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Counteracting Poems - Poems about Counteracting

In Jesus Name

...I saw within the midst of it all,
The language, the idols.. the culture and history of the fall,
As if they owned the language and created these words long ago,
And the population just doesn't kno...
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Categories: counteracting, birth, blessing, devotion,
Form: Light Verse

Its Useless To Be Mean

...Please quit being such a witch
Take your attitude and ditch
It away from your meanness streak
Or it's looking very bleak
For you to have any friends
This kind of attitude just sends
A picture o...
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Categories: counteracting, anger, anti bullying, change,
Form: Rhyme



Not Quite Gi Blues

...Elvis has left the building.
West Berlin, a significant place
Where life was lived at a frantic pace.
Me and Old Elvis together through the night
In those days when I saw things
In stark black o...
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Categories: counteracting, imagination, military, music, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberParent Fostering Integrity

...Parenting defiant trauma
attached to both hurt child
and wounded parent
needing to continue
co-invested relationships,
positive and constant,
without breaks
in healthy communication,
direct
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Categories: counteracting, engagement, happiness, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberPoison, Antidote

...poison 
                    toxic, fatal 
   paralyzing, destroying, consuming 
 venom, arsenic, remedy magic bullet 
administering, counteracting, reversi...
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Categories: counteracting, creation, poetry, words,
Form: Diamante



Invisible

...
"Invisible"



Trapped
within 
4 Walls 
A ghost 

escapes
it's prison 
through 
unlocked door

beyond
freefall
a bird
now soars

The ...
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Categories: counteracting, imagery, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberContamination

...Conscientiously Combat Contamination:
  Pass punitive laws policing polluters
  Keep chemicals from killing crops like corn
  Plink and plunk pests with pure, perfect panaceas
  Segregate and shu...
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Categories: counteracting, earth, humanity, society,
Form: Alliteration

Its Useless To Be Mean

...Please quit being such a witch
Take your attitude and itch
It away from your meanness streak
Or it's looking very bleak
For you to have any friends
This kind of attitude just sends
A picture of...
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Categories: counteracting, anger, change, feelings, world,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIntrospection On Toast

...There once was a picture that wormed itself into my reverie
On a gray, cloudy morning, whilst it was raining and cold.
In this one picture were four slices of toast and five beverages.
Three glass...
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Categories: counteracting, food, introspection, life, simile,
Form: Ekphrasis

Congressional Conserve

...Then void the footprints so demur,
wherein once walking, my feet pure
now doomed to stalking, faith as cure
the vise I deemed as caulking, minus stir ~

My country, silence balking
truth to serve
ret...
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Categories: counteracting, devotion, history,
Form: Light Verse

Until Blood Is Spilt

...when one stands up against injustice
when one spits in the face of those that oppress &
shows not one ounce of fear in their eyes
often, if fortunate, standing amidst others who have come to
the same...
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Categories: counteracting, life, fire, fire, power,
Form: Free verse

A Sinner's Prayer

...Perpetually I am thrown in the pulse of mourning against the wall
With sincerity I ask lord if you indeed subsist, apprehend my soul through it all
From the immoral ways accumulated in yesteryears
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Categories: counteracting, introspectionme,
Form: Rhyme

Old Flame

...Fire rekindle as the old ashes are still burning
The flame in ones soul ignites
The soul awakens as there is a new yearning
In your own world was born a new light
Overflowing passion with...
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Categories: counteracting, lost loveold, old, passion,
Form: Rhyme

Walking Backwards

...circular entitlements / circulatory retirement i'm not
kidding (yet) my sweetpreciousdarling        pet,
now sit & shut up. wince & shudder / shutters closed
yet peepholed like a __sponge [drip.dr...
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Categories: counteracting, allegory, angst, faith, life,
Form: Free verse

Quiet

...From some quiet moment, I can mirror
some knowing thee art with me as its wear
does chasten its summation in its here
its you beside my causing, my Hope clear!

That pictures of your grace are e...
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Categories: counteracting, hope, inspirational, introspection, me,
Form: Rhyme

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