Best Shackling Poems


Premium Member Moonstones in Artless Skies

...It feels like the world
has been struck by a 
plague of pathological lies,
where fictional truth 
seems to sell better,
the allure of
imitation glistens 
even brighter, 
while superficial......

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Categories: shackling, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Orchid Oxymorons

..."Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~ Rumi

Dear Diary,

I’m a hopeless romantic, 
a sentimental ......

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Categories: shackling, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Scales of Mercy

...Do not let the ray of his meek sun fa me shines alone So 
Seek O, the favor of the Creator on his templed throne, eke
Favors of mercy Lattitudes of grace; lo the patient Savior’s
Heart pines throu......

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Categories: shackling, faith, inspirationalme, me,
Form: Verse

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Premium Member Shackling His Tongue

...I am frustrated and annoyed by his ticking,
or perhaps it should be labeled the 'tocking'
By the never-ending tongue wagging clicking
in the language better known as 'clocking'

Must Gra......

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shackling, time,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Hydrangea Hideaway

...Listen to the shifting winds 
carrying musical meteors,
there soars floating
letters between 
lyrical lines,
emanating runes
that reflect 
revolving rhymes
of faith within
and beyond.
F......

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Categories: shackling, faith,
Form: Free verse

Tod Und Frau 1910 (Death and the Woman)

...As death creeps out of the darkness,
  A mother becomes the rope in a (Tug of war.)
A child reaches to help its’ mother in her weakness,
  And stares death in the eye with abhor.

The rope falls......

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shackling, art, death, lifemother, child,
Form: Ekphrasis


Premium Member Unshackled Souls

...Uplifting the soul
Pay tribute to saving lives
Not shackling those in need......

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Categories: shackling, hope, life, peace, people,
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Poet War

...Dear Poetic War

I'm here to inform you to change your name to (War Shoe.)
Warlock doesn't even fit you!
I have many ways to insult you.
I have to play nice, can't you see all them evil eyes!
Poetic ......

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Categories: shackling, slamme, me, poetry, time,
Form: Epic

Ben Franklin Clerihew

...Ben Franklin
Did not like shackling
He freed the slave from slavery
That tested his oath of bravery

6/28/2015......

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Categories: shackling, america, celebration, dedication, devotion,
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member The Coming: Mood Variations

...The Coming…
(Mood Variations…)

		      
The long hot summer yields to the arrival
of the cooling fall.
Despite the coming treat to survival
towering trees proudly stand firm and tall.

Stic......

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Categories: shackling, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Prose Poetry

The Shore

...There were moments in which it would implore,                
You stop suffocating it to a bore.      
The medication always put it in its place,
Shackling it so it may not rear its horrid face.
......

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Categories: shackling, addiction, betrayal, body, death,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

..."?The Eye of the Storm!"

...Intrepid winds once....

Whispering serenities promises; uncharted

Into the chambers of their souls!?

Watching these invisible wings now

Carrying their dreams so, very far away ~

While ......

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Categories: shackling, faith, life, loss, love,
Form:

Premium Member A Nation In Crisis

...A NATION IN CRISIS…FALLING APART

It has been said that America
is an experiment in democracy.
If that is so—and it seems to be—
this country is in deep septic trouble.
Today, the mad dog polit......

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Categories: shackling, america, conflict, discrimination, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry

I Absconded With Reader Rabbit Peter To Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day

...I absconded with reader rabbit (Peter), to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day

Ah Sheik Hog - Ho!
One "FAKE" Wingman Flying
Via O'hare To Dublin y'know
Cuz, The Leprechaun within
me, seeks young spr......

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Categories: shackling, adventure, best friend, courage,
Form: Epic

Premium Member A Sad Christmas

...She wakens from a dream. The phone just rang!
The dream about her kids now flees her head.
They’re gone - her nest of children! And that bird
who’d built a nest with her has snuck from bed.

She......

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Categories: shackling, christmas,
Form: Sonnet
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