Short Flinch Poems
Short Flinch Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Flinch by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Flinch by length and keyword.
with clinch
of teeth, a clench
of fist, straining to flinch,
the sail inched up, on tug of winch,
a cinch
Categories:
flinch, sports, wind,
Form:
Cinquain
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?
Categories:
flinch, emotions, feelings, garden,
Form:
Free verse
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.
Categories:
flinch, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
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
Categories:
flinch, life,
Form:
Monoku
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
Categories:
flinch,
Form:
Free verse
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.
*
Categories:
flinch, gender,
Form:
Epigram
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
Categories:
flinch, animal,
Form:
Tetractys
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
Categories:
flinch, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
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...
Categories:
flinch, break up, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
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'
Categories:
flinch, cry, husband, relationship, wife,
Form:
Limerick
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
Categories:
flinch, abuse, men, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
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
Categories:
flinch, joy, light, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
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
Categories:
flinch, analogy, courage, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
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!
Categories:
flinch, conflict, crazy,
Form:
Monorhyme
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
Categories:
flinch, love,
Form:
Free verse
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
Categories:
flinch, peace, time,
Form:
Name
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.
Categories:
flinch, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
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
Categories:
flinch, death, earth, world,
Form:
Free verse
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
Categories:
flinch, angst, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
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
Categories:
flinch, joy, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
You dare not move
or flinch
The predator
moves steadily
closer
You are still
limp
not a
twitch
The beast paws you
Don't move
Don't flinch
Your mouth, a silent prayer
He gives you a last shove
and moves on...
Tomorrow a new test
in the jungle
Categories:
flinch, adventure, animal, fear,
Form:
Imagism
I flinch on the very
Idea to move
Beyond where you let
Me see through.
I blame being ajar,
A bit stifled too
I take it all out,
Vainly on you.
Truth be told,
I wudnt dare,
Go down that road
The dreaded nightmare.
Anticipation works,
Hope has it's charm.
Held by a strand,
Held, Holding on.
Categories:
flinch, life, love
Form:
Couplet
You can withstand the
Sea in a shell
You can be hoaxed by
The moon hearing bells
You think a ball
Can see it All
But Ma,
I sure do love you
You call me small
When I grew an inch!
If you dreamt the night
You bear your pinch
Ouch, does it pain
To see you flinch
But Ma,
I sure do love you
Categories:
flinch, motherlove,
Form:
Rhyme
a snake walks with,
a friend of mine,
when her heart he bites,
she says its fine,
but venom does,
what it will do,
makes her heart,
black and blue,
she doesnt flinch,
or even cry,
she just bleeds out,
and with a sigh,
i watch the light,
she liked to show,
go to a place,
no one wants to go...
Categories:
flinch, angst, depression, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
A fading intent
Lost amid echoed voices
A blurring of lines
A meaningless word
Adrift on a feeling
Softness or sting
Her eyes lied
As she spoke her “truth”
A lover’s denial
A barb blindly tossed
An unnoticed flinch
An unshed tear
Malnourished
When the wise lack wisdom
Un-nurtured youth
Categories:
flinch, life,
Form:
Senryu