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Tight Laced Poems - Poems about Tight Laced


Anne Sexton, Why I took My Own Life
... I wore my mind like a corset—tight, laced, unseen— while the world asked me to smile with lipstick teeth and stir the soup without stirring the storm inside. There were mornings I woke as if e......

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Categories: tight laced, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member straight face
... straight face tight laced betrayed AP: Honorable Mention 2025 POTD July 15, 2025......

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Categories: tight laced, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Senryu



Pencil
...Number 2 HB, Number 2 HB, Number 2 HB, I have know you all my life. Your slender ORANGE silhouette, dressed in a neat fashion. Tight laced, tightened up, and tarnished. So put to......

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Categories: tight laced, fear, introspection, life,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things