Best Tightness Poems

The sound of rain falling on your roof,
feeling raindrops on your flesh...ineffable--

The tightness of a hug from one you have
not seen for a very long time...ineffable--

Laughter of young children playing, yours 
or not, doesn't matter...ineffable--

The way a sunrise gives you hope, and a 
sunset presages...

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Heart pounding,
Confused and disoriented,
I cannot breathe.
There is a tightness in my chest
And butterflies in my stomach.

Vision blurred,
Weak and dizzy,
Nothing feels real.
There is tension in my muscles
And numbness in my skin.

Body aching,
Cool and sweaty,
I am shaking.
There is a panic in my head
And fear within my being....

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As You Travel
By Franklin Price
3/2/2016

As you travel through this life
Do you hear a little voice
Each time you reach  a fork
In the road  and have a choice?

Is there a  little feeling
In your gut that makes it tight
Telling you one way is wrong
And the...

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~Michael~
With my head on the pillow I see you in the shadows.
Slipping back into your clothes when all my eyes can do is follow.
My mind starts to wander as you step back into those heels.
The silk touch of your body my hands just want to...

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Written: March 31st, 2024 for Matt Caliri Coagulation Contest

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Finally, my blood began to coagulate;
I am initially concerned over poor fate,
Right away, I...

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I have this inkling feeling each time before i break 
a tightness in my chest, i swallow air 
and each time i want to discard every piece of you i own 
but i forget, forget, forget 

i close it off, i just don’t think about...

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above the mist of
 kohl tombstones . . .
  moon hides its face

Wind screams through the graveyard,
and leaves on the ground are scattered around old tombstones
where a modern Cherokee man
lies on top of the grave of his dead wife, 
wailing with a passion that matches
the aching tone of...

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Lay down the spoon and still the hand that shakes
the smell of cooking mixed with that of fear
eyes reddened, wide, haunted expression make
await a fury fuelled by drugs and beer.
Self worth crushed long ago by vicious tongue
of loving parent's warning took no heed
her bruises say...

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Always right with me, behind my back,
 The enslaved don't have hope,
 I go, I read, but it stuck with my skin, with me,
 The shadow ransacks behind, a nervous contour.

 Always to us days conceal a pressure,
 There is no ease of space on...

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Night!
Midnight!
Dark midnight!
My world, tight-lipped,
awed by your tightness;
stars, blind in the clouds, 
creatures crept, no footfalls.
Hushed, I craned: will I see the
morrow? Crawl past the burrow?
Will my fond desires eye the light,  
new dawn? I winced from the pang, 
shoulders hunched, head on sweaty
palms, gazing...

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The Beach

There was one spot upon the hill
where when the sun was just right,
and you got up real early, you could
see the ocean.  Just a glimpse of it
as the sun bounced its morning yawn
across the bay.  It seemed a million
miles away, that strip...

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My sunny smile brighten your days
My gentle stare makes you blush
My deep tone of hello moved you just that bit closer
You can feel my present now

I’m a man
Phenomenally
Phenomenal man
That’s me.
 
Many people wonder where my secret lies
I’m not handsome, or built to suit a stripper...

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red devil of life
sow the tightness of large deaths
chaos' asking





*A take off on D.G's ...green Angel of death.*...

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So cramped ...
Strain to move,
Flex and budge in tiny increments ...
That's the limit.
Constantly testing, trying,
Pushing, pressing ...
Constrict, exert, constrict, struggle,
Spin slowly, push ...
That's it. That's all.
Nothing more.
But it helps ... relief,
A body sigh ...
But only a modicum.

So dark,
But hints of light ...
Here and there, and...

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It is small movement, just a gasp, a little breath in
Not hard to do, you can do it, at the same time you can still grin
Just an intake of breath,  just a little gulp of air
 So small we never notice, until the airs...

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