Short Flinch Poems

I smile like it helps,
but even mirrors flinch now
when I try to breathe....

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Snap a photograph
And don't flinch 
You know you're perfect...

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Without a flinch,
Pain walks on a
Hot bed of glass and needles
Then, she bowed to east...

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how do April fool
a spider-bug on your head
believe it or not



4/1/2020

“How do” is a greeting....

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i knew you were falling
yet i turned and walked away
and pretended to flinch
when i heard you hit the ground...

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with clinch
of teeth, a clench
of fist, straining to flinch,
the sail inched up, on tug of winch,
a cinch...

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When I cut off a tree limb
Does the tree flinch?
When I trim a flower back
Does she cry?
When I rake autumn leaves
Do they grieve?...

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School yard
bullies
made you flinch
made you flinch

One day they
will grow up
to gain mid-sections
stand over grease pits

Life is ironic....

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Love  :  spares the sins of all and animates life.


Date:27-05.2019
Name of contest -What makes you flinch
Name of sponsor- julie leigh rodeheaver...

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Flinch
I had to learn quick
Flinch
To avoid the sting of your hit
Flinch
Even to a hand reaching out with love
Since you taught me not to trust
Flinch...

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I flinch each time you claim we're one flesh
Seventy-three years long; you've not gotten it yet?
You are you, and me, from a different tree; not set

Within yours.

*...

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Think
don't flinch
muscle poised
hold firm, steady
then release quickly jump at the ready.




for Joseph May's Teteactys contest
Picture #3 Red Squirrel focus
9/21/19...

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Gold Finch Had Gone

What we did was find ourselves flinch,
When we had smelled all of the stench; 
All so terrible, 
And unbearable; 
Gold finch had gone all over the bench.

Jim Horn...

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I brace myself against the raging storm, 
No one there at my side.

I never flinch in the face of lightening,
I make the wind abide!

When i realized i was all alone,
 It was Thunder who cried......

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Annabelle's husband called himself King Kong
She marvelled at his thick 'carrot,' so strong
   It measured twelve inch
   And caused her to flinch
He sighed: 'Thought you liked your veg'tables long'...

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Do what I must,
To keep him happy,
To please him,
Feed his hunger,

Don’t mess up,
Don’t flinch,
Let him touch me,
Smile now,

Hold back your tears,
It’s just once,
Right?
Maybe just once
...

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involuntary bliss spasms
caress of divine delight
compels us to go in
forcing us to flinch 
and so we smile and look
as the universe so conspires
to transform each node as light
within our decaying organic form...

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A dragon
is a person of powerful valorous spirit
who doesn't flinch in the sight
of millions of swords and guns
pointed at him with bloodlust
as his willpower acts as a shield
to stand up in the greatest adversities...

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Have you seen it?
They don't quit
In a big fiery pit
Torches have it lit
Never flinch a bit
You have to be fit
If not, You better get
Hit, Yea you'll be hit
Down, You just sit
Your end, Will be writ
I've been there, I admit!...

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Lemon brightness in my eyes

to warmer climes in winter he flies

it’s in his nature to choose his wife

instinctively choosing to mate for life

fidelity causes some men to flinch

they could learn a thing or two from


my finch...

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A butterfly, swimming through 
The stagnant air, 
Shivers past the eye
Of an old rustic hound, whose
Paws flinch with a curious, 
Frivolous anticipation.

But, once its muscles shed
Their torpid skin, and
Bones flex, and begin to swing,
It’s gone....

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Count the seconds everlong
Linger with the turning hands
On and on we twist and turn
Calculating the time of our next step
Keep the pace

With every tick we flinch
On every tock we run
Raving about the steady ways,
Kept under the pendulum...

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The whale sings
and I weep,
The world groans 
and I ache,
The wind gusts
and I bend,

The surf sighs
and I rage,
The babe cries
and I mourn,

The mountains shift
and I flinch,
The earth dies 
and I wear black.

Trisha Sugarek, 2011...

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WE SWALLOW OUR DOUBT
HOLD BACK CONCERN
BEHIND A WALL
OF PRECAUTION
WE FAWN AND FLINCH
AT THE IDEA 
OF THIS FOREVER
THE CRIMINAL DISREGARD
IS APPALLING
WE HAVE MADE
THIS ISLAND OF DISCONTENT
WITH OUR OWN HANDS
IN THIS HELL
THE DEMONS
ARE YOU AND I.

2000...

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at the Bindu chakra
I feel a bliss pinch
my eyes clench shut
but I do not flinch

rapture spasms rise
held erect by spine
all nodes within form
as a force field align

a million bliss bubbles 
surge as strobes of light
the epiphany renews
heightening my delight...

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