Short Constricting Poems
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Fear presses, cold steel
Constricting thought, killing love.
Freedom paralysed.
A swallow with tethered wings
Longing for the Sky
Categories:
constricting, cry, depression, lonely, sad, self, work,
Form:
Tanka
Squeezed to a deadly degree
Trying to wriggle out
Of a constricting grip
Knees weak, as blood
Rushes to my aching limbs
I feel nothing
And nothing is all I want to feel
Categories:
constricting, devotion, life, love, passion,
Form:
I do not know?
Misrepresentation of life
In constricting colors
They tell a different story
That my ears prefer to hear
You’re sweeping strokes across
A paper waiting to be filled
And you’re dedicating it to me
Categories:
constricting, friendship, life, love,
Form:
I do not know?
“Truth
a distraction”
the media pouts
Constricting
those voices
trying to shout
Dumber
than dumb
brain dead by degree
Digging new graves
for the few
— still left free
(Dreamsleep: April, 2024)
Categories:
constricting, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
No dial tone to dote on
My memory is made
And my format is filthy
The tone is tempting
But the pause is pressing
My volume is voiceless
And the channels are changing
And a constricting clasp on cancel
Is my only option
Categories:
constricting, introspection, life, sad,
Form:
I do not know?
Do you ever feel like you are dying
Like someone is sitting on your chest
Constricting the flow of oxygen
feeling the shortness of breath
Pressure that threatens to steal your last breath
I'm not dying
Although sometimes
I wish I was.
Categories:
constricting, child abuse, death, deep, depression, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
.
chlorophyll cancer
constricting aquatic breathe
suffocating life
.
Categories:
constricting, death, nature
Form:
Haiku
Heat waves burn the Summer air
deceit makes it difficult to breathe;
Deplete my lungs of oxygen
beat like dog days lies beneath;
Rush of sultriness over and over
paintbrush colors a soft breeze;
Gush of flames constricting
hush now your pain can ease.
Categories:
constricting, emotions, feelings, fire,
Form:
Lento
To breathe is constricting
to walk is now strained
My passion is boundless
My power has waned
The music demands
that I keep up the pace
so much to do,
when I look at your face
I see hope rekindle
I feel I can try
to put down this opus,
this work,
ere I die.
Categories:
constricting, passion,
Form:
Couplet
little coil
shiver and shake
tiny squeeze
squeak
tah dah tah dah
anaconda arrives
need any help? she asks
python hisses a warning
constricting a bit tighter
louder squeak, then silence
dinner’s eyes pop out
python smiles
not about to
share her
lunch
anaconda
slithers away
Categories:
constricting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Personification
Gleaming, constricting-
Swallowing Ancient worship
Anaconda creeps.
* Anacondas were once, and perhaps still are, revered and worshiped as
A God figure to Amazonian tribal natives. Anacondas are also one of the
few animals who actively seek, and ambush, human prey.
A. Green
Categories:
constricting, animals
Form:
Haiku
Buildings block light
only darkness is in sight
no where to run
and no place to hide
salvation is more and more difficult to find
as factory smoke gets thicker
laws are constricting more intensely
and the sun can't be seen anymore
only one thing left to do
become the personification of morning
Categories:
constricting, analogy, dark, light, morning, philosophy, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Hands to lovingly hold
Holding back
Comforting, yet
Boa constricting
Loudly wrapped, into
Strangled silence
Declarations of love
Concealing muted anger
Mother of my dreams
Warden of my nightmares
Protected by your spirit
Smothered by its dominance
Momma's boy
...Emasculated
Categories:
constricting, life, philosophy, social,
Form:
Free verse
Lose your mind
and I'll unwind
the constricting twine
that confines
your wrist to your spine
and you're always mine
until we elegantly dine
on the golden bread and the crimson wine
for this pulls you across that sacred line
form martyrdom into the divine
but unless you lose your mind
your hands continue the suffering of their bind
Categories:
constricting, faith,
Form:
Monorhyme
Broken words thrash in my tears
as I way the price of living fears.
Abusive anticipations constricting my perception
of the delicate times I desire
in the approaching tides of time.
But more do I value the delight
of present times spent with my significant.
So I wait for the tides to drift in
and relish the love I currently possess.
Categories:
constricting, fear, love,
Form:
Free verse
No where left to run
No more Time to hide
You can't stop this disaster
Once our Worlds Colide
Stand Strong in the mist of this Calamlity
Doomed to our Compressibility
False hope so addicting
Freedom Constricting
I Won't see you again
For this is my End
Though my story is over, another one is told
All watch and listen as this story unfolds.
Categories:
constricting, death
Form:
Lyric
Wasn't I crazy,
Or was I mad,
To yearn for love,
That could be had.
Wasn't I reckless,
To believe that skies,
Would clear once more,
For my weeping eyes.
Isn't it ironic,
That life should remain,
After all that's treasured,
Has ceased in vain.
A melancholy storm,
Constricting love with its noose,
Has left me alone,
In a life so obtuse.
Categories:
constricting, feelings, for her, goodbye, heartbreak,
Form:
Quatrain
Tomorrow left abandoned
with every choice I make
Constricting all potential joy
and limiting my fate
Each short term indecision
restricting unrestrained
My future playing out of tune
a timed and dull refrain
Most often I have missed it
when no outweighs a yes
For temporal gain my judgment strained
—an orphan in regress
(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)
Categories:
constricting, future,
Form:
Rhyme
Charlie consumed countless calories
chomping Christmas cake
chocolate
cookies
candies
chewy caramels
cherry cheesecake
consequently
Charlie complained of
cavernous cavities
and cramped constricting chino’s
Charlie can’t control continuous Christmas chomping!
Alliteration Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Eve Roper
12/11/20
Categories:
constricting, christmas, food,
Form:
Alliteration
Shadows dancing about,
encircling around wrists
changing into snakes
and then it rains blood.
Constricting coils of rope,
a clattering of bones.
Laughter surrounding,
legs run but everything
is slowed down.
Screams are silently
stolen from lips.
Falling down into
a pool of fire.
Eyes close in horror,
open again....safe.
Alive.
Awake, in the real world.
Karlin K. Jensen, November 21, 2012
Categories:
constricting, fantasy, fear,
Form:
Blank verse
Dreams course through;
Constricting , a noose,
Draining your oxygen dry
Attached to paranoia ;
... Back and forth ,
Eyes twitching with it
Until they catch the wind,
Until the flames are fanned,
the slow acceptance of 'real'
Your pencil draws the line,
Transforming fantasies ;
Shaping the perfect path
no more empty direction;
The rope is severed
You release the Hangman
Categories:
constricting, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Wrapped tight;
the softest shackles
Braided like arms .
weaving us together ,
How tight will you tie,
how much can I take?
Before the ribbon breaks,
pretty little lace
splitting all over the floor
I want to be free
you pretty little ribbon
they can have that face
My laughter carries on the wind
I have my release
constricting little ribbon
In pieces, reckless abandon
Categories:
constricting, passion,
Form:
Free verse
There is no breath only pain
Pain mocking draining down
Down in the sick sully vein
Veins constricting stopping now
When the illness comes...
There is no beat; only pain
Pain maddening searing up
Up in the hearts red veins
Veins constricting stopping now
When the illness comes...
There is life and no more pain
Pain ending stopping now
Now God is graceful in this vein
Veins breathing loving now
Categories:
constricting, death, faith, god, sick,
Form:
Rhyme
bubbles remind me of deep water
an ocean of midnight stealing my breath
it's slow motion cold constricting my lungs
sending circles of my life to the surface to pop
bubbles remind me of fourth grade summers
and the dish soap smell of the bubbles we blew through
a plastic stick with a circle on the end
watching them rise in the air until they popped
and splattered our still innocent faces
Categories:
constricting, me,
Form:
I do not know?
anxiety showing through;
bated breath and tired sighs
all the same
today and tomorrow...
just crude forgeries of yesterday
nothing changes
every exhalation breathing out
another piece of our monotony ridden souls
pressure
strife
choking me, constricting my lungs
as if even the air is now my enemy
blowing and pushing me in directions
that I'd sworn never to take
anxiety showing through
Categories:
constricting, angst, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse