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Resists Poems - Poems about Resists

The Mandate Returns
...From the ashes of struggle, we rose— I, Mao, with fire. I, Deng, with reform. Now, Xi walks where dragons tread, With silence sharper than swords. Taiwan waits—not to be taken, But to remembe......

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Categories: resists, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Point of No Return
... Written: May 31st, 2025, for contest by Kai Michael Neumann *************** In the stillness of twilight, shadows sway. and a delicate craft rests on the shore, embarkin......

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Categories: resists, analogy, conflict,
Form: Free verse



The Color Brave
...In a sea full of green, so wide and still, Where every leaf leans to the wind’s will, They whisper the rules in rustling tones, “Grow alike, sway alike, don’t stand alone.” But somewhere beneat......

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Categories: resists, beauty, desire, destiny, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Leaves Me Breathless
... The sea waves live- both fast and slow; they gallop high, then tiptoe low, _by Poet There's nothing quite as movi......

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Categories: resists, inspirational, ocean, tribute,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Cheetahs are cheaters
...They're as swift as a lightning bolt, Just a stern gaze—gazelles revolt. A fleeting shadow in the night, All prey leap off in frantic fright. Stalking prey is their known special skill,......

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Categories: resists, animal, eulogy, nature,
Form: Rhyme



The Purple Mark
... The stained digit, a purpled declaration, a temporary badge of civic duty. A single press, a moment's commitment, indelible ink blooming on the forefinger, a mark that resists casual erasure......

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Categories: resists, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Journey Into Transformation
... War shapes the warriors it touches, leaving behind vestiges that linger in their lives long after the battlefield fades from view. In Recon Marines: Searching for the Real Enemy, we are ......

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Categories: resists, brother, grief, hope, memory,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Happily Discontent
...whatever I keep, I find despite outside odds - see the tell stirred magic in subconscious mind doubt casting its own spell liminal subterfuge of thought enter and exit the swell suffusing ......

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Categories: resists, angst, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Distractions
...Do I want this? Your hands on my skin You’re gripping my chin With every kiss I just want to be Nurtured Your hands explore further My mind resists But my body continues I'm not gonna miss yo......

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Categories: resists, deep, desire, lust, sensual,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Prescription Drugs
...The synthetic poison that courses through my veins churns the bowel of the earth and sent a tremor through my heart. What kind of remedy this is? It heals one part, But devastates the other......

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Categories: resists, health,
Form: Free verse
Scarcity created by Those that Steal Our Abundance
...Abject poverty it is said, must actually be honed, Then cultivated and even forced bred, This necessarily includes paper money of course, since they print it for free, offset by our taxes a mea......

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Categories: resists, betrayal, community, society,
Form: Dramatic Verse
mix'n merrily 'mongst morn'nin mist
.... az if'n hern purty belong'd though true hern could did ......

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Categories: resists, allusion, appreciation, beautiful, best
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Headwinds
...Uphill battles are won and lost in the crosswinds Gusts of defiance brazenly slap across the terrain If a path is forged it must be carved with a machete Steppingstones nothing but laughable after......

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Categories: resists, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unwritten
... There is a poem I have yet to write, a ghost ensnared within the ribs of silence, a pulse in the throat of absence, a rhythm swirling down the drain of thought. I do not pursue it. It resists......

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Categories: resists, writing,
Form: Free verse
Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard
...Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard... since being a student in grade, junior and high school analogous to geometry proof how lack of use proves quite aware that finger musc......

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Categories: resists, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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