Confrontations Poems

Premium MemberI Shoulda Said That!

...In the heat of prior confrontations,

My tongue, well then, was typically tied.

Later, with all the right conjugations,

Well then, my tongue, so easily replied.

CURSES, I Coulda, Woulda, S...
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Categories: confrontations, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

The Night New York Slept

...It was one solemn, long night,
Tenebrous with the astuteness of perfidy,
And multiple hours before the break of an
Impatient dawn.
Lampposts froze through the pergola of winter.
Limp from exposu...
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Categories: confrontations, city, new york,
Form: Free verse


UNFINISHED NOVEL

...UNFINISHED NOVEL
by Matthew Tripley

Once, an author I tried to be...
Dazed In The Life was my story.
Movies and music - central themes
Plotting characters and their schemes.
Surrounding the s...
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Categories: confrontations, addiction, drug, murder, teenage,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberStrategy of Life

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                                        Life is convoluted
                          Coming across happiness and sorrow
                                       Love and betrayal
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Categories: confrontations, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD FOR REIGNING OVER US

...July 1 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 96-100

Key Verse – Psalms 96:10 Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be m...
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Categories: confrontations, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration


Premium MemberI Couldn't Talk About It, So I Wrote A Poem Poetry Contest

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If I had a hashtag or even understood them,
it might be “TMI.”
I don’t lack for stories and opinions.
I’ll engage in conversations with friendly total strangers
when right away I see they share...
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Categories: confrontations, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMoon in Scorpio

...#moon in Scorpio... 
As a result,
poesie naturally gravitated
toward intimate situations
that allowed her free reign 
to openly express herself. 

After I gave her psychoanalysis
I found her ...
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Categories: confrontations, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Secret of The Rainbow

...Where is the secret of the rainbow?
At the edge of one's own life?
Whence does it come, with those lovely pastel colours?
     Is it a heavenly art or a mere human illusion?
     Some form of an ...
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Categories: confrontations, rainbow,
Form: Free verse

Neighborly Disputes

...Death and heaven
are not good neighbors.
They live too close together,
there are disputes,
mostly territorial,
heated confrontations arise.
If they lived further apart,
if they had mediators
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Categories: confrontations, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYielding

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It's not a matter of confrontations face to face.
Like most things, it's all about time and space.

Highways and roadways are designed for travelers.
The motorists may be workers or vacatione...
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Categories: confrontations, people,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberThe Secret of The Rainbow

...Where is the secret of the rainbow?
At the edge of one's own life?
Whence does it come, with those lovely pastel colours?
Is it a heavenly art or a mere human illusion?
Some form of an ancient cr...
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Categories: confrontations, rainbow,
Form: Free verse

The Alcoholic

...The Alcoholic
Parley poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Dirty dufflecoat wino
Zigzag up the street
Wobble wobble..
Topsy-turvey on the one side
And half past puzzled
His body form
Is out of order
His...
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Categories: confrontations, addiction, anger, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member THREE CONFRONTATIONS

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THREE CONFRONTATIONS

Make shift medium
Bounded indifferences
Empathy embraced stadium
Bloated voices
Constipated messages holistic
Nervous choices
Spitting ballistic, statistics
Diarrhea ...
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Categories: confrontations, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberForgive My Silence

...Dear December, Forgive my silence, 
I’m still bleeding from 
               the lacerations,
I still hear the echoes 
from our confrontations.
So much was 
          lost in translation,
thoug...
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Categories: confrontations, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberConfrontation

...I'm okay, you're okay is a mask in the land of pretend.


Being cool as a cucumber is okay for cowards.
Pollens cannot always hide themselves within soft flowers.
Breaking from established norms...
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Categories: confrontations, confidence, courage, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

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