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Best Coiling Poems

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Premium Member The Broken Doll
Walls of silence hold,
 Me prisoner,
The child held within,
 Cries out for release.
Relative solitude comforts, 
Not the tortured soul,
Inward coiling withdrawing,
 Deep inside. 
Shedding its...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coiling, abuse, childhood, conflict, fear,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Heart Spilling Blood
Written: February 5th, 2024
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My heart is leaking...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coiling, analogy, anger, bereavement, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Asp of Grief
ASP OF GRIEF

She buries her head upon this asp of grief —
soft with reptilian fangs, hard with poison.
Her covetous husband lies upon the Nile’s reef.
She...

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Categories: coiling, beauty, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inner Turmoil
It is not fair, it is not just,
That you have things that I don't!

Do I suffer with envy and jealousy,
Coiling like a noose in my...

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Categories: coiling, emotions, fate, feelings, identity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Love Strike
Upon shy reach,
His fingers touch mine—
Quickly though, they move away from me… 

I bite his lips,
Crushing his coiling coy
And snatch his hands back onto me

I...

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Categories: coiling, adventure, anxiety, cute love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Giving Decency a Voice
In the dreary tune of a city's groan,
when streets escape the raging claws
of  haggard breaths, a line of stars blink
trading some warmth with human...

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Categories: coiling, corruption, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paradise Lost
Today I could feel only burning salty tears of sadness 
Alone as I walked slowly along the beach pondering
Sweet memories pervading my inner psyche deeply...

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Categories: coiling, beauty, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Shall We Dance
SHALL WE DANCE

Shall we dance, as two snakes encircling one another,
A bite to the strike, whom draws the first blood of 
Passions bitter poison.
Venomous vipers,...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coiling, animal, dance, desire, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
My Gallery
My Gallery

In upper part of my body
A cognitive bell rings
From a dial-up connection
of live wires

The modem is working just
To repeatedly provide
the facsimile of
Barren and bald...

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Categories: coiling, 12th grade, body, conflict,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member jemaa el-fnaa - morocco -
hold still, eventide ...
   I am a capricious cad among wraiths,
     waltzing with a mop in
   ...

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Categories: coiling, adventure, appreciation, celebration, travel,
Form: Imagism
Color Surety
Canvas, calm, grinning. . .blank
Had words screamed, scarecrows trapped on the poles of their creators,
Had words formed psalms that barricaded the strongholds of the heart,
Divine...

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Categories: coiling, animal, beautiful, change, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
To Eden Part Ii
A stone's cast ----

   but what great arm has set about the motion?

   was not the first mother reared? ----

 ...

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Categories: coiling, creation, death, faith, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sweet Abuse of Our Privacy
Just half a meter away is this semi-covered female
so fertile for a score of trees to grow on
smooth and soft, curvy and oily
a rich landscape...

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Categories: coiling, emotions, love, lust, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member That Place


"That Place"

In that place where you were abandoned,
that place, they never thought, you’d come back from, 
in that place where it is believed nothing grows...

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Categories: coiling, dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Insomnia
Teeming pools of spawning thoughts
   Irrational coiling tendrils and knots
     Restless limbs and rattled brain
    ...

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Categories: coiling, angst,
Form: Acrostic

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