Tightening Poems - Poems about Tightening

... What do you do when there’s nowhere left to go? When each day echoes the one before, and time has no boundaries, only a circle tightening around your soul? Immortality teaches you to forge......Read the rest...

...(A raven’s shadow falls across the page. A quill scratches furiously, punctuated by heavy sighs.) December… a month draped in the funereal crepe of the dying year. Darkness descends with a......Read the rest...

... No drama without moods No parties without food No dark alleys without crime No ninjas without slime No fudge without calories No Picassos without galleries ......Read the rest...

...The Leaves are Hushed Alone she stares through a skylight playing I spy with the sky, creating fantastical creatures out of skimming, brimming clouds. Suddenly a shadow swiftly smears a w......Read the rest...

...Her dad was her first king, He made the rules; anything else was counterfeit. A precious figurine, yet a knight, Kept just out of reach but always ready to fight. Her mom was her first teacher,......Read the rest...

...Or.... What Love is really all about. The Dictionary definition really doesn't help us much; "Warm liking, or affection;" no... not quite; it lacks a certain touch of magic... but, when you con......Read the rest...

...Morning seeps in, thin light slicing through the weight I carry. Yesterday lingers, clinging like damp clothes against my skin, its shadow tightening around my ribs. The world scrapes against ......Read the rest...

...My heart deceives me once again, I write my poems, but in vain. I thought my words could bring you near, That my verse would make you hear. But still, you stand, silent and cold, Like ......Read the rest...

...Suffering wounds deep inside/ Felt like I been/ Sliced up by a switchblade/ Chopped to pieces/ Mind, heart and soul/ They keep beating/ On a scale of life support/ Suffering wounds, never endi......Read the rest...

... “I’m sorry,” tossed as a stone, each syllable heavy on my tongue, as we weave these threads of consequence into a tapestry faded yet bright, woven with wisdom whispers, and the gleam of......Read the rest...

... Written: November 10, 2024 ______________________________ In the quiet of a twilight room, heartbeats harmonize with a haunting hymn, each thump a haunting, a ......Read the rest...

... Behind me, I hear, The receding roar of years. It sends chills down my spine. For me, no more springing steps, But a fast- withering torso, So awkward and unsure. I ......Read the rest...

... The moon's glow a pale champagne color As our lips glisten from loving each other Curves blend together taste of sweet nature's lust How your touch thawed my heart giving you my t......Read the rest...

...I walk o u t... I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer dissects my essence-fossil Passion a seismic rupture betwee......Read the rest...

...I waited and waited.. to be free from the grip of despair's darkened hands, to step away from its shadow. All I longed for was a plain land to rest, a break from the endless drama, to lis......Read the rest...