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Grappling Poems - Poems about Grappling

Fugue
...I’ve lived here my whole life. I work here. Wearing slippers to work. So fuzzy and nice. My manager is tearing through. Every word is nothing. Grappling at every pause. This room is diz......

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Categories: grappling, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Pink Diamond
...Is there a possibility found ground up homes posted and supported keeping the world just the way it is peace or pains welcome on to the blizzard falls I wish the mother of the past still knew ......

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Categories: grappling, adventure, black african american,
Form: Free verse



Anything But Sleep
...Anything but sleep. Fall over the steps. And invisible soup spilling everywhere. There’s a feeling of grappling. Eyes bulging. Anything but sleep. Money, crying, Mourning, Never snorin......

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Categories: grappling, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Is It All In Vain?
...Is It All In Vain? Experimental scientific observations inside a laboratory Consequential specific consecrations that combine to form a sacred story Monumental consternations that speak beyond......

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Categories: grappling, life,
Form: Rhyme
Writing Alone
...Writing when I’m alone. A tired writing. Terrible, sleepy writing. So nothing goes right. Writing is absolute. Stains everywhere. The stain of words. Trembling. Writing is gracious. Kind......

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Categories: grappling, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member into darkness
... here, beyond the realm of air I've given what this job remands for everything I've e'er held dear my closest friend, the 1st, is near but with a glass between our ......

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Categories: grappling, adventure, analogy, friendship, science
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mental Rumination
...**Mental Rumination** Every single day brings with it a new and unfamiliar word, each one carrying its own distinct meaning that often resonates with the shifts in my life. Retirement, for instance,......

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Categories: grappling, conflict, depression, endurance, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Inertia
...Inertia is a crawling, grappling feeling. With eyes. And the eyes do nothing. Neither his or mine. Inertia is mine. A glass feeling. Attempting to do things. Just peeling away instead......

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Categories: grappling, depression,
Form: Free verse
Philosophical Rhythmic Duality
...Philosophical Rhymthmic Duality Imminent calamity collides with structured debate Virulent profanity confides with punctured ingrates An insolent generation of insanity resides with a debunked......

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Categories: grappling, life,
Form: Rhyme
Seeing
...I have weird eyes. Like wires that connect. Blinking at the same time as being painful. Eating too much. With weird, starving eyes. Eyelashes gripping. Pupils which are tingling. Eyes ev......

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Categories: grappling, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wicket Keeper
...**The Wicket-Keeper** Today, I learned that a lover I once cherished has passed away. Just yesterday, he was alive, and I never imagined I would feel this way about him. It’s strange how I rarel......

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Categories: grappling, allegory, angst, break up,
Form: Narrative
Xhosa pool
...#Xhosa_pool Today I fell into a Xhosa pool, still grappling with my recovery, my shivering mind. In there something epic hides, an enormous emotional drainage. Feel robbed off weight, side and focus......

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Categories: grappling, fantasy, fate, feelings, flower,
Form: Free verse
The Tops
...up a steep and gritty track reach the tops wilderness reclaims a verge of wintery snags land juts and tilts hauls out lays treeless clumps and hags pitch up stricken soil heap their marshy......

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Categories: grappling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Detached - Even Circuits Hum, a music video
... Detached - Even Circuits Hum A Music Video As twilight turns to tangled thought, and truth tiptoes down trembling streets. Once, wonder serenaded willowed winds now shadows ......

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Categories: grappling, conflict, confusion, emotions, lost,
Form: Rhyme
cross thuh creek
.... lean'nin 'gainst an age'd wooden ranch fence thuh dream'r Tie'd her flannel'z hem ......

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Categories: grappling, beautiful, blessing, extended metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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