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Best Constrict Poems

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My Words Constrict Suppression
My words are not poisonous
I have a spider in my mouth
They are neither venomous
I rest a forked tongue between my teeth

My words are lovers
They sentence...

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Categories: constrict, words,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Villanelle: Stringent Laws Only Serve To Constrict Our Hearts To Hate
Villanelle: Stringent laws only serve to constrict the heart to hate
              ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: constrict, racism, violence,
Form: Villanelle
Escape
Solitary on my raft
Drifting peacefully away from the anguish towards sanctuary

The land becomes distant and harder to see.
Hurt subsides gradually and security softens my body...

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Categories: constrict, boat, depression, ocean, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Losing the Way
Riding stormy winds to the past
 To find out how we lost our way
 How long did the great ones last
 Mayans left their pyramids...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: constrict, lost, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Happiness Rages Outside Smiles
Happiness rages outside smiles that wend ‘round my cracked doorway sirens fade from 
the street music stops commercials scream dissonant chords walk across cat eyes...

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© Alex Roth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: constrict, visionary,
Form: Free verse



I Want You To Break Free
Don't let your dreams be drowned out by reality. 
If your bound up with daily drudge confound real life, set your dreams free.
Get off life's...

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Categories: constrict, fun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Overly Particular Contest Judges
Not for the contest

No more do I despair 
writing for contests with an off the wall theme
Those that want me to create a nightmare
from what...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: constrict, conflict, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Skin of Terror
Skin of Terror
- Daniel Henry Rodgers

(Lights slowly rise on a lone figure, MICHAEL, hunched over a steering wheel. His knuckles are white against the worn...

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Categories: constrict, horror, mental health, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Sapiosexual
I am sexually attracted to intelligence.

Intimate conversations springing from an

eloquent mind, undressing my conscience

and making love to my thoughts.

Giving me cerebral stimulating orgasms from

live interchange...

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Categories: constrict, poetess, sexy, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slapstick Informatic On My Computer
With its bite or baud or bit
It takes thick my stomach strict
When the mouse is there clicked
Then my brain is hard constrict
And my thoughts are...

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Categories: constrict, assonance, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Hyperbolic Mind
Labyrinth of headache and heartache
Cold steel walls
Surrounding and compounding
Trapped passageways
Constrict and conflict

Navigating carefully
To avoid the hellish realms
Checking my three and my six
But still exist my...

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Categories: constrict, emo, funny, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anaconda
Age is a snake that takes up residence,
just a small little snake, on your shoulders,
on the day you are born. Your radiance,
your energy and strength...

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Categories: constrict, allegory
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim 245 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar
The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim Number 245 (taken at random) of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classic on Ethics by Thiruvalluvar 

allal arulaalvaarkku illai valivalangum

mallalmaa...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: constrict, education, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Air
oh the distill
to fly the sky
I saw a garbage bag in the clouds

how could it makes it so hight
as I dropping my arms and legs
grew...

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Categories: constrict, absence,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Death Before Dishonor
My mind is already at the finish line
Right before the gun fired
My mind is already at the finish line waiting to foresee 
what 
the 
hell...

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Categories: constrict, inspirational, uplifting, urban, death,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs