Best Hugging Poems

I feel myself going rigid
You don't need to tell me, darling
It's my body after all 
I feel myself going quiet
Like I've never known what is was to speak in flowers even though that's not true
I feel myself fading beyond grasp 
Because fear fades faster than...

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Trees stand proud as they reach and sway
Somehow they tether me to ground
Without them I might float away
Never wanting to be found

Standing peaceful and serene
They have seen all in this land
Ground and sky and in between
True grace from nature's own hand

Tied to this Earth on...

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hugging a live tree

such a beautiful feeling

indescribable...

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What could I do? 

What to do
when your biological,
and even formerly sober ecological,
relationships suddenly veer insanely romantic?

Or worse,
mistrustful
and yet
not always distrustful,
or not,
maybe deeper sadness
and occasional manic gladness
emerging inclusively wider questions
of approach and/or avoid

Both romantic
and yet soberly pedantic
sometimes before,
to plan, for after
feeling up
and/or sore
predicts anxiously down,
as...

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It's one o'clock in the noon and a hasty couple snuggling  
under an orange umbrella walks
on a glossy lane of the misty park deserted by folks...
as soft, transparent and warm
raindrops keep on pelting,
but these happy lovers seem worry-free,
not unafraid of the approaching storm!
We, too,...

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Tap dance through life if you must
munch all the gum drops that it offers
paint a million roses on misty mirrors
denial always tap-taps along rainbows
but never roots the truth from darkness.

You frolic in waters different than mine
a fantasy stream always half smiling
what you call living life...

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Hugging loneliness


It’s not what I said that is keeping me awake;
It's all those words that I just could never say. 
I have waited too long to find myself a place 
And now time is all out of luck and I am at my grave. ...

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Have you noticed
how men meet with
their hands, and women
meet with their hearts?
Either way the
warmth of the 
human body is transmitted.
It does not 
mean they are trustworthy,
or kind,
or willing to do that one 
small thing that 
will make all the difference
in someone's world;
Only that they are
of...

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Hugging is my favorite gesture
Not this time. No, not anymore
Just an exchange of sweet flying kiss
With closed eyes and protruding lips
Let’s show true love and care
Protect each other from virus- don’t share

Sept 6, 2022    10.21pm




Bitesize Poem no52
Contest Judged:  10/6/2022 8:48:00 PM
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The Easter Bunny tries to hide 
toys under the baby's bed, 
the baby started giggling 
when he knocked him over the head. 

Every Easter that goes by 
the Bunny runs into this, 
poor little bunny just wants a break 
maybe get a hug and a...

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We always do!
Well, maybe we shouldn't...
I cherish hugs from you!
Today, it just isn't prudent...

Forget what is on the news!
I'm dizzied, from the media spin...
We have the right to choose!
Arms embrace, sparkling within...

Don't allow such grievous stories
Rob us of love's simple glories!...

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I am going on a sabbatical
And the first thing I wonder is
Will my trees greet me
If I leave for a week?

I was only gone once before
For a week
And my trees waved me into my driveway.
I had planted the bulk of them.

They began waving in frenzied...

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Written by Gail DeBole on
March 10, 2020

An elephant in Zimbabwe
Hi-fived with a soft trunky sway.
Then wanting to play
She continued her day
With a hug for the human who waved....

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Fireworks,
Inside and out,
Happy faces on streets,
Hugging, Kissing, Playing, Dancing,
in glee..
The little monster who jailed us,
who dug graves of loved ones,
The King of rift,
Lay dead.



Honorable Mention in STRAND PICK J,ANY THEME,ANY FORM Poetry Contest sponsored by Brian Strand...

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Our life book is loaded up with lots of love.
A sentence here, a paragraph there; even a chapter pair;
Hearing wedding bells, sharing honeymoon embraces, alone times and skis;
Other romantic tales of ships with sails cruising exotic seas.
Children churning ice cream with us the old-fashioned way.
Grandchildren...

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