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BetweenSometimes it takes some time to recognize the difference between
What you say and what you mean the things you want and the things you need
Not everything is black and white, even though that's how...
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Categories:
conflict, for teens, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Something to SurviveI couldn't see it
Blame the way the viscid blackness
Of your soul
Exterminates the sunlight
Couldn't feel it
Sinking in your tar like sand
And blowing bubbles
Like a boiling child
Not loved enough to understand
That living
Isn't the same as having...
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Categories:
betrayal, break up, conflict,
Form: Free verse
What About Me?As I sit back and reminisce about my day,
I ponder all the happenings that came to play.
All the concessions, all the bargaining, all the ways I gave in;
My stomach drops as if I've committed an...
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Categories:
angst, conflict, how i
Form: Rhyme
Eva, Don't Turn Them OnSome ladies need to be protected,
they are nice to hold, oh, so true;
and that's for sure they can
give you everything, but also
they'll take it back from you!
Eva is a lovely, sensitive woman
who reaches out...
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Categories:
conflict, crush, desire, devotion,
Form: Lyric
I Sold My GoldIn the dire moments of constant fear,
anyone can sense danger from all sides...
wondering if this is our final chapter,
or the continuation of more absurd lies!
I sold my gold to pay off some hefty bills:
a bracelet...
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Categories:
anxiety, confidence, conflict, culture,
Form: Lyric
I Sold My GoldIn the dire moments of constant fear,
anyone can sense danger from all sides...
wondering if this is our final chapter,
or the continuation of more absurd lies!
I sold my gold to pay off some hefty bills:
a bracelet...
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Categories:
anxiety, confidence, conflict, culture,
Form: Lyric
Crying Shame
It has just come to me,
As I lay here thinking,
How sorry it seems to be
And what a crying shame
That I am left behind,
A fish washed up on shore,
A lonely cub separated
And abandoned by the...
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Categories:
abuse, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form: Free verse
Seconds On The Pie Please
Seconds On The Pie Please
Written: by Miracle Man
5/17/2024
Caravans of Illegals,
swarm our borders with ease.
Once here, many are choosing,
to just do as they please.
Each claiming their free slice ,
of the American pie.
while many citizens struggle,
each day...
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Categories:
america, anxiety, conflict, immigration,
Form: Quatrain
A Rage at airA rage at air
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire
A rage at air where a fly, a sparrow and an ostrich collides airborne goes ..
Why all the rage ..
Fly asked the sparrow
Your temper is full of bad anger
This...
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Categories:
africa, anger, bird, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Tensions
Billowy storm clouds turn to skies of azure blue
Agonizing pain fades when its days are through
The trek of life has its many ups and downs
Its seasons of smiles, its times of frowns
We hope more joy...
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Categories:
conflict, emotions, feelings, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Cycle of Miserykilled it
it is dead
its over
just stop it now
it is the very end
its enough
over
i said...over!
"please...."
and it is back.
all that, undoing gone down the drain
bye...
"I'm sorry..."
hi, lets start again?
" it's okay "
what's next?...
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Categories:
conflict, anxiety, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Season of AnomieHere I am my compatriot
Do not bore me with inanity
Stay in your lane dear friend
And let me stay in mine
For this is the season of anomie
Tempers are high and boiling over
Do not...
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Categories:
conflict, allusion, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Whatever Your This IsIn times of change
Comes challenges of the character
Contemplating giving up
In this hungry world
There is no appetite for the uncomfortable
This new adventure I am on
Has tested my very thinking of what I am capable of
Dealing...
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Categories:
anxiety, career, confidence, conflict,
Form: Free verse
No DuhI feel it, can't hold my cigarette because my hand is shaking
My nerves are acting up but my feet are still and planting
Yeah I'm tense, I might faint but I'm not going to be failing
Yes,...
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Categories:
anxiety, body, conflict, endurance,
Form: Couplet
MnemonicDo not embarrass
Your spouse when you're fighting
When cool, get along....
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Categories:
conflict, discrimination, perspective, wisdom,
Form: Haiku
Specific Types of Conflict Poems
Definition | What is Conflict in Poetry?
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