Counteract Poems

A Fly

...The windows have been shut for days
So I cannot begin
To comprehend exactly how
A fly has gotten in.

The A/C’s working overtime
To counteract the heat
And though we’ve ventured out at times,
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Categories: counteract, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPlatonic, Bipolar Friends in Crisis of the Heart

...Bitter and sweet runs our inspired affair: 
     two brooding friends, in crisis of the heart,
           suffer turmoil; but like ardent lovebirds, 
we soar the same serene currents of air.
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Categories: counteract, best friend, conflict, friendship
Form: Iambic Pentameter


Words

...Ordinary thoughts of standard diction 
Embellish themselves inciting friction 
Words give understanding for how I feel 
To give a 3D image, to sense the unreal. 

Hyponyms to idioms, romantic co...
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Categories: counteract, language, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHellboy Anung Rama

...The offspring of a demonic creature and a mage
Attempting to stop doomsday predictions, judge:
In a dissent to paradise, the proper arm of doom
Such a young child is guided by his past...
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Categories: counteract, analogy, child, dream, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Gotta Laugh So I Dont Cry

...Life’s pitiless pathetic ploy -  
There is more sad than there’s of joy. 

For hearty laughs and happy cheers 
Here comes a penalty of tears. 

I gleaned from what life got me throu...
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Categories: counteract, humorous, life,
Form: Rhyme


Pain In Happiness

...There is no integrity to the happiness I’ve built. 

Like a tree whose roots spread with momentum. 

Only to tangle and then poison. 

To shrivel- or maybe snap. 

Happiness feels so lonely s...
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Categories: counteract, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLandsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 18

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When he reached the courtyard DynDoeth stepped from the shadows and greeted him.  One by one each of the Elders also stepped forward.   Erlenkönig greeted each in turn.  There were only six of ...
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Categories: counteract, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberStay Focus On the Lord - the Cross of Salvation Style

...~  Stay Focus On The Lord ~ 
( Cross Of  Salvation ) 
 

~O~



Stay focus till you 
Reach your dreams goal 
Just  watch soul 
And you'll be fine 
Know with God's Love 
And help ...
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Categories: counteract, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse

Double Dose of Reality

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Crack-ed craniums,  splintered personalities
Neural pathway of coping escape
led to a padded place for shattered identities

Disposable souls, which fell thru the cracks,
became ill wee...
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Categories: counteract, allegory, drug, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberLight In a Quiet Room

...Cable news all morning,
Sailor take warning.
Cable news all night,
Sailor take fright.

When voices threaten menace,
Spreading rumors in the gloom,
I ease those bleak acoustics
With light in ...
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Categories: counteract, angst, light, wisdom,
Form: Lyric

The Omnipresent Man

...The omnipresent man

The shaky grasses held by the earthly mass
To counteract with their swim in the oceans of greenary
There was a tall tree in the rear end
Holding it's roots tight on the grou...
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Categories: counteract, beautiful, beauty, blue, destiny,
Form: Free verse

Mismatch

...Poem
Poet
They don’t always match
It is not exact
I mean, opposites attract
Every brand new batch
Of poems can detract
From the original, not intact
The idea that did hatch
May not become ta...
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Categories: counteract, dark, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

Fields of Matter

...Waving ocean in sphere of attraction in time,
cosmic fields by magical ecstasy beyond, as frame.
The long before remembered by spirit consciousness,
searching reasons flow in animated references.
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Categories: counteract, 12th grade, metaphor,
Form: Ballade

An Antidote

...A-n antidote is a remedy
N-eeded for an infection; 
T-o counteract the effects
O-f poisonous contagion.
N-ecessary antidote for flu
E-liminates the morbidity; 
T-he vaccine is a solution
T-o s...
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Categories: counteract, birthday,
Form: Acrostic

Behind a Cloud

...I set up a chair in a patch of sun
To counteract the chill
And tip my face up to the sky
To feel the warmth, until...

A cloud drifts by and blocks the rays 
Which had felt oh, so good.
A minu...
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Categories: counteract, sky,
Form: Rhyme

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