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Best Contraction Poems

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Premium Member Unconditional Acceptance
Feeling hurt owing to belied expectation
The earth entity floundered hither and thither
Spiralling gloom causing consciousness contraction
The wound cut deep since he relied upon his transgressor

Pain...

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Categories: contraction, forgiveness, muse, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



You Take My Breath Away
Seductive verses written with strong attraction, you take my breath away,
lingering kisses beyond Venus, loves distraction, you take my breath away.

Passionate intentions between two loving...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contraction, love, passion,
Form: Ghazal
Lovers Eyes
Not long ago our destinies aligned 
and of all the people it had to be you 
your fragrance in the wind is left behind 
as...

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Categories: contraction, april, beautiful, cute love,
Form: Lyric
Warrior Poets

We warrior poets
calligraphy ride boldly into the foggy fray
Our ancient, iron-will pens
are always getting battle-tested
time and time again     by cloudy blot...

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Categories: contraction, dedication, poets, tribute, truth,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Two Rivers
Two Rivers

Stark naked she slowly shrivelled her exposed vacant mind

shed dry viscous tears and filled the empty river in vain

Exhausted petrified her and the stream...

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Categories: contraction, arabic, confusion, hope,
Form: Verse



Conception
Conception

There
In seconds words birth
A phrase laboring me to pen
Anticipation of a perfect offspring
Contraction squint the mind for me
That shudders a intent, until
It flops on the...

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Categories: contraction, artme,
Form: Free verse
Wasted Life
Drop shots and trick shots, we admire
The gang banging swear slinging
Outcast that got in..
Someone who can shoot bullets faster than words
Who's idea of having a...

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Categories: contraction, dedication, inspirational, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
Broken Glass
Melodious kaleidoscope
of broken glass,
Its mosaic montage
consumes lost encounters;
a toasting ceremony
for what perished.

Committed specialization
expires unrewarded.
Sand dollars of short-sightedness
decorate 
the exacting goddess 
of broken importance.

Sliced open, 
laid...

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Categories: contraction, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Now With Increasing Darkness O'Erhead
Now With Increasing Darkness O'erhead

Bleating at the rain, the despondent sheep
Their days and nights aching in blinded sleep;
Til masters, their dominated lives take
With true evil,...

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Categories: contraction, art, betrayal, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sorry Closed
No goods today
No table spare
Contraction themed
Hole round, not square

Diversion signs
A blocked traverse
A clear sans passage 
A please reverse 

The flower that
Just won't unfurl
The shell that...

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© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contraction, blessing, christian, giving, gospel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Find Your Way
Find your way
from brain stemmed
seed tree infancy
of glorious humanity
history

Find your way
From correct diverse limbic resolutions
back to shared soul temporal-health 
co-acclimating diverse struggling issues,
nutritionally resilient production
and...

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Categories: contraction, body, education, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Screening Process
"Screening Process"
They overtake, they overcome
Making us forget where we are from

Expansion of a new world means contraction of another 
through unauthentic, pixilated possibilities 
While pioneers...

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Categories: contraction, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Co-Dependent Love
Looking out the window
The skies look gloomy
Feeling empty inside
Screaming out in silence 
Unhappy with this companion 
Felt like I bare you in this world
Your presence...

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Categories: contraction, addiction, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shape of the Institution
I have the shape of the institution.
Each email address is a human.

They are known by their words and actions.
The whole wide world is just a...

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Categories: contraction, creation, dream, family, friend,
Form: Verse
Premium Member If I Understand It
If I understand correctly,
and this seems infinitesimally likely,
which is nearly infinitely unlikely,
but anyway,
If we do think bilaterally,
then we have regular imagined
and remembered,
reweaving and unweaving,
diversity through...

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Categories: contraction, culture, gender, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs