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Tightening Poems - Poems about Tightening

TRUTH SERUM
...You can't deny You can't deny I'm looking pretty fly, ain't I? And uhm... since I'm so fly I'll bring you some plane truth Open your eyes it's the season of the witch There's witch hunting......

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Categories: tightening, anger, courage,
Form: Free verse
Event Horizon
...You arrived like a rupture in time, some semantic glitch in the fabric, sparking where there was nothing… a rupture before the rapture. I think—no, I know— you were watching before I saw you. ......

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Categories: tightening, adventure, blessing, change, creation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Swimming in Grief
... The grief I carry is so heavy None can sense the weight I feel in my chest. It is crushing me, I feel it in every breath I take, And in each step, I totteringly make. From my heart, all swee......

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Categories: tightening, angst, depression, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Was my home built above the endless abyss
...Was my home built above the endless abyss, Why do I feel beneath my steps the corpses of ancestors whispering in silence, Like invisible strings tightening around my neck, reminding me, Mocking th......

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Categories: tightening, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Choose to Dwell in the Clouds
... I don’t think I have ever written another poem of such emotional intensity! I was bedridden for almost four months. It was at such a desperate moment that I thought of scribbling down my feelings o......

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Categories: tightening, angst, depression, health, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Inhale Hope, Exhale Doubt
...The air you breathe, it isn't all it seems, Not just the oxygen that fuels your waking dreams. It carries whispers, doubts that fill your head, A constant murmur, a voice that's often said, ......

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Categories: tightening, hope, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Lonely House in the Steppe - 1
...Through a tear in the wall, the sunlight peeks, No one comes to ask how the old woman speaks. How does she endure, so forlorn and alone? Only God could be her aid, her own. The horizon stretches,......

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Categories: tightening, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Thoughts are Things
...Thoughts are things, Little balloons on strings. Floating through the mind. Hoping to find a place to land, To attach and Implement their plan. Silently doing what they can, plottin......

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Categories: tightening, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Phoenix rise from the ashes
...Walking on Egg Shells Each step, a fragile whisper, Cracking beneath the weight of your gaze, I tread lightly through the shards of us, Every word a potential storm, Every silence, a noose tight......

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Categories: tightening, break up, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
Ways from home
...Hands tightening, my neck is broken From the front to the back his batons a choken Fear in my body for my posture is a slopen Cheer in the voices from the violence of hate Screaming de......

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Categories: tightening, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Thoughts are Things
...My brain is swirling, Sounds are Twirling. Thoughts are things, Little balloons on strings. Floating through the mind, Hoping to find, a place to land, And attach, To implemen......

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Categories: tightening, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest
...Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest Just before logging off for the day, and ready to boogie out of the joint an email landed squarely in my inbox cordially ......

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Categories: tightening, adventure, appreciation, business, fashion,
Form: Free verse
The burden of Eternity
... 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......

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Categories: tightening, 12th grade, birth, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Chill of December
...(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......

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Categories: tightening, birth, dark, death, december,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member No This Without That, Eh
... 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 ......

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Categories: tightening, farewell, meaningful, moving on,
Form: Couplet

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