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Tug of War
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Gershon Wolf
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tug of war, father, love, mother, relationship,
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Complicated Simplicity
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Lovie Divine
| Rhyme |
tug of war, betrayal, conflict, family, integrity,
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Tug of war
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Danielle Brunelle
| Lyric |
tug of war, self,
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Giving up
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Danielle Brunelle
| Lyric |
tug of war, confusion, depression,
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Love is The Question
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Robin Carretti
| Free verse |
tug of war, anger, anxiety, destiny, games,
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Well, I never
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Jim Slaughter
| Rhyme |
tug of war, age, humor,
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The Lost Years
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Bernard Chan
| Free verse |
tug of war, family, father, growing up,
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Life Feeds on Negentropy
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John Anderson
| Free verse |
tug of war, life,
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The Market Place
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Christine Phillips
| Narrative |
tug of war, change, character, courage, environment,
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Marilyn
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Robert OBrien
| Classicism |
tug of war, celebrity, character, conflict, deep,
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Tug of War
by Amber Moultry-Harrison
Standing here at this alter
I don't know what to do
I'm suppose to be happy
But I'm feeling sad and blue
Torn between what I want...
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Categories:
tug of war, betrayal, conflict, fantasy,
Castles in the Sand
by Melissa Tracy
Back when we were kids we'd play duck duck goose
When her turn came around it always me she would choose
I'd bust open pinatas and pin...
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tug of war, childhood, crush, cute love,
the unbearable call
by njeri hunjeri
She calls and calls to me she cries
I hear her I hear her and for that am daring
For a friend and an enemy she has...
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tug of war, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Better Which Way
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
At the opening of the plantation gate,
in the letting out of the slaves
Freedom came with an empty purse,
as well with a curse goodbye
Labor weary lost...
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tug of war, allusion, conflict, perspective, truth,
My conflicting emotions
by Lewis Raynes
I want to tell you how I feel deep down,
Deep inside my mind,
I want to show you my emotional light,
But I’m afraid of...
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Quatrain |
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tug of war, emotions, feelings, lost,
The Beginning of Space Era 2
by amolkumar udarwar
*For aliens are unknown danger
Highly skilled and game-changer
Instead of a tug-of-war
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tug of war,
Siren
by priyanka bernadette mullick
"Watch you watch me
Knowing how it felt to be
Linked together
Now we're a disaster
Of blinding lights, raging waves
Breaking your walls
As you let me in!
In...
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tug of war, beautiful, beauty, dark, desire,
The Black Dog
by Rebecca Huxley
Hello hound from hell
Pretending to cower in the corner
Dripping, snarling fangs
Come to feast
On all I have.
I scavenge what little remains
Making do with what’s left:
the...
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Categories:
tug of war, analogy, depression, imagery, mental
HALLOWEEN SCARE
by Anisha Dutta
HALLOWEEN SCARE
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tug of war, halloween, scary,
Jacket and Ties
by Christine Phillips
Summer is lingering on and autumn is secretly chiming in
wild marigolds are blooming everywhere
and the earth is soaking up my sordid tears
The full...
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Narrative |
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tug of war, adventure, anxiety, betrayal, break
Tug of War
by Jesudason Atputharajah
Life is a tug of war,
Between right and wrong,
Justice and injustice,
Truthfulness and falsehood,
In life's trying pathways,
We are faced with the choice,
Between two contrasting options,
We should...
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tug of war, anxiety, conflict, confusion, riddle,
Tug of War
by Richard Craig
Please see it's the rope
Inside the game tug of war
Uniting them all...
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tug of war, political,
The Honesty of Love
by Richard Craig
the spiritual dots connect, but an atheist would
Commit me for the conclusions I draw...
And why not?!
I'm losing my mind.
All of the incongruence makes sense...
All of...
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tug of war, allegory, , atheist,
Free verse |
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Categories:
tug of war, angel, depression, light, lonely,
Night Flights
by Bernard Chan
Into the indigo sky
the planes climb
at regular intervals,
like clean, slow-motion
signal flares
fired by a punctilious soldier
fighting a decorous war.
From this distance,
the...
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tug of war, adventure, flying, freedom, history,
Whispers of Anemone
by Probir Gupta
She sits alone
In the chiselled grey of stone
In her thoughts so stubborn
Leaves airborne
Mostly unknown
The little that is known
Of the silence in her shapely bone
Is hidden...
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tug of war, lonely,
Tug of war
by bawa talwar
At slight provocation don't sit and fight
You I know, want me out of your sight
I want to hold onto you tight
I may have to...
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tug of war, analogy, appreciation, art, autumn,
Life Of A Ghost Vator
by Dante Reed Jr.
Life of a Ghost Vator
I'm too busy going up like an
Elevator..
It's no turning back for me
I feel spirits all around me
I hear...
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Light Verse |
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tug of war, abuse, angel, anxiety, art,
My Name is Wisdom
by Stephen Ibeh
A word to the wise is sufficient.
Leave those earthly treasures,
Gone to the dogs, and in the
Pocket of the treacherous.
In a tug-of-war,
In a...
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Sonnet |
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tug of war, age, encouraging, faith, i
Right or Wrong
by TS Lewis
They say opposites attract
but love lies in the middle of our
similarities.
Finally realizing a commonalty
in these life long processions
of division and simple equations
we’ve been over thinking
We...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
tug of war, desire, fate, love, marriage,