Confines Poems - Poems about Confines

in a strange foreign land lone outsider waiting on the sidelines stumbles upon friendship and finds comfort soul to soul securing a safety net experiences the freedom to let loose to laugh and share the freedom to be free within confines set by the heart indelibly forging a lasting memory to take home and treasure always AP: 3rd place 2025 Inspired by the movie 'Lost in...

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1.) “The same waste stays un-cleaned”, Something like that was said. And I’ve spent time missing, Must’ve thought I was dead. The boy says the man’s unseen, Technically a teen but still “man” works instead. Unfiltered cigarettes hit, Spinning bottles cause we’re too afraid to easily break bread. 2.) Wouldn’t it be great to just be the...

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free to dream of thoughts that dare reach out beyond confines confines set by those who would have us bound and gagged confines set by those who have us grounded and clipped our wings by those misguided who underestimate our spirits free of shackles if only in our minds AP: Honorable Mention 2022, Honorable Mention 2022 Posted on March 27, 2022...

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In the Confines of a Dream By Sy Roth Their skin touches mine Hair on end in the cold, tickling, Vibrating with amoebic fear on an endless loop. I could not look. They braved separation from each other, Buttock to buttock, fearful of the trap Where shame brays an insulting reality Nascent scents buried in their catacomb. Then a quiet and God’s name echoes in...

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With One’s Life There are always choices to be made and certain realities to square within the confines, conflicts, and limitations of human existence. It is given and understood that human beings shall never be perfect, despite their religious overtures and genuflections to Almighty God. And, it is worth noting that human beings may fall pray, at...

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I can’t imagine living In the confines of a cell. The claustrophobia alone Would be a living hell. The bar-striped windows, concrete walls And narrow lumpy cot Paint a sad and sorry picture Of the home an inmate’s got. As I gaze from my apartment At my very urban view, I am struck by all the buildings Where some blue is peeking through. Still, it’s someplace I...

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" Freedom In The Confines of True Love ... " (A Wedding Song) ( Matt. 19: 4-6 ) There They Are As Bride and Groom Entering In That Private Room In The Space Where Both Did Choose and They Lock It Up So They'll Never Lose No Need To Break-Out Or Push Walls and Shove For There Is Freedom In The Confines of Their Love and There's No Need To...

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Alone in my world of solitude, admitting this feeling of mine my desire to let go and cry, is nothing short of benign nothing I think to do can elevate, sensing my emptiness to blame my pain and anguish intimidates, bringing with it this shame These words I hope to relate, might bring me a respite and chance to...

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Post-modern society i’m feelin’ afflicted, confined a predestined identity – i’m restricted, what I preach and practice – contradicted, due to the confines I mimic and pick, waiting for what the Mayan’s predicted, the revealing, the coming clean, tell us what the hieroglyphs depicted, we’re all looking for direction, collective unconscious became misted, many hearts and minds twisted, our souls blistered, instead...

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