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Grappling Poems - Poems about Grappling

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
Responsibilities
...Oh, my wish—to falter beneath my burdens, To drown in failure’s cold embrace, To be lost in the wreckage of my own undoing, Yet rise, undead, from catastrophe’s face. We are but fools, deceived......

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Categories: grappling, 12th grade, anger, blue,
Form: Free verse
Broken Sacrifice
...Broken Sacrifice? Left as a sacrifice Bound in chains her only shield from the elements A cloak lined in ermine and rabbit fur Keeping her warm as the rains fall All watched the ceremony ......

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Categories: grappling, beautiful, betrayal, courage, dream,
Form: Ballad
Prince Charming
...Fallen angel. Great manipulator. Narcissistic psychopath. Predominant pretense. Merely existing. Demon. You have dishonest eyes. And a sinister grin. I didn't want to see this side of you. E......

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Categories: grappling, angel,
Form: Free verse
The New Americana
...{"We don’t run away, we cannot run away from our demons; the very ones that plague us with our history, reminisce on our backstories and they, Judge. Judge, adjudicate us by it, Convict us of a ......

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Categories: grappling, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Field of Forgiveness
... Written: December 04, 2024, For Contest, Sponsored by: Ink Empress ________________________________ A grimacing goon in a destructive drug-driven delirium  face......

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Categories: grappling, analogy, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member PENCIL-
... Basically I am lead, whose am I Energized particles of energy And if I embrace a tree I'm engagement In energy Spiraling from Heaven toward Earth Like a lightning volt placed in the vessel ......

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Categories: grappling, analogy, creation, environment, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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