Flinching Poems - Poems about Flinching

The Manifesto I've Dreaded To Write

...I’m sorry I never fit inside the rooms you gave me.
The walls bent inward,
doors swelled shut,
and I mistook silence for safety.

I’m sorry —
I’m sorry for every quiet collapse you never saw,
...

The Toll of a Single Bell Chime

...
A bell tolls — with a single chime.
Igniting the spell of dawn’s regret.
It halts the breath, suspends all time,
Foreboding with threats you can't forget.

You flinch—one foot on the stepping ...

ST FRANCIS AND ST CLARE : TWIN SOULS : PART 2

... no turning back at nineteen years of 
age with bonded Love no eyes could 
see or earthly arms could hold dear
into a fold of aligning human Heart 
with Divine injunction none could ...

Inside

...Bubbles hit the walls of the dome and pop. 
Hurting sounds. 
Flinching tree branches. 
Feeling bored in here. 
As if my car won’t start.
No one believes that my car won’t start. 
Or that the do...

Abrupt

...Irkish the feeling impels
Impulsive of it's own action.
Disfigurely quenching,
And on it's feet it commands
A riot so clenching
Flinching the heart's
Utmost fibres none can comprehend.
"Xeno" ...

Emotional Shrapnel

...Lurid looks have been thrown at me
Deadly daggers sent to pierce my heart
Why do some insist on acting beastly 
waging war in attempts to tear me apart?
How long can I go on pretending I'm not in...

Eat me

...Eat me,
a voice hymns in my ear.
I snap back
I can't eat you.
Please,
the voice begs.
I furrow my eyebrows,
impatient.
"You don't exist."
But you can hear me,
the voice says lightly.
I sta...

Tired

...I’m tired.
Not the kind you sleep off—
the kind that settles in your bones
like a storm that never passes.

I’m tired of checking the volume
of my laughter
like it’s a detonator.
Of reading t...

Divorce

...
I stopped explaining.
Stopped folding notes into doves.

Lit matches—
not out of anger,
just to see what would burn
and what would follow.

Held the line.
Held it higher.
Watched him trip...

I Was Never Yours To Own

...You told me I was nothing, weak and small,
That without you, I'd have no life at all.
You twisted my mind, made me believe,
That love was control, that I couldn’t leave. 

You silenced my doubts...

Nightmare fuel

...Just turned 22
Six years flinching at you 
Six years of you leaving me blue
Our love is an engine 
And it runs on nightmare fuel...

My Goldilocks Pill Jar

...The weight I carried has settled,
not vanished, but pinned in place -
a fragile truce between my mind
and the pills I swallow, trembling.
They don’t call it a cure,
and I don’t ask for one;
but...

The Jewish Nation

...Has Islam a demands 
for its followers where death
itself has a meaning 
Never have we seen a people
like the Palestinians, in Gaza
taking on suffering without 
flinching, what happens is in
t...

THERE'S A WIDENESS IN GOD'S MERCY

...Down the corridors of mortal existence 
He pursued me without ceasing,
Never yielding in his search of the lost,
Nor flinching from the wounds he carried 
To gain admittance to my broken heart.
...

Ophelia

...POEMS ABOUT OPHELIA

Ophélie (“Ophelia”)
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch

On pitiless black waves unsinking stars abide
while pale Ophelia, a lethargic lily, drifts by.
Here...

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