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Gritted Poems - Poems about Gritted

Premium Member Keeping Up With the Boneses
...Long before you were born, long before your great grandfather was born, in the time when magic was approximately eight times more plentiful than it is today, there lived a family in the remote part o......

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Categories: gritted, fairy, magic, music, princess,
Form: Other
Premium Member Were You Ever Different?
...You’re still the same untouched and aloof Too sharp for lies too blind for proof No one comes close to your pace A ghost with charm…a vanished face Money chased becomes a stain Crossing the li......

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Categories: gritted, crazy, youth,
Form: Couplet



Mixing Paints
...I paint a smile on my face, mid-poem the smile begins to crumble. Who are these dark angels that cast such shadows over my laughter. The brush falls from my hand, now I sketch in charcoal - teet......

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Categories: gritted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Law Enforcement Violates Our Constitutional Rights Regularly Now
... they swagger in badges hallways of fluorescent lies drag me by the collar into their personal theater of power guns gleam like broken promises questions barked through gritted teeth hands......

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Categories: gritted, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Road To A Good Path
...Ups, downs, hurts and joys Hopes, gritted teeth, warmth support Road to a good path.......

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Categories: gritted, courage, journey, life,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member I used to drive like that
...Driver on interstate has pressed his accelerator hard I used to drive like that – daily To and from work with gritted teeth Expecting death at any minute Racing here, there, nowhere really The s......

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Categories: gritted, retirement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member PAPER CUTS
...I have in haste Enraged the paper’s edge Soft slit of idle pain Awaits A dash of sweaty salt Red dots upon the page Unmuttered curses Venom spit Through gritted teeth No bandage Will ad......

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Categories: gritted, humor, writing,
Form: Free verse
Flightlessly
...There are birds that leave the nest too soon You are like that All fumbling feathers and heartbreak with sternum kissing ground You grew up early, Paige I don't think you ever learned to fly corr......

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Categories: gritted, bird, flying, imagery, sister,
Form: Free verse
Ghost-ed
...Today I ghosted someone please don't ask why, cause they really seemed sweet and all I did was lie. About my thoughts, intentions, the date he asked to meet he asked me to the pictures, I sm......

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Categories: gritted, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Lobotomy’s Don’t Work On Me
...on a hill lied a girl separated from the world as she wrote, her words would choke, stuck somewhere inside her throat, through gritted teeth her lyrics beat, ate away at her sleep so up she loo......

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Categories: gritted, absence, angst, conflict, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Mirror morgue
...Haunted eyes stare through me, Searching, longing, lost at sea, Soundless cries echo within, A prisoner in her own skin. Hidden traumas itch and gnaw, While the circling buzzards caw, hands ......

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Categories: gritted, death, depression, fate, gothic,
Form: Quatrain
A broken me
...Gritted teeth so words can't escape, thoughts and feelings I've learned to hate. wandering eyes avoiding the mirror, hiding myself till I can see clearer. wanting love but afraid to trust, want......

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Categories: gritted, dark,
Form: I do not know?
Dont bring flowers
...Don’t insult me by leaving flowers when I’m cold, Wrapped in earth unlived and old, Something I can’t smell or hold, Might as well be crates of gold, Just leave the flowers in the shop! Don’t......

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Categories: gritted, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member OCD Overdrive collaboration with Ink Empress
... Life is not as sweet as a bowl of golden glace cherries, nor is there a golden illuminated future for a fruitless mind. Trembling hands and gritted teeth disguise my disorderly brain, feeling......

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Categories: gritted, anxiety, care, mental health,
Form: Free verse
We Can Rise Above the Strain
...Pain is a cruel and vicious thing That grips us tightly in its sting It gnaws at us both day and night And makes us tremble with its might It starts with a twinge or a throb And quickly turns ......

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Categories: gritted, happiness, humanity, love, success,
Form: Roundel

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