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Defences Poems - Poems about Defences

The Tribe
...you opened your mind and dropped your defences you smiled at pretences nodding blind, bending to the lies you're connected to the tribe you chatter and shout mouthing simple phrases spouting......

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Categories: defences, age, conflict, corruption, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On any ground
... When you’ve been subjected to violence, scars and bruises tell. When you’ve been subjected to violence the mind doesn’t trust people that well. When you’ve been subjected to cruelty the scars d......

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Categories: defences, absence, abuse, age, anger,
Form: Free verse



Mind of The Heart
...uncontrollable, taking action with no regard to the consequences. a wounded warrior learning from it mistakes building its defences. too say this lethal heart has a mind is absurd, broken and sh......

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Categories: defences, conflict, deep, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
In An Instant
...As he spoke, His words were like a hammer, shattering the defences of darkness. They were like light tunnelling through the night. They were like the sun rising to brighten the sky. Oh,......

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Categories: defences, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reflection and doubt
... Sententiousness I seriously cannot bear Just picture the gruesome scene When the true blues ten in a row will capture Seen by many as a purposeless pursuit Such grim moments see us drop our def......

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Categories: defences, confusion, introspection, journey, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Number forty seven White House occupant against all odds
...Number forty seven - White House occupant against all odds... regarding President elect Donald John Trump. As a cruel joke to self, I imagined myself as a Republican for that one glorious d......

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Categories: defences, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Demons and Fireflies
...Major depression crept in, seeped through my defences like smoke, the devil shimmying off my shoulder, setting up a nest in my brain- a puppeteer of despair, fingers dancing on my strings, turn......

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Categories: defences, dark, depression, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Domestic violence recovery
...Why do evil exist why do people expose domestic violence victims to their abusers to cause harm shame to relive terrible pains I will never understand how we seek shelter hide like spies an yet there......

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Categories: defences, allah,
Form: Musaddas
Premium Member The Story of your Stuff Contest
...A decision is made, I want nothing nice I'll have this for now, it'll surely suffice Prized possessions being taken leaves me afraid I want nothing nice, a decision is made No one can hurt me......

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Categories: defences, anxiety,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Love In The Trenches
... Now this is my definition of love It's much like wrestling in the mud You get down and dirty And say things quite flirty Then it all comes together with a thud You scream bloody mu......

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Categories: defences, love,
Form: Limerick
Spring is Here
...The birth of Springtime in ways it’s seeming, Fresh from the hive, the bees will now fly fine. Surges of honey drops, it’s been teeming. Pollen from honeysuckle on the vine.   Premonitions temp ......

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Categories: defences, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Real me Part one
...Four walls are enticing Can't get out of my own head Who is that figure in the mirror? The face that haunts me Nimble and limp - I feel misplaced Envious and boiled and ready to put on simm......

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Categories: defences, abuse, angst, anxiety,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Habitual Resentment
...Ever present, sometimes languished, Almost gone, then reestablished. This is why, defences high! To your offer, no reply.........

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Categories: defences, break up, conflict, depression,
Form: Couplet
For Sara: My Wife
...For all my feelings My opinion has no meaning I try to express emotion Why do I bother speaking I tell her that I love her I truly believe that she's beautiful She sheds tears as she says "Than......

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Categories: defences, love,
Form: Rhyme
THE WORLD OUTSIDE
...THE WORLD OUTSIDE Be inspired by nature in the raw At its core, a real and living thing It can bring life to all the senses No defences, just lost in wonder What lies under, often hard to see ......

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Categories: defences, nature,
Form: Rhyme

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