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Grappled Poems - Poems about Grappled

Tilting Decks
...The year I became seasick I lived in a bungalow on the edge of a wilderness moor. The sky and land grappled together for supremacy of my soul, Inner dogs whined, my eyes were portholes wher......

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Categories: grappled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sound Of Thunder
... At the first sign of the morning light I hear the thunder roar! It woke me from my sleep as the bed grappled my body Not to be scared, I laid there motionless The lighting flashes through th......

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Categories: grappled, deep, fun, night, rain,
Form: Free verse



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: grappled, humorous, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Dancing Dragons
... I thought, back then, that what I felt for her was love. Jack said it was just lust and certainly nothing less. He had a point, she stank of pure pheromonal passions, Together we had an a......

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Categories: grappled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Featured Twirler
...Oh that Lily, she the epitome of a Golden Child as I watched her Exuding effortless grace, a liquid-silver baton— a Haddon Heights Garnett. a Blazing Comet / enchanting / popular and ......

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Categories: grappled, confidence, desire, feelings, high
Form: Narrative



Animating Innate Vibrance
... Eighty-six billion neurons reside in your brain, every single thread entwined. But they are not connected like the links grappled together i......

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Categories: grappled, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Concrete
Flute and Citole
...Her sound functioned in the chorus of onlooker in my defeat. Might the Strumb of Kokopelli danced to the songs of Shiva and Bragi. I smiled days later that my retribution might silence the cele......

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Categories: grappled, appreciation, celebration, culture, encouraging,
Form: Ballade
Grasping Nightmare
...Sleepless every night, My mind's deprived of the light. Even in midnight, I can't sleep tight. Sleep's always in delay, It feels like a replay. Can't rest even for a day, I feel like my body......

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Categories: grappled, anxiety, depression, emotions, strength,
Form: Lyric
When was the last time you dealt with your conscience?
...When the question was asked in philosophy class, I just grappled with the meaning of "conscience". When I asked the girl next to me what it actually meant, she gave me the example: "When you for......

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Categories: grappled, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ashes of a narcissist relationship
...In the shadows of a love once bright, From March of twenty, a hopeful light, But whispers turned to thunderous cries, As trust unraveled beneath dark skies. Accusations flew like arrows sha......

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Categories: grappled, abuse, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Completing Infinity
...And comes the time, oft many sought with blinded eyes that squint into the dark, searching for that in tight grasp with faithless hopes that it be found. No grudge shall I bear as a traveler his ......

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Categories: grappled, adventure, allegory, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the elevator
...have you ever grappled with despair not in imagery, symbolism or portrayal. I mean, have you ever felt the elevator drop the watery weakness that extenuates breath a depth of fatigue that makes......

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Categories: grappled, dark, daughter, depression, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Herod Heard Of Jesus
...Antipas was one of many heirs of Herod the Great Morally and civilly, he had fallen from his state. His kingdom, a collapsed castle, he couldn't reinstate. Sinning with brother's wife, shamelessne......

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Categories: grappled, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Family Own land
..."I remember the land. I remember its people—their ways, the folly of their mentality. I never encountered the term ‘depression’ until later in life. I grappled with hatred and bigotry because they’re......

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Categories: grappled, addiction, anger, angst, anniversary,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sun Room
...Sitting in the sun room At a nearby hotel Reading a new book All was going well Ringing, the phone danced I had an incoming call “Who is this?” I wondered And answered it I chanced ......

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Categories: grappled, family, home,
Form: Rhyme

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