Holding Back Poems
Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Quotes
Short Stories
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Resources
Syllable Counter
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Home
»
Poems
»
Holding Back
Holding Back Poems - Poems about Holding Back
Holding Back Poems - Examples of all types of poems about holding back to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
short, long, best, and famous
examples for holding back.
Search Holding Back Poems:
Exact Phrase
Any Word
All Words
Her
...Let the rain fall, let it pour, Open all the windows and doors. Slow the footsteps around the house, Make all the voices quiet, just like a mouse. Can you hear the sorrows howl f......
Read the rest...
©
Dustee Bradt
Categories:
holding back,
death, depression, heartbreak, hurt,
Form:
Elegy
Painted Memories
... She painted her memories in images surreal Trying to hide scars reality would reveal A band-aid of illusions To alleviate the pain, Some memories are traumatic with wounds that wont he......
Read the rest...
©
Joseph May
Categories:
holding back,
memory,
Form:
Free verse
down below
...Building up terrible turbulence in my brain Resurrecting rain in my lonely lane, driving me insane Going down below, low, low, low The darkest night has glow, oh, oh I don’t understand why-why-......
Read the rest...
©
J.W. Earnings
Categories:
holding back,
angst, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Lyric
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO SMITES OUR PRIDE
...March 27 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Samuel 4-6 Key Verse – 1Samuel 4:3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten u......
Read the rest...
©
Beata Agustin
Categories:
holding back,
bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form:
Alliteration
I’ll Always Be Loving You
... Oh, Babe, I am so in the dark. It’s been so long; been so long . . . For you was it all just a lark? Sometimes when I feel so alone, I think of your face, and it becomes a song: a song so deli......
Read the rest...
©
Andrea Dietrich
Categories:
holding back,
love,
Form:
Lyric
In the g'night of space
...There's a solar wind that's contained; in the night of space Shadows find nowhere to show; the inner light of space Impossible to touch, it leaves us; without a trace Frozen rings of breathing s......
Read the rest...
©
Anonomus Scorpio
Categories:
holding back,
deep, solitude, space,
Form:
Ghazal
Standard
... In the depths of desolation where death is presiding in a smug kind of cocoon of parasite, lies, a heart of calcified care, buried deep inside a grim stalactite of unrequited te......
Read the rest...
©
Jude Herrick
Categories:
holding back,
art,
Form:
Rhyme
Burn like me
...The colors of life have all run together creating a darkness, becoming a void. Attaching its self to and slowly removing every moment in life I've ever enjoyed. I stop to smell the flowers. Only......
Read the rest...
©
Dustin Petersen
Categories:
holding back,
anger, dark, deep, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
Transform
...Aliens are real. Everyone around me is sprouting antennae. They have alien eyes. It makes me laugh. They are holding back their teeth. They will all transform soon. But my transform......
Read the rest...
©
Angelica Tao
Categories:
holding back,
loneliness, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Endless Days
...I close the windows. I shut the doors. Away from the shadows, surrounding these three floors. Every room, it's own light. On at the chosen hour. Holding back the night, with only lightbulb p......
Read the rest...
©
Sandra L. Weiss
Categories:
holding back,
day, fear, light, night,
Form:
Quatrain
Heart rock
...Kinda stuck between heaven and hell From the world I fell Like being stuck between the tick and the tock I am still the rock But I am still on the clock So I will have a drink to go Point the w......
Read the rest...
©
William P. Harris
Categories:
holding back,
giving,
Form:
Rhyme
Let me cry
...Let lines be drawn Beyond my nerves Make it unclear to the deaf-blind This journey of slavery And undue enrichment This society and nature Have yoked us with. Should I, should I not Is the ......
Read the rest...
©
Olorunleke Olorode
Categories:
holding back,
abuse, anti bullying, character,
Form:
Free verse
Die not
...Joy mixed with bitterness Hope laced with scoops of mud This journey unseen On the way to the holy matrimony Love is blind So they said without holding back Till reality set itself to their fac......
Read the rest...
©
Olorunleke Olorode
Categories:
holding back,
art, break up, death,
Form:
Blank verse
Sharing Happiness
... There is an unfortunate sadness surrounding the Christmas season. You see a lot of anger and frustration, but remember this season has a reason. Let us not forget that we are all one r......
Read the rest...
©
Edward Ebbs
Categories:
holding back,
anger, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form:
Rhyme
Grief
...Grief rolls in on waves, And the ebb and flow of Memories flood in Like a winter tide The tears rain, Enough to fill an ocean. No sun to dry them, No good holding back. The tide won't turn......
Read the rest...
©
Peter Barlow
Categories:
holding back,
death, grief, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Related Poems
Short Holding Back Poems
Famous Holding Back Poems
Best Holding Back Poems
Read Holding Back Poems
Long Holding Back Poems
Holding Back Quotes