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Handholds Poems - Poems about Handholds

A Change of Pace
...He staggers, where once he counted steps he now counts unsteady footfalls. Life has become a minor earthquake an aftershock still trembling at the core of a wincing mind. Many years ago, aunt......

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Categories: handholds, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bad Dreams
...Downward spiral I'm sinking ever deeper Trying to climb out But the walls are getting steeper Stuck in this rut In my mind's eye created Should've gotten out sooner But I just procrastinated ......

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Categories: handholds, confusion, dark, death, flying,
Form: Rhyme



For Now We See Through a Glass Darkly
...The sun has risen bright and cold. December shines. The roads glisten with frost. A bright sky flares, makes all stare into sheets of light, Now opaque, now a glaring dazzle., the light steals ou......

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Categories: handholds, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Escapade
...I never cared to do the dangerous things, and liked to play it safe, But the strict bonds of ordinariness, can oftentimes start to chafe. I always preferred to cover my bets, for I hated the idea......

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Categories: handholds, adventure, fantasy, friendship love,
Form: Couplet
Dream Climber
...All night he climbs his spinal cord, up and down he goes a worker ant gathering globules of memory. The bony spine itself offers handholds for his ghosts. At each spinal notch he enters the......

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Categories: handholds, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Life Bridge
...Life at times is fun, but not always live it as it comes, can't be choosy a wonderful dream, it doesn't stay go, drown your woes in the jacuzzi. Mask the face with calm demeanor Be courteous, ......

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Categories: handholds, art, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Free Verse Fever
...2. Aria Twain kindred souls start slow and reunite, Same as lovers who split and then made up, Though, twas a mere slow dance, a Pavane, Taming a dance floor with their passive feet, As Faure'......

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Categories: handholds, motivation, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Irish Love a Bit of Craic On Saint Patrick's Day
...Cian careen into Quigley's Pub for a little Irish whiskey and sub before long dancing an Irish jig romancing the wee fawning lassies lap club lassies hooting and flapping being bold with bla......

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Categories: handholds, dance, drink, money,
Form: Limerick
Once Upon a Desert
...Have you seen the desert? My first steps are remembered by her sands. I was raised on her mirages, Bartered off when I first shed blood. My wedding journey was etched on her visage, Rows of ca......

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Categories: handholds, dark, mother daughter,
Form: Blank verse
To a Ring
...In you I trust. You symbolize a promise. If self-reliance fails and footholds crumble You’ll keep us safe from harm. You will protect us If handholds break, if we lose grip, or stumble. With yo......

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Categories: handholds, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Endangered Trailblazing
...Endangered Trailblazing by Odin Roark Astride his father’s shoulders, Like a double decker bus, There was always what his father saw, And the child’s gaze bey......

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Categories: handholds, devotion, family, father, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Moment In Time
...A moment in time.. I saw you across the room the other day, Much like another time when you held my gaze, Pulling me in with one passing glance Our longing eyes betraying thoughts, that this mi......

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Categories: handholds, desire, life, longing, loss,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Trailblazing Then and Now
...Trailblazing Then and Now Astride his father’s shoulders Like a double decker bus There was always what his father saw And the child’s gaze beyond They learned together What their senses taught them......

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Categories: handholds, philosophy, father, father,
Form: Free verse
The Well
...A.W. Nutter Able to see a round circle of light The sun slowly ascending into the sky Futile, spilling tears over my plight As I struggle to survive I wonder why As each morning comes I sig......

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Categories: handholds, angst
Form: Rhyme
Insidious Ramblings From............(A.Hail.Of.Bullets.Is.All.I.Feel Remix)
...tracing lines on the syntax of multiple personalities grammar cascades down resonant folds and drops to its knees in silent rage hand over hand over hand over hand over mishandled......

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Categories: handholds, visionarylost, time, lost, time,
Form: Free verse

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