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Contend Poems - Poems about Contend

Contend Poems - Examples of all types of poems about contend to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for contend.
Premium Member HOLY WAR FOR A HOLY LAND
... One day after Earth Day…thinking about what Earth Day is celebrated for… I’m also thinking about all the children on opposite sides of a war Thinking of all the horrors on this Earth with which......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, war,
Form: Rhyme



My Happy Place
...A world yet unknown The place feared The path lost in time Is a land endeared Where angels refuse to tread Is the place I build my nest A land forlorn and barren I discovered is flowing w......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, anxiety, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Rhyme
WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS
...WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS In the delicious womb of all beginnings we learnt to giggle electrons to bear all things without nusturtiums, pink lilies or doughnuts warm gurglings of God’s dream......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, allegory, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Manic Episode
...delusions, illusions, these random contusions, idolic notions of noiseless commotions, keeps me in motion, whirling with the gravity I'm on my knees, praying what you're saying I still believ......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, confusion, death, depression, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member See Saw Of Ups And Downs
...Love is like a seesaw, both sides can go up or down. It's a matter of give and take but hope it's about giving A lot more than you ever take with respect It takes two to tango you both have to wa......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, angst,
Form: Free verse



Towards the Horizon
...Towards the Horizon Sitting in a corner, absorbing the incandescent hue, A malt for company, awaiting a magical cue, I often wonder, all these years, where were you? I reflect upon the days whi......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, birthday, cheer up, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Diary
...With your sudden guise giving Shirley poppies seeds away To Welford for the snowdrops in mid February a hushed garden with done, knuckled buddleia rose hips nipped no surplus food for the bird......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nicholas, My Clever Grandson
...The joy of birth, the growing up, leads us to adore our lovely babies. But not, alas, without the toils of life. Because we experience a lack of sleep, contend with baby vomit, or idiotically pu......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, grandchild,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Matter Of Faith
... When I was a child, I wondered Was deep sleep, death? Was every morning a new life, a new incarnation? Waking up, I found the people around me were the same I was the same too, not......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, allusion, creation, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Contenders Ready!
...Forget roses and chocolates my friend Full on romance is what I recommend No bulk buying from CostCo 12 bottles of Lambrusco You will need to up your game to contend......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, romance,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Conspire
...I want to be closer As close as your breath The heartbeat that separates The living from death A touch as electric As life flows, it seems This story is written In pages and reams I want ......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, blessing, friendship, trust, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Horses Come
...This poem is CUBE16 which is a form I created several years ago. The poem is based on a scripture verse. If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou conten......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, christian, fear, hope, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Puppet and the Strings
...you are the puppet, I am the strings, and yet you control everything, to wake up each day with a promise I've made, only for you to not see it through, does anything matter to you? alone in ......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, angst, extended metaphor, mental
Form: Rhyme
The Last Song
...Who among us will write at the end Who among us the last to contend Who among us will capture goodbye Who among us won’t wither then die Who among us will stare it all down Who am......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, song, time,
Form: Rhyme
Leaving
...See them scattered everywhere in buses, trucks and horse buggies, thousands of them lined the street with only the clothes on their backs and a bottle of water to wet their dry throats when the tempe......Read the rest...
Categories: contend, america, best friend, blessing,
Form: Narrative

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