Long Flinches Poems
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Sometimes People Share
Sometimes pandemic people share
pieces of our unspeakable personal story
That no health care worker,
sex therapist player,
or green resonant systems organizer
wants to hear,
much less smell,
or touch,
or deeply feel...
I flinch, sometimes.
Wince.
Maybe flirt with longer-term
dissociation,
to protect myself
from suicide
to protect...
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Categories:
flinches, abuse, god, health, muse, passion, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Torch Lake Iii - Fishing For Time
Our boat is first to slice
The green snake skin of Clam Lake
This Saturday morning in May
Heading east to the mouth of Grass River
Where angry Pike still hunt from shallows
Before the Milfoil grows to summer impossible
My...
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Categories:
flinches, father son, fish, fishing, good morning, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
The Philosophy of War
"Men die by the hundred thousand"
Just like that, with one command
As if we're discussing grains of rice, or sand
As though there's no need to expand
When in truth every one felled
Can mean more than
The cause and...
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Categories:
flinches, philosophy, warwar, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Gift of Song Pt. Ii
She flinches, shudders as chains tug at her flesh
The ruthless slave trader and rapist whispers to the auctioneer
And instinctively she knows that it is her turn to be sold.
The noise heightens, her eyes focus...
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Categories:
flinches, black african american, history, imagination, inspirational, life,
Form:
I do not know?
In the heart of the night, under the leaden and weeping sky
In the heart of the night, under the leaden and weeping sky,
amidst the twisted shadows of our thoughts,
we let ourselves be carried by a cold wind, cold as a kiss of death,
falling into the abyss...
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Categories:
flinches, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Then Slash Now
then:
I swallowed escape
in pastel capsules,
my pockets jingled with regret.
The nights pulsed—
bass, sweat, strangers.
Every weekend was a blackout baptism.
Every Monday, a resurrection I didn’t ask for.
now:
I wake before the alarm.
Feed cats who love me
with a certainty...
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Categories:
flinches, life,
Form:
Free verse
Too Young To Break
Beneath the swing set’s creak,
joy whispered like a ghost,
while clouds of heaviness
settled like stones on my chest.
My voice evaporated,
with every swing and sway,
as I reached for something solid,
my truth slipping, fading with the wind.
If healing...
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Categories:
flinches, anger, anxiety, childhood, depression, sad,
Form:
Free verse
I'll Kiss Him Like Forever Is An Option, part two
He knows almost everything. He knows how the migraines come in waves, how they paint lightning behind my eyes and leave me curled in corners, whispering nonsense through the static...
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Categories:
flinches, 10th grade, death, farewell, sick, teen love,
Form:
Free verse
The Silent Screams
There are voices all around us
Not loud, not obvious,
But aching to be heard.
Within this poem lies three unheard stories
Three souls, each silenced by society
A woman who smiles in fear.
A boy punished for love.
And a girl...
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Categories:
flinches, 10th grade, angst, anti bullying, discrimination, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde's Love Poem
I love how your long chestnut hair flows over your gentle shoulders,
And when the sun searches you out for a moment, your hair sparkles…
Because I lit a match and threw it into that rat infested...
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Categories:
flinches, dark, girlfriend, love, hair, time,
Form:
Free verse
Unfounded Hatred Toward a Young Stranger
The subway station heaves with muffled noise,
The shuffle of countless feet against the grime,
I am aware of unfounded disdain,
Coursing between strangers in the city's bowels.
The ancient fluorescents blink in yellow strobe,
Casting faint light on self-assuring...
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Categories:
flinches, discrimination, hate, prejudice, racism,
Form:
Free verse
My Maverick
There she was in plain view, clean, brightly colored, and not undercover.
As nice as she was, I don’t know why she was still there and not discovered.
She sat there quietly in a sales lot of...
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Categories:
flinches, car,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Selected (Part 2)
I feel my muscles
cord up with tension ,
can almost hear them creak
in the strain.
Lumbering over
I lean in close,
he seems
on the verge of passing out
face...
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Categories:
flinches, angst, imaginationheart, heart,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Patriot of Humanity
Fight for your country.
Fight for your freedom
Obey your Commander.
Your Sergeant
Squad leader.
Obey.
Drilled into you, over and over.
Do it again.
Like clockwork.
Day in day out, orders become second nature. Years go by
Groundhog day.
Following...
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Categories:
flinches, america, betrayal, military, soldier, war,
Form:
Free verse
Nascar Haiku Poem
14 Days of a Haiku representing 14 laps of a rookie driver’s first NASCAR race.
Lap 1 Green Flag - (4/16/25) @ 2:23pm
Engines roar to life,
Rookies grip is tight with nerves
First lap, heart on fire.
Lap 2...
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Categories:
flinches, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Haiku
Atmospheric Pressure
Sandwiches perched on plate, remote control in one hand,
he settles heavily on comfy couch as the TV goes alive.
A sweet and sexy voice cuts in the heavy atmosphere;
“Weather forecast: Now we move to the tropical...
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Categories:
flinches, abuse, adventure, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
At the crossroads of time, where April flinches in buds parted
At the crossroads of time, where April flinches in buds parted,
Spring dwells in the temple, a priestess in a procession of timid lights.
A gentle breeze blows, carrying dreams stormy on the orbit of the stars,
Through...
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Categories:
flinches, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Possession
she possesses,undresses,and murders my mind
no escape from her reflection as her ugliness unwinds
cruel and unkind to loves vagabond victim
she sinks her teeth deep
she's a venomous vixon
she's lying like nixon while she's got me on the...
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Categories:
flinches, loveme, love, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Mama Wear Da Crown
Mama Mama
You the downest Mama
Mama wear dat crown
Mama held it down with the brushes
of Yahweh on her right side
Reverently agreeing with the gist
“children are a gift”
A little planting,...
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Categories:
flinches, black african american, god, god, life, me,
Form:
Free verse
The Ones Who Glare At Us With Hate Eyes
If we are nicer they will come around, yes, we think so.
We are optimists, we are teachers, and social workers, right?
We are moms and dads, right?
We are grandmas and grandpas, right?
Until we meet the one
who...
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Categories:
flinches, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Free verse
The Paw-Trod Path
Along the paw-trod path
Narrow and dainty through the gorse
Where yellow flowers
Lie dim like fallen stars in the mist
Comes a silent visitor, hesitant
It licks its lips
A taste like vinegar
Humans of old and long ago
Their lonely essence...
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Categories:
flinches, animal, anxiety, death, environment, loneliness, mystery, natural
Form:
Free verse
Stranger In a Strange Land
Now life spurns me,
granite and absolute;
flinches at my touch,
hardens visibly at my voice,
morphed to dry-ice opiate in my presence.
Avoidance of the plague,
ducks and dives prizefighterly,
evasive bob and weave,...
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Categories:
flinches, faith, imagination, life, loss, mystery, life, life,
Form:
I do not know?
Prescribed Celebration
(yes, I'm serious)
Three minutes.
That’s how long it took
to name a swarming mess:
A self-appointed poet
with rogue chemicals sizzling in her nerves.
The diagnosis long and fancy—
bitter but addictive
on my tongue,
like the gin I’ve grown fluent in.
(Is...
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Categories:
flinches, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Boundaries
The man in front of me is a broken one,
and my fingers are drowning in dripping glue,
in cement,
in something meant to hold things
To hold him
To hold myself and others together.
Yet he binds himself
with puppet strings,...
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Categories:
flinches, addiction, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Love Hurts
“Kiss me,” she says—
her eye swollen, rimmed in red.
“Hold me,”
but not like that.
Not with fear pressed
into every rib.
He doesn’t answer.
Just slams the door.
“He loves me,”
she whispers to no one,
eyes darkening with
each retreating footstep.
Years of apologies
smear...
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Categories:
flinches, anger, cry, poems,
Form:
Free verse