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Shackle Poems - Poems about Shackle

A Crown Forged Bright
...A Cage Forged Bright: A Hymn Against Gold They say gold is pure. They say gold is holy. They say gold crowns kings, anoints gods, carries prayers. They do not say: gold is a shackle. They do not sa......

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Categories: shackle, money,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A PERCEPTIVE VIBE FROM ME TO YOU
...Come sit and vibe with me, With an open mind receptacle; Listen to my pouring out of positivity And to what you may find acceptable:- Oh, in the challenges of life, We must put all things in p......

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Categories: shackle, allegory, encouraging, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member UNLOCKING THE *****
...The new becomes old, and no one notice When the old was new, there was a motive To plan ahead and take liberation back When negros were mistreated and under attack Before then, we were royalty ......

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Categories: shackle, anger, black love, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
A Love That Hurts
...She wears her silence like a veil Stitched with echoes of nights unseen, Where shadows whisper fractured tales, Of love that turned to something mean, A heart once full, now torn between. His vo......

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Categories: shackle, perspective, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Saying Grackle
...There are some birds I'd like to talk about today - a cardinal, hummingbird, robin, and blue jay; but, put me on a chain, put me in a shackle, you can never spoil my fun. I'm saying "grackle".......

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Categories: shackle, bird, silly,
Form: Epigram



Premium Member A witch you called, a witch you fervently cursed
...A "witch" you called, a "witch" you fervently cursed, and a witch you shall see, for my eyes pierce the darkness of your ignorance, this neck is not for your cutting, these wrists are not for your ......

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Categories: shackle, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Almost Time
...If you say my mind is dark, then wait until the light goes out I write about the earth's pain and suffering that's coming about The happiness that we once had was an afterthought I'm just a wok......

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Categories: shackle, care, courage, family, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
A Valentine In London
...My Valentine has a ticket to ride, So London town beware! New wings will carry her up north, A pass to Leicester Square. Let Big Ben toll and chime aloud, St James Park should prepare, The hu......

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Categories: shackle, valentines day,
Form: Free verse
Etched in Stone
...If you thrust a dagger into my heart Lay me on a bed of thorns Give me a chalice of hemlock Thrash me with a flail Haul me over the smoldering coals Hang me over a precipice by the skin of my t......

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Categories: shackle, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
A Throne of Despair
...A Throne of Despair In a room where whispers coil and fade, A figure lingers, their story unmade. Loneliness drips from the ceiling’s decay, Each drop a memory slipping away. The chair b......

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Categories: shackle, dark, deep, loneliness, lost,
Form: Free verse
My Indomitable Soul
...My Indomitable Soul Once upon a time; yet not so long ago, When my innate innocent days were taking wings toward adventurous adolescence, The golden rays of my life were smitten by fate’s deris......

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Categories: shackle, depression, encouraging, endurance, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Bomb II
...To boil with all the energy of Hell may set aflame untethered wherewithal, for once expended nothing can foretell the limits of demise that may befall. A single match may flicker to a flame or s......

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Categories: shackle, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Understanding Love
...No one can wholly understand love Love is never what one thinks it is Love often comes as a snippy surprise As a starry shock stemming from above. Love is a hieroglyphic puzzle Love has the po......

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Categories: shackle, cute love, i love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oppenheimer
...~ Such irony Creation would devise a mind that holds the secrets Hell conceals. ‘Tis blasphemous that man would improvise a conduit that prophecy reveals. ‘Tis but a curse to be the chosen one ......

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Categories: shackle, world war ii,
Form: Sonnet
A New Day - Wildflowers
...Roads long squandered, Routes trained to memory. a crack in the long unyielding concrete unremarkable. Then, a wildflower A peculiar pink. Leather, nostalgia. Cinnamon, mellow. Stop dead ......

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Categories: shackle, appreciation, aubade, beautiful, change,
Form: Free verse

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