Best Tightening Poems
Below are the all-time best Tightening poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tightening poems written by PoetrySoup members
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the...
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Categories:
tightening, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
FinallyFinally
Doctor, it's been 7 months
The MEDs aren't kicking in
My dreams are getting stronger,
The blood remains to run code red
It's getting harder and...
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Categories:
tightening, dark, deep, evil, horror,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Silver Solitude on Storm's EdgeI emerged with a silver pen in hand,
…and a tempest raging within.
Words writhe, a serpent's coil,
…tightening their grip,
A soul adrift in a sea of
…self-made...
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Categories:
tightening, mental health, mental illness,
Form:
Narrative
Birds Eye Self SurveillanceTheres a man in the sky, can you see him hiding, crouching behind the grey mist rising.
Thunder and lightning seems to guide him to...
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Categories:
tightening, 7th grade, blue, change,
Form:
Rhyme
SardinesThrough the water they glide,
an immense mosaic of millions of silvery fish
on their migratory run,
obeying a call immemorial,
a mystery of aquatic...
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Categories:
tightening, fish, imagery, journey, life,
Form:
Imagism
The Curtain of Pain Fell Upon UsWhile snowflakes continue to fall,
upon a night pale as ghostly winter
I falter from my own distraught pause--
the hazy moon watches my young girl
a...
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Categories:
tightening, mother daughter, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Can'T Take Much MoI could pound her head against a brick wall
or find some modicum of logic to install
but those would probably do no good at all
for she...
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Categories:
tightening, conflict,
Form:
Imagism
PollyA nobody
Scared by the sound of his own voice
Following the girl home from school
In his mind this is normal
Stalking girls
He grabs her jacket
Pulling her...
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Categories:
tightening, absence, abuse, addiction, angel,
Form:
Lyric
Runaway BrideAt twelve years old
She sits in the cold
Engulfed by the dark
Sitting on an old tree trunk
By the edge of the silent river
From far she can...
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Categories:
tightening, child, culture,
Form:
Free verse
The VisitGo ahead, you freaking coward, I thought. You drove all this way, with your new 6" GPS. Now you’re a bowl of jello who can't...
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Categories:
tightening, best friend, death, first
Form:
Narrative
I Just KnewA Poem Please Contest
Sponsor: John Lawless
in love with you forever
sorrow can heal wounds
through sickness and health
I grew that day…
I knew that day…
I had high hopes...
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Categories:
tightening, daughter, death, family, hope,
Form:
Verse
Is There An Exclusive All-In-One Principle‘ In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. Instead, it predicts a number of different possible outcomes...
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Categories:
tightening, philosophy, death, art, dark,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
ShineA grim, gray day,
endless rain coming in off the ocean.
Endless calls from other people,
"What part do we need for this?"
"Can you order it for us?"
"A...
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Categories:
tightening, child,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Show Time - You'Re Fired Mr MuellerSHOW TIME - Mr. MUELLER, YOU'RE FIRED
Come life and death of it you blessed rhapsody
you've played for long enough and now it's time to go
there's...
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Categories:
tightening, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Jemaa El-Fnaa - Moroccohold still, eventide ...
I am a capricious cad among wraiths,
waltzing with a mop in
...
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Categories:
tightening, adventure, appreciation, celebration, travel,
Form:
Imagism