Short Gripped Poems

a tiny spider web
gripped between two branches
wind resistant...

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Fall of a country.
Gripped by the hands of evil.
Known to all of man....

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My love gripped so tight 
Red, red essence of life, love
Rose is a rose is…...

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Hummingbird sits, rests
Manzanita twig tight gripped
Brilliant throat flashes...

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Gripped
in suspense
at the border;
Glimpses of mystical territory
anticipated...

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"Focus on the things that are just gripped in the brilliance of your own mind." -Ds-...

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I gripped the handle as I handled the grip
And tripped on a book as I booked the trip....

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sadness is no solace for what i feel,
Gripped deep, the icy touch,
her wind whips
quickly through me...

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We have this feeling

we all know it way to well

it eats us inside

we see the person always

but fear has gripped us for good...

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a fountain of magnetic light
gushes forth from our fontanel
we behold the spectacle in delight
gripped in rapture by its magical spell...

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If hope is the thing with feathers
That floats on the wind
Your strength is the iron 
bound in roots of an oak
gripped in sand’s shifting whim...

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April showers fall,
but who cares when spellbound hearts,
gripped by love’s first flush
revel in heaven sent peaks,
an endless rainbow blossom...

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the
cantankerous old man
who
gripped a hand carved 
oak wooden walking stick
stands firm
upon the ground
and
witnessing
the 
hourglass of time...

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her entire
hand gripped
my finger
tip but
with
more
then
clinging

i was
thinking 
she already
understands
that she
will be
a grand
pianist...

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North West England gripped
Wallace, Gromit full of quips
on everyone's lips
Netflix chiefs ask Who's Nora...
why was this poor woman flipped?
...

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Why’d we meditate,
when we are not the doer
and there’s no one here within?

What’s there to be done,
if we’re gripped by bliss currents,
setting nodes of form aflame?...

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In front of the universe
 I was like a man with hallucinations,
 I gripped,

 I asked for the white man, 
The white man;
 When there was no white man standing there;

...

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On our bed she lies
Half naked to bare, sound asleep
Tanned curves allure me
Eyes closed, visions of last night
Sheets gripped tight, orchestral sighs




....

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He spun the wheel,
no big deal there;
no real money.

In a short while.
that big smile of
poor Lyle vanished.

He pursed his lips,
Gripped his chips and
Took nips of gin....

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At the tight end of a rope,
tied on a scraggly oak.
Rode Broken Nose Mc Ghee,
a known cattle thief.

With a crack of a whip,
The hangman's knot gripped.
Swinging buzzard feed,
Was Broken Nose Mc Ghee....

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paper mache boat's of noah's ark
 made in sunday school, 
imperfectly sailing gripped
 by little fingers.

two of every kind of happyness, 
 the joy of childhood innocence
 returning to me with dove 
and olive branch....

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Faith*
in God
secures soul
triumphing midst
doubt…

Hope
upholds
Christ-gripped heart
to overcome
gloom.

*Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

March 5, 2019...

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DRUGS

Duping myself with that false belief for the
Recreational using of these mind altering
Until I find myself slipping from my sanity
Gripped by the uncontrolled insanity they
Say that I can't survive without them I fear...

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FALLS

Lugubrious countenance of midnight.
Scream of water cutting the inner ear.
At edge of Anna Ruby, gripped by fear,
Night-wanderer awakes to stormy height.

8/7/2020
Be Inspired Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Regina McIntosh...

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On this cool morning
I am gripped by the
truth-screaming change of
the temperature of
the breeze in my hair

and realize
in this slipping
away of time
that I am now

headed for
an unknown
winter that

could be
long, and

cold...

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