Endurance Poems - Examples of all types of endurance poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Man On A Roller Coaster SonnetIt jolts and shakes as it carroms around,
my joints seethe at the pressure exerted,
it rips upward until high off the ground,
I hear the excited cries of my kid.
Oh, to be young, and has such a...
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Categories:
age, child, endurance, how
Form: Sonnet
SeeingMany question life's existence of being
Is it the heart to which we live
Or a soul breathing both light and dark
Kindness, hate; emotions to believe
Mind alter illusion, heaven or hell
Our spirit's living between two...
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Categories:
absence, character, endurance, image,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Life Is Not FairLife is not fair
It will never be
Good days come around
As do tragedies
When difficult times come
We often ask "why?"
Sometimes we pray
Sometimes we cry
Trying to balance it all out
And dealing with the stress...
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Categories:
endurance, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Weedy Eschatology
Weedy Eschatology
By Mark D. Stucky
The aging street mourns its faded splendor.
It remembers having red tulips and roses
in manicured, fertilized, emerald lawns
in community yards lining its borders.
But neighborhoods gradually decayed,
and nobody’s planted flowers in years.
The asphalt’s...
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Categories:
character, endurance, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
My Hidden Broken Leg
First Part: All I see are my toes!
A constant burning and stinging sensation under this weighted plaster cast has got me bedridden. The cast is made out of plaster and is white in color that...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, body, endurance,
Form: Free verse
A Kindled Fire
A kindled fire...
Keeps on burning
Inside of me
Never will it extinguish
Despite all forces against it;
Lingering fuel for determination.
Even I can't smother or
Dim it to a smoke.
Floods furiously rage within, yet
It keeps on...
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Categories:
endurance, meaningful, strength,
Form: Acrostic
The Steadiness of Your Hand
carrying me through life's tightrope,
the steadiness of your hand;
the strength, hope and faith in it
keeps me from falling.
...
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Categories:
care, endurance, life, strength,
Form: Dodoitsu
Self-hatredIt is addictive.
Used to it
like the wicked bitter pills
that one swallows to numb the pain,
to block the feelings.
Lethargic yet nerve-wracking;
A tightness in the chest that
never goes away.
Faint, throbbing, persistent.
It is inherent to me.
the salinity...
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Categories:
deep, depression, endurance, feelings,
Form: Free verse
sailingboat on lake erie
steady sailing on water
captain of our ship...
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Categories:
endurance,
Form: Haiku
Acknowledging THE CREATOR NOT HIS THINGS-Bleeding hearts do not bleeding so blood
They are just humanity non conform greed’s sought
Mixing having and having not
Knowing non acceptance of Elohim, so
Acknowledging the just created things
Not Our Creator
Elohim
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr....
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Categories:
analogy, anxiety, appreciation, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Persevere"I shall be like a tree planted by the river ... " Psalm 1:3
P ---------------------------- prayerful patience
...
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Categories:
11th grade, endurance, passion,
Form: Alliteration
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
Your heavy chainsI walk where the land meets the sea
Heavy chains dragged,
trails cross the sands.
The last time I saw you,
You were breathing the scent deeply in.
Just like me, you were born of flesh
And just...
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Categories:
betrayal, endurance, integrity,
Form: Free verse
THE DEVIL WANTS YOU IN YOUR UNDERWEAR---SCAREDThe devil wants to see you in your underwear;
That's when he knows your not in public;
You are covered in shame and you're scared;
The piece of minor cloth covering, under your covering;
For he know God's gonna...
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Categories:
analogy, anxiety, confidence, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Bundles In the AirTrucks lined up one behind the other with the little that they have left and the drippings from the fountain piled up on top looking for a suitable place to make the next stop but...
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Categories:
endurance, america, anger, business, community,
Form: Narrative
Specific Types of Endurance Poems
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