Long Survivor Poems
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Liquor of Lament: My Glass is Half FullVerse 6: I've given up love countless times
I needed to pay up for my heartbroken crimes
I already repented for my sins that made my high hopes paper-thin
Don't you feel that envy from deep within?...
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Categories:
survivor, addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Of Winks and Wings - Part 2 "Oh, indeed she was, young man ... I mean Greg. It IS Greg, if I recall correctly?"
"Yes. Or you can call me True Friend if...
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Categories:
survivor, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Amberina Ballerina
A born lioness
my untamed heart.. ha!
wild this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became a paper...
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Categories:
survivor, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, pain,
Form:
Free verse
The Laughing Master II - Dwindling FamilyDwindling Family
To get a little
Live a life of fair balance
Giving in like kind.
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Who was next to go... his memory brought up his twin sisters
Yes, so rare as their birth survival was…
Coming as they did together,...
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Categories:
survivor, adventure, dream, fantasy, history, life, loss, remember,
Form:
Haiku
MeI was born to be a survivor and a fighter.
That's why I became a writer.
As a child the physical abuse I endured.
Being a baby it was pretty absurd.
The child of recovering addicts.
Even one that still...
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Categories:
survivor, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, depression, drug, how
Form:
Rhyme
War is a War CrimeOnce wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones.
The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...
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Categories:
survivor, war, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Tea and Poetry in the Ides of March - PART THREEAgain the alarm is set.
Strawberries, date squares…Yum, Yum.
The alarm rings again. The tea party is over.
She returns to her perch where her wings are immediately clipped by the Bald Eagle who...
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Categories:
survivor, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Robinson CrusoeI killed my friend,
I never wanted,
Do not see me cruel,
I did it for love.
We both ran naked
Under this influential shower.
No one uncoupled his lips
Against this faint madness,
We were indebted,
Either had to earn the prize.
It was...
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Categories:
survivor, bereavement, betrayal,
Form:
Imagism
Be appreciative alwaysHappy is he who isn’t led astray
He walks in happiness in his stride
Tranquility is in His Word today
Here, I lay in silence in which I hide
Blessed is he who doesn’t speak with ungodly men
Blessed is...
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Categories:
survivor, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Mean Economists 404This course will encourage aspiring cooperative economists
to distinguish between mean national incomes
and global median incomes,
with diverse long-term capital growth/evaporation trends
expected.
First,
imagine USA mean income, including investment income,
could approach $500,000 for two-parent working households
per year.
Are you kidding...
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Categories:
survivor, blessing, culture, health, humor, love, money,
Form:
Political Verse
Afghanistan
How interesting. A contest about Afghanistan.
Afghanistan sits landlocked between Pakistan on the East
and Iran on the West with a population of 39 million. It's enemy ...
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Categories:
survivor, america, military, political, soldier, war,
Form:
Verse
BIOGRAPHY Mark Hurlin SheltonMark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay, near Sea Point, where he attended his first schools: Ellerton...
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Categories:
survivor,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Driving LicenseWhich are your points for living
if we all die into cold leaky stink or ash anyway?
What's the point of dying
if we could otherwise live continuously?
Heading down the river
on AAA rite of ritual passage.
Six years since...
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Categories:
survivor, age, death, earth, health, humanity, humor, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Forgotten Legion of Rose Thorns
"The Forgotten Legion of Rose Thorns"
Reversing roll calls
the Anti-Hero
jumps through
burning hoops
instinctively
bathed in the magnum glow
designed to fire cartridges
with a kick like a field gun
a bloody victory
is eventually won
lacking conventionality
novel and picaresque
placing bad...
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Categories:
survivor, abuse, dark, girl, hero, muse, women,
Form:
Free verse
When you told me
When you told me..,,
When you told me you had cancer,
i could not believe it.
My little sister is poorly and I wish it was me.
You told me not to worry then you said.
“ I’ve got...
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Categories:
survivor, bereavement, cancer, cry, god, grief, sister, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
Don't Lose FaithRaise me up to His healing stream
Don’t adhere to crazy-chaotic Calamity, my dear
Make believe is a dreary, dragging dream
Thrive to survive, my darling, and have no fear…
God is here
Christ will rise
I will...
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Categories:
survivor, courage, deep, emotions, encouraging, endurance, faith, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Crazy MeI feel like hurting myself, I’m sorry, Lord
Don’t know why I feel the urge crawl into me
With crooked, malicious, wicked discord
I need scars of soaring, eager sympathy
To be my shadow beneath me
I love the...
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Categories:
survivor, angst, crazy, desire, endurance, psychological, strength, stress,
Form:
Lyric
The Job - part 1The Job
I got a plane to catch in the morning. 8:15 AM out of Austin, destination Orange County, CA. Never cared much for California and I don’t think anything about this trip is...
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Categories:
survivor, death,
Form:
Narrative
The Compensatory Man Par ExcellenceI seldom indulge in letter writing
Because I consider it
To be a cold and illusory
Means of communication.
I will only send someone a letter
If I'm certain it's going to serve
A definite...
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Categories:
survivor, me,
Form:
Free verse
The Avalanche - BOTH Audio and Text
Everything went silent as I turned to break the news.
Glancing ‘round I found a desperate look on every face,
And when I tapped the microphone to check that it was on,
It almost seemed as though I...
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Categories:
survivor, mountains,
Form:
Verse
Beautiul scars
Morning unfolds me into
its warm and accepting light.
I sweep my front porch, read to my boys,
walk the dog. I let the breeze blow my hair
and rustle my skirt into fluid waves
exposing my beautiful...
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Categories:
survivor, forgiveness, introspection, life, memory, moving on, pain,
Form:
Free verse
I can clean, I can drivePlenty of sleep, no more tv, the wars in the Middle East
are resource wars, disguised as religious debates.
So Dad would say.
A beautiful winter day, hunting
season. A Gun In Every Home, in light of U.S. mass...
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Categories:
survivor, home, magic, poetry, religion, sleep, war, winter,
Form:
Verse
your time for a crash course on divine intervention
or
a quick cruise on the highway to Understanding
"behind every survivor of a transport truck crashing into the rear of a vehicle
is a totality of natural causes rather than a 'supernatural' intervention."
...
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Categories:
survivor, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Snowflake That Sank The TitanicThe Snowflake That Sank The Titanic
It all begins with a single snowflake,
(Each one in itself unique)
Brought about through evaporation,
And returned by the force of gravity
In the form of snow to the planet,
To rest on the...
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Categories:
survivor, education, fate, history, remember, world, , western,
Form:
Verse
Talking MirrorsI'm a fairly active charter member
of Connecticut's Medical Marijuana Program,
qualifying because I'm also one of the oldest HIV+ survivors in the U.S.
In fact,
not a single cell within my entire organism
would have been brought to...
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Categories:
survivor, earth, health, humanity, humor, mental illness, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry