Surviving Poems

The ABCs of Surviving The End Of The World

Always remember to pack the essentials,
Bat, Bottle, Bag, Boots,
Cut down anyone who tries to get in the way,
Don't look them in the eye, it only makes it harder,
Enemy, everyone is the enemy, yes, even them,
Find what you can, anything, you'll need it later,
Get up, you don't have time to rest, not yet,
How have you survived
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Categories: surviving, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: ABC

Premium Membersurviving a hot day

first my skin melted
then my muscles and bones
as I sat in the hot sun
writing these poems

I should have moved sooner
this thought wiped my smile
my bodily suit was a goner
on the ground in a pile
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Categories: surviving, summer,
Form: Rhyme


Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon

Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon 

Elocution lessons for the morality police 
Persecution of those not callously elite
Convolution of the elongation of the technique 
Revolution from the poor, downtrodden and bleak 

Ageless reckonings that are born from conscious defiance 
The rage less beckoning of a protest in non-violence 
The senseless converting to a reflective space of
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Categories: surviving, life,
Form: Rhyme

Surviving this thing called life

Surviving This Thing Called Life

Anxiety coils in my chest,
A tightness I can’t name,
Whispers of doubt,
Cold fingers tracing my every breath.

Fear crouches at my doorstep,
A shadow that never leaves
It waits, it listens,
It tells me I am not enough.

Worries like a river,
Constant, unyielding,
Carrying me to shores
I never meant to reach.

I try to trust the world,
But the echoes
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Categories: surviving, anxiety, appreciation, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSurviving Racist Knights of Columbus Peter Gargano RAGE UPON US

Surviving the knights of Columbus Peter gargano faking his death recieving full burial insurance from San Carlos Beach chapter sadly he has been hacking into chapter District 46 2505 state secretary Donald and O'Connor at our 2017 and 2019 convention home invasions ripping our badges shooting into my plants from text door our Jan 6th
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Categories: surviving, allah,
Form: Naat


Premium MemberSurviving the Storm

Thrust within,
I could not focus.
Lights sizzled,
blistering
and slashing the jagged sky
with vile lightening.

Your visage
materialized
from nowhere,
beckoning,
guiding my path with sure wake 
safely to the shore.

You became
my anchored buoy.
Just for you
I inhale.
My heart will always seek berth
in your steadfast love.
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Categories: surviving, faith, love, storm, symbolism,
Form: Shadorma

Surviving or living

Surviving comes with ease
Even dying is also serene 
Living, what a real scrutiny 
Living when your knees are on the ground 
Or when your head owns a crown
Or when you are seeing the same dawn
Living when your day unfolds a distinct tale, perhaps you may hate 
When friends are few and everything seems blue
Living when
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Categories: surviving, 12th grade, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

surviving love

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          ow'ch
      damn'it girl
         d'anng
          ouch

     okay woman
           less
 
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Categories: surviving, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Premium Membersurviving a tornado

windblown giant
turbulent tornado
blazing a sharp path

kicking away cars
rolling whole houses
pure devastation

hiding in culvert
my face in wet claylike mud
i recite prayer
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Categories: surviving, life,
Form: Haiku

The cost of Surviving war



The passed a place with deep regret 
Don’t want to remember, cannot forget
There’s  scars and wounds that will not heal
For I had to main I had to kill 
I had to follow the orders gave 
And send my foes to meet their grave 
The nights are hard for the faces live 
Inside my head
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Categories: surviving, war,
Form: Free verse

still surviving - courageously alive

still surviving, courageously alive

Thrive to survive on
Wait till the dusk turns to dawn
Arriving undone...

We welcome the sun
We welcome the son as well
Yes, Godly time tells...

Wait till the day's done
Negative vibes..almost gone
Still worried a ton 

Hoping for bright days always
Gloomy, gray fog fades
No doubt -- faith these days!

I hold on to hope
I want cheer instead of
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Categories: surviving, angst, encouraging, endurance, fear,
Form: Senryu

Premium Membersurviving a shipwreck

initially I saw no humanoid qualities in the beast
he was a throwback, not orangutan, but not man either
his eyes were frighteningly dark with glowing suns in the center
how could I communicate with this being?
I heard a thought in my head that I knew was not mine
okay, he can implant thoughts, so is he reading mine?
I
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Categories: surviving, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

surviving you

evil lurks in you like the shadows of an unwanted soul
you smell of spilled blood and rotting milk
you take what you can and take what you cant
the world doesn't bow down to you
unless you kiss its feet first.

you are unkind, unforgiving, and unfaithful
yet you cry tears of a make believe river
you fill your life with
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Categories: surviving, anxiety, betrayal, cry, dark,
Form: Free verse

Surviving suicide

In the depths of despair, a journey begins,
Surviving suicide, a battle we must win.
In darkness we stumbled, lost and alone,
Seeking forgiveness, compassion to be shown.

Through the rubble of pain, we rise anew,
Finding strength within, to start life anew.
The path of healing, long and steep,
But love's embrace, a potion to keep.

Forgiveness blooms, like a gentle flower,
Cleansing
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Categories: surviving, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme

Surviving co-dependence

I’m done with co-dependence or so I say
I’ve burnt so many effigies for others
I’m the giver in my codependency
The taker burns all my oxygen 
She used to grant just a puff to breathe
Her flame used to light up this scarecrow
Marvel at how a selfless breath ignites
Like burning man sweating gasoline

This burning man has to stop
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Categories: surviving, divorce, father, love, mother,
Form: Free verse

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