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Holding Back Poems - Poems about Holding Back

Holding Back Poems - Examples of all types of poems about holding back 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 holding back.
Premium Member Do I Mind, Alone, Just Being Thought Silly?
...Alone… would I be wrong to call myself a fool? Knowing full well, alone one never is? Better, much better to say ‘Alone from’. Alone from friends, from loved ones From employment, joy and/or......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, adventure, dance, earth, i
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Goldfish fighting in my dishwasher
...I'm slowly evaporating from this verbal tennis match For some reason we continue to give breath to these vapor windy circles Brewing a coffee tornado that is going to spill all over my shirt And ......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, anger, heart, love, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Walls - For Mental Health Month
...The Walls… The Walls… The Walls… How they look upon me. Their eyes, Once so bright and filled with light, Are now dark and dead with night. I can hear them Creaking Speaking to me as they......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, courage, hope, inspirational, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Man On A Roller Coaster Sonnet
...It 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 g......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, age, child, endurance, how
Form: Sonnet
I Am A POEtess Because
...Tempest is brewing the bridge overhead, sways the strands of titanium on pillars of stone, dusted in my fists like onyx beneath gold. Crows circle the lonely woman in the desert, as she crumble......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, career, character, dark, devotion,
Form: Bio



I Should Win an Oscar
...Look at this smile on my face, do I look sad and alone. With no one to give me love, and no one to call my own. Can you look into my eyes, see them filled with happiness. Would you ever realize, m......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, poetry,
Form: Lyric
Her
...Let the rain fall, let it pour, Open all the windows and doors. Slow the footsteps around the house, Make all the voices quiet, just like a mouse. Can you hear the sorrows howl f......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, death, depression, heartbreak, hurt,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Painted Memories
... She painted her memories in images surreal Trying to hide scars reality would reveal A band-aid of illusions To alleviate the pain, Some memories are traumatic with wounds that wont he......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, memory,
Form: Free verse
down below
...Building up terrible turbulence in my brain Resurrecting rain in my lonely lane, driving me insane Going down below, low, low, low The darkest night has glow, oh, oh I don’t understand why-why-......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO SMITES OUR PRIDE
...March 27 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Samuel 4-6 Key Verse – 1Samuel 4:3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten u......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member I’ll Always Be Loving You
... Oh, Babe, I am so in the dark. It’s been so long; been so long . . . For you was it all just a lark? Sometimes when I feel so alone, I think of your face, and it becomes a song: a song so deli......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member In the g'night of space
...There's a solar wind that's contained; in the night of space Shadows find nowhere to show; the inner light of space Impossible to touch, it leaves us; without a trace Frozen rings of breathing s......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, deep, solitude, space,
Form: Ghazal
Standard
... In the depths of desolation where death is presiding in a smug kind of cocoon of parasite, lies, a heart of calcified care, buried deep inside a grim stalactite of unrequited te......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, art,
Form: Rhyme
Burn like me
...The colors of life have all run together creating a darkness, becoming a void. Attaching its self to and slowly removing every moment in life I've ever enjoyed. I stop to smell the flowers. Only......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, anger, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Transform
...Aliens are real. Everyone around me is sprouting antennae. They have alien eyes. It makes me laugh. They are holding back their teeth. They will all transform soon. But my transform......Read the rest...
Categories: holding back, loneliness, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

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