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Tightens Poems - Poems about Tightens
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When I met you, you were already a broken vase
...When I met you, you were already a broken vase, sharp shards hidden beneath your cold and distant skin, But I was still whole, believing love was the force that makes two souls forget their unhealed......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
tightens,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Water, 30 random word prompt
...The weight of the water is heavy in my chest, a force pressing against the ribs. It rises when I don’t expect it, like a flood breaking through cracked, neglected seams. The truck of my memory rumble......
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Amanda Nolan
Categories:
tightens,
10th grade, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The boy from my 5 classes again
...Sometimes he’s next to me. Close enough that the air feels different, like something charged is sitting between us. My stomach does that thing, tightens, flutters, not because I like him, not like th......
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Amanda Nolan
Categories:
tightens,
10th grade, age, anger,
Form:
Free verse
Vitals
...Doctor blinks, breath caught, face goes still. “Oh,” he says, voice sharp, split. Hands tremble near charts, numbers all wrong. Room spins quiet, cold like a grave. Chest tightens, heartbeat thud......
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Amanda Nolan
Categories:
tightens,
10th grade, death, sick,
Form:
Kwansaba
Lost in my dream
...Lost in my dream I love laying you on your back, Your head on the pillow, Legs spread, Open and ready. A kiss to your treasure, So wet and warm, While caressing your wet pussy lips With the......
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darrell clark
Categories:
tightens,
12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
The Wicked Live On
... In twilight's hush, where shadows play, A paradox reigns, in endless sway, The good perish, while the wicked thrive, In this land, where virtue's brief, and vice survives. Patriots fall, like......
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Philip Abayomi Olorunfemi
Categories:
tightens,
anger, anxiety, betrayal, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
Rot Slow, Rise Anyway
...The bed is soft, familiar. Not comfort, not really, just known. A sinking, a settling, the weight of existing pressing down, but not enough to break me. The dishes stack in the sink, a quiet ......
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Lauren Tilley
Categories:
tightens,
anxiety, depression, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
Fateful shadows
...We wear the wind without knowing who it belonged to before. A coat of yesterday’s anger, today’s kindness sewn in the lining. Faces blur at the edges— the barista is your brother, the strange......
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Chris Johnston
Categories:
tightens,
10th grade, creation, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Smiling Through the Silence
...My life has always felt ordinary— a quiet rhythm of joy and sorrow, as natural as the changing sky. I tell myself I’m fine, because when I glimpse the stories of others, my own burdens seem li......
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Sang Hirya
Categories:
tightens,
blue, confusion, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Unraveling the Knot of Knowledge
...I was certain. I was sure. I knew what I knew— until I didn’t. A thread pulled, a question I never meant to ask, a whisper splitting at the seams. The more I learn, the less I know. The ......
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Aarron Tuckett
Categories:
tightens,
loss,
Form:
Free verse
I'm Tired
...When it's the closest thing to the truth, But not enough to explain. The burden, the weight, the crippling pain. It's not the words that fail me, or the shame that they carry. Or the looks, or ......
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Ashley Lippert
Categories:
tightens,
abuse, child abuse, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
The Weight of Hope
...The banner of hope drapes across my shoulders, once weightless, now a stone-bound chain. Each step scrapes me thinner, a slow retreat, grinding against the wall. Hope was meant to lift me, but......
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Aarron Tuckett
Categories:
tightens,
introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Whispers of the Crow
...perched upon the gallows beam bathed in the hush of dying light the crow waits, black as the last thought before the noose tightens his voice is gravel and omen a riddle carved in bone a cack......
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Alesia Leach
Categories:
tightens,
animal, bird, death,
Form:
Free verse
The Black Widow
...she moves in whispers, a shadow draped in midnight silk, trailing poison kisses in the dark-- a promise, a warning, a lullaby of death. her fingers weave unseen threads, spun from sugared lies......
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Alesia Leach
Categories:
tightens,
dark, death,
Form:
Free verse
Eclipsed Heart
...In the hollow stillness of night, Whispers of your laughter linger near, Each echo pierces the weary soul, A dagger thrusts within my chest, A wound that bleeds an endless ache, The wo......
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Shannon Tomaro
Categories:
tightens,
break up, depression, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
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