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Clenching Poems - Poems about Clenching

Four Years Ago to Now
...I remember, I remember the pain, I remember the fear. The loss, the anger, the hurt. Friendships I thought might last forever, Torn apart too soon. People I loved now lost to me. Years ago, I ......

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Categories: clenching, 12th grade, angst, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Hurt
...My legs hurt from falling to the floor, My throat hurts from screaming, My nose hurts from sniffling, And my soul hurts from dreaming. My ears hurt from all the noise, My eyes hurt from crying, ......

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Categories: clenching, anger, angst, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Disarmament of a Shield-maiden
...A clenching of our hands, A clinging of our bands. The sweet aroma of your strawberry-coated strands, Allow my capability to disarm your fragility. Pent-up anticipation will meet expect......

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Categories: clenching, fantasy, imagery, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
The number that died
...I used to slit my arms open like I was peeling fruit—careful, slow, watching the skin give way like wet paper. The box cutter blade was dull, sticky from God knows what—maybe dried glue, maybe someon......

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Categories: clenching, anger, depression, emotions, for
Form: Free verse
Splinters
...More and more splinters in my palms. Sometimes you don’t realize. Plucking out the splintered wood with tweezers. And hearing a growling sound. My family- Called out to me. As if they are......

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Categories: clenching, mental illness,
Form: Free verse



Silent dark
...shadows ”When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.” —Lauren Eden, The Lioness Awakens i was raised by the dark— mother taught me to swallow the unsaid......

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Categories: clenching, adventure, analogy, growing up,
Form: Suzette Prime
Premium Member Evaporating Seasons
...Stardust blankets lacrimosa skies, a requiem of times gone by. The taste of late summer nights still lingers on bittersweet lips, yet somehow, now, it’s become stale—like blue cheese and old pickl......

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Categories: clenching, deep, gothic, imagery, night,
Form: Free verse
a moment alone
... ~ a moment alone this fleeting affair of solitude sighs unlikely to share some daydream beliefs with wildflower dreams and fingers entwined midst dark silent screams where ......

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Categories: clenching, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Man is not a solitary note; he is a symphony of deep contradictions
...Man is not a solitary note; he is a symphony of deep contradictions, A song of sins and sorrows, composed of desires and broken dreams, I've seen hands that caressed loved faces, clenching into for......

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Categories: clenching, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The War Within
...Thoughts coil around my mind, Not chains—no, chains can be broken. These are roots, tangled deep, Threaded through marrow, Anchored in places I cannot reach. I pull. They tighten. I resist. T......

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Categories: clenching, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tooth And Nail
... tooth jagged, canine aching, decaying, eating denture, enamel, manicure, claw grabbing, clenching, filing, etched, pinpo......

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Categories: clenching, creation, words,
Form: Diamante
the ache
...life is filled with sparks. like that flicker you get in your eyes when a firework lights up the sky. or that feeling on your skin when you’re in the sea and the breeze hits you. that first sip......

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Categories: clenching, angst, anxiety, corruption, dark,
Form: Free verse
THE LOST GIRL
...THE LOST GIRL THE FOREST GREW MORE SINISTER AND DARK SHE ALONE IN THE DARK WITH THE UNIMAGENABLE PLACE THE CLOUDS ARE STRANGERS NOW TO HER HER SOILS ARE APART FROM HER FAR FAR AWAY THE EXISTE......

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Categories: clenching, adventure, allegory, analogy, light,
Form: Canzone
SHADOWS IN SILENCE
...SHADOWS IN SILENCE THE SILENT CRY WAS NOT HEARD MORE HER BROKEN SILENT CRIES WITH RIVERS OF TEARS SHE TOOK HER CHILD BUT REMAINED STILL BECAUSE HOPE WAS THERE FOR THE UNKNOWN BEING AGAIN TH......

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Categories: clenching, abuse, anger, angst, divorce,
Form: Blank verse
Fleeting Moments
... Clenching tightly, so moments don't fade away, As bygone days once promised to stay. Rejoicing in every instant to its utmost, The spectacle may ultimately e......

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Categories: clenching, age, allusion, america, animal,
Form: Rhyme

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