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Gripped Poems - Poems about Gripped

When Living Became Hell
...When did my life transition? From living my dreams To just existing As a perishable being? Was it then, When I stopped trusting people? Or, Distanced myself from the loved ones? Or, Let th......

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Categories: gripped, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spooked Mr Johnson
... Old Mr. Johnson, with broom in one hand, Told his sweet granddaughter, “Sleep, not grandstand!” Her room was empty, the air grew cold— Only the Ouija sat silent and bold. He muttered an......

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Categories: gripped, cool, crazy, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme



Faint taste
...Scent and money spent Will power burning water slip deep in shower She let's things slide back forth each a ride She reads my mind finds path grip and collide Unloaded loud screams wakes souls a......

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Categories: gripped, angel, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Divine Juxtapositions in My Life
... Awed joyously while gripped with reverential fear Blessed to possess eternal life midst this mortal being Carnal yet granted with divine nature Damned by sin, but now delivered through the Savio......

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Categories: gripped, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: ABC
Premium Member My Destiny - 1394
...New Sonnet for Brian's contest. 1/7/25 ___________________________________ Still glowing brightly, is the colored moon, Wonderful perfumes drifting so sprightly, Excitement of surprises coming......

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Categories: gripped, destiny,
Form: Sonnet



I Saw Their Funerals
...I saw their funerals. Plath. Sexton. And somewhere near the back, mine. Not my body— not yet. But something softer, more urgent, more invisible. The girl who wrote like them just to f......

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Categories: gripped, dark,
Form: Free verse
Facing the universe
...In front of the universe I was like a man with hallucinations, I gripped, I asked for the white man, The white man; When there was no white man standing there; ......

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Categories: gripped, art,
Form: Free verse
My Nightmare
...I remember the night he tore me from light, From the home of a friend to the jaws of the night. A grip like a vice, no mercy, no grace, My head in a whirl, blood drained from my face. He curse......

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Categories: gripped, abuse, evil, god, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Gone Fishing
... Despairing seafaring..can be Lore of days of yore Glories or gory Bold stories told Foreshore folklore Hemingway’s…Old Man and the Sea Smiles..feeling chipper Like a wee......

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Categories: gripped, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
First Breath
...That morning I prayed to flickering exit signs, to the hum of fluorescent lights, to anything that would listen in that sterile room. Then— your cry pierced the air like dawn cracking open th......

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Categories: gripped, birthday, son,
Form: Free verse
A eulogy for the me I had to kill to survive
...A eulogy for the me I had to kill to survive She lay in a casket I was the killer But was it really me? When the world gripped her hand and told her to kill her blackness She stared in a m......

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Categories: gripped, betrayal, funeral, grief, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member FAITH IN GOD WHOSE ANSWER INSTRUCTS US
...June 13 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Job 40-42 Key Verse – Job 40:1-2 Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said, Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that re......

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Categories: gripped, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Divinely Intrusive Thoughts
... Intrusive thoughts just invaded my mind… Yielded, I welcomed them, and so they came They soon turned as a scene I must behold Making meditation* vibrantly real. Oh, these intrusive th......

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Categories: gripped, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Blank verse
Champagne reign of Shane
... It’s been 3 years since the low blow of nadirs As we said hooroo to you..goodbye to our top guy Still feeling...reeling from the pain Of all the polished veneers of careers Which is th......

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Categories: gripped, sports,
Form: Rhyme
LOVE WEATHER
...I looked up and I saw love in the sky; it had cloud shaped just like your love in the sky. The clouds were shaped in hearts and kisses; they even had your sweet face in them. It was so beautiful, ......

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Categories: gripped, america, beautiful, love, words,
Form: Rhyme

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