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Best Fraught Poems

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Premium Member Tranquility
Oh little one, how soon you'll be
In turbulence of puberty.
I will hold tight your days of youth 
And share with you my honest truth 

That...

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Categories: fraught, children, god, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead

Eyes sadly deprived...

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Categories: fraught, fate, first love, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: fraught, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Categories: fraught, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Like a Tree In the Desert
Prick me with your vivid green awareness
Let the white pins that needle me
Diminish into their foggy sham

The bridal wreath that scented our commitment
Now doused in...

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Categories: fraught, absence, anger, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Summer's Heat
That summer came like others, 'midst a rush
Hot days and sultry nights beneath the moon
And from my lifeguard stand I chose a crush
That made that...

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Categories: fraught, appreciation, beach, beauty, sensual,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Daughter's Heart On Mother's Day
Mother, sometimes memories are fraught

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Categories: fraught, emotions, hope, mother daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deceit's Receipts
The breadth of breaths a breast can heave
          Dark depths so delved as falsehoods leave
 ...

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Categories: fraught, angst, conflict, dark, wisdom,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Dilatory Thought
Blessed in abundance that manifests in our 
stressed daily interaction with our fellow man, and the sincerest 
form of our inner wellbeing is the outpour...

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Categories: fraught, introspection,
Form: Verse
Premium Member An Enchanted Doorway
I was a sophisticated, world class traveler, like merry wind in green trees.
I had seen hottest deserts and rain forests, where songs will never cease.

I...

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Categories: fraught, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Paris the 13th
Paris the 13th

Tears, my tears fall to wine
As I can not comprehend this horrendous crime
Men filled with such spiteful hate
Islamic teachings seal their fate
Kill and...

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Categories: fraught, death, dedication, freedom, humanity,
Form: Light Verse
Crystal Bowl
Crystal Bowl

A gold fish swimming round and round.
	His world of glass is all surround.
Round and round, day and night
      ...

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Categories: fraught, inspiration, journey, life, love,
Form: Masnavi
Premium Member Eddy
I try to see 
back before 
to who Eddy once was
just barely before when
the bending began
Eddy was after all
a cute child 
wide eyed
hugging kissing and...

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Categories: fraught, angst, cute,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Fgm
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Female sexuality
Fanatically robbed
Fraught with violation
Forever left in shame.
Folds of indignity
Forceful invasiveness 
Fulfilling love denied.


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*I feel very strongly about this topic.
  Have been meaning to...

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Categories: fraught, abuse, sad, violence,
Form: Verse
Premium Member One Dreadful Day
As spring showers soaked through to my soft skin,
In hapless home in youthful age akin,
Through stabbing sorrow's sleeplessness I knew,
I grappled grief as fantom fears...

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Categories: fraught, mother, rain, sad love,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Shattered Sighs