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Defiance Poems - Poems about Defiance

Defiance Poems - Examples of all types of poems about defiance to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for defiance.
Heat death from passion
...Love’s infinite cliches glue me to this earth. In the end, we are, yet, nothing but dirt. For what it’s worth, Entropic defiance is life’s tender hurt. ......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, atheist, death, deep, fire,
Form: Acrostic



From The Bottom Of The Cup
...I've toiled in shadows, my hands calloused and worn, Laboring silently, my spirit tattered and torn. For the promise of pennies, I've bent my back low, While the masters of plenty reap what I sow.......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, america, analogy, change, community,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God's Irresistible Grace
... The grace of God is so wonderful God has given it as a gift to mankind for without it man is lost completely their spiritual eyesight is totally blind God's grace is truly irresistible when ......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, god, gospel, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The in between years
...The in between years The un-handed mallet, laying without consience. The smiling, changing expression of freinds past, in defiance. That moment, sinking amongst dead feathers. The call of the cl......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
HIS ABUSE
...Underneath the moon's chilling embrace, Dwells a tale of torment, void of grace. A wife, once filled with dreams so bright, Now trapped in a realm where all is blight. Her name, a whisper in th......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, abuse, emotions, husband,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Forgiving the Unforgivable
...(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity) Can forgiveness mend, a childhood, fractured in the dark? ......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, child abuse, father son,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Love is all that remains within me
...Love is all that remains within me, A lonely torch burning in the crypt of oblivion, A heart mocking the times, a soul at war with silences, Lost in a canvas of shattered illusions, Poor love, yo......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Campus Crackdown
...In the name of which authority they disperse you from campus and label you "violent," and "criminal trespasser"? Netanyahu's friends cherish your repression just as they cheer his war crimes, they......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, anger,
Form: Free verse
Not so sweet
... Lying in the dark the fuse and fuzz of shadows as they meld and malform glimmers of lost light spit their desperation Creaks and cracks mutter a defiance of the day The dull ache of alon......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Misguided Power
...In the hollows of power’s grip, where shadows twist the heart’s cry, there—mights build thrones on backs bent, where abuse wears the mask of guidance, control, a cloak woven with the thread of fe......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, abuse, dark, money, power,
Form: Free verse
Whynehouse
...Sadness was silly when I was twenty-three Masked with a drink whenever it bothered me When my head hits the pillow, it won’t leave me be   Curious what keeps it alive inside me A lifetime of f......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, angst, anxiety, devotion, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Every Sunset Is Splendor To Believer's Eyes
...Nothing that God created is dull... harmony is found in clouds, in immense space, in earthly landscapes, in sunrises that blaze; if nothing stupefies us, these will! Every sunset is splendor to......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, beauty, creation, emotions, innocence,
Form: Lyric
Most women have grown tired of just being women
...Most women have grown tired of just being women, Weary of always being the flowers of unending seasons, awaiting to be plucked And placed in vases for gazes that never feel their roots; They, the ......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Such is Life
...I saw you sitting there acting as if you don’t care, I saw you sitting there staring at them with strange eyes, and rehearsing a strange thought in your head wishing that the table would turn, and ev......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, beach, birth, break up,
Form: Narrative
Flesh Wounds
...The mirror reflects a lifetime etched upon my skin; a canvas of stories whispered through maturity. I stand before it, middle-aged and exposed, my nakedness laid bare. My image holds no ju......Read the rest...
Categories: defiance, appreciation, beauty, body, growth,
Form: Free verse

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