Armored IsolationAs tattered night surrenders to the morning
amidst a bruised and beaten sky.
The hazy heavens weep their misty warning
of love’s intent to pass me by.
The rain, symbolic of my sorrow,
defeats today and steals tomorrow.
Unyielding dreams assault my weary mind
with visions of my deep regret.
I’d reached accord but never...
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Categories:
character, endurance, feelings, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
My PrizeI can't forget the night we met,
beneath the crystal skies.
I saw the stars, the Moon and Mars
reflected in your eyes.
In light of dawn, we shared a yawn
as darkness fizzled out.
How sweet and light, our love took flight,
defying any doubt.
With all your charm, you held my arm
and then you won my heart.
Of this I'm sure, we...
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Categories:
beauty, desire, endurance, life,
Form: Rhyme
A HUNDRED MEN WOULD HAVE LIVED
The horse whinnied,
are you alone?
He ran off into the light,
afraid of the night.
Boy what are you doing here?
You're far off trail arent you?
All the posse is up there,
I know all these mountains.
He was the lead horse in a wagon train,
It was a lot of mountain.
He could not climb,
his major wanted him to master it.
A peak...
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Categories:
anxiety, courage, endurance, fear,
Form: Free verse
RecoveryI think about my life
Trying to understand it’s means
When I fall asleep, will it untangle in my dreams?
I look out of the window
And it’s all a bit surreal,
I’m not sure what I’m looking for or how it is I feel
If I hadn’t lived my life this way,
What would I have become?
If it hadn’t blocked out...
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Categories:
endurance, anxiety, courage, creation, death,
Form: Free verse
Houges bit back'Paul Hogan now..A battler thats true' tall tails and long days,
The crocks could tell you.. Also' painter on the bridge
Over Sydney town, tested and tried.' Yet still not bested.' The taxman wanted to make him
Pay up' yet in the end?? Houges; just shot 'em down.'!...
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Categories:
education, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
The Old ManHe walks the dark alley's, unforeseen roaming
His life finds worthless circumstances to nature existence
Belly rumbles hunger, need a dying sleepless thirst
Once on a path to something before nothing
Stricken from life the dignity must swallow
He crumbles in streets, his pain felt deep
What am I but a man of worldly demise...
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Categories:
character, deep, emotions, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
You Are More Than Your Wounds - A Whisper of Strength
Pain refines,
but grace restores.
This is the whisper
of strength.
There are days
when the world feels heavy,
when the echoes of yesterday
press against the walls of today.
You walk forward,
yet the past lingers like a shadow . . .
a silent presence
reminding you
where you’ve been.
But hear this:
You are not bound
by...
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Categories:
blessing, endurance, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
chooseSo, what, we choose,
inflated child's balloon
Right now, so aggravated,
someone got my dad's phone number
and the pay back will be soon.
By all means,
attack the guy in a saloon
not some old guy of peace,
and laying most days in slumber,
Not wishing can excuse your greens.
How dare and I speak figuratively,
red are my eyes and sinfully,
I have you and...
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Categories:
anger, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
I’m Never Right
Oh, I ask, is it my appearance or rather to say my looks,
Or is it my stature that has gone according to the book.
...
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Categories:
endurance, integrity, parents, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Old Rock StoneWind chill ice pick flails “perma” stone,
rough storm weatherer’s bleak graveside moan!...
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Categories:
endurance, august, dark, death, deep,
Form: Crystalline
My Heartfelt Prayer
The scenes from Teheran and Tel Aviv
do in these blood-soaked knees
May this new war end
as fast as ‘twas begun
...
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Categories:
endurance, prayer, war,
Form: Couplet
Breath For LifeWhat's life's offer, forgotten innocent hunger feeds
Thirst within the soul questioning existing
What is a man except all that he is
His fight insane, death a reflected memory
The struggle for hope and dreams fade
Reality of life we pay our freedom
Never free, just drama of societies killing
Is every not suppose be...
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Categories:
character, creation, culture, endurance,
Form: Free verse
PEACE IS NOT ELUSIVEPeace is a word that mankind likes to throw around, but since the beginning of creation man has always had a warring spirit, always trying to conquer their fellow human beings.
Traveling Worldwide to do it, this elusive dream of peace from the powerful is a false representation to the people, while the mighty plunder...
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Categories:
endurance, betrayal, character, community, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Unsaid PrayersShe rose at dawn
and laid the mat,
not from longing,
but from old habit.
She bowed, then sat,
hands curled in form,
but the heart lagged—
a breath behind.
Whispers once lush
now stumbled dry—
echoes of names
once called with fire.
The tasbih clinked
without intent,
rolling bead by bead
without a soul.
She used to plead,
soaking her sleeves,
but now she blinked
and called it done.
Ameen, she mouthed—
not out of...
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Categories:
endurance, god, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Romance, Not MarriageWhen handsome and shouting cowboys flirt
with gorgeous gals galloping on wild horses,
they won't catch up despite their manliness:
women know what they are after and resist.
The mid-August sun is scorching, and dust rises
amid rust canyons, making trails of their escape;
youth is precious to them, and these girls seek romance,
not marriage to bear many children and feed...
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Categories:
adventure, america, endurance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Endurance Poems
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