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Flinched Poems - Poems about Flinched

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Never talking she was
...Again I tapped on the x of the site and deleted my poem fully. Well, I still want to introduce her, even though she knews more about me, then I know about her. I just heared her from the side while......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member This Shadowed Place
... My heart lay barely beating, drowning in a marinade of salted tears that fell from my reddened eyes. Blood dripped down my chin from biting my swollen lips as if they were wounded like a heart p......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, confusion, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Popping off
...This was last Christmas - 39 days ago - doesn’t that seem like ancient history? We were in Lisa’s (parent’s) 50th floor flat, in Manhattan. It was mid-morning, we’d done the present thing, and it......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, christmas, grandmother, humor, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Colin the Caped Cabbie
...Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day And lots of evil folk to deal with if they come......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, hero, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member They Pretended Not To See
...hiding in plain sight, she wove her way down the avenue no one flinched or shied away, these were professional commuters They kept walking, ignoring her like New Yorkers can and do She wanted to d......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, science fiction,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Getting Older
...She’d been depressed at seeing how her parents had aged in just a couple of years. She hadn’t really contemplated time much before, it had seemed an endless resource. Seeing her lying listlessly i......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, age, angst, boyfriend, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Massage
...Have you ever had a massage of any kind? During the process,did you,your teeth, grind? I always thought you get this tender,sweet, relaxing feeling; Until I became a massage client who left squeal......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Orpheus
...Slang.. Chick-fil-a = the best place ever jade = brooke = gorgeous mishin = the boss, as in “You aren’t the boss of me.” Orpheus We’re on vaycay. School is OVER, COVID is over. We’re......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, humor, mothers day, new
Form: Free verse
Push Your Pen
...sitting here damn near a late night because this sweet little voice telling, urging, damn near commanding me to push my pen all because my special angel told me "girl, that pen is your calling"......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, blessing, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dazzling Green Games
...Through oblivious naivety with the dexterity of malachite A siderite gesture The serenity of silence in the face of jeopardy A reflection of the ambiguous as in a mirror Sage fl......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, appreciation, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Three Steps
...I almost trod on it but then my shoe kinda flinched, one leg hovered in the air not wanting to feel or hear that sound. There’s a large dead cricket belly-up ......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blind Spot
...my birdies, this morning, singing sweetly a love song. the tune in winsome soaring - to this God’s creation I belong. they fall autumnal silent. t’was but a brief flight to my min......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, animal, autumn, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Feverishly Frenzied Floozy and Frazzled French Flamingos
...Feverish flowery flippant freakish fantailed floozy who needed grounding Flimflammed, flashed, flipped and flinched a fabulous frugal foundling Fortuitous flexible frazzled French flamingos flash-m......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Her Face Was a Puzzle Now
...Tanya had one of those open faces The kind that should never play poker Looking at her would be as good as seeing her hand She could never bluff; her feelings were out there. She fell in love w......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, abuse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hugging Means Everything To Some
...Hugging means everything to some It is shunned by a few I feel sorry for those who cannot hug I had to teach my mother how to hug me She never could when I was a child But she could hug my chi......Read the rest...
Categories: flinched, family, mother,
Form: Free verse

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