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Struggled Poems - Poems about Struggled

Justice ,denied
...With bloody hands, rusty hair and a dammed soul I walked out ,stepping on the rotten meat As my lungs struggled to breathe down the fragrance of the crime that I had committed Blue and white ligh......

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Categories: struggled, abuse, bereavement, betrayal, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Saturday morning Routines
...Saturday Morning Routines** The familiar smell of wood smoke slowly filled my bedroom, wrapping around me like a comforting blanket. Through my window, I caught sight of the warm, flickering light......

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Categories: struggled, allusion, care, missing you,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Milton Creek Election Week
...Judge Horne issued a decree that elections take place this week  For the positions of mayor and sheriff in the town of Milton Creek  It had now been nearly four years and was somewhat overdue  ......

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Categories: struggled, america, conflict, prison,
Form: Narrative
the accident
...the accident When crossing the street, cars had stopped  to let him cross in respect for his age He was thinking of death; he hoped it would be sudden, no sentimental last farewell, no lies ......

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Categories: struggled, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: ABC
Premium Member STRONGER THAN YOU THINK
...Oh, my, unexpected foe, “when you read my poems you wrongly judged me, and in a demeaning tone shouted, “Do you ever write poems that are not sad?” Dear disguised friend, you had me defending w......

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Categories: struggled, abuse, anti bullying, child
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Duality of Fatherhood
...a secret d r e a m of peace youth making dreamers of all – amidst enemy F. I.R.E p a s s I o n s rode H I G H – he lays a bridge of worn footprints— each step a ch......

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Categories: struggled, analogy, father,
Form: Other
the weight
...The weight He had written two short books needed to show her his work, Not now, she said, I’m watching TV Around the beam that keeps the heaven’s roof from falling, He slung a rope fastened to a......

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Categories: struggled, absence, abuse, age,
Form: ABC
Premium Member That is not safe
... That`s not Safe I dared to battle with the wild thunder Where flashes of lightning could blind......

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Categories: struggled, heartbroken, pain, storm, stress,
Form: Sonnet
Putting Together
...I ordered a free-standing cabinet, Despite having known in advance It needed to be Put together by me And my husband, who viewed it askance. All the pieces were labeled quite clearly, As was ......

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Categories: struggled, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tightrope of Her Abandon
... Hebrews 13:5 “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” (fiction like......

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Categories: struggled, betrayal, emotions, forgiveness, grief,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Cherub - A Partially True Fairy Tale
...“I like it; go get it and stand it right there.” The ‘It’ was a concrete bird bath It was heavy as hell; about all I could bear I struggled… my wife had a laugh She’d seen it online; it was sel......

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Categories: struggled, fantasy, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vying For Dominance
...Vying for Dominance … 16 is hard enough for anyone navigating adolescence… my 16 wasn't “typical.” …16, I simultaneously experienced a trifecta of physical, emotional, and mental illnesses, fu......

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Categories: struggled, angst, conflict, depression, fear,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Origins Of Over Nurturing
...Origins Of Over Nurturing My need to protect others began during my turbulent adolescence. It started out as the need to protect others from me. This morphed into over nurturing everyone around m......

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Categories: struggled, children, emotions, growth, introspection,
Form: Prose
Why Your Cities Burn, Part I
...I’ve seen many look to the sky and to the gods earnestly plead, what sins have the committed that require so many to bleed? Why does Lord Diyal ride the lands, do things that make your stomach c......

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Categories: struggled, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Premium Member I have One Memory of my father
... I have one memory of my father Who was not my dad There was a father, he left. There was no dad. There were men who tried to be. There were men who could’ve tried to be. There were, ......

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Categories: struggled, abuse, childhood, divorce, father,
Form: Free verse

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