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Grappling Poems - Poems about Grappling

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
My aries love
...1. In reflecting upon our relationship, I find myself grappling with the stark contrast between your professed affection and the deceitful actions that have characterized your behavior. Initially, I ......

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Categories: grappling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet - Flowers in their hair
...Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet, Author, Actor, and Model: American Historian. Flowers in their hair In the vibrant city of San Francisco, where beauty and complexity intertwine, a tale......

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Categories: grappling, age, beauty, bible, body,
Form: Bio
Premium Member In the deepest chasms of my soul, where shadows whisper secrets to the light
...In the deepest chasms of my soul, where shadows whisper secrets to the light, A magical and melancholic poem unfolds, with equal verses, tightly woven. Inspired by the nature of the poet, that soli......

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Categories: grappling, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Deciduous Trees
... When autumn winds begin their whispered call The leaves of green turn golden as they slip Into a cycle ancient, they soon rip From every branch, and gently start to fall Deciduous,......

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Categories: grappling, birth, change, environment, growth,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Patience and faith
...My grandma had this incredible way about her, you know? She'd weave wisdom into every word, like a gentle flow: "Patience and faith." Whether I was feeling lost in sorrow's undertow, bubbling over wi......

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Categories: grappling, grandmother, grief, in memoriam,
Form: Narrative
Tell Me Which Do We Decide Go or Stay?
... Tell me — which do we decide — go or stay? like a wounded bird love has taken flight a grappling ponderance every day as our ships steer silently in the night reasons vary and we both understan......

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Categories: grappling, break up, divorce, freedom,
Form: Sonnet

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