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Resistance Poems - Poems about Resistance

Resistance Poems - Examples of all types of poems about resistance to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for resistance.
reverie
...An existential crisis Left to my own devices Not an ounce of assistance Never show any resistance Just comply and let it be Dignity isn't a necessity I'm not the flower you'd pick fro......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, 12th grade, age, conflict,
Form: Rhyme



In the shadow of the system, I withdraw in silence
...In the shadow of the system, I withdraw in silence, Watching as the sky effortlessly weaves the white of clouds. To the vast game of the world, I do not bow but smile faintly, Let the masks fall t......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Artificial Iris
... "Artificial Iris" Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere; the dream was eerily familiar, the words and their meanings, read in Syntax, once read between pa......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member America Never Learns
...The powerful have bombs the students have voices enough is enough they say University campuses unite A map in the year of 1947 tells a story no one in the west really wants to hear thieves o......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, child abuse, evil, war,
Form: Free verse
Rebirth 2024
...If a year ago someone told me that the American youth will burst on history's stage with unbounded courage, and lift their heart to a new great awakening, I'd say "sweet dreams." But, oh my god,......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, anger,
Form: Free verse



THE MURMURES OF THE FIELD OF MARS
...They were exhibited as strange curiosities, They all had a face, a name, an identity on this land soiled by negrophobia. They looked without seeing, their eyes lost in the ruins of their humanity......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Just a feeling
...There’s this invisible shape that get formatted between my hands A mold of a thing a statue of a being Writhing my hands I compress to feel its pressure I press to feel resistance With the slight......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, beach,
Form: Free verse
Two Avenger's Boxing Bout
...TWO AVENGER'S BOXING BOUT Midst rings of thunder and a vibrant haze, Two titans clash, in a gladiatorial gaze. Their presence makes the cosmos sing. Immortal meets might in a mortal boxing r......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sliders
... "Sliders" 500 clicks down, was code phrase for battle ships gone all depth charge. The deeper you go down that black-holed sink, the more you understand in your oxygen deprived brain,......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, satire,
Form: Narrative
I'm not strong enough
...I’m not strong enough I can’t carry this load today My ego is weighing me down It’s hard not to reach for a crutch The littlest of things weighs a ton I can’t lift them on my own Dope me up wit......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, addiction, depression, wine,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Shadows Following Apparitions
...like shadows they follow us they tell their stories on pages that may or may not be seen, or read, we a'muse them - "we", of course, are truly inconsequential in the greater scheme of thi......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, poets, truth,
Form: Free verse
THE CRADLE
...I am a child of war, misery, anger and suffering. I grew up with sadness, uncertainty and anxiety. I took refuge in solitude to avoid human bestiality and its hypocrisy. My distress illuminated......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, 12th grade, africa, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
...Still wrestling with impasse to contentment Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog just me and mine dark shadow slinking along outer limits of the edge of night doth blog passivity, the p......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, abuse, adventure, beauty, body,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Boreas by John William Waterhouse 1902 Oil on Canvas
...It’s not that I am languid, more that I am chagrined. So disappointed to be met by this dreadful north wind. I am on my way to see him, and I will look so disheveled. I am convinced the god Boreas......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, wind,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Rock of Time
...I have weathered the storms of ages and I have completed all the races; the clouds have broken away in the skies shining the light on the multitude that is trapped in the dark, mankind has fashioned ......Read the rest...
Categories: resistance, best friend, boat, books,
Form: Narrative

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