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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
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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......
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Jim Yerman
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......
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Raki Lyon
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......
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Ghairo Daniels
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......
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Ash Miller
Categories:
contend,
confusion, death, depression, mental
Form:
Rhyme
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......
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Peter Dome
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......
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Rajat Bagchi
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......
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Antony Glaser
Categories:
contend,
anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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Victor Buhagiar
Categories:
contend,
grandchild,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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MB Farookh
Categories:
contend,
allusion, creation, faith, god,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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Di11y Da11y
Categories:
contend,
romance,
Form:
Limerick
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 ......
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Sam Scott
Categories:
contend,
blessing, friendship, trust, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
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......
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Robert Zimmerman
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 ......
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Ash Miller
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......
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Kurt Philip Behm
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......
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Christine Phillips
Categories:
contend,
america, best friend, blessing,
Form:
Narrative
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