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Flinched Poems - Poems about Flinched

Through it All
..."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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Categories: flinched, addiction, blessing, dedication, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Purple Dreams In Other Realms
...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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Categories: flinched, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I say
...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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Categories: flinched, for her, i love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I stared at the ceiling and wondered how the body keeps breathing when the soul gives up
...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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Categories: flinched, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Run Girl Run
...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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Categories: flinched, child, emotions, family, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mother In-Law’s Tongue
...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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Categories: flinched, humorous, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Inheritance
...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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Categories: flinched, anxiety, family, gender, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member labs
...(a university-life vignette) It’s Saturday morning at about 9am. I’m in the chemistry lab, a sterile looking room with 12 workstations that are like multi level kitchen islands with sinks......

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Categories: flinched, angst, career, environment, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member collisions
...A bluebird came streaking violently out of Central Park, it blurred over the lanes of traffic towards 220. I flinched in anticipation of the impact, but at the last second it darted directly up, ......

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Categories: flinched, boyfriend, fun, holiday, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sojourner Truth House Domestic Violence Shelter 1992
...Severe night terrors after being held captive for a week during Christmas again my abusive ex brutally attacked me every Christmas since that arson murder that cold Christmas day 1984 all t......

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Categories: flinched, allah,
Form: Than-Bauk
Turn around then
... Turn around then: As you walked up the stairs, Which I want to walk up too, I am glad to have such a self-ability, To not let myself run away again or choose another way. There are multiple ......

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Categories: flinched, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
We will know eachother for a long time
...But I flinched so far whenever you accidently touched me that I hurted my head at the window, But I always took a seat at the second chair to be 2 meters from you away, But I ignored when I saw y......

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Categories: flinched, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Bloody Nest
...I can't believe I thought that. In the shadows of my soul the whispers lingered. It murmured and elegantly sat massaging my last ego in the stool of regrets. My being was lied to, stomped at, shot w......

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Categories: flinched, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
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......

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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......

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Categories: flinched, confusion, fear,
Form: Free verse

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