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Constricts Poems - Poems about Constricts

Premium Member The Fable Of Two Snakes In The Grass
...Allegory (Fable-Parable) Poetry Contest Crystol Woods They were two snakes in the grass buried in the pit of life now bemoaning their past with hisses, coils and strikes she constricts he restr......

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Categories: constricts, allegory, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Feel of My Anxiety
...Anxiety is like obsidian piercing my heart a thousand times, As a king snake contracts against my tired heart muscles. It can be as simple as a cheetah flying off the ground, As it chases its pr......

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Categories: constricts, anxiety, emotions, feelings, mental
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Accidentally: THE END
...Sand scrapes my skin as I wake, Warm water around my shoulders break, Spluttering, I shake my head and open my eyes, Palms and dunes to my surprise. Shock constricts my body as I cannot regist......

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Categories: constricts, adventure, beach,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Surviving in the Post-Truth World
...In the realm of post-truth and misinformation, We find ourselves adrift on a turbulent sea, Deceit's waves rise, falsehoods obscure the sun, Facts, like elusive phantoms, fade from view. This t......

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Categories: constricts, betrayal, psychological, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Way Light Changes
...("Incantations", 2014, original pen and ink and acrylic) The Way Light Changes There are times when the very fabric of reality changes; alters, loosens and expands, and for that matter......

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Categories: constricts, appreciation, inspiration, joy, spiritual,
Form: Narrative



Consumption
...Unhinge your jaw, snake, what’s a little more? You’re eating worlds faster than they make them And nothing fills you better than a tale of love and war. You’re ravenous, really, making feasts ou......

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Categories: constricts, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Obsession
...Love is a writhing mass of tentacles. Its immense and undulating form sits deep in the depths of my core. It constricts me, so everything I am and all that I feel gets pulled back and transmuted ......

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Categories: constricts, angst, crush, dark, desire,
Form: Free verse
Hedwig
...Hedwig Her house, a memory lane of sacred spaces: the cobwebbed attic travel trunks, high heeled shoes, pink taffeta gowns, skirts that open into spinning parasols, cool musty wine cellar......

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Categories: constricts, celebration, family, grandmother, joy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Above the Quay
...Some will say I have paid my just, spiritual Penance Though no crime have I confessed before the bar. With bitter Perfume in my nostrils, with Poise, I stand And ponder quickly the maddening ac......

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Categories: constricts, death, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yearning For God
... Yearning for hope shadows her thoughts Blazing through her heart and soul Her stomach is all tied up in knots She longs for love that will make her whole Grief constricts her arid thr......

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Categories: constricts, faith, forgiveness, grief, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween Poems Ii
...Completing the Pattern by Michael R. Burch Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead who kept life’s compact and who thus endure harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds and manicured gre......

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Categories: constricts, dark, gothic, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Going To the Hospital
...I'm going to the hospital again. I'll see some new and old friends. The doctor must like me for he likes to see me, At least once a year to attend, To matters concerning my throat. Seems it sl......

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Categories: constricts, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Limerick
Love Has a Southern Flavor
...Love has a Southern flavor: honeydew, ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout we tilt to basking faces to breathe out the ordinary, and inhale perfume ... Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangle......

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Categories: constricts, desire, longing, love, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Eye On Interracial Romance
...Hi, my everyday crush, I’m your everlasting admirer, Jeremy I eat everything, no known culture is my enemy I know, you are the confident and elegant Veronica I’ve done my research to bring you a l......

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Categories: constricts, africa, fantasy, i love
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mother
...Perhaps the fear will pass, they say time heals all wounds, but wounds of the heart? Assurance is not enough, though some find happiness in delusion. When reality brings the forgotten fear......

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Categories: constricts, mother,
Form: Free verse

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