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Detractors Poems - Poems about Detractors

Time can no longer fly
...that day in December I remember— I sucked on my soaked tucked-in socks When I saw you–with a neat p.a.c.k of straw on your b.a.c.k I beckoned to you— you came but m......

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Categories: detractors, cute love, i love
Form: Narrative
Old World
...Until strife became the rule You fled your World Was it easy to break away in your ward of questioners Nobody seemed to care This tag of war I've seen your artillery why cant you understand ......

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Categories: detractors, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Blade Shall Fall
... Bless me, Father, for I will sin And go against your laws But the winds of change are blowing I must pick up the cause At break of dawn I'll march to war My sword will rise again ......

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Categories: detractors, christian, conflict, god, war,
Form: Other
Premium Member My Single Resolution for the New Year
...“There are enormous possibilities for one to improve in life, as world is a great university and we are taught through text books of life’s experiences with sagacious sages and savants as......

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Categories: detractors, engagement, future, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR BEING OUR MAKER
...August 20 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Jeremiah 33-35 Key Verse – Jeremiah 33:2 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his na......

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Categories: detractors, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration



Macabiloquent Mastery
...As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heav......

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Categories: detractors, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nadir
...Born into a landscape, Not quite littered with landmines, But the occasional hole - Holes that seem inescapable, Like quicksand - When I fall, I just keep falling. Where is the bottom, the ......

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Categories: detractors, depression, hope, time,
Form: Free verse
Come away my love
...Come away with me my love Come away with me my darling Come away with me to our new paradise Where our love would suffer no more Where envy and jealousy would be crucified To rise no more Com......

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Categories: detractors, best friend, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Two Witnesses
...God spoke to men in visions and dreams. Their words are like unpolluted streams, offering dying souls life-giving drink, and giving hope to those on the brink. These witnesses, both the old and......

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Categories: detractors, christian, extended metaphor, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wishing enemies well
...Day and night we toiled but some aims were foiled by souls who opposed us, thwarting our goal but we wished all well, since our heart’s unsoiled and detractors merely play their life role. Mad......

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Categories: detractors, forgiveness, joy, love,
Form: Sonnet
Self-Worth
...Self-worth comes at immense cost, But its true value is beyond compare. So easy it is to simply become lost In recriminations and treatment unfair. Yet individual worth, inner estimation, Crucia......

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Categories: detractors, appreciation, character, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Man of the Land
...Born poor in a working class family, Lula da Silva moved to Sao Paula in search of better life and his father. Challenged by life, he was supported by his mother. He had little or no formal edu......

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Categories: detractors, political, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thou Wretched Spot
...Thou wretched spot, thou churlish little knave, canst thou in truth believe thine own deceit? Engendered by thy lusts, thou art a slave, ensconced by thy morality’s retreat. Ye target those pla......

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Categories: detractors, anger, child abuse,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Milton Hankins
...Milton, your last word was “Bye’ With a request to your friends 'not to cry' Did you really mean it or was it an intuition? Mysterious are the workings of human mind! When your summ......

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Categories: detractors, bereavement, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Use As Fuel
...To those naysayers telling you "You're bound to fail," Respond with "Watch me!" Use their words of doom As fuel for inspiration To aim higher for the stars. Each time they employ tactics To di......

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Categories: detractors, inspiration, me, muse,
Form: Free verse

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