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Cloying Poems - Poems about Cloying

The Other Woman
...The other woman lives inside of you; I can see her silhouette in your eyes. Her tendons twist through yours, interwoven, down through your fingertips, I see her there. The other woman lives ins......

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Categories: cloying, desire, feelings, metaphor, sad
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Nothing
...Nothing gets worse. Other people. They try to wrap me in a blanket. I was cold. It’s all thawing, and feels feverish and horrible. They learned things. Lessons which are dedicated to kin......

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Categories: cloying, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Song
...Dooo, dooo, daaaaaaaa. This song is about being yourself! Ohhh, Woahhh… You can’t be yourself if you… Hold onto something, or some blade of grass, or your left shoe… Falling into the lake, lak......

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Categories: cloying, angst, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sandman
...my tan fantasy melting cool but not cloying sugar surrounds me......

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Categories: cloying, appreciation, happy, love, magic,
Form: Haiku
Dark Water
...He was outside of life Alone and floating in the void But not in some beautiful or ethereal way Not in some way that elevated him to the casts of godhood or seams of men that walked the earth with......

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Categories: cloying, absence, depression, desire, faith,
Form: Free verse



Humanity
...[Quantum Superposition] "A particle can exist in multiple states or places simultaneously until measured." To my lover, I was first a beaming stranger, then a sunflower whose juice sustained h......

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Categories: cloying, adventure, confidence, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Time and Tide
...The tang of salt imbues the mist – a calling I cannot resist. I walk along the rocky shore held spellbound by the ocean’s roar. As darkness falls, the fog rolls in and, from the lighthouse, sh......

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Categories: cloying, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Roots
...Tell me Can a tree without roots Ever bear fruit? Tell me Can a ship without sails Ever make haste in the boundless sea? Death creeps, cloying Knotted garters frayed Under the sea the s......

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Categories: cloying, absence, fantasy, future, history,
Form: Free verse
Speak by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, a poem for our time
...Speak by Faiz Ahmad Faiz loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Speak, while your lips are still free. Speak, while your tongue remains yours. Speak, while you're still standing ......

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Categories: cloying, dark, father, fear, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Nature Poems by Michael R Burch
...These are nature poems about unusual plants like the moonflower and agave. Moonflower by Michael R. Burch after Robert Hayden Marveling, we at last beheld the achieved flower— both aw......

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Categories: cloying, beautiful, beauty, earth, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For Those Who Love
...Enchanted was I with a cloying scent... whiffs of wild magnolia mingled with the woodsy tang of lemon verbena perfuming the air Like Samson's strength, the sun's threads of gold were clipped......

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Categories: cloying, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seijaku
... Life is not always filled with cloying contentment. There are taunting trials and things I'd rather not do. Those tedious tasks that steal my smiles and my time, but not the joy of life's mo......

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Categories: cloying, appreciation, home,
Form: Free verse
Rainy Night
...It was raining. I thought I’d wait it out. I tuned the engine on to help. Still in place, but the engine rumbles. Flipping through the stations. Music, static, music. Cloying sounds, I’m used t......

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Categories: cloying, loneliness, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leaving Gently
... Each morning as I wake my eyes will seek the sky be it blue or heavy overcast my spirit lifts in flight - to behold the natural world is a miracle of being when I reach my final hour l......

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Categories: cloying, blessing, hope, nature,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye to hello
...Goodbye is a feast finished The last morsel down the hatch Improper to ask for seconds No aperitif to this lonely hunger For every goodbye must be a hello Even if no one arrives home Welcome ......

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Categories: cloying, anxiety, good morning, goodbye,
Form: Free verse

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