Short Hold Your Tongue Poems

unbridled blubbers,
blurted sobs and lips loosened,
untie hold on tongue...

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Hold your tongue young man
If your heart speaks don't listen
It will be a LIE...

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I am not scared.
I will not run.
Sink your teeth into my pain.
Suffering soul is all you gain.
Hold my tongue I self refrain.
Rip,Rip,Rip your words.
I am on mute.
Find someone else who will follow suite....

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Forty old?  Hold your tongue.
Having children keeps me young.
Double forty?  I don't care.
I can travel any where.

Forty here and forty there.
Forty duo makes a pair.
Forty now?  Turn a page.
Getting older is the rage.

01/25/16...

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A voice silenced, speak no more
Hold, my tongue in obedience
Words to neither deny nor defy
Defenseless without credence


Verbal insanity, senseless score
Spewed as mindless nonsense
Words to neither elate nor clarify
Ignorance creating only impedance...

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Hold your tongue from fiery thoughts
Not everything needs telling as it ought

For truth can sometimes be unkind
Stripping bare the bad things you’d find

You see some truths need not be said
For the hate that will be bred.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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When you are young
You hold your tongue
But when you are older
The world is a bit colder
You break that wishbone
In hopes you’ll never be alone
This place is scary
But the burdens we carry
Won’t hold us back
If someone is there to keep us on track....

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....soon the rain will fall
skittles on my tongue

the garbage I will let sit
video game and popcorn

....soon my mother will call
i will hold my tongue

the garbage will be out
a healthy meal

.....soon, but not today
4 weeks more, till her vacation

**Phil E...

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Hold your tongue
Pretend this is for the best,
You're so young,
So many to impress. 

Every move you make
The Watchers eye you
They'll point out your every mistake
It's hard being fake.

Call it what you want,
But you're a deceiver,
just like everyone else....

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Word for word
I hold my tongue
What I’ve been
Trying to say
Has gotten stuck
Underneath my 
Rib cage
My heart 
Pounding on it
Tapping on it
As my blood 
Rushes around 
It 
I’m afraid if
I let this out
My body
Will retaliate
Word for word
I’ll just write it
Down...

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You shake and stir throughout the room.
You cause a scare with what may loom.
To bring so much fear to the young.
To make them stop and hold their tongue.
Many are scared 'cause of the dark.
I won't back down cause it's all bark.
You've made people feel so much gloom,
but I know you are not my doom.

by,
   Ryan Vaterlaus...

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We’re not all blessed
with smarts and skills
some of us
have got the looks
but not the brains
some of us
have got the brawn
but not the balls

It’s not easy
but somehow
we have to
find a way
to all get along
to keep our cool
and hold our tongue



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on November 21, 2018...

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Your sweat vacates your brow like treacle...

...You shudder as your conscience trembles...

I stand firm...like mighty oak...

Go round me if you dare...

I stand firm like mighty oak...

In sweet silence I hold my tongue...

In time all things will be done...

I stand in wait...

I stand firm like mighty oak...

Go round me if you dare......

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There is a place for the poetic preacher,
even in this forum---one can so feature
a castigating word, narrow-minded screed,
up to each person to decide what they read,
and while I don’t much like damning lines,
exploding like old-fashioned land mines,
I’ll hold my tongue while they do their work,
unless they become an insufferable jerk....

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We sit in the sun, and steal glances
I catch my tongue before it utters 'I love you'
You look away, and I gaze at your lips
Holding my tongue still
And you look back, my turn to look away
Do you hold your tongue as I do?
For a moment, a minute, an hour, nothing else matters
Quiet moments shared, contented, tranquil
It's as if we should be...

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O my Lord and my God
give me your peace and calm
help me to confidently speak
please give me your healing balm

It's getting so utterly frustration
help me to overcome this fear
that seems to hold my tongue
twisting it to feel a tear

Instil your power upon this mouth
so for your glory I strike a blow
give me grace to overcome
you're at my side I do know!...

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If you are looking to meet saints,
You will find more of them driving buses,
Than you will in all other professions combined,
And it is not hard to guess why, 
Given the way the hold their tongue, 
And stick to their knitting,
Never dropping a stitch,
When those of us less saintly would be driven to distraction, 
And be missing in action by the end of shift one.




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My mistakes were of the human kind.
Was told to hold my tongue but was disinclined.
From a flight of winding stairs I fell through my mind.
knavish condescension rendered my sight blind.
In my guilt filled chasm I was confined.
Bloody fingertips on my canvas scrape and grind.  
Self inflicted condemnations unwind. 
I’m entering the interstate of forgiveness that He designed....

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When I was young
The world I knew was very kind.
When I was young
My mama said to hold my tongue,
To not say things which harm or bind,
To offer help to maimed or blind.
When I was young.

Now that I’m old
The world around me seems less kind.
Now that I’m old
Kindness is lacking or is doled.
Each person searching wealth to find,
From Mama’s standards have resigned,
Now that I’m old....

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"The greatest unrest in this world 
comes from noises & sounds we create"

Parapet Of Beauty

Blossoming thoughts of candor beneath a parapet of beauty  
Our he/she God has abandoned all preconceptions 
that is what compassion does in the name of love!
Lets place our existence in the arms of a shimmer-Deity 
lets hold our tongue silent & stretch out our arms instead...

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Black umbrella pupils
Unfurling as my lips
Hold my tongue hostage
Your arms batter my heart's door
Howling winds ripping the roof
Off all our broken promises
But then your lashes shuttered stuck
As my fingers danced in your rain
Your lips downgraded 
A hurricane


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Knew it was a matter of time before I wrote a hurricane poem. Hurrah for being a Floridian.
Downgrading storms= storm weakens/ends...

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I want to bust out
I want to be free
To be able to live
To the best of my ability

Let me be the young woman
You say I am
When I try to show you,
You just shoot down my chance

You won't let me act older,
You won't let me be young
I have so much to say,
But for now I'll hold my tongue.

I'll just speak with my actions-- 
Not with my words
Soon you will see
That I'm not a little girl....

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Tangled vines, poisonous air,
Knotting my hair, choking my lungs.

Cold iron bars, keeping me here,
Why do I continue to hold my tongue?

Unspoken words, unbearable want,
Longing for you, not telling you.

Vines made of pain and fear,
Don't let me tell you what's true.

Untold emotions, unwritten songs,
Sing of a love hidden in the dark.

Un-ending pain, eternal rain,
Lost in a place so empty and stark....

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We see ourselves in everyone
Our flaws we recognize
They stand out like the morning sun
Through holes in our disguise

It's hard to turn and look away
Most times we empathize
Those other times our tongues betray
Our guilt it then implies

If we could learn to hold our tongue
Learn not to criticize
Then we could hide our faults among
The silent who are wise.



                 Daniel Turner...

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Running,panting,sweating blood,
my chests a river and a bleeding flood.
Cursing,ripping, this beating heart,
how it hates to be torn apart.
The racing drum within my chest,
calls to halt this violent test.
Lungs are black,and engine broke,
no more strength is left to yoke.
Simply now there was a pause,
hold your tongue and find the cause.
My fault alone,by my own hand,
I broke apart this one man band....

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