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Dangles Poems - Poems about Dangles

Orange

...Orange peel. Scent fresh but bitter,
tangible in taste and air. A circle in fruit
that dangles and is turned, twisted from
branch. The challenge to keep the 
peel whole, no break. Sink teeth into...
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Categories: dangles, color,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe World is Bleeding

...The world is bleeding
We stand at the edge of a precipice,
Looking in fear on our Earth,
Boiling, bubbling, and steaming,
With pools of blood flowing.

Warplanes blanket the sky.
V...
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Categories: dangles, angst, death, war,
Form: Free verse



Though an atheist

...Though an atheist..
please oh lord brace and fix me with monetary salvation

After umpteen times being swindled
reducing me to abject poverty
psyche of mine
broke into a bajillion little pieces...
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Categories: dangles, absence, abuse, analogy, angel,
Form: Free verse

What You Eating? A Letter to Friendship, Fur, and Fried Calamari

...Our story began behind bars with the broken,
Displaying our armor with truths left unspoken.
Through the gates each day, our counselor hats on,
Where pain wore a face, and hope felt long gone.

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Categories: dangles, best friend, care, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLoose Ends, Intently Tangling

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Loose ends left dangling make you nervous.
They crave a neat knot-tie for a conclusion.
A bow to seal, a ribbon to heal,
like shoe-laces they want to be retied, 
to not trip you up.
For loose ...
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Categories: dangles, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberKnow Ye Thy No-No’s

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Know ye thy No-No’s, mark 'em well,
Lest their folly trap thee in their spell.
Lick ye not the pie before it be cooled,
For hasty tongues are so easily fooled.

Pluck ye not the fruit that dan...
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Categories: dangles, courage, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPoint of No Return

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A crescent moon dangles in the distance,
whilst meteors jet across Prussian blue heavens,
leaving trails of grey ash in their wake.
An abnormal, elongated silence creeps through threadbare t...
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Categories: dangles, angst, conflict, dark, gothic,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCon Man Gil B Shift

...The lights dim, and a single spotlight illuminates the dude speaker/He adjusts the microphone the voice, and when it comes, it is strong.) The Confidence Man)/
 He's not a robber with a gun and mask...
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Categories: dangles, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

Premium MemberTower Of Magic

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   when elixir of moon drips wine
into the crystal goblet of magic
   this  late night beguiles my skin, reeling
            on a Friday parade of lights;
    my hips oh so beckon, swaggering t...
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Categories: dangles, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberSafety Net

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The safety net dangles
blows, twists, and turns
in the increasing winds
cut from its moorings, 
and the people fall
grasping for 
the shredded and useless
remains 
evisceration of social pr...
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Categories: dangles, america, anti bullying, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDrawn Heart Esquire

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Written: April 09, 2025, 

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I will be faithful and reveal to you the facts,
You are mine in life and as soul, subtract.
Because when I die, all fabl...
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Categories: dangles, appreciation, cute love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLoving You

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it's in the way you look at me 
a look that borders on eternity

i bask in being your object of desire
beneath a moon that dangles by a wire

in our world valentine's day is every day
loving...
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Categories: dangles, appreciation, beautiful, happy, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRoots and Resilience

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Written: March 08, 2025

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The silence keeps us apart— 
quivering quietly near the cusp of dawn, 
when hushed voices disappear.
It can be both tu...
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Categories: dangles, confusion, identity,
Form: Free verse

Bold

...If courage will take me through this life
give me more of it, if passion will elevate
me to the mountain top, immerse me in it
and if love should die a thousand times rekindle it
draw the distanc...
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Categories: dangles, adventure, america, beauty, blessing,
Form: Narrative

The Lie

...The Lie

I am an insect waiting to be squashed!

I stare hard at the ground
as if fascinated, enthralled by it
while, above, eyes of cold-cobalt  
wait to gouge and burrow out 
any self-belie...
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Categories: dangles, anger, anxiety, father, father
Form: Free verse

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