep chasin', my dream till the end
No...

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Categories: when push comes to shove, angst, courage, dedication, desire,
Form: Lyric
To My Sweet Ella Rose With All My Love
There’s something about my love for my daughter, 
maybe it’s all the lessons I have taught her.
Her bubbly smiles and ways only youth can display, 
her growing independence, she’s too old to play. 
Yes, there have been many times I have fought her, 
but she...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when push comes to shove, daughter, love,
Form: Rhyme



You and Me
Yell at me, put me down
Scream at me, I'll show a frown
Love me, I'll love you
Adore me, and I'll obsess you

Why don't we see the problem
Till the situation is at it's end
Why don't we see the problem
and some times just pretend

What is your reason for...

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© Jake Brown  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when push comes to shove, loveme, love, me,
Form:
Premium Member Humility Is the Brightest Love
Love, I get love is more than a game the young play,
It is life one commits, not caged bird ‘shopped’ to mine
In the hope lives are saved that don’t sleep in harm’s way!
How can chemistry alter what man can’t refine?

Love is more than a look...

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Categories: when push comes to shove, faith, friendship, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Want To Love You
I want to love you, but you make it a chore
One shouldn’t have to work so hard to love
Still, I want you more and more,
I can’t help it when push comes to shove.

My feelings for you are difficult to explain
I want to love you, but...

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Categories: when push comes to shove, desire, love, love hurts,
Form: Quatern
Graces For the Loved and the Lost
Graces for the Loved and the Lost

To the sweet graces afforded to us from above 
To the hand of tender guidance that is only born from Love
To the broken boxer taking off his boxing gloves
To the man living on the edge when push comes to...

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Categories: when push comes to shove, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Doggone*dog *contest*
.     *DOGGY  STYLE*

Tonight! Tonight! I must display.
About my man's doggy style way.

Once he comes home he acts like I'm his "DOGGY BAG."
"It’s DOGGING ME!" The way he starts to nag.

He came from the bar with his "DOG BREATH!"
Calling me by...

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Categories: when push comes to shove, funny, girlfriend-boyfrienddog, dog,
Form: Couplet
Birds of a Feather
Opposites may hold attraction
But lack lasting satisfaction.
Frequently push comes to shove.
In comes hate and out goes love.

Animals in fights and fleeings
Still are mostly social beings.
In a pinch, at end of tether,
Birds of a feather flock together.

Multitudes of furry creatures
Seem alike in lots of features.
Yet that’s...

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Categories: when push comes to shove, analogy, animal, bird, community,
Form: Verse
Shakespeare's Nightmare
Poor William turns and moans within his grave:
Within a phrase, one simple turn can bind
the most creative stirrings of the mind
and poet to cliché becomes a slave.
Exist but in uniqueness and repent
for rhyming verse you penned with “love” and “dove”
and last week’s sonnet found “push...

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Categories: when push comes to shove, art, funny, on writing
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member The Lonely
I behold a woman sitting in her chair,
Looking out her window, longing to share!

I envision, a man submerged in TV,
With nothing to say to his wife or family!

I observe a boy rejected and scared!
To gain a friend, he does what he’s dared!

I relate to the...

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Categories: when push comes to shove, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God's Guiding Hand
I lost my job and times were tough.
Lived day to day on just enough
of everything to keep me well.
How long it'd last only time would tell.

Instead of worrying, I saw the light;
Put my faith in God to ease my plight.
All God's creatures don't give a...

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© Jan Terry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when push comes to shove, encouraging, inspiration, spiritual, trust,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things