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Self Preservation Poems - Poems about Self Preservation

Self Preservation Poems - Examples of all types of poems about self preservation 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 self preservation.
Insomnia welcomed courtesy high test coffee
...Insomnia welcomed courtesy high test coffee consumed later at night than usual finds me bright eyed and bushy tailed amply lively to learn about an American radio and television personality ......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member After the Storm Passes By
...Did you know that Monarch butterflies will not attempt to fly in the rain because the raindrops will damage their delicate wings? They rest and patiently wait. It’s self-preservation. ~~~~~~......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, butterfly, rain, storm,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Nibbles McCheesy
...Nibbles McCheesy was ever so speedy And scampering all round the house Trojan the tabby was getting quite crabby For failing to capture that mouse That cowardy custard could not cut the mustard......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, animal, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jelly Fish
...Jelly fish's transparency Clear as day Watch out for that sting Enchanting, fascinating Persistent, stubborn Single-minded One-purposed life Self Self-preservation Zealous......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, fish, nature,
Form: Other
Premium Member Oblivion
...Oblivion is a one-way journey into Hades, an Odyssey down the ancient river Lethe, a watery labyrinth where sojourners who imbibe on its water find their thirst unquenchable and remembr......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, introspection, journey,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member The Brave Brussels Sprout That Saw Christmas Out
...The memory span of the average sprout Means he forgets why the light is out If life in a fridge will be life without end Never forget that the dark is your friend *......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, christmas, courage, food,
Form: Rhyme
Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:
...Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell: Yours truly just a fluke of the universe worming his way hook, line and sinker thru the meandering time stream, which current speeds up the older I......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, age, america, creation, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jeweling
...LOVE Flow Difference Desire Halt Stone Quartz Dolly Void/Light Good/Evil Right/Wrong Male/Female Life/Death Disconnected.....rejected Fear/Doubt/Unbelief Thought/Value/Belief Entitlem......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, love, violence,
Form: Free verse
End of Palestine Foretold
...And now, finally, the curtain is falling on Palestine and there will be no Palestinians left to set free, erased from history. March of history at its cruelest, a grand tragedy foretold, by the mi......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, peace,
Form: Free verse
Aftermath
...I did everything you asked Obeyed every legal command When as a teen you sent me To that not quite alien land. They spoke the same language Looked just the same as me But behind that appearance......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, betrayal, courage, military, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Little But Oh So Mighty
...She was little but oh so mighty She had to be From a family of fourteen Self preservation the key Left home at sixteen Joined the army Married at twenty four Widowed at thirty seven with a y......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, appreciation, character, inspiration, strength,
Form: Rhyme
The Conditions of Living
...The Conditions of Living Stark organisations of my observations Respond to beauty with pure elation Instead of chronic devastation Process the abject consternation From contrived over-satur......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Essence
...God's eternal breath hidden in seeds of rebirth perpetuates love God's essence imprint self preservation instinct God's love all life feeds God made perpetuate man made disintegrates life......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, life,
Form: Haiku
Bones Ache Yet Heart Sings
...To be the structure of a person To be a shield to the very essence of someone's existence To be a 206 piece puzzle  To be an enforcer, protector and stabilizer Is to be a skeleton To not be th......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, analogy, body, heart, lost
Form: Free verse
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted Me
...Unidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me As a divergence from the apocalyptical, dialectical, geomorphological, judgmatical, metaphorical, philosophical..., I share an out of ......Read the rest...
Categories: self preservation, absence, adventure, august, blessing,
Form: Free verse

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