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Best Restraining Poems

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Premium Member No Anchor For Rancour
Upon those who yield to anger, I should take pity
because words they spit are like sandpaper, gritty.
A loathsome temper causes them to fume and fret,
sometimes...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: restraining, anger,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Drunken Poet
*DRUNKEN POET*

There I see him sitting like a dummy.
Asking me for more shots of rummy

Talking about his detox days.
Talking about his poetic ways.

Rhyming my eyes...

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Categories: restraining, imaginationwords, me, love, me,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Stifle
Try opening your ears and shutting your beak
You never listen, incessantly you shriek

So now that my claw has stifled your chatter
I’ll give it to you...

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Categories: restraining, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Real Mccoy - Or Is She - POTD
POTD

Synthetic hyper realistic - eclectic not eccentric 
Android Humanoid - naturalistic totally orgasmic
Unnatural physicality this futuristic fem-bot fantasy  
Against all normality she is the...

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Categories: restraining, desire, future, lust, technology,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Intenstinal Gratitude
The “forthcoming” backtracks on dilly-dallied whispers.

They place verbal down payments on layaway,
Incomplete soul mates
Running on muted slow dances

Blanketing their pain

“Oh, how I always wished for...

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Categories: restraining, conflict, confusion, life, lost
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Fly
NOTE: Some of you seemed to enjoy my stories from the past. Of course, posting this in the story folder is tantamount to burying it...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: restraining, angst, humor,
Form: Prose
The Flowers Fall
That flowers fall

Like autumn comes and leaves begin to blush
Like rains confess the wild’s restraining souls
Screams the rowdy youth of such fragile rush
Roars our untamed...

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Categories: restraining, 12th grade,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Day Dreaming
the red glow so far away
so close, embraced
the burst of innervated dawn
restraining its awe

the uplift of a lemony-spring
sponge-squeezed from the sudsy sun
the faucet of quiet...

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Categories: restraining, imagery,
Form: Verse
Envy
ENVY
(Words inspired by Casarah)

Our faces are turned toward Bangkok
That buzzing hive of humanity
Where folk brush against each other
As they twirl and dance
In an effort to...

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Categories: restraining, car, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 50 Shades Of
50 shades of therapy
50 shades of restraining orders
50 shades of rejection
50 shades of addiction
50 shades of suicide
50 shades of rainy days
50 shades of cloudy ways
50...

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Categories: restraining, analogy, dark, sad, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Dead Man Tells Tales

 I saw, the rot of selfish desires,
 burning endlessly in clever fires
 Piles of cash a mountain high
 stolen by those...

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Categories: restraining, blessing, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Like Chaste Eyes
Chaste eyes trace my limbs, in the deep of woods
swerving like a breeze moist on fields of grass,
His Latin fire, on edge of twilight moods.

Shape...

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Categories: restraining, love, passion,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member Against An Inky Night
Meandering through an old woodland
I pause against an inky night.
 
But how hard to speak about emptiness
when voices enter my breath
to hiss of past stories...

Although...

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Categories: restraining, bereavement,
Form: Verse
Mute Muse
Where are you lingering?
you hide your fiery trail;
inspiration gleaming bright 
grows dim and deathly pale.

Secret whispered phrases,
hand over mouth are held
captive in a stagnant soul,
pure...

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Categories: restraining, muse, poetry,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member You and I Were Meant To Be
Remember our High School classes?
Watched you fidget with your glasses.
Slender fingers twirled chestnut hair,
enough to make me stop and stare.

I caught that twinkle in your...

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Categories: restraining, crazy, crush, dark, girl,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs