Long Beat back Poems
Long Beat back Poems. Below are the most popular long Beat back by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Beat back poems by poem length and keyword.
The Philistine Troops Gathered Up For War
The Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...
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Categories:
beat back, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
More Than Race-F
Despite the day-to-day signs of man’s bitter degradation, there were many in the South who somehow still failed to see the endless pain of segregation. From the viewpoint of those who never lived there as...
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Categories:
beat back, america, family, race,
Form:
Narrative
Angels of Mercy
Angles of Mercy
By
Kevin L Fairbrother
There is not to many of us that can say that the owe their existence on this earth to a Native in a Foreign country, in my case I can say...
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Categories:
beat back, angel, father, memory, men,
Form:
Narrative
Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood
Scarcely the Dropper-- a roach antennae Felt,
Some Maudling exterminator of nakedly inhuman hands.
Boiled renunciation falling sick With life itself,
For Libido has and Always Will Be…. the most Impersonal of instrument.
Stepping out and through a purple...
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Categories:
beat back, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, love, passion, life,
Form:
Burlesque
A Poem.
In the early morning hours I sit and think of a time, a place, a moment it was
almost twenty years ago,
In the distant I heard the gun shots ring out ,
soon I was...
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Categories:
beat back, childhood, life, on writing and words, life,
Form:
Free verse
Strikingly Naked
Strikingly Naked
By Odin Roark
Voicing the reflection one sees insures
the facade really is,
was,
must have been.
Time passes…
How smoky the reflection,
this aging...
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Categories:
beat back, truth, vanity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Pheonix
In commemoration of your eighteen years
I will weave you a story fit for all ears
Of a special girl who is very much loved
A precious gift who was sent from above
A fallen angel who we are...
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Categories:
beat back, family, girl, life, girl, life, strength,
Form:
Epic
Bounce Back
Sitting in disbelief feeling anger and grief,
as if I’d wish the worst or place a curse
On people with more worth
while I’m trying to turn a leaf.
Why would I hurt after I did desert...
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Categories:
beat back, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Bleed To Be
A breathing machine
is what I've become
no engine to rev in anger.
A tower of bones
with hands to shake hands
but no strength to hold onto purpose.
These feet making tracks,
they don't fill big shoes
and the shadow I cast...
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Categories:
beat back, anger, angst, depression, pain, song, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Oh Gandhiji Come Back, World Needs You
Parents beating their children with scale, belt, iron rod
Burning their hands, pricking them with needles
Leaving them in dark room alone
I hear them cry in agony
Distressed,sad mind says
Oh Gandhiji come back, world needs you
Cases of...
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Categories:
beat back, 10th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Obstreperous Vocal Chords
I am lost, my eyes wide, and my heart quivering.
My legs are paralyzed, and I have no memory.
I stroll silently, my consciousness wandering.
I am alone inside an unexplored territory.
I would wish the room to be...
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Categories:
beat back, analogy, appreciation, character, soulmate,
Form:
Rhyme
The Company You Keep Falls Apart
THE COMPANY YOU KEEP FALLS APART
I’m talking to myself again. I love me.
Sorry you don’t. Apologetic for words
beat back the devil with a baseball bat.
There is a dark spirit here. Push it in to outer...
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Categories:
beat back, absence, abuse, age, anti bullying, anxiety, baby,
Form:
Ballad
Voodoo Doll
Some image of hate or frustration
The needles anguish you may have chosen
To stick and jab
In a collective spasm
The agreement to solicit such action
And beat onto the wall of prejudice
The same nails you are crucified with...
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Categories:
beat back, forgivenesshate, hate, prejudice,
Form:
Free verse
The Tops
up a steep and gritty track
reach the tops
wilderness reclaims a verge
of wintery snags
land juts and tilts
hauls out
lays treeless
clumps and hags
pitch up stricken soil
heap their marshy troughs
loud the heartbeat
nearer to feral thought
then any numb mouth or...
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Categories:
beat back, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Hot Summer Days-F
In a picture I saw city kids on a hot summer day
It could have been any city like New York or Chicago
Kids are having a feast of fun, laughing with worries none
The sidewalks are lined...
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Categories:
beat back, america, children, poverty, summer, sunshine,
Form:
Couplet
Nightmare, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Cauchemar
Nightmare, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s Cauchemar
(Translation of Paul Verlaine’s quintilla : « Cauchemar ». As usual, I have tried to stick to the original’s stanzaic format and rhyme scheme. T. Wignesan)
In my unfurling dream I...
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Categories:
beat back, dream,
Form:
Quintilla
Don'T Let Me Down
Your love comes
rising to my face
and I see it written in your eyes
that together we've come to the place
Where Love, sweet sweet Love
is gonna beat back all our cares
wash away all the pain, the...
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Categories:
beat back, love, song-me, heart, heart, love, me, together,
Form:
Lyric
Facts of Life
The dayz beat back & fourth with the good & the bad rocking a lullaby to our daily agendas. Serenading the arrival of our deaths & the funeral that's sure to come for all. I...
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Categories:
beat back, adventure, appreciation, blessing, confidence, encouraging, feelings, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
I Know Not Freedom
My soul cries out
For freedom lost, for songs silenced by doubt
In the shadows of man's fair wisdom's grip
My voice fades, unable to let it rip
I have no freedom!
My words wither and dreams grow tense
In...
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Categories:
beat back, conflict, cry,
Form:
I do not know?
Too Many Eyeballs Staring At Me
I beat back the shadows
all day long
for I know now
the right from wrong
a master student
rightfully so
this light disciple
expects to know
the way of a broken soldier
when the load is too much to shoulder
the back gives in...
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Categories:
beat back, adventure, allegory, art, depression, fantasy, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
Potatoes and Grit
Sometimes you just have to look him right in the eye
You know!?
Look that potato of life right in the eye
And say
"HEY MAN!
LIFE AIN'T SO BAD!"
Sometimes you just have to wipe away all that grit
You know,...
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Categories:
beat back, angst, inspirational, passion, life,
Form:
Free verse
Time's Secret
The day was falling,
enacting all its own regret
with light, like washed-out technicolor.
One glance affirmed:
the rain would soon begin.
Thunderheads played God,
recruiting legions higher still;
I saw the sand provoked
and furious upon the air.
I...
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Categories:
beat back, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
I Am But a Mortal Craving Your Existence
You are a bright fallen star from the mesmerizing sight up above,
You make my tender heart pump pure blood of joy with just a minor glance,
If only you would grant me the blissful privilege to...
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Categories:
beat back, desire, devotion, heartbroken, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Pulse of Breathing
Enter the velvet, black round room
where neon teeth are blinding bone
and whispers from limp spider webs
are drowned by the pulse of breathing
Windows melted a along time ago
trap the boarded up beats, and the aqua flow
of...
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Categories:
beat back, imagination, life, people, places,
Form:
I do not know?
Whatever Happened To Breakfast
Whatever happened to breakfast, lamented French Toast
People love me, gushing with syrup, I used to boast
But now my brand is flat as a pancake
...
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Categories:
beat back, food, humor, loss, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme