Flinched Poems - Poems about Flinched

... This is not my body. Not the one that used to tell everything to anyone— I mean everything, like I thought it might get me somewhere closer to known. I sat in a circle today, some kind of ......

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...They told her to quiet her thunder– to fold her voice into corners where no one could trip over it. "Girls who speak too much invite war," they warned. So she stitched her lips with thread......

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... I stepped up to the plate, with my old, familiar stance, thinking my set routine, would parry the pitcher’s prance. The first was a curved ball, curiously spun with such intrigue. I watche......

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...I understood your silence, the weight you carried in your soul like an old and relentless burden, The battles you fought behind closed doors, like storms raging in the depths, The nights when sleep......

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... He Stepped Up In the quiet after heartbreak, When the echoes of the past still stung, You arrived not demanding, Not to conquer, but to heal. You saw the tender places in me, The parts I ......

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...I am tired of pretending that anger is a flaw. It burns through me clean, and still they ask for smiles while standing knee-deep in the ashes. I wasn't born to swallow my tongue. I wasn't rai......

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...The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood four to two, with but an inning left to play. And when Cooney fell at first, and Barrows met the same, A hush of sorrow......

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...You didn’t come with fireworks, no loud knocks on my guarded heart. You came gently, like rain easing into dry earth. I had built walls, thick and tall, thinking silence would keep the pain out, a......

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..."Through It All" I fell to habits hard to break I made mistakes I should not make The weight of stress upon my chest I gave the world my very best And still I cracked and still I fell ......

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...Purple Dreams In Other Realms Once upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see dressed in a fantastical dress with two dappled wings of lace, she shone like the midnight su......

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...When I say I love you, it’s because you carved out a place in me, one I never knew was there. When I say I love you, it’s because you traced every scar back to its origin and never once fli......

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...I stared at the ceiling and wondered how the body keeps breathing when the soul gives up, like a ship lost in the sea of silence, rudderless, drifting aimlessly, they told me pain makes you stronge......

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...Run, Girl, Run She was just eleven, small and spry, Her father said, “You’re due, oh my…” A spanking, harsh, the kind she knew, But this time she thought, “Not today, not you.” He called her b......

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...In this woke world I’d soon be hung If I had had your spiteful tongue How ironic that its wagging Only stopped when you were gagging And as I tried to grab the shard Of chicken bone that was s......

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...They say I am like them. They call my name as if it belongs to them. They point at my face, at my hands, at the blood in my veins, as if it were proof that I belong to them. But their words are ......

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