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Best Tighten Up Poems

Below are the all-time best Tighten Up poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tighten up poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: tighten up, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member - the Brown Fog -
There are times you have no choice
To infinite unity, the tide comes as determined
You are part of the earth, the sun, the moon, the wind...

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Categories: tighten up, dark, drink, drug, pain,
Form: Free verse
Words of Mass Destruction
Words of Mass Destruction



Words like bullets do not have eyes, as they fly in our hearts and materialize
Deleterious breaths that we soon despise, words written...

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Categories: tighten up, abuse, hurt, words, ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stop Right There
STOP RIGHT THERE!!!						
NOT SO FAST….							
Just where do you think you are going??!!
Do you think you can just walk away!!
You have work to do.
Tighten up that...

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Categories: tighten up, appreciation, hope, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slammed Out Bam
Slammed  out  Bam

For a moment I will fantasize 
Lead him  on a trip
Make him realize 
this is more than a strip
boy you...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tighten up, fantasy, imaginationme, me,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Make Love To Me In That Ancient Place
The Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble...

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Categories: tighten up, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form: Epic
Popcorn Music
Pop (corn) Music


Introduction

It’s time to dance, time to tango
There’s a Canadian on the banjo
When he sees the guitar strings
Jack’s mirth grows soaring wings;
As he scans...

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Categories: tighten up,
Form: Rhyme
Truth Or Consequences
To whom much is given much is expected, land of the free
For when His Light is reflected then all will be able to see
Yet His...

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Categories: tighten up, judgement, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Endometriosis Awareness, collaboration with The Silent One
Cramps creeping and crawling, 
an unwelcome reminder.
Why does my body betray 
me like an unfaithful secret lover, 
chaining me to my bed.
When did my uterus...

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Categories: tighten up, emotions, health,
Form: Free verse
Freedom of Thought
A thought of the past flies condemned by the wind.
No more released than held deep within.
Bringing to surface this pain and this guilt,
And so I...

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Categories: tighten up, depressionme,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hanging Tree
Dead men tell no tails, or so the winds of 
Destiny’s say.
On judgment hill from on high, 
Voices do echo downwards, as the 
Noose does...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tighten up, adventure, evil, history, holiday,
Form: Free verse
The Empty Tissue Box
My heart was in such pain
I felt like I was going to go insane
I just don't know what to do 
And my eyes full of...

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Categories: tighten up, confusion, dark, death, depression,
Form: Narrative
Sea of Love
beneith the phantoms of the deep
a wretched grave yard where love sleeps
all but forgotten loves of time
covered in fiction, rumors and lies
decay did whither their...

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Categories: tighten up, conflict, grave, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Chained
Winged, winking devils dance
on onyx tinted wings entice
burnt appendages so broken inside rib cage

Unable to fly out of this hell hole
a shadow lifted nevermore
a touch...

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Categories: tighten up, dark, desire, heart, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Joe the Plumber
Joe The Plumber announced he was runnin' fer Congress the other day!
Congratulations, Joe!  You the man!  Fer you I shout, "Hooray!"
Tell 'em like...

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Categories: tighten up, funny, political,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs