Flailing Poems - Poems about Flailing

...I called to the monkey who wore a pinstriped suit, Found out the giraffe and hippo are mute. Saw a man stare at a lemur 'til dark, Like he was waiting for some kind of spark. The leaves fell fr......

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... Grace can't grind away the wrinkled gnarls time obeyed, Nor hide the snarls, ploughed as furrows in the brow. It carves the knurls for grip that age has disobeyed, To a shape what decrepit, flai......

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...River makes its final clunk Between Hills Rolling boulders like turtle shells Empty of their mouths and hearts River bent Flailing legs and neck No longer reflects The sun and moon From wa......

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...There’s something horrible about the tangles. Like- everyone can eat the curly strands. But no one knows what it costs. When I had more than two eyes. And the laundry got put away every day. ......

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...My best friend saw me born. Coronation of blood, Tearing through his long beloved. Floppy neck and flailing limbs, Protesting my own birth. Constricting cord, A life noose, murderous Cut from......

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... From the crag I see the path descend into the valley shrouded in the shadows of doubt, uncertainty, and fear of failure. I see a white pillar cast in regret's cold salt-stone, from which there......

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... A storm within small confines, a sudden squall of frustration. Words become weapons, kicking and flailing against the unyielding world. A raw eruption, of needs unmet, of powerlessness......

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... Hitchhiking by blurred station generic Gypsy Flora slips anonymous, gravel Grinds her heart of garbage, barbaric Buried skeleton stirred, further travel Ticket to Keep It Secret Scarred i......

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... A step too far, brings right of passage to a ledge Fluttering at cliff walls, pushing life’s brittle edge A sheer instinctive thrust, with no trust to pledge Now or never moment, undermines fear......

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...I dove into the deep end, headfirst, quite a splash, Not of the pool, you see, but grief's enormous gash. It’s Olympic-sized, this sorrow, chlorinated blue, And I’m the sole competitor, with nothi......

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...Inspired by our Divinity. Keep shining. Be your authentic self. Remember that Starlight and Stardust is Forever By Michelle Morris 17/03/2025 You and I were created From Starlight and Sta......

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... good versus evil two swords flailing in the night fiery cosmic dance AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Posted on March 9, 2025......

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... It is really a veritable question of our time, In fact - of all times, on this once beautiful molten rock with sea and sand, We so avidly call our home Paradoxical fearlessness albeit so subl......

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...No one gave us a roadmap, no guide to navigate the twists, the jagged turns of life’s unknown path. They filled us with hope, with dreams, with promises. Tales of a future, bright and clear, a m......

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...(after the painting by Vincent Van Gogh) Does she even exist? Doubting her own reality, seeing herself vanishing in undulating undergrowth, fading and merging into summer-scorched scenery. ......

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