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Puissance Poems - Poems about Puissance

The Unbroken Spirit of African Leaders' Legacy

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Africa's land, shadows of colonialism still linger
Leaders rise, with hearts aflame, resisting the fetters
Of Western dominance, a legacy of dolor
Their courage, a luminary, in the dark of night...
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Categories: puissance, allegory, appreciation, betrayal, endurance,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAurora in the Ossuary - Broken but bold enough to bounce back

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Written: August 14, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
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I writhed in the womb of a necrotic hush,
a stygian silence where barghests lurk—
My ...
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Categories: puissance, analogy, identity,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberTrapped Breath

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Written: August 07, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Mark Toney

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Corset of steel tightens—ratified pain,  
Vestigial breath trapped in ischemia thrall.  
The...
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Categories: puissance, analogy, character,
Form: Free verse

The grief I hold apart

...Drops of rain smudge the window blurring my vision,
Pouring down as my spirit drowns in omission,
The obscure moon feeding wispy light into the void's delight,
Bowing to the impalpable depths of n...
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Categories: puissance, deep, desire, devotion, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOur Differences

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Like pieces of a puzzle,
Our differences fit together,
In this grand mosaic called life.

Each shape unique, Each color vibrant,
A bourgeoisie woven with threads of diversity.

The edges m...
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Categories: puissance, life,
Form: Free verse



L Etat Trouble De La France

...Qu'est-ce que nous sommes, sinon des larmes tombant dans les villes,
Tu es moi, et je suis toi, et ensemble nous pleurons,
Écrivant de la poésie au milieu de la nuit,
Fuyant la politique, les nouv...
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Categories: puissance, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTea Time In the Desert

...Tea time in the desert,
a stellar hibiscus moment;
the freedom of passionate dreams
build to a crescendo amid
starlight reverie.

A release of stress and trauma,
is a sip of love from the u...
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Categories: puissance, appreciation, drink, peace, poems,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDaredevil

...Like many comrades and councilors of Moon Knight,
Daredevil, Matt Murdock, was in fight and might, bright;
Reservoir of Herculean power and strength,
He could lift thousands of pounds and punch an...
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Categories: puissance, hero,
Form: Rhyme

Split Ends

...Her hair, blonde, is twisted in the wind.
The whipping strands are the colors
of the shinning cropland 

by which she is standing. She is alone 
by this golden feed that is bounteous; wholesome ...
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Categories: puissance, allusion, angel, anger, beautiful,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberPowerful

...You are powerful, I see it in your walk, puissance;
proud and strong as the mighty oak.
Your words speak with the strength of our people;
your shoulders hold their plight.
You have never waivered...
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Categories: puissance, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberPuissance

...Breathe, celebrate our ways; never forget them.
Rejoice in the power of our foremother, forefather.
Puissance in each footstep.
Celebrate their words; sing loud, spirited.
Sing to the moon which ...
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Categories: puissance, africa, blessing, celebration, courage,
Form: Epic

To Chance

...Sometimes 
You have to 
Leave that which 
Puissance couldn't hold 
To chance,
Trust
The rhythm 
To Dance 
Back 
Good corollary.
The falcon 
Flaps 
Awhile 
Seize, 
And spread
Wings—
A ...
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Categories: puissance, humanity, mystery, truth,
Form: Free verse

Wolf Meet and Greet

...I identify as the king who only kneel to God
With the puissance to smile with destruction all around
Frustration mental abusiveness
Still comfortably above ground
Humbled by the sounds of instrum...
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Categories: puissance, abuse, allegory, blessing, parody,
Form: Free verse

After Violins, Buoyant Triangles On Red Horizon

...Morning brews sunrise colors-
yolk yellow seeping over 

edges; light sterling silver 
strung; rubbed linens ironed 

across the rim. The creatural
world-a lime olive, sea blue 

cup- has a ...
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Categories: puissance, allusion, appreciation, art, autumn,
Form: Prose Poetry

The Colors of the Half Man Half Beast

...A sketch of cimarron 
shades: an appollyon emerges,
her spectre arms reach

like the charcoal bones
of the wild, the webbed trees.
Their silhouette absorbed

into the night clasp 
the edge o...
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Categories: puissance, allah, allusion, angst, color,
Form: Haiku

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