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Teetered Poems - Poems about Teetered

Premium Member Walk the Tightrope
...Often in life, it's felt like on a tightrope I've been walking between what is reality and what is merely an act. The names of people in my story, I've chosen to redact, those I've cheered on with......

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Categories: teetered, age, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Electorate on tenterhooks until
...Electorate on tenterhooks until... outcome of 2024 presidential election announced Polling places slated to open seven o'clock in the morning November fifth two thousand twenty four heightene......

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Categories: teetered, america, anger, anxiety, autumn,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lost Horizon
...Our plane went down in the mountain snow, but I was alive I walked on ice in the thin air, the only way to survive Then on a ledge, I saw that light, a valley pure and green With rivers rolling,......

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Categories: teetered, death, garden, perspective, political,
Form: Lyric
Veiled Shadows
... Implanted in the deepest dark, a darkness resides. Taunting, tormenting sculpting my soul The dejection carved a life left incomplete, With hope urging me to retreat. The penumbra urges me to......

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Categories: teetered, bullying, christian, dark, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Literature Lost Love
...Love in itself has swam through definition Teetered between truth and falsehood That which is written is long forgotten Shakespeare sighs in defeat ......

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Categories: teetered, deep, feelings, first love,
Form: Free verse



On the Cusp of Change
... He teetered on the cusp of change, Wanting to make each moment last ~ This flying of time seemed so strange, He teetered on the cusp of change ~ What would he not do to exchange ......

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Categories: teetered, change, childhood, nostalgia, time,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Wave of Fantasy
...An ocean of people pulled by the moon Frighteningly stand on foundations of sand. A word deemed unkind will cause them to swoon And so, by their hand, all dissent is banned. Teetered precarious......

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Categories: teetered, fantasy,
Form: Sonnet
The Forbidden Tear In the Dark
...DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE EMOTIONAL ISSUES I was born in a land far, far away called... home. Not yet still-born. A place of iced mountain mazes, that were once warm, like an oasis of blessings,......

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Categories: teetered, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Biden's Book Has Roses and Shame
...Biden's Book Has Roses And Shame Joe Biden And his son Hunter mayhem Puts dark clouds to rain On his father's parade Where Joe is prim and proper His son a clown on a tightwire As Joe took......

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Categories: teetered, conflict, father son,
Form: Nonet
Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly Obsession
...Mine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession... As September daze will soon arrive recollections from a psychologically checkered past loom large recalling tragic storied days of mein......

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Categories: teetered, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Perhaps My Creek Washes Away Me
...The day was wearing on when the old man gingerly stepped outside; Thanks to an earlier breeze and short rainfall, cool air greeted, arms wide. “The air is clearer too!” he cheered… though only in h......

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Categories: teetered, age, bereavement, depression, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Break Vi - Spectacular Miami Dinner
...By day six I was antsy Stayed in my room all morning I knew this would happen While the glass-shatter of the ocean waves And yelps of surprise from scores of little kids Drifted in Through ......

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Categories: teetered, spring, vacation,
Form: Free verse
Electorate On Tenterhooks Until
...Electorate on tenterhooks until... outcome of 2020 presidential election announced Polling places slated to open seven o'clock in the morning November third two thousand twenty heightened tensi......

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Categories: teetered, 12th grade, bullying, change,
Form: Free verse
The Nowhere Floor
...It's the locked door there at the very top of the stairs not quite the attic's humid air but the secret fourth floor door lead to nowhere. Children teetered on the creaky steps fearing the......

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Categories: teetered, children, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Courtship With Deadly Obsessions
...Mine courtship with deadly obsession(s) still indelibly scored within windmills of my mind this July 22nd, 2020. Imagine yours truly post pubescence (no matter ye never met me) all that life......

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Categories: teetered, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse

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