Stand Up Poems

Stand Up

This universe holds a legacy
Bearing your unwritten name
Stand up with passion and dignity
And courageously stake your claim

Stand up to claim your birthright
For it is greatness
Stand up to claim your heritage
For it is outstanding
Stand up to claim your entitlement
For it is exceptional
Stand up to claim your destiny
For it is commanding

This galaxy whispers your future
But your own
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Categories: stand up, character, confidence, courage, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSTAND UP TO YOUR HATE

For years now I have tried to understand your hate…
to find the cause…the reasons…
the source from where your anger originates.

I’ve tried to understand how much pain and suffering on others
you are willing to impart and to ignore.
I’ve wondered when and how you began to hate
everything that I sand for.

I’ve often wonder how you sleep at
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Categories: stand up, hate,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberDefend Victoria'

I amm incensed apalled; outraged as an intended blanket Un-law approaches its final stage.' where is the backbone?
Oh Victoria fair.' Is it truly lacking? What are you allowing?
Down there.' You seem only to loose.' And give away.? Yet
You have come to the point.' As to whats the point? All must say? Your lives are next.'
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Categories: stand up, character, conflict, courage,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberWoman Stand Up

Wildflowers in her hair
Onyx power in her stare
Mahogany message on her lips
And generations birthed by her hips
Neon sign of times she lives

Sewing love despite discourse
Teal love voice like turquoise 
Another fight for her rights
Needing choice in her life
Doing right despite wrongs denied

Uniquely feminine in all her ways
Powerful and poignant all her days
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Categories: stand up, america, anti bullying, black
Form: Acrostic

I stand up

I stand up
I walk to the door
no one is here
I'm on my own
I know this place
I've been here before
just a few steps
and the fear will be gone...

I stand up
I cannot cry
no one will come
to give me a ride
I have to be brave
I have to reconcile
with the loneliness
I felt in old times...

I stand up
I'm a woman
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Categories: stand up, conflict,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberA letter to Tony

Tony Abbot ex minister prime you came on the net
To spoke at length, to good friends of mine. Graham
And Jhonny ‘a real friendly talk’ about
How you as a part-time fiery walked some hot
Walk.  In 2018 when you helped 
And that’s all good..' Where so many did lose their lives
And Homes possessions as the blazes
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Categories: stand up, education,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHard to Stand up for What's Right

  Hard to stand up for what’s right
     when POTUS gives up on the fight

  Right away he abandoned Afghanistan
     forsaking our own soldiers to the Taliban  

  For two years he’s supplied arms to Ukraine
     but never sent
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Categories: stand up, courage, integrity, international, leadership,
Form: Couplet

will the real teacher's pet stand up

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                               whistling 
                  mine lip's made the rough
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Categories: stand up, allegory, sexy, spanish, teacher,
Form: Carpe Diem

STAND UP WITH THE PROBLEMS OF MILLIONS OF AFRICANS

as some African 
young leaders 
are  standing up 
with the problems
of millions of Africans.
they know well  
about
the work they are doing ...
Africa's advocates 
who know 
the consequences 
of the dangerous tasks 
which they are  choosing ...
Just  to help their compatriots. 
they can be wiping out  
silently
at any moment 
by the  problems 
makers. 
Young leaders who saw
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Categories: stand up, africa, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWindmills

Forgotten giants
on the hill ~they stand up strong
   fighting with the wind

      after many years
~big windmills blades turn around
                    with the same music
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Categories: stand up, adventure, blessing, confidence, devotion,
Form: Haiku

Time To Stand Up For Human Rights

It's time,
For you to stand in line,
And take a stand this time,
While there is still time,
For human rights to define. 

It is all to easy to define,
The rights of those who think they deserve to shine,
Brighter than those others who are in a different line,
For all time.

But I say that makes us all less fine,
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Categories: stand up, age, care, character, community,
Form: Political Verse

Let Us Stand Up

An outright defeat in Ukraine
May spell doom for Russian reign
It means more than political gain
We refuse to let hatred sustain

Fear the indifferent, for they allow
The worst atrocities to happen right now
We cannot turn a blind eye
To the suffering of those who cry

Let us stand up for what we believe
And do our part to ensure that
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Categories: stand up, change, conflict, courage, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Stand Up To Cheers

Don’t just raise your glass, stand up to cheers
Until each and every one gets audibly clinked
Repeating Ike-ism’s stretching memories years
Keeps the good ones up front and spirits linked

Not so subtly cheat (just a little) in a crokinole game 
Enough to get caught to see who’s watching most
Laugh when he’s busted, “Who me?” He’d exclaim
Get the
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Categories: stand up, memory,
Form: Quatrain

Stand Up For Ukraine

the real monsters, 
are not living in your mind,
but out there, 
in the real world, 
killing the civilians, 
innocent children's and elders, 
terrible minds,
with terrible weapons,
threatening world peace.
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Categories: stand up, peace,
Form: Free verse

Stand Up Whats Rights

We all are one
Respect we won
 That's showing love
Come from above
We must together fight
So the world shine bright
No matter race
Or faces
Let's
STAND UP FOR
WHATS RIGHTs
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Categories: stand up, adventure,
Form: Prose Poetry

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