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Latches Poems - Poems about Latches

My Incubus
...Pounding at the resonant head of my chest—he of hunger latches his fangs just beneath my jaw— not to sever silence, but to pummel poison. Tissue parts with wet reluctance, he with need more th......

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Categories: latches, anxiety, change, character, conflict,
Form: Free verse
I Can No Longer Fight You
... {“You can’t fight for what’s left in you, You cannot fight against the waging war that disrupts within you. You can’t be against it, it was fulfilled with nature, the nature of you with every i......

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Categories: latches, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member An Amiable Apparition
...In the old city of St. John's, in the older neighborhoods, there are haunted houses... residences with revenants... apartments with apparitions... even schools with spectres; and there is one ......

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Categories: latches, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Though I Be But a Janitor
...Though I am but a Janitor Roger White A dim yellow light filters the tiny room with shadow and pale glow. In a bucket - trickle, splash, whirl, woosh, trickle. The door groans and quietly latches......

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Categories: latches, 12th grade, happiness, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Lost Track of a Ginger Snap
...Get in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun. Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone, something must be wrong, I ask she looked at me and welts started to run, down we hunkered ......

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Categories: latches, animal, dark, death, dog,
Form: Narrative



Noodlin'
...With the hot summer sun beating down, leaving blisters on our necks and back. Walking through those swift murky currents, just you‘n me, and a gunny sack. Dipping our heads below the surface, ......

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Categories: latches, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Shadowed Darkened Course
...A Shadowed, Darkened Course by M. Griswold 10272020 I evoke a tale of a shadowed, darkened course. Where death rides atop his ghostly gray horse. He's astraddle his saddle with searching evil ......

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Categories: latches, 8th grade, death, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Threads of Deception: Love's Fragile Dance
...In a tale entwined with Chib, A love perceived as true, but plagued by deceit, Her affection feigned, insincere it seems, For all she desires is wealth, not dreams. Her kin, entrapped by vices ......

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Categories: latches, break up, brother, career,
Form: Rhyme
Ye, Destiny, throw no random dice
...Metals at rest as tend to rust, Love that latches on looks like lust, As diamonds get made from grey dust, Ye, Destiny, get deemed unjust. Yet, whatso lies idle would rust, Love lost of fre......

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Categories: latches, destiny, fate,
Form: Sonnet
Where I Am Free
...WHERE I AM FREE My freedom lies beyond the cloud of unknowingness beyond mists of time where I disappear into olive groves which furl and unfurl in slow dawns Here there are no gates la......

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Categories: latches, butterfly, change, god, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nature's Way
...take a look at nature watch how everything learns from another a plant learns to quench it's thirst from soil so it survives a newborn goat latches to it's mother a family of beavers surround......

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Categories: latches, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Goodbye Kiss
...Why do those lips moisten my own - years on? That labial goodbye, with its embrocate of memory returns as a tangible ghost. A time-traveling incubi latches upon my mind again. A hummingbirds ......

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Categories: latches, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Environment Scene Adverse-
...Somber are the passages Sunsets mountains plains Over ended visions Clouded atmosphere Unlock heaven's gate and lightning latches Rolling lands of browns and greens Environmental d......

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Categories: latches, allusion, art, environment, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unbroken
...he sits in his wheelchair waiting her visit to ease his world of rubble to snap shut a sense of aimless in a nursing home of minimized living ......

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Categories: latches, caregiving, courage, encouraging, family,
Form: Free verse
Mountain Meaning I - Prayer of the Hawk
...I sit under the trees Later My neighbor said “I enjoyed watching you pray.” “What do you mean?” “You sat there so still Head tilted up for a very long time.” “I suppose so But actuall......

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Categories: latches, bird, earth, soulmate, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

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