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Best Hold Back Poems

Below are the all-time best Hold Back poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of hold back poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Where Gladiators Fought
Part I

Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...

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Categories: hold back, passion, places,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Always
I'll always be here for you,
where else would I go.

But for you, my heart is lost, 
in dream..
to counting sheep, 
and always will be so.

I...

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Categories: hold back, dream, friendship, poetry, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tissue Box
like visitors from outer space
they came with tears, and lined the sidewalk
long in face, and arms embracing
some (I have no inkling) who
they were or why...

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Categories: hold back, child, cry, daughter, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Do You Say Goodbye
How do you say goodbye to someone you've loved
With whom you have shared your life
Is a goodbye enough or "I'll see you around"
After walking together...

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Categories: hold back, emotions, goodbye, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member What Lurks Within
What Lurks Within

I picture in my mind an old colonial room,
With a door to the garden where my flowers can bloom.
 
A window in the...

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Categories: hold back, imagination, places, old, old,
Form: Rhyme



Ecstasy's Peak
Gazing into your eyes as you slip between my thighs
Wrapping myself around your joy, I can feel your nature rise.
 
Our bodies moving in sync,...

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Categories: hold back, fantasy, love,
Form: Romanticism
Picture of Painted Pain
Taken this worn path ,he'd 
taken so many times before
To his one and only true love,
he will always adore

His destination marked Riekers, 
sprinkled with fresh...

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Categories: hold back, child, dad, death, mom,
Form: Rhyme
Your Love Echoes In Time
 I once had your love which sailed on the shores of sorrows,
Broken hearts did shove the tears thru echoes of morrows…
For it is only...

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Categories: hold back, devotion, fantasy, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas Faith
Joy to the World
Joyful angels around the Infant King
Ode to God's only Son in chorus sing
Yonder He lies; one day peace He will bring

To a...

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Categories: hold back, christmas, faith, joy,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Trust No One
~My Heart~

•      One last night before the grave
•	Thousands of thoughts of you I save
•	-Every night, I experience the same dream
•	That...

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Categories: hold back, body, confusion, corruption, courage,
Form: Epic
Speak Up
When you take a stand and say what you choose,
Without hesitation, or being confused,
Not holding a fear of what others may say,
But to say what...

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Categories: hold back, hope, inspirational, strength, truth,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Love At James Bond Beach
Making Love In Jamaica At The Iconic James Bond Beach

It is a sun splashed day; 
the air is silent with the sound of waves 
the ocean is...

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Categories: hold back, beauty, love, ocean, paradise,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Come Gently
Come gently like a winding trellis
stroking my shape as you fondle
 my vulnerability, and tease,
 tease curves of my spine with whispers
to unleash what is...

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Categories: hold back, desire, mystery,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Children of the Divine Wind
Many times the ocean 
has saved Nippon,     pearl of the sea,
an oceanic symbiosis  a speck in a fecund see.
The dikes...

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Categories: hold back, history, inspirational, introspection, natural
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Feelings of Guilt -
Hold back the tears of sorrow

                   Imprisoned...

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Categories: hold back, best friend, funny, missing,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things