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#defense poems

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The Projectionisthand cranked / re-imagined 35mm slides / Rough Trade posters / on the wall / Pepsi and premade sandw

@Carlo-C-Gomez1m

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Tomato CageOnce you're past / The initial wall around my heart / You'll find that / The only defense I have / I

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No Tiara For MeMy feet were too big / so the glass slipper wouldn't fit / I hated housework / so no band of merry d

@thekristinwest1m

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He's like a RoseRed is blood and found in fire / but it's also passion / a burning desire. / See Red isn't always so

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Letting Them WinLetting them win, / all those who hurt you, / made you question yourself, / and put you down / isn't

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SilenceAs silence sets in your heart / You are aware of the feelings / And the mind becomes agile / The cal

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Phoenix*I was inspired by the many cynical minds / from yesterday and behind, / by countless events of outr

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DriftingAnd then he said, / in an almost whisper, / ‘is this where you start to drift away?’ / I could feel

@Kokomikiisoom1m

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Burning BridgesI thought I knew you but I guess I was wrong / And all the kind words you had were just lies all alo

@The_Wasted_Wordsmith1m

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I'm a killerOw! i screamed as she pounced on me. / searing through my flesh / her vicious blades tore; / i tried

@absurdmeaning2m

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~•§•~ Something's Not Right ~•§•~iNNER THOUGHTS BECOME INTENSE / aS THEY PICK APART IT'S OWN DEFENSE / mAKING DOOM PREDICTIONS AT IT'

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satyr 1i think i often represent the butterfly i so often speak of / frail and weak in every step- my plain

@dystopianMaiden1m

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One Storm Caught a KissA touch we took, because each breath we wore, whispered yes, inside the searching. So, we circled al

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Being A woman in AmericaBeing a woman in America / is so very dangerous. / Afraid to walk down the street / alone in broad d

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Seal Man Update (Part Two)On October 17, 2006, President Bush signed into law, the John Warner Defense Authorization Act. The

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immuneI thought, / I was impervious, armor / in place, attached to detachment / my pesky synapses / melted

@spysgrandson2m

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Self DefenseMy head / Understands / The complexity / Of your caress / And the / Power beneath / Your skin / To e

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The Failure of the Mental Foxhole.Through the tunnel, distant voices. / Through the tunnel, I see them. / Through the tunnel, the shad

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~•§•~ A Finite Amount of F*cks to Give ~•§•~Finite compassion / Finite love / Finite reason / Finite recognition from above / Finite beauty / Fi

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Poisonous self-defenseYou open the door and a screech pierces your ears, but they're not coming from the old rusty hinges

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Ice“Cold,” you said with heated words / Masked by tenderness and longing - / Just as though ice pierced

@victoria-kelleher1m

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Press into me, I'm a machine, I'm a buttonSo it happens like this / Everyone is watching, and I'm begging / Look at me! Please! / For just a s

@AmIEnoughYet-WhenCanIBeEnough1m

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MaskPart I / There are parts of me I will not give you, Stranger; / But these parts are not many. / I ha

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