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Slackening
Slackening Poems - Poems about Slackening
Out of Joint
...In case the mirror’s not enough, Reminders of my age May crop up just to let me know I’m at a certain stage. A lack of energy, perhaps, Or slackening of skills, More visits to the doctor And......
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Ilene Bauer
Categories:
slackening,
age, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Jolted by Twilight
... I lay with languor praying for an answer I’d been seeking. Azure glitter-drops splashed upon the clean white sand nearby my feet. I drifted into sleep then as wisps of clouds in a sky mirroring......
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©
Andrea Dietrich
Categories:
slackening,
sunset,
Form:
Verse
True Beauty Comes From Within
...What just happened yesterday Must have been dreaming I guess Met a beautiful stunning young lady Left me in a helluva mess Always thought I was in total control But she knocked me bac......
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©
Jack Ellison
Categories:
slackening,
beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
The Love Bug
...What just happened yesterday Must have been dreaming I guess Met a beautiful stunning young lady Left me in a helluva mess Always thought I was in total control But she knocked me bac......
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Jack Ellison
Categories:
slackening,
love,
Form:
Rhyme
Fears of An End
...The taut rope is tightening, Fears of an end heightening; No hope of it loosening: The craziest reasoning… Yes, helping hands slackening, A quite bright day darkening; Now, a sight quite sic......
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Chinedum Ekwobi
Categories:
slackening,
cry, death, fear, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Bleak Moments
...Violent noisy events in waves slap , Break and coersively snatch away Distrubing the foamy thoughts in array, Spreading across the stretch and dap Calm and quietude that envelope And revive ......
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Vidya Pandarinath
Categories:
slackening,
success,
Form:
Lyric
Weak Spots Xiii
...Centered around ephemeral shapes, Now—shapeless now—flailing— Yellows, blues, oranges and reds, Heat eating what surrounds it till it Can no more—eyes—in the fire. . . The way life moves towar......
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Laura Breidenthal
Categories:
slackening,
art, character, conflict, courage,
Form:
Romanticism
City Jump
...Black girls mollycoddle, dandle cranky babies; some cradled on arm and hip, some hustled along on low-riding wheels. Brown men lounge outside bodega’s, some soft-soap, play imaginary guitars,......
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©
Eric Ashford
Categories:
slackening,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Stranger--Contest
...I know that you’ll pretend to be asleep to sip and slurp the darkness in my eyes. While steely train-tracks slide and jump and weep in your sick, slick, and slackening July, my amtrak seat sta......
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Rose Dallimore
Categories:
slackening,
dark, travel, voyage,
Form:
Quintain (English)
How Are You
...The formality of it stings. “How are you?” Delivered with a self-conscious courtesy and a poverty of emotion calculated to immediately keep me at arm’s length, fencing herself in. There ......
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©
Bernard Chan
Categories:
slackening,
emotions, lost love, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Pain
...I felt a painful blain, during the feverish slackening of repeating rain The pain far worse than a usual swell, reminds me how it rains in hell If the drops could not perish from their comfort zone......
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Nevis Devulyte
Categories:
slackening,
body, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Flying Free
...FLYING FREE Strings hold it tight; Wind lifts it out of sight. Without both, kite cannot fly - Nor orchestrate the silent sky. A son stretches away From parents’ song and what they ......
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©
Sidney Beck
Categories:
slackening,
metaphor,
Form:
Verse
Flagspeak
...My Cloud white and five-point stars join royal blue and strips of red, stitched into a familiar pattern, folded and temporarily put to bed. The first time up the pole, crisp edges flap and c......
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©
Cona Adams
Categories:
slackening,
allegory, america, patriotic,
Form:
Quatrain
Time To Wake Up
...Now´s the time to wake up, time to shout, tell the people you meet what you´re really about no time for hiding, no time for shrinking gotta show the world what you´re really thinking cos the ......
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Hilary Davies
Categories:
slackening,
inspirational, nature, philosophy, visionary,
Form:
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