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Best Choke Up Poems

Below are the all-time best Choke Up poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of choke up poems written by PoetrySoup members

The Old Oak Tree

Oh I am but a simple leaf
         withering within the gutter
      ...

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Categories: choke up, autumn, life, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse

Escape of the Bluesman's Song

Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: choke up, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse

What More Can We Do

Haunted by the death of dreams 
and slaughtering of innocence 
but too afraid to dig up the bones 
and examine our own mistakes, 
we bury...

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Categories: choke up, anger, children, death, sad,
Form: Free verse

If There Was No Poetry

I could not make sense
of the wonder
would stand 
bewildered and mute

I could not open
and let out
the feelings that well
from my depth

I could not speak truth
and...

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Categories: choke up, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Je Suis Charlie

Translation below (in progress)


Celui qui n'a pas de cœur
Ne doit jamais reposer en paix

He who has no heart
Will never rest in peace


J’étais Charlie

De ma tombe
Mon...

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Categories: choke up, allah, angel, angst, bereavement,
Form: I do not know?

Never Enough

Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

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Categories: choke up, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Nonetheless

I sigh …
pushing warm, wordless weight
onto the twilight mist,
where its folly hangs like old sackcloth,
the silver-doubloon moon dripping
it’s wan wonder to daub
breath and bones alike...

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Categories: choke up, lost love, moon, ocean,
Form: Free verse

Jailbreak At Milton Creek

There was a rumour that outlaw Kyle was to be sprung from jail
But Sheriff Koplin got wind of it and he'd make sure they'd fail...

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Categories: choke up, america, humor, violence,
Form: Narrative

Perpetual

perpetual 
is my love for poetry.
without it 
how would life taste to me?
i bet it'd be so bitter 
i'd spit it out.
I'd choke 
on thousands...

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Categories: choke up, how i feel, passion,
Form: Free verse

Heart Spilling Blood

Written: February 5th, 2024
                  _____________________________________

My heart is leaking...

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Categories: choke up, analogy, anger, bereavement, heart,
Form: Free verse

Priorities Viewed By a Dying Man

Death be not proud but humble with strife
Old man flicks ashes, has one last choke
‘Tis nothing to fear, just the nature of life
 
Many passed...

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Categories: choke up, death, nature,
Form: Villanelle

Lost Love - Gary Fields

Loss Lost Love

by~ GARY FIELDS

Why my love left?
I soon forget the reason's why
All that I remember
Is that she left such
An empty space
An empty trace
So many...

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Categories: choke up, loss, lost love, lost,
Form: Ballad

Where the Flag Still Waves

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Categories: choke up, anniversary, history
Form: Concrete

Precipice of a Lost Innocence

I am standing outside my bedroom, on the precipice of lost innocence.
Wide eyed, and barefoot on cold hardwood.
Someone is hammering on our front door.
My father,...

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Categories: choke up, childhood, mother,
Form: Narrative

I Love You

I wonder why
It's always so strange
                   ...

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Categories: choke up, girlfriend-boyfriend, lovelove,
Form: Free verse