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Best Contractions Poems

Below are the all-time best Contractions poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of contractions poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Grunts and Contractions
Where'd all the pretty words go
Phrases in the millions
Now all we use are acronyms
They're must be about kajillion
 
Sure time is fast approaching
We won't have...

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Categories: contractions, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ten Thousand White Butterflies
Ten Thousand White Butterflies 

Soft walls undulate like liquid steel
Metamorphic pulsations
Iridescent glow
Spiritual guides
Ushering departed souls

Rippling contractions
From cocoon-like womb
Bringing forth new breath
Replenishing blown out candles
Eyes scrunched
Painful...

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Categories: contractions, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Endometriosis Awareness, collaboration with The Silent One
Cramps creeping and crawling, 
an unwelcome reminder.
Why does my body betray 
me like an unfaithful secret lover, 
chaining me to my bed.
When did my uterus...

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Categories: contractions, emotions, health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Parenthood a Gift
Nine months I carried and waited
for you to come into the world
so I could hold you in my arms.

I knew you were in my womb...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contractions, birth, child, love, mother,
Form: Bio
Premium Member A Knight, Chained
This subtle dance in smallest tendons
And tiniest of contractions,
In littlest of words.

Minor C, disclosed in me in
tapping of ten digits
on my sheets.

When they dance in,...

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Categories: contractions, beauty, body, dance, health,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Little About Faith Healing
As along our long life journey we sail
We all do encounter belied expectations 
Feeling of deep hurt results from betrayal 
Our shrivelled heart writhing in...

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Categories: contractions, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nearby
Why must I hear
the tempting gurgle
Of the life giving stream 
A sound wet with promise
Of refreshment

Why must I see
The alluring rush of movement
Liquid heaven
An enticing...

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Categories: contractions, love, metaphor, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Imagine the Night Most Blessed
"Did you know that your baby boy has come to make you new; This Child that you delivered will soon deliver you?" From modern Christmas...

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Categories: contractions, birth, devotion,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Heartbroken
Our heart is where desires arise
and where they are in time resolved
but since we cling to wisps of smoke,
we remain in our dreams involved.

Seeking love...

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Categories: contractions, heart, love, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Returning
Something sits unsaid
and never takes form
but seems lifelong, a shadow
that occupies a space 
and yet has no shape
nor gives a hint of where
it's from.

It falls...

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Categories: contractions, dream, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Got Milk, Got Nutrients
Dairy foods are excellent sources of calcium

Phosphorus: This is an important mineral in bones, teeth and a part of every cell in the body

 Riboflavin:...

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Categories: contractions, childhood, children, christian, kid,
Form: List
Premium Member The Hotel Caretaker
How unparticular the day had particularly been,

On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,

For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,

Had lacked company, and therefore,...

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Categories: contractions, death, grief, introspection, march,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where the Railroad Track Meet
Where the Railroad Track Meet 

Grasping, lunging as does a donkey for the
dangling apple leading it forward, I reached
for the ever elusive spot.  That...

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Categories: contractions, moving on, remember,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Russian English Russian
I am pure Russian and I am the bear
I have  deep dark eyes and black , black hair
Russian girls are very pretty and very...

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© Jim Joyce  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contractions, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Road Home
On the way to Parkview hospital,
while driving along the Pacific rim,
under a thick blanket of fog,
our car pushed hard against a northeast wind

A winding road...

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Categories: contractions, child, light, travel,
Form: Quatrain

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