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Short Last Ditch Poems

Short Last Ditch Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Last Ditch by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Last Ditch by length and keyword.


Premium Member Just a Glimmer
Lantern in blue haze,
oil flame spirit glow, last ditch
tunnel ray of hope

Posted ; 1st April 2022...

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Categories: last ditch, art, beautiful, beauty, character, color, courage, deep,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member His Heart
his heart broken
too late for last ditch attempts
~ everything failed



posted on November 8, 2018...

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Categories: last ditch, grief, heartbroken, longing, loss, sad,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Election Day Footles
Election Day Footles


Non-Voters

Passive
Asses



Unenrolled Voters

Selection
Defection



Last ditch pitch

Stand out
Hand out 


Crumpled and pitched

Pamphlet
Spam-let




3/3/2016...

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Categories: last ditch, humor, political,
Form: Footle
Mccain Engine Started To Switch
McCain Engine Started To Switch

McCain plane engine should start to switch;
Even though in system there may be glitch;
His engines failed;
Downward sailed;
He bailed out in an effort that is last ditch.

Jim Horn...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last ditch, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Running From the Embryo
Heaped in the same organic embryo 
Forget the last ditch effort
To choose beyond the pail
Trading thin-ice thoughts
For a politeness to perpetuate 
The flimsy manner of excuse and apology

Your relationship to One
Like the poise of a rising Sun
That same energy to give or take 
Stacking collapsibles or elbowing for some space...

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Categories: last ditch, social
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



The Virtually Perfect Family
Placid waters
Boat, mildly rocking
Cheerful faces
Picture perfect snaps
Posted on social sites
Flattering comments
‘Wonderful family’
Flashback
Happy memories
Happy?
Nay!
Last ditch effort
At calming
Inside turmoil
Save marriage
Children’s sake
Alas!
Unbridgeable difference
Between 
‘Perfect family outing’
And 
‘Not so perfect family’...

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© Vijai Pant  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last ditch, family,
Form: Didactic
Timing
I’ve heard it said that timing
Is the key to one’s success
And planning works out better
Than most any last-ditch guess.

Yet we can’t predict that circumstance
Will work out as we’d like
For we never know when lightning
Or good fortune just might strike.

On occasion, though, we get someplace
At just the perfect time
With results as unexpected
As good poetry in rhyme....

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Categories: last ditch, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Efforts to explain without a voice
When you can't breathe
Sometimes you use your last breath to shout it
One last ditch attempt to survive
Which hastens the end
Time moves differently in these moments
After the scream
It is painful and slow
Eked out in measured pain
My throat hurts
My chest hurts
It is hard to think
But time spirals in front of me like an eternity
I can't remember what I wished for
Or what needs to change
I just need to breathe to survive
...

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Categories: last ditch, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
A Gardeners Valentine
Please be my Valentine! 
I'm getting desperate now 
That you will never notice me 
Somewhere, sometime, somehow 

Even though I've tried 
To get some of your attention 
I'm nowhere on your radar 
I never seem to get a mention 

I'm feeling quite neglected
And I'm always overlooked 
I wish you would spend time with me 
Instead of that new book 

So in a last ditch effort 
I write you this poem in a card 
Please be my Valentine! 
Love from your overgrown yard...

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Categories: last ditch, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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