Dangling(A) Poems

Premium MemberThe Weight of Strings

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I walk dangling, a puppet in a shadow-play,
Dragging along old strings I can't unravel.
Tied to the scars and promises I've made,
Along the way to get here as, I am.
The strings on limbs, twitc...
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Categories: dangling(a), angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWobbly Hands True Strength

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Written: April 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France 

Quote: "Lovely days don't come to you, you should walk to them." by Rumi

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Categories: dangling(a), appreciation, life,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberInner Child

...I lost my one shot at unconditional love, because my mother deserted me.
Too young to know the reasons, which may, undoubtedly, have been valid, 
I was left with an eternal feeling of abandonment, ...
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Categories: dangling(a), child, innocence,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGoing, Going, Green

...It's a quiet place, beneath a grassy hill,
Where the moonlight spills on whippoorwill.

And flowers of apricot, maroon and mauve,
Crowd the blues and yellows, at sunlit cove.

On a large flat r...
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Categories: dangling(a), beautiful, flower, green, joy,
Form: Couplet

Game Over

...I burst through my kitchen door knocking down my mother in the process and said "outta the way loser".

I went down to my gamer cave to reign my epicness on these poor little noobs at my feet beggi...
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Categories: dangling(a), allegory, analogy, boy, dad,
Form: Jueju


Dog Tired This Day March 29th 2018

...A minor typo found this fanatic spell binding hound to resend a poem posse sub bully dashed off in a huff (past the hour) if nothing else than fur his spurt full of peace, bot tee, and mind. 
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Categories: dangling(a), 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Light Verse

Take To the Skies

...Fly with me

This poem depicts a beautiful picture of how God often set us up for success.

An Eaglet is hungry in his nest
His body steadied in a cold rest
Mom comes flying in an undulating br...
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Categories: dangling(a), adventure, faith, inspirational, leadership,
Form: Quatrain

Winter Has Arrived

...Snowflakes are falling from nature’s frozen water, 
  the icicles dangling; a kaleidoscope contrived-
                  Angels in the snow are made from my daughter, 
                  because...
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Categories: dangling(a), winter,
Form: Rhyme

This Is My Battleground

...Helplessness invades
into my life and into my world
Chaos; Disorder

Helplessness invades
trying to imprison you in a box of no choices
	:A box made of tinted glass
	buried under the old, dry ...
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Categories: dangling(a), god, imagery, inspiration, jesus,
Form: Prose Poetry

Spring Colours

...Spring is in full bloom 
And the festival of colours
Is letting loose the wild side
Of the young and old in India
Drowning old hatreds to start anew
With coloured water guns and balloons 
Spray...
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Categories: dangling(a), celebration, clothes, color, death,
Form: Free verse

Lacrimosa

...He goes by the name of Lacrimosa
He is the plain picture of a man
Those who don’t know him see him as a monster
But you and I know better that he is a broken friend
His smile drips of sorrow
His...
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Categories: dangling(a), dark, depression, grief, metaphor,
Form: I do not know?

Four Haikus In Nature

...A quilt of snowfall
Interrupts my peaceful sleep
Rest comes into Spring


Blackened clouds looming
Determination of sun
A battle of wills

 
Rebellious bird
Early spreading of its wings
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Categories: dangling(a), bird, nature, snow, sun,
Form: Haiku

The Screen Door

...Mornings are beautiful at the screen door!
Trees swaying with the gentle breeze
Birds are chirping their hello
Noise of a busy street - steady zoom of cars

Apartment life across the way - yard ...
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Categories: dangling(a), emotions, feelings, happiness, remember,
Form: Narrative

Women Are Evil, Men Are Stupid

...WOMEN ARE EVIL - men ARE stupid

Women are evil, men are stupid
when it comes to affairs of the heart, the arrow of cupid
It's sometimes a game that a broken love plays
so clever these women cre...
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Categories: dangling(a), writing, men, women, sweet,
Form: ABC

Every Trait

...Looking up at the sky so blue
Gentle breeze carries the scent of you
Nose fills with your sweet smell
Look around but to no avail
Just a cruel memory that i can't forget
Broken pieces that haven...
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Categories: dangling(a), lost lovelove,
Form: Couplet

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