Short Withholding Poems

Restricting,withholding One-
Withholding all holdings in so many folds!...

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Preventer-
With holding this World,Sky,all others over Sky and below this Earth withholding,God!...

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ruthless are
the powers that be
controlling
the substance
withholding
the cure
growing
the means
feeding
the addiction

saving none

burying all...

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Live
Not waste 
Know those who will be your friends
Love 
Without withholding
Whom who loves you
Win 
Line your accomplishments
Have 
All 
Be the best one
Rewind
Recharge
Resume...

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Trust me
Dearly;
I'll give you
Something
For nothing,
And nothing
Withholding.

I want you
To see you,
To hold you
And peek through
The peephole
That shows all
Within you....

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I’ve perfected the art 
Of withholding a fart  
I tighten my buttocks and clench
But when no one is the vicinity
I let rip with a dreadful stench

28th March 2016
Jan Allison...

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and yet you swear that I am hiding from me
from you
raw
let me lay under this apple tree
broken
in peace
free
surrounded my clouds of sunshine
restless
i promised to love all your imperfections
brave
withholding nothing
feminine...

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inspired by Malia’s poem ‘crack the code’

the unspoken poems
are the loudest
the ones you don’t utter
the times you don’t bother
symphonies of silence
votes of no confidence
trust marbled with rust 
what’s become of us?

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   Much-maligned during his Presidency
   George W. Bush still denied residency
     in the Republican Party today

   ‘Midst the mess in the Middle East
   The GOP yet withholds its charity 
     ~ from a leader of true moral clarity
...

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Authoritative-
”Ask me”-
God’s command all to demand and withholding something by God is shrinking command.God to say no when meeting demand is against lordship.God to forgo his Godship and to shift down to Earth like Adam for breaching his own command!...

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Shyly withholding breathtaking events
Ever so harshly realizing what it all meant
Ceasing to mention a word of my wit
Reaching out and touching my inner being of guilt
Even no spoken words, that was purely tough
Tremendous will has been morally rough
So you ask yourself...are they worth it?...

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An exquisite feminine beauty with overt shyness
Soft body curves with charming face hiding wishes
Lulling secret desires but withholding emotional surge
Delicately weak, can’t boldly meet the masculine urge
1.1.2019 

"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." - Sophie Tunnell...

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Listen to poem:

it’s what remains unsaid
such words withheld in the dark
like shards of silence
with their razor edge precision
maiming the heart that lies in wait



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on June 8, 2022 for contest A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

Posted on June 6, 2022...

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Can you keep a secret
and promise not to tell?
We haven't been friends for long,
therefore I don't know you well.
Divulging this to the wrong party
would be as if to yell.
So take it to the next world
whether it's heaven or hell.
Many former dolls broken
sadly and unfortunately fell.
So withholding this secret in heartless
times would be awfully swell....

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The feathered antennae lightly graze my nose
I crinkle my features
Wrinkles appearing
Where there had been none previously. 

Withholding a sneeze, 
I gently cup 
              the moon white, night bug.
Opening the door, 
I thrust him skyward
And lazily watch as he
                                 gently 
flaps 
away.

***

July 26, 2020...

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Friendships are a lot like flowers, typically appreciative 
of outside intervention - on which both will tend to thrive -

Yet many will betray themselves, neglecting those who love them,
withholding what is needed from the ones whom they deprive,

And one day come to realize that - unrequited friendships -
like the flower - undernourished…seldom will survive....

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My oppressor
 yet you bring the surrounding bondage 
I was yet sing you withholding me your truce
why you surround me my mind my heart my soul with the Noose 
You hang me you can I shall not cry yet
 in hanging even though I die
 I am like a bird with feathers and wings a crown a grow oven own my soul soars high as I sing as the bird

10/9/19
 words by James Edward Lee Sr...

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Forgiveness is not a feeling
It’s not a feeling but a choice
It’s a gift I am withholding
It’s a choice that has lost its voice

The emotional hurt I bear
Cuts deep into my bleeding heart
Is there forgiveness anywhere?
I’m hurting from a deadly dart

Lord Jesus, help me to forgive
To pardon those who have wronged me
Let me, Your strength and grace, receive
That I may show others mercy...

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Red is rising misty veil from the cliffs,
red is sun unfolding –
looking through the gale,
radiant look withholding.
 
Land of spires, flowery valleys,
reddish rising beams.
Longwise piney alleys,
rushed are streams.
 
Pearled blossoms leaves,
life that gropes with sun meant,
to burst its sheaths,
flourish meadows’ scent.
 
Rocks with flowers girt,
sun-flooded scree,
birds in chirp
and their singing glee....

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Note: I am not sure if titles of this form can be something other than the first line of the poem, but my actual title would be "Christmas Figures" if that is able to be done.


Scrooge

sour, solitary

scowling, scrimping, withholding

miser, coins, celebrator, cookies

laughing, welcoming, giving

jovial, plump

Santa


Aug 13, 2022
for Caren Krutsinger's Dazzling Dizzy Diamante Poetry Contest...

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Nothing speaks in the land
But the political voices:
Altering our histories.
Always withholding something,
Their agenda a mask of destiny.

Scattered bits of freedom.
Incidents and accidents.
Evangelization and civilization.
Flags of all sorts.
That's African.
We cannot escape each other.

The boot-lickers and praise-singers
Speak in clearer tongues.
Making claims we don't understand,
Caring little for order and decorum....

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growth, nature, rain, seasons, summer, word play,

MIGHTY SUNFLOWERS © TANKA

Sunflowers in fields 
Bowing to the rising sun
Turning faced upwards
Withholding their mighty stocks
As all roots knit asunder!

growth, nature, rain, seasons, summer, word play,
 
HARVESTING © TANKA

Rain drops call from clouds
Wet the now blackening soil
New roots drink thirstily
Crops now grow from planted seedlings
Harvest 'feed' aplenty!...

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I am broken
comprised of raw experience
a love for you 
that forces my hand
and makes me vulnerable, too
subdued
saturated
fatigued
and infatuated
by a love for you
my brokenness
the broken bones
and this broken being
and if my broken body
does not suffice
then - complete me
solve the mystery
that is me
fill her
make her whole
fill her again, and again
again, and again
she's desperate
arguably senseless
yet -
withholding 
nothing...

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The skies unfolded


Mist that clouds the air we breathe
 within the skies withholding
 and myriads folds enfolding

 Endeavors reached for
 light within forever now’s
 quiet stillness accepts anew
 truths unwoven through veils unsealing

 Breath its essence sheds 
 through anxious times its fleeting 
 in pounding waves receding

 Evening descends in cooling breeze
 day of night illuminates
 in forward paths of life we face
 the paths that living makes...

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Who knows how and when
Is wrought and shaped the secret hearts of men
Very well veiled from the eye
Of even the keenest spy
But its abundance is rich
To rule over speech
To the detail of sentiment
And its accompanying temperament

Though withholding buried secrets
We could confidently reveal daunting regrets
And all pasts undealt
That remain heavily heartfelt
To a trusted Father in God
Whose approving nod
Is to make you see clearly
The precepts to value dearly...

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