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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.
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 thing as a whole the lack of shut eye has really effected how we sleep Our lack of......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
Premium Member Life
..."One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love." Sophocles, Greek Poet I have forever loved you my dearest. I'd nothing to give, 'cept love, sincerest. T......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, life, love,
Form: Sonnet
The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorder
...The monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder As origin of *****Sapien species surged ahead, harboring nascent predominance asper said primate reproductively bred, (albeit via incr......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Storms Are Fierce
...They keep on rolling as the incoming, rapid waves splash, and with them they bring an army of hungry shellfish; a cemetery of shells pave the long stretch of this beach... never walk barefoot: as ......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, longing, nostalgia, sea, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Maybe I miss
...The locked poem of my heart When unbound by its chains Will reveal it's frozen secrets Thaw them out again All that can be mustered Of this broken and abused soul If I bestow this gift P......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, abuse, depression, lonely, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love
...“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.” —Sophocles, Greek Poet Love The strong intensity, of primal love, He’d tossed from a tree, choice g......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, love,
Form: Sonnet
Assault
...I felt that it was all my fault But i am the victim of sexual assault. Nobody seems to see it that way I wish I could just fade. I was quiet for what felt eternity But I found peace in that imp......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, abuse, bullying, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
Shifting Tides
...The shifting tides of change washed over me like a tidal wave. It was in that moment of chaos and uncertainty that I found my voice, rising above turmoil with a clarity and conviction that I nev......Read the rest...
Categories: survival, anxiety, art, community, freedom,
Form: Free verse

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