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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
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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......
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Brian Rusch
Categories:
holding back,
adventure, dance, earth, i
Form:
Free verse
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 ......
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Roses Roses
Categories:
holding back,
anger, heart, love, poetry,
Form:
Blank verse
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......
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ThoughtsFrom B4
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......
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David Welch
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......
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Beatrix Macabre
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......
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Jerry Brotherton
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......
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Dustee Bradt
Categories:
holding back,
death, depression, heartbreak, hurt,
Form:
Elegy
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......
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Joseph May
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-......
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J.W. Earnings
Categories:
holding back,
angst, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Lyric
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......
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Beata Agustin
Categories:
holding back,
bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form:
Alliteration
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......
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Andrea Dietrich
Categories:
holding back,
love,
Form:
Lyric
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......
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Anonomus Scorpio
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......
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Jude Herrick
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......
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Dustin Petersen
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......
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Angelica Tao
Categories:
holding back,
loneliness, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
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