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Defensive Poems - Poems about Defensive
Defensive Poems - Examples of all types of poems about defensive to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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The Wounded Hero
...Yesterday's hopes faded away, but memories are here to stay. Although love holds no guarantee, I'm asking you to trust in me. Clinging to unreconciled fears, you accuse fate of bringin......
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Emile Pinet
Categories:
defensive,
angst, anxiety, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sheild
...I can be defensive, yes, it's true A shield of protection, I construe For wounds of the past still sting and burn, Causing my cautious walls to discern. But underneath this hardened shell, Lie......
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Jeanine Dejesus
Categories:
defensive,
fear, hurt, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
ComPassion's Braver Angels
...Impressive values, like love, claim resources that liberally breed ecological natural physically happy health and conservatively feed emotional spiritual mentally glad wealth. Oppressive ......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
defensive,
anxiety, earth day, health,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
When The Impossible Becames Possible And Things Come True
...You can't paint the sky blue Or make the sun shine Create the flowers and make them bloom Or touch the moon See eternity and destiny Can't smell perfume if you have no sense of smell Walk on w......
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Peter Dome
Categories:
defensive,
blessing, for her,
Form:
Free verse
My Encounters With Racism and Accusations of Racial Priviledge
...It was 2019 when someone accused me of being in denial of the privileges I had as a white man. At the time I felt uncomfortable with this. I didn't understand how I had any advantage socially or eco......
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Ian McCleary
Categories:
defensive,
america, race, racism,
Form:
Prose
Reciprocal disdain
...I was once asked, what's the one thing I despise? But words faltered, for she, my reflection, listens to my cries. In the mirror, her gaze sharp, like daggers, meets mine, A silent dialogue of dis......
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Abigail Cole
Categories:
defensive,
hate, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Migrating Culture Change
...Perhaps immigration is our big US national anxiety because we don't know how to unilaterally abort cancerous growth of matricide. Too much to even think about at a merely nationalistic level o......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
defensive,
earth, earth day, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Cactus
...A cactus, me and full of spines, But deep in side are wet confines, And so they sprout away from me, Protecting from the enemy. Go question all and they will say, That they define my prickly w......
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Jd Maxwell
Categories:
defensive,
allegory, beauty, extended metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Stars of Clarity
...Echoes of your diffusive elegies, in the core of your rare piercing beautiful soul, recollections of somber yesteryears, sprouting deep lacerations and stigmatized unseen wounds, blackened in your go......
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Nik Canada7
Categories:
defensive,
deep, emotions, for her,
Form:
Free verse
Why Was This Student So Annoying
...The teacher was trying to figure it out She was brand new, and optimistic Fresh and ready to educate her first graders. She had prepared all summer and was organized. They came in and sat down,......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
defensive,
teacher,
Form:
Prose Poetry
25
...It’s Monday afternoon, the first day after Fall Break. Several of my suitemates are here, relaxing a bit before we hit the dining hall and then scatter, like debris from a bomb. There are a zillion t......
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Anais Vionet
Categories:
defensive,
friendship, humor, perspective, school,
Form:
Free verse
Play It Again
...If it's not organic it's not sexy and probably not all that funny either. If it's up and down bipolar movement with your arms and legs, it's Yang male energy, and potentially horned up and/......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
defensive,
age, depression, health, humor,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Jets
...It’s Sunday afternoon and several of us, Leong, Sunny, Anna, Lisa and her new BF Dave (well, he isn’t ‘new,’ he’s 26) and I are watching an NFL football game. The Eagles vs the Jets. There’s a pla......
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Anais Vionet
Categories:
defensive,
football, friendship, fun, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Poetic Podcast Episode 15 Bop
...I may have that thing you can’t explain, a style brushed with a touch of success; Still you missed my hard working hands; When some gave up on me? I pressed on. Now tell me again why you think it......
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Melani Udaeta
Categories:
defensive,
anger, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Other
Behind Those Eyes
...Behind Those Eyes What’s behind those dark brown eyes? A scheming mind, a selfish streak Blaming others, with blatant lies Words of scorn crammed in cheek Emptied on a victim when confronted ......
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Dave Cox
Categories:
defensive,
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
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