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Best Tightness Poems

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Ineffable
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...

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Categories: tightness, allusion, appreciation, beautiful, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Panic Attack
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...

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Categories: tightness, fear,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member As You Travel
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...

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Categories: tightness, conflict, confusion, courage, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
In the Shadows
~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...

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Categories: tightness, girlfriend-boyfriend, passion, kiss, stars,
Form: Narrative
Punching Bag
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...

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Categories: tightness, angst, conflict, family, sister,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hope my final sigh is Relief
Written: March 31st, 2024 for Matt Caliri Coagulation Contest

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tightness, analogy, body, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rose
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...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tightness, sorrow, drug,
Form: Sonnet
The Dawn
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...

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Categories: tightness, anxiety,
Form: Concrete
Shadow
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...

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Categories: tightness, anger, body, character, dark,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Beach
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...

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Categories: tightness, beach, childhood, summer,
Form: Narrative
...Red Devil of Life
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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© Jim David  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tightness, funny
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Anticipation of Reality
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...

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Categories: tightness, birth, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hospital Waiting Room
In the hospital waiting room
you like to be in good time
there you are feel little nervous
up tightness within out of rhyme

No matter serious or minor
your...

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Categories: tightness, care, community, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why Argue
Why Argue
by Bob Moore

Women have to have the last word, I guess that they all do
it’s a cross that all men bear, each day, to...

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Categories: tightness, anger,
Form: Rhyme
It Hurts
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...

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Categories: tightness, health,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs