Best Flinch Poems

Flinching affirms my humanity with its frailty
And confirms my uniqueness midst flinch-inflicted diversity.

Topping my flinch-cause which oblivion can’t subdue is tooth prophylaxis
Surpassing every physical pain I have experienced of gruesome crisis.

Next, I admit my emotional flinch that gives me heart torture
Whenever I see my special...

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You can't say 
months or years 
w-/ out trying 
to grasp the scale 
of Time
involved.
Rubber bands 
pinging off one 
two three 
kidneybean cans,
chosen simply for 
occupation of space
line space,
	imagery
in a cage. Thats 
how I'll write 
from now on
pacing the 
paperbacked floor
fingernails my only fuel.
Scritch scratching...

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Uneasy and queasy cos my TV set
Is showing another celebrity vet
My legs are crossed tight, just as tight as they get
Has that little dog lost his testicles yet

While eating my lunch, or was it my dinner
The cat on the screen getting thinner and thinner
The head...

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I’d like to think
I’m bold and brave
Who am I fooling
I’m not
Never will be!
I’m a wimp
A sissy and a shrimp
I tremble
Like a leaf
At the roar
Of thunder
And run to hide
Under my covers
Till it’s over...
That’s right
It’s true
I’m a wimp
A sissy and a shrimp
   ~ Woof Woof...

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WHAT MAKES ME FLINCH

Flinch verb- draw back in pain, disgust.
I’ll tell you what, does that.
Lies, centuries being promoted,
disgusting as … a rat.

Snakes, spiders and yes, roaches too,
will see me scale a wall.
Yet find nothing as disturbing,
as lies … these get my gall.

Churches should have been...

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You ask me- why it is, that I flinch ?
With every sudden movement , that I don't see coming.
 Like I expect to be hit .
It's a leftover reaction . 
Like a residual tic.
A predetermined mechanism physically attempting to defend my physical self. 
For at...

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Surging like electricity to the esoteric abyss of my soul,
felt in all body parts, the flinching brought to the shoal.

Even the slightest stub of a toe, a beloved child in distress,
causes bile to roil and roll, the bowels of my heart in duress.

Likewise the agony...

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Flinch
I had to learn quick
Flinch
To avoid the sting of your hit
Flinch
Even to a hand reaching out with love
Since you taught me not to trust
Flinch...

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School yard
bullies
made you flinch
made you flinch

One day they
will grow up
to gain mid-sections
stand over grease pits

Life is ironic....

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jump bad, jump back wince
hid I around the corner
surprised recoiled quake

shiver, tremble, shake
boo!  to you ha made you jump
bla! made you cower

cringe, squirm, quiver, blench
you jump made you hesitate
withdrawn shudder shrink

made you stop and think
shy away, drawback withdraw
boo! Ha! made you flinch


through shock, fear,...

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WHAT MAKES ME FLINCH

Flinch verb- draw back in pain, disgust.
I’ll tell you what, does that.
Lies, centuries being promoted,
disgusting as … a rat.

Snakes, spiders and yes, roaches too,
will see me scale a wall.
Yet find nothing as disturbing,
as lies … these get my gall.

Churches should have been...

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how do April fool
a spider-bug on your head
believe it or not



4/1/2020

“How do” is a greeting....

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Love does not flinch, if beguiled look away
Heart aglow, to music divine it sways
Veering not off course, even by an inch
Seeking no victories, it needs to clinch
Vibrant emptiness, lets God have His way

Each cell and pore of form, devoutly prays 
Gods love and light the...

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You're asking me what makes me flinch?

My reason, answer, you will clinch.

Cell phone- held to ear!

One hand- left to steer!

At sight of this- my flinch- a cinch!


Sandra M. Haight

~11th Place~
Contest: What Makes You Flinch
Sponsor: Julie Leigh Rodeheaver
Judged: 07/27/2019
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What activates my reflex arc
And causes me to shiver?
Which stimuli come into play
To set my nerves aquiver?

At home alone at dead of night
A creak will make me skittish.
My lower lip begins to drop
In fashion quite un-British! *

And should I inadvertently
Whilst in the garden walking,
Be tickled...

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