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Clench Poems - Poems about Clench

Quiet Grief
...Mother’s Day feels like a joke with no punchline, like the kind of card you don’t buy because you’d have to lie in cursive. I stare at the shelves lined with pastel lies, the soft-scripted thank yous......

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Categories: clench, 10th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse
The Easter Time Loop
...The Easter Time Loop (A lone voice whispers) Will you still Walk with me The one I once named Anointed and baptized within my mind In my own ancient Gardens of Gethsemane Where toge......

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Categories: clench, easter,
Form: Rhyme



Silent Scream
... The throat is taut, a cord of hidden pain, A speechless surge where words cannot remain. The lungs compress, a pressure deep and vast, A noiseless cry that time cannot outlast. The eyes, wi......

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Categories: clench, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member the spell of a pregnant pause
...time passes, hands clasped, afraid of what might happen, clench tight on what's been. eyes stare unblinking, lest the sheer weight of mere thought, reveals happenstance. ears distracted dwe......

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Categories: clench, destiny,
Form: Senryu
The Inheritance of Fire
...I was raised in the storm’s mouth, where walls learned to shudder before I did. Nights smelled of whiskey and rage, and the air, thick with silence, was a hymn of waiting— waiting for the door t......

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Categories: clench, anger, anxiety, father, father
Form: Free verse



Premium Member circles of tears
...circles of tears she sat in her closet wrapped up like a ball wading through old letters containing darkened secrets reading wrinkled notes and looking through faded photographs that wer......

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Categories: clench, sad, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zen mode
...at the Bindu chakra I feel a bliss pinch my eyes clench shut but I do not flinch rapture spasms rise held erect by spine all nodes within form as a force field align a million bliss bubbl......

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Categories: clench, joy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Slow Rot and the Coming Storm
...We built it with soft hands, stacked comfort upon convenience, turned our backs to the gears turning in the dark. Fed by silver screens and full stomachs, we let the fire flicker, too drunk on t......

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Categories: clench, political,
Form: Free verse
Sidewalk Steppin
...Crime wave, crime pays Crime goes on all day But its not a crime to feel the way i feel Say the things I say I stole your bike cause had built in getaway I stole your wife bewcause She said......

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Categories: clench, dance, dedication, growth, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
The Hound of Sleep
...I see thee yet, mine eyes on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Thus to mine eyes, o'er th'one half world 'pon the sacred curtained sleep, Seek thou sure and firm, set stepp'd earth nigh summon ......

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Categories: clench, blessing, deep, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Thorns and Blood
...The roses glisten in the dawn Their petals wet the air turned cold You stand there knowing what’s beyond A truth you never meant to hold The weight of years hangs on your frame Your shadow ben......

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Categories: clench, abuse, garden, grave, murder,
Form: Rhyme
A Quiet Weight
... it’s the hum of the fridge at 3 a.m., the distant bark of a dog you’ll never meet, the streetlight spilling its orange glow onto a sidewalk that leads nowhere in particular. you exist but......

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Categories: clench, confusion, emotions, fate, humorous,
Form: Free verse
For all the ones that aren’t and never will be
...Grab it Hold the feeling Clench that burning fireball While you’re crashing through the ceiling Bash your head into the wall And show them What you can do While you hold it to the sky When th......

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Categories: clench, anger, endurance, freedom, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member the spell had worked
...she grabbed her cat and began to dance the spell had worked! Not only was she a monarch witch but her colors were pastel The two things she had been dreaming about She kissed her spell book t......

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Categories: clench, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Turning the Hourglass
...Time limits boggle my mind with stressful thoughts of "hurry up," and "don't dawdle." It makes me anxiously annoyed to be pressured into completing whatever the task. I want to keep turning ......

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Categories: clench, time,
Form: Free verse

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