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Frays Poems - Poems about Frays

Premium Member SHADOWY WHISPERS
...SHADOWY WHISPERS unseen voice weaves lies shadowy whispers linger truth frays like old thread ©2025 Sara Etgen-Baker......

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Categories: frays, 12th grade, betrayal, trust,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member The Bell Tower That Leaned In
...I. The Pastor’s Hand At dawn’s brittle cusp— he climbs, each step a nail in time’s coffin breath ragged a Psalm torn mid-hymn. The rope tastes of incense and myrrh— Li......

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Categories: frays, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Misuses of Charismatic Privilege: The Violent Pressure of Personality
... after Privilege of Being by Robert Haas A tipping point of too many are talking harshly. Down below, demon-dead in the unstirred inferno and perdition of animal thirsting are coil......

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Categories: frays, character, community, identity,
Form: Free verse
Threads of Time
...one thread unravels quietly from the cuff of yesterday— loose and golden, tugged gently by wind ......

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Categories: frays, time,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member The Versions That Haunt Me
...I have too many regrets they bloom like tumors in the soft tissue of memory, each one pulsing with what I should have said before silence set in like rigor mortis. I swallowed whole versions......

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Categories: frays, mental health,
Form: Free verse



Le Grand Bleu
...+the knot does not untie from within but frays at the edges, a thread pulled loose by unseen hands+ —we do not walk in bodies—we drift in thought, for there is no world but the one the mind dream......

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Categories: frays, death, peace, philosophy, vanity,
Form: Free verse
Unraveled Threads
...Threads unravel, bare and thin, the fabric frays where life begins. I trace the scars along my skin, each mark a map of storms within. Breath catches where the silence looms, a heavy weight in s......

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Categories: frays, betrayal, desire, love, love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Renders Me Unstable
...She renders me unstable, A force too wild to cradle. Her laughter cascades, Like untamed hair upon my chest, Each word a dagger, sharp and true, Yet she is my unbridled joy, my undoing too. S......

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Categories: frays, adventure, analogy, desire, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
Shadow In Self Alouette
... The midnight tossing with next light browsing throughout the dream — where floor breaks but the dragging lasts, an impression past the shadow within that frays the little girl's spur and t......

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Categories: frays, dark, introspection, light, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Bloody gifts of resurrection
...In midnight gazes call me sullen upon my cheek Rousing replies risen bound by chains Lest mercy be tallowed by all frays Lest my cheek rise by an untimely hour Rid my face of discoloured honour......

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Categories: frays, depression, imagery, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In a world where I do not exist
...In a world where I do not exist, Silent specters softly glide, Whispers wilt in twilight’s twist, Echoes ebb, and shadows hide. Time’s thread frays, a fading seam, Dreams are dust, disper......

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Categories: frays, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tapestry: My Least Favorite Word in Poetry
... Dear poet, please come get your tapestry, Tacked across the window—it hangs askew. My cat’s convinced it’s hers to claw, you see. The reds all clash—they’re far from harmony, But hey, it fill......

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Categories: frays, extended metaphor, writing,
Form: Villanelle
A place I've grown to hate
...I wade through stagnant waters Unable to change my state. Forwards and backwards both lead to here, A place ive grown to hate. In the labrinth of days that blur to gray I wander, lost, with no......

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Categories: frays, change, depression, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Lone Man’s Plight
...Beneath the churning skies and wrathful sea, A lone man wails into swirling agony. Each crashing wave, a relentless assault, Mirroring the chaos of his inner tumult. Beneath tempestuous heaven......

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Categories: frays, addiction, conflict, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life A Patchwork Quilt Stiches In Time
...Live is but a patchwork quilt Stitched together by Providence Fate and life's events It gets larger if you're lucky Collecting new patches to add every day A mixed bag of varied textures Both......

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Categories: frays, history, together,
Form: Free verse

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