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Contorting Poems - Poems about Contorting

Bloodlust
...Bloodthirsty, flesh-hungry. I was schooled into turning off my heart. Anything for the title, for the power. Power. Power: an intangible weapon- a considerable price. There are still ......

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Categories: contorting, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Contorting Himself Like a Ball
...Contorting himself like a ball He rolled all the way to the wall. When asked as to why, He’d simply reply, “In moving this way, I won’t fall.” ......

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Categories: contorting, analogy, angst, anxiety, funny,
Form: Limerick



Trees of Existence
...A Tiny seed, Planted inside of Me. Long Before I Grew to be, This branch of reality. Anchored in Eternity, About to come out. A Tiny little Sprout, Being tossed about. The win......

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Categories: contorting, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Idiot savants
...Go and gather up the known affiliates. We're gonna build a village of idiots. We gotta make sure this gets crazy. "Getting out of hand" to me is just lazy. Had our fill of tastless "pain et cirqu......

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Categories: contorting, corruption, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
An ode to a wounded child
...O tender soul, o innocence defiled, What cruelties did your youth upend? Tormented by she who should cherish her child, Instead her addictions made her your fiend. Those eyes that should have b......

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Categories: contorting, abuse, addiction, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ballad for the Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube-Man
...air rockets skyward uppercutting inside plastic neon flesh contorting at inhuman angles what does my body language spell? ankles anchored into the Earth to stay grounded as the wave of time ......

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Categories: contorting, allegory, anxiety, funny, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tempest, Painting by Michael Cheval
...You pull me from the depths of forevers of thought elegantly twirled, though evidently caught shaped by the vortex, virtuoso of pain fluctuating truths from half flailing to half slain t......

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Categories: contorting, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Overwhelming Tranquility Blissful Peace
...Sometimes We have hall had such pleasurable idle days Where everything becomes still and quiet That surrounds us Apart from the pleasant melodic delightful Audible sounds and sonett I of twit......

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Categories: contorting, appreciation, creation, destiny, feelings,
Form: Free verse
What Time Is It?
...WHAT TIME IS IT? A shadow crosses my mind And stops. An old familiar figure Sent to me in this place From memories Long ago forgotten. A lonely basket Of a girl with no age In a room cry......

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Categories: contorting, abuse, angst,
Form: Free verse
Endings
...End Close Conclusion Fin Black… It’s too late now The dogs are asleep now Tears are unshed now Peace is gone now You’re gone too now Breathe Shaking violently Contorting beyo......

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Categories: contorting, depression, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Heaven's Breath
...I don’t know how to negotiate the long steep trail with hidden scorpions under loose rocks at home with human muck in a valley existence strolling upward through a thicket of TV images politics o......

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Categories: contorting, age, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Drenching In the Aurora
...When the chill wind slaps And the crunchy snowland claps, I stealthily step into a winter land, It's a wonder land The frozen river gleefully welcomes me Contorting their branch......

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Categories: contorting, earth, emotions, environment, fairy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yet, More Than a Brother Emeka Akpe
...Apparitions of buried memories exhumed with rash eulogies Arouse dried up tears that ever fail to cleanse the robe of guilt Arraigning again before the partial jury of tormenting thoughts Kaleid......

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Categories: contorting, allegory, allusion, analogy, brother,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Carnival of Thoughts
...My muse is like a carnival, a celebration of kaleidoscope colors, a dazzling display of light and sound. Circling slowly until I feel dizzy. Will I crumple and fall? A house of mirrors with ......

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Categories: contorting, feelings, fun, games, imagination,
Form: Free verse
The Sacrifice
...why do you hate me? You hate me because I stand up (instead of lie down) I tell the truth (instead of contorting my lips, my life, my soul to fit into your perfectly tidy little story) ......

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Categories: contorting, abuse, angst, family, grief,
Form: Free verse

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