SURVIVAL POEMS

Survival Of The Eagle...

There are times when I've been
put down in life
I called upon you name ,
prayed for the poor
.....

Nonkululeko Ngcobo

Knowledge

Knowledge is Wisdom,
The intellect that sees us through,
The philosophy that helps us decide,
In the life you see for you.
.....

Stephen Tully

Life Struggle

What is life all about?
Work and fight, sweat and struggle,
To live a life in this world,
Life is full of ups & downs,
.....

Norbu Dorji

Nebraska

April doesnt hurt here
Like it does in New England
The ground
Vast and brown
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Jack Kerouac

Thousand Star Hotel, Hanoi

I.

Over the road from the three star Galaxy Hotel is our hotel,
the old park on Phan Dinh Phung Street,
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S. K. Kelen

Antrim

No spot of earth where men have so fiercely for ages of time
Fought and survived and cancelled each other,
Pict and Gael and Dane, McQuillan, Clandonnel, O'Neill,
Savages, the Scot, the Norman, the English,
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Robinson Jeffers

Viable

Motion's the dead giveaway,
eye catcher, the revealing risk:
the caterpillar sulls on the hot macadam

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Archie Randolph Ammons

Scenic Route

For Lucy, who called them "ghost houses."


Someone was always leaving
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Lisel Mueller

Fathers

Can you really forget your father,
The man who made your mother a mother,
The one who set you free,
On a journey for survival,
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Johndoe

Avon's Harvest

Fear, like a living fire that only death
Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes
Been witness for so long of an invasion
That made of a gay friend whom we had known
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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Survival

When you and I, like all things kind or cruel,
The garnered days and light evasive hours,
Are gone again to be a part of flowers
And tears and tides, in life's divine renewal,
.....

Edith Wharton

The Survival

Securely, after days
Unnumbered, I behold
Kings mourn that promised praise
Their cheating bars foretold.
.....

Rudyard Kipling

On The Porch At The Frost Place, Franconia, N. H.

So here the great man stood,
fermenting malice and poems
we have to be nearly as fierce
against ourselves as he
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William Matthews

The Survival

The text of this poem could not be published because of Copyright laws.



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Edmund Blunden

Gray Weather

It is true that, older than man and ages to outlast him, the Pacific surf
Still cheerfully pounds the worn granite drum;
But there's no storm; and the birds are still, no song; no kind of excess;
Nothing that shines, nothing is dark;
.....

Robinson Jeffers

Dominions Of The Boundary

The Survival Of The Gods


1 Twilight
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Bernard O'dowd

Evolutionary Hymn

Lead us, Evolution, lead us
Up the future's endless stair;
Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.
For stagnation is despair:
.....

Clive Staples Lewis

To Hermann Stoffkraft, Ph.d., The Hero Of A Recent Work Called Paradoxical Philosophy

A paradoxical ode, after Shelley.


I.
.....

James Clerk Maxwell

The Purse-seine

Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark
of the moon; daylight or moonlight
They could not tell where to spread the net,
unable to see the phosphorescence of the
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Robinson Jeffers

Viable

Motion's the dead giveaway,
eye catcher, the revealing risk:
the caterpillar sulls on the hot macadam

.....

A. R. Ammons

Weltende Variation # ?

The CIA and the KGB exchange Christmas cards
A blade snaps in two during an autopsy
The bouquet Bluebeard gave his first date reblooms
Many protest the stoning of a guitar pick
.....

Bill Knott

Laissez-faire

We'd harbored them on hovels, and in dens,
Altho' in price they counted less than cattle,
Had they not still the right, that ws all men's,
To strive and in a place in life's stern battle?
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

An Elective Course

LINES FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF A HARVARD UNDERGRADUATE

The bloom that lies on Fanny's cheek
Is all my Latin, all my Greek;
.....

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Learning By Doing

They're taking down a tree at the front door,
The power saw is snarling at some nerves,
Whining at others. Now and then it grunts,
And sawdust falls like snow or a drift of seeds.
.....

Howard Nemerov

Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman

â??If you work a body of water and a body of woman
you can take fish out of one and children out of the other
for the two kinds of survival. The fishing is good,
both kinds are adequate in pleasures and yield,
.....

Alan Dugan

Troop Train

It stops the town we come through. Workers raise
Their oily arms in good salute and grin.
Kids scream as at a circus. Business men
Glance hopefully and go their measured way.
.....

Karl Shapiro

The Arit Of My Survival.

who cares what the
plate thinks
when our watery stew is
outshined by the deluge
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Brown Etim-emmanuel

Sounds Of Silence

Can any Being hear the SOUNDS Of SILENCE???

Having cried so many tears
For the count in million years
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Sai Arcot

Some Poems

Clean like dust,
bragging while
being dragged,
It breathe with experience,
.....

Buthelezi Mosia

About Emma Lazarus. (written For "the Century Magazine")

Born July 22, 1849; Died November 19, 1887.



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Emma Lazarus

No Longer At Ease

Our emotions shrouded with fear,
Fear that pricks like a thorn.
We're no longer at ease
For the devastation, on surge.
.....

Konam Binditim Samuel

A Story Of Seclusion

The world is a stage
Where perform actors of different age.
Here, each and every animal struggles for existence
Such that one tries to prove one's dominance.
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Sumedha Biswas

After The Rigors

After the rigors
We'll go through our Tik Tok videos and music
Grinning from ear to ear
Forgetting normal life
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Tony Denis

War

the noisy earth is silent,
With darkness overshadowed our shining sun.

the cities have locked their gates,
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Josephine Robertson

Cracked Crime

Hunger substitute for Bread and Butter
Drinking from a dirty cup
Is even now better
Suffer both Sweet and Bitter
.....

Emmanuel Anams

Pain Of The Needy

They push us around
till we touch the ground
the pain inside us
is hatred enough
.....

Laurencia Magina

My Survival Is You

I'm here, between this rock
Gently squeezing water from stones
I'm hurt, but I smile on
Only cos you shouldn't know.
.....

Ogunkanbi Benjamin Bencazu

Orphans Of My Dreams

I thought dreams always come true
But this time mine seem to tumble
Driving my heart into turmoil.
For love i try and keep the fire burning
.....

Seke Bharu

The Beginning Of No End

The journey with no beginning started at no end
only found the answers of what was not asked.
The question still remains, what has our
world come up to?
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James Ntivane

The Hiding Place

Gathering of the wheats and the weeds
All flourishing like the lilies of the field
The scorching sun and the smiling rain
Fall on them both.
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Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke

Anarchy

Back to the state of nature
Lawlessness rules the day
Self preservation, a must for man
The survival of the fittest.
.....

Queen Shalom Ebere Anthony

How We Die In Africa

Death in Africa carry heavy stories

Like the words use to announce death, 

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Philip Chukwujioke

Sanguine

"The clock indicates the hour but what does enternity indicate?"
Whitman

Imagine, being told cubism isn't painting. That
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Paul Cameron Brown

Cold Street Life

Night out there in the cold,
Without a shelter head,
To gather some sleep trying,
While their stomach rumbling.
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Wakanya Opondo

She Is The Apple Of My Eye

Their is no one
As lovely as her
For me
Because
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Nok Zingapan

My Favourite Song

I shall render my heart to you,
like a root surrendering life unto the tree.
I was sinking in remorse,
the one I couldn't bear.
.....

Muwi Chantel

The Menagerie

Thank God my brain is not inclined to cut
Such capers every day! I 'm just about
Mellow, but then--There goes the tent-flap shut.
Rain 's in the wind. I thought so: every snout
.....

William Vaughn Moody

Ocean Sea

All that is eternal is circular.
- Aristotle

Cueta and Tetuan are outposts within the Arab psyche,
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Paul Cameron Brown

Survival Of The Fittest

Now let the hero of our song,
Be he who gentle treats the throng,
And would not cruel treat another,
But to each be as to a brother.
.....

James Mcintyre

A Garden Party In The Temple

On hospitable thoughts intent
To me the Inner Temple sent
An invitation,
A garden party 'twas to be,
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James Williams