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Short Sloughing Poems

Short Sloughing Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Sloughing by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Sloughing by length and keyword.


Silver Encasement
Silver encasement
I rest my hands on
while my fingers
do the talking, walking,
pounding buttons
faster and faster
sloughing off of head
until they all
spiral out of control
and I’m already wrapped 
up inside another...

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Categories: sloughing, imagination, introspection, on writing and words, teen,
Form: Free verse



Sloughing
Rubbing roughly 
Against fractured rocks
Turning and contorting in 
Dark dank soil
Brushing over brittle bark:
Tumbling over tangles of 
Fallen dead discarded branches
No hands to use to free myself, 
Vulnerable in this transmutation…
Knowing exactly how it feels 
To pull yourself out of your own skin
Only to begin the cycle
All over again...

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Categories: sloughing, angst, introspection,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs