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Grasping At Straws Poems - Poems about Grasping At Straws

When you having bad day
...When the world hates you It's such a lonely place Crawling out of bed each day Forgotten in each and every way Grasping at straws to build nest Every minute is a torturing test Blow away by unk......

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Categories: grasping at straws, anger, anxiety, blue, fate,
Form: Rhyme
long way home
...long way home Evening transit murderous slowing down to a standstill I'm a part of a long necklace fascinating colors, a circus is coming to town A sea-gull in peeked cap  knocks on the wind......

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Categories: grasping at straws, age, anxiety, appreciation, assonance,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Grasping at straws
...When we feel life is slipping we grasp for anything......

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Categories: grasping at straws, life,
Form: Monoku
Ocean’s Jaws
...In cold winter air, I tread to the beach Looking for things that I think I need A shell of some kind, washed up jellyfish To the creaky shack, looking for things I missed I crack open the d......

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Categories: grasping at straws, allegory, ocean, pain,
Form: Rhyme
loss by your own hand
... it's 12 am and i cant breathe my mind, flashing through images and moments and pockets of space and time a restless energy a redemptive ache as i scream the name of a distant god its 1 am and ......

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Categories: grasping at straws, grief, silence,
Form: Free verse



Gilgamesh
...The house used to be warm when they were all home Not the house is gone and I'm all alone A stray on the street with no where to go I wish I could tell them I miss them so Trudging through all......

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Categories: grasping at straws, angst, art, dog, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member David and Goliath
...David & Goliath And it came to pass that Philistia and Israel waged war between them in the Valley of Elah where a compromise was agreed to, (one on one) with the spoils of war forfeit ......

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Categories: grasping at straws, bible, god, hero,
Form: Verse
tourniquet
...I wish it was harder for me to forgive you I hate the way I still think of you so fondly you left me grasping at straws while you had let go was I just to pass the time and nothing more?......

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Categories: grasping at straws, 12th grade, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse
KANHA
...KANHA, A divine feeling of love His flute is enough to make you crazy in his love His adorable and......

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Categories: grasping at straws, beauty, celebration, cheer up,
Form: Ode
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Housewives
...Roses and the world’s fading into black Every tear that falls from your eyes, I set a wish aside for you As I start to notice the color of roses growing brighter every year I watched you f......

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Categories: grasping at straws, addiction, beautiful, betrayal, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Might God Exist If Truth's a Friend
...Might God Exist if Truth’s a Friend? Is the faith God exists a faint hint that One might, does belief (that One doesn’t) suggest God’s not real, (1) aren’t both vain (tho......

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Categories: grasping at straws, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When You Just Don'T Have It
...When you just don't have it Do you throw up your hands Do you quit on yourself Or do you fight to regain it And give it your all Not grasping at straws or clutchi......

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Categories: grasping at straws, confidence, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Free verse
New Year
...New Year I walk down from the seventh floor. Take the lift up and walk down again. Since we can only be out a short time Like shopping it makes me feel fit. Tomorrow it will be a new year Act......

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Categories: grasping at straws, 7th grade, blessing, chicago,
Form: Blank verse
Unraveling
...Grasping at straws In hopes to cope Collecting flaws A heavy cloak One by one She picks apart Goals, undone Bleeding heart A homely sight She has become Though options bright She’s com......

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Categories: grasping at straws, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
It's Cold Out There
...So strange you can take it - do you really not mind? A day of light, dancing, then the darkness will bind. Content, so you claim, with the span of one breath, a twinkle of twilight in the ......

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Categories: grasping at straws, atheist, christian, death, meaningful,
Form: Quatrain

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