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Contending Poems - Poems about Contending

Premium Member When I Was Small
...I spied an ant beneath a kitchen sink and I remembered as he made me think about that steely silent battle of wills, under a wee mushroom, below its gills, when I was a hopeful, contending dro......

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Categories: contending, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Tragedy She Would Not Write
... Of imagery in yonder meadow she had much to say from daffodils on rolling hills to ivy covered fences Yet of tragedy she would not write of carnivores co......

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Categories: contending, animal, conflict, dark, flower,
Form: Rhyme



LATE NIGHTS
...Late-night talks have always been the best. The love I have for you is priceless. I don’t want anyone but you; you have to be mine. I need those late-night conversations. I want to feel reconnected w......

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Categories: contending, good night, missing you,
Form: Verse
Premium Member FAITH IN GOD WHO PERFORMS WHAT HE SAYS
...April 17 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 12-14 Key Verse – 1Kings 12:15 …For the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake… <>...

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Categories: contending, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
The signs of the times according to Daniel 12:12-13 part two and Q and A
...V 12 "Blessed is he who waits, and comes to one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. V 13 "But you, go your way til the end; for you shall rest (your body shall rest in your grave.) (In th......

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Categories: contending, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose



Premium Member The Fireworks Have Begun
... An angel and a devil work me over every morn Contending for ownership to neither (am I) forsworn I tell myself I won’t succumb to the devil, that old bum ......

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Categories: contending, angel, dark, power,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Envision
... (Prompt: Wisdom is not enough to calm your fears.) The kinetic world is on a great sprint. The silent seer stares at with a squint. He feels distressed for the occurring harms. With a solem......

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Categories: contending, fear, love,
Form: Rhyme
BEYOND FAREWELL
...Bound to reach a close, everything goes as thus Your farewell etched like a scar Whispers in the dark, so it flows Echoes in my mind as I still drift afar Contemplating lies, contending excuses ......

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Categories: contending, absence, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Every January first of the new year
...Every January first of the new year... finds me (a doggone muttering *****sapien) to give pause for reminiscences and to take stock (sh lock and barrel) about mein kampf in general and previou......

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Categories: contending, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Love Has Gone and Left Me
...Love has gone and left me Yet the day continues on I wake to ruminations Plaguing me from dusk till dawn. ____________________________________ My feet now hit the carpet As I gather......

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Categories: contending, angst, conflict, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
abrupt adjournment
...I stay stationary, collapsed, in a room unlike mine I stay bare, as I wait for my thoughts to align the bloodied hand continues it's repetitive round soon the dust in this chamber will have me dro......

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Categories: contending, break up, first love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Friend Arthur
... We were bused from Sacramento to Reno. We rode a train from Reno to Salt Lake City. We then bused from SLC to Kansas City. Somewhere along the I-80 route, we crossed the Great Divide. At t......

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Categories: contending, family, friend,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR HEARING OUR CRY
...September 21 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Joel 1-3 Key Verse – Joel 1:19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath ......

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Categories: contending, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Jeremiah chapter thirty five k j v
...The Lord is faithfull.! Thesselonians ch 3 v 3-5 Jerimiah in the midst of the rebbelious people, had taken Note of a sobdrly clad 'new group to his awareness' he made Enquiry at the market stal......

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Categories: contending, appreciation, education, endurance,
Form: Narrative
I Exist
...I Exist. What if one day you woke up only to discover your whole life was a dream?, You were never really here. Is it the feeling of being ignored? The feeling that my self esteem might have be......

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Categories: contending, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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