Best Grappling Poems


Premium Member The Vampire

...For I am death, the personification of pure evil,
The grand godfather, of legions of unnumbered generations.
Behold thy disciples, baptized beneath my crimson waters,
Of blood.
Then reanimated as......

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grappling, dark, evil, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member O Glorious Autumn

...O glorious Autumn of melancholic 
Gold -
All abouts the brightly lit
Woodlands
Your wonderful artistry behold!
Tinted bronzes,
Darting between awkward firs
Of sobering Evergreen,
Loiter insid......

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Categories: grappling, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Voice In the Wilderness

...Suitcase in hand, a face polarized against
the frosted window pane, searching verily
for continuity of a life that knew no restraint.
Someone’s Grandfather a considerate Uncle,
life’s situation u......

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Categories: grappling, age, old,
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member Frank E Einstein

...
I am the progeny
Of lightning and stitch,
A Franken-hybrid
Of genius and glitch.

My circuits buzz with
Einsteinian thought,
Unraveling secrets
The universe has wrought.

Existence, I pon......

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Categories: grappling, computer, internet, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium Member Detached - Even Circuits Hum, a music video

...

Detached - Even Circuits Hum
A Music Video

As twilight turns to tangled thought,
and truth tiptoes down trembling streets.
Once, wonder serenaded willowed winds
now shadows ......

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Categories: grappling, conflict, confusion, emotions, lost,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member From 'Ancient Greece'

...Love of truth
the very light of Greece
A peninsula thrust out
like a bony hand,
‘God-tormented Greece,’
Zeus exclaimed, 
“I shall give man ‘an evil,’ as the price of fire:
They will clasp destruction......

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Categories: grappling, change, mythology, society,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member Into Darkness - Star Trek

...Here, beyond the realm of air
          I've given what this job remands
               For everything I've e'er held dear
     My closest friend, the 1st, is near
But with a glass between ou......

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Categories: grappling, adventure, film, friendship, science
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Premium Member Tears of the Storm

...At the center of the hurricane blast, within the lightning
Flash lies the wicked eye of the calming storm, a weeping
Echoing of a widow maker’s somber moment, stilled by
Frozen remembrance lost be......

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grappling, adventure, devotion, fantasy, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Grappling With Gratitude

...GRAPPLING  WITH GRATITUDE 

Oh Gratitude, 
Gentle as a butterfly.
You alight upon
my emotional reverie
to birth my questioning.

You have risen 
as an inward glow 
of unexpected prop......

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Categories: grappling, celebration, deep, feelings, holiday,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Wild Tuna

...why is it easier to look at you
through one eye as opposed to two
when we should be totally 
enamored with the thought
we have come this far
we of kin, but enemies of spirit
cannot go on this w......

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© Ricky Muse  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grappling, brother, family,
Form: Free verse

Daisy

...Daisy trips and falls apart
The mysterious rider brings her back
And now wonders how she ll find
The way back home cause is its off the line
And runs away leaving the rider alone
He comes back f......

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Categories: grappling, lost lovelost, dark, dark,
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Disintegrate Discreetly

...DISINTEGRATE DISCREETLY

I am swimming, see no land;
The sea black darkened silence.
The only sound my grappling hand
In a tinted glass of violence.

No fish no coast no one is ......

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Categories: grappling, allegory, analogy, depression, life,
Form: Quatrain

Maze

...With timid steps and a trembling heart
I walked through verdant barren paths.
Toward a rusty gate it took my feet
Into a garden of roses among the weeds.
Carmine flowers, dripping i......

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Categories: grappling, fear, garden, horror, imagination,
Form: Free verse

An Experiment...

....... for your eyes ....

A menu for lusciously delicious lips...
Bread sticks and creamy dips,
Cold, warm, hot on your tongue.
Delicate cherries, can't eat just one.
Exquisite, dew filled honey......

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grappling, food
Form: ABC

Premium Member Unheralded Prince

...Upwards you gazed, poignantly painting me
like no one had before, nor has done since.
Concentric white and yellow circles. Free
of any common bearing or pretense.

I'd seen idyllic villages befo......

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grappling, art, depression, night, sky,
Form: Personification
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