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One Stifling Hot Day

One stifling hot day an empty sky tries to eke -  out  - tears, but can – not

all of a sudden
gray clouds gather and thicken . . .
a downpour explodes

As if for gladness heaven weeps.
One lone frog through a puddle leaps.
Small creatures take it all in stride;
beneath large bushes many hide.

Categories: stifling, summer,
Form: Other

Stifling a Giggle

Nonchalantly they practised skating artistically,
Both are considered champions in their own right, 
At one point they separated, each to his own end
When he suddenly fell, unbecomingly on the ice.

Both are considered champions in their own right
One could see the surprise on her face.
When he suddenly fell unbecomingly on the ice.
Hands went to her dainty mouth

Categories: stifling, smile,
Form: Pantoum

Stifling a Cry

Sorry, the soldier said, stifling a cry

   ~ as a tear-shaped bullet fell from his eye




        Remember those brave soldiers who
        have fallen in the defense of freedom

Categories: stifling, cry, remember, soldier,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

I Sat and Watched

“I sat and watched him babble like a brook
it took forever to hear the first drop fall
it rained into the water of the newborns
I listened for a moment
then left him to his massive words
tired from his efforts,
sleepy from his speech,
unconsciously conscious 
of his taffy-pulling time.”

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Categories: stifling, discrimination, endurance, judgement, prejudice,
Form: Free verse

Stifling Virtues

Sacrifice and selflessness they taught,
Withering feathers kept yearning for the sky,
Values with the soul, fought!

Categories: stifling, conflict, emotions, flying, philosophy,
Form: Haiku

Stifling the Flower Brings Rain

When growing a flower there’s a few things you need,
Water and sunlight and room for the leaves.
If you tend to your flower with warmth and with care,
It will one day sit tall with assured debonair.
But if someone plunges their hand and plucks its root,
It will shrivel up and perish under their unthinking brute.
Their one little

Categories: stifling, corruption, extended metaphor, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme

Stifling Was Sound Had Found

took a poll and found
poem stifling was the sound
write one more was bound

Jim Horn

Categories: stifling, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Stifling Hot Here

the dried grass is brown,

our summer air a sauna

way too hot for most

air conditioning on freeze

i run outside to warm up

Categories: stifling, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Tanka

Stifling the Day

I hide the emptiness
digging a hole in the head, unending pain
bury a stiff smile
between huffs of breath

It's almost a mystery
it can almost be unheard
the cloud in my eyes, almost curling
too imperfect for words

I dig this smile into a hole
snatched by my last breath
as the wound reaches beyond
an imperfect heart

Categories: stifling, sad, time,
Form: Lyric

Stifling

Respite
From boiling sun
Stealing my breath from me
My heart pounds as the heat drains me
Perspiration drips onto the hot ground
I sit quiet and dream of a breeze
Dark clouds gather above
Perhaps by night
Respite

Categories: stifling, seasons,
Form: Rictameter

Stifling of My Tears

Stifling of my Tears
Through the pain of the years.
In the face of my darkest fears.
A thousand times I wanted to cry.
Afraid of allowing something as simple as drops of water to escape from my eyes.
Afraid of what others would think of me.
The showing of my real emotions, meant exposing my vulnerability.
I dare not cry.
The stifling

Categories: stifling, inspirational, pain, water, water,
Form: Rhyme