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Survival Poems - Poems about Survival

Survival Poems - Examples of all types of poems about survival to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for survival.
POOR INDEED
...They work They toil But nothing they receive They cry So loud to the lords But it seems It is all in vain What should they do? Sit and wait for death Or Go to the streets To find survi......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Stranger
...Quote:"Harriet Tubman: “I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.” Inspirationt: "I have been a stranger i......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, loneliness,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Eternal Illusion
... Written: May 05, 2024, For Jaymee Thomas Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Incessant ticking of timepieces, reverberating clatter of a mallet in motio......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, analogy, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fire
...Fire I may be a deity, but I do not truly know. The people talk about me, but have never told me so. They gather all around me like a holy worship ring... Staring into my illuminating depths.. ......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, fire, riddle,
Form: Personification
Premium Member WE ARE ALL THE SAME
...We are all the same, whether we are black, brown, or white, We are like many species of birds, chirping our own tunes on the tree of the world. Whether we are rich or poor, we all have so......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Disaster
...It's not a disaster, it never is It's a waiting time, pending analysis Weighed up, perhaps we learnt a lot (I'm in the camp of learning not a jot) Except it was a non event (my brain advised) T......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Save Our Planet
...Our planet has been around for a very long time Now it faces many challenges making it an uphill climb Collectively we must work together to ensure long-term survival It needs our long-term help a......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Swans
... I wonder how aware they are, what shadowy sense of self occupies their brain. Perhaps no more than a flicker of consciousness glows in the far reaches of an inner dark, sufficient to pro......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, bird, mystery, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Son The Tree
...I am so proud to have my son growing up right next to me Standing so tall and majestic for all the world to see Raising him in a world with global warming is a lot more difficult today Strong wind......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, fantasy, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Tears in Gaza
...The wives wail for their fallen husbands' embrace, The children's tears fall on their mothers' lifeless face, Men beg for mercy from soldiers in the fray, I weep, powerless to save them from this ......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, faith, freedom, grief, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Healing Replied
...(Aniyah Smith's "Healing" had to be replied.) She said, "Write me a poem instead." I complied and I wrote of matters of the mind and of the heart; Of the love that I gave to all that I got to ge......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, appreciation, confidence, courage, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sleep Deprived
...Our very survival requires at least some sleep Collectively we never get enough due to our hectic lives we keep I think as a whole the lack of shut-eye has affected how we sleep Our lack of not be......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, life, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member By any means necessary
...By any means necessary on survival new beginnings feeling like one's wandering in the bewilderment by any means necessary. Plots for substenances, One's possibilities, A quench to thrive with ......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, anti bullying, character, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Battlefield
...Throughout the ages of time men have marched men have fought men have bled men have died For a field of land deemed strategic, an advantage, even holy ghosts of wars past cling to the soil wait......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, war,
Form: Free verse
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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, divorce, father, love, mother,
Form: Free verse

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