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The Locked Door of Words
... A stillness settles around them, a self-imposed hush. Words unspool in the mind, arguments formed, stories waiting, but the lips remain a sealed seam. What landscapes lie behind that quiet......
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Bernard F. Asuncion
Categories:
tight lipped,
silence,
Form:
Free verse
Burden of Unspoken Grief
... The weight of silence, a heavy unseen stone, A heart that aches with words it cannot speak. A hollow echo where joy once was known, A shadowed path, the lonely and the weak. The tears unshed ......
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Bernard F. Asuncion
Categories:
tight lipped,
grief,
Form:
Rispetto
Eagle-Eye Girl
...You marrow-deep in the bone-dry field, sprawled like a wishbone snapped wrong- the ground drinks your weight, but won't swallow you whole. wind combs its fingers through the wheat, a mother's ......
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Catherine Gilley
Categories:
tight lipped,
allusion, anger, art, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Walk The Tightrope
...For a girl with shy smile, bit assertive, sweet tooth, talkative, foolishly true-speak rude, learning to be gracious kid polite and well-mannered quickly evolving to responsible teen with ch......
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thriveni c mysore
Categories:
tight lipped,
age,
Form:
Etheree
See See Under The Sea
...the seahorses grazed in a field undersea the jellyfish wobbled at the party the starfish in their constellations went the clams secretive tight lipped and silent the hammerhead sharks did t......
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Clive Culverhouse
Categories:
tight lipped,
animal, fish, fun, humorous,
Form:
Light Verse
The Wail of a Love Letter
...Carrying the fever and heat of love’s first flame, I set out on a journey expectant and anxious, sealed and tight lipped, all emotions bottled. From port to port I journeyed, tr......
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Valsa George
Categories:
tight lipped,
angst, irony, love,
Form:
Personification
Prologue Mall Getaway
... "It was a beautiful whore of a day", he reasoned, "maybe she will have even less on !" The little band of misfits garnered the stares of mall patrons as they ran as fast as their puppet legs could......
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Jude Herrick
Categories:
tight lipped,
art,
Form:
I do not know?
Walking
...Walking on eggshells Tight lipped Uncertain of every word spoken Least the tempest Will be released Roaring Waves splashing Wind storm blowing Boat rocking Turquoise water fa......
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Sara Kendrick
Categories:
tight lipped,
abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Our Love in July
...Lethal kind heart, your fingernails like morganite daggers sharp enough to stab my heart from the hearth that you warm As long as you still light it, my breathing bellows will stoke your flame, wh......
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B. Andrew Kelly
Categories:
tight lipped,
cute, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Natural Probe
...The teal peels as it submits to gloaming, and a round lucidity exposed abroad. As the alien brilliance shines far away, the maneuvered view is being cast. 'Tis dormancy that exacts dark......
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Hilo Poet
Categories:
tight lipped,
dark, extended metaphor, imagery,
Form:
Personification
Leaving Your Last Breath
...Like those last luscious faintly enfeebled breaths bitterly breaking through my limply lifting lungs . Fervently flooding my tear filled eyes. Tenderly tottering into those timidly tight-l......
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Hayden Mccain
Categories:
tight lipped,
beauty, death, feelings, imagery,
Form:
Alliteration
Poor Claire
...Poor Claire with arthritis she’d battle, Her bones would shake like a rattle, She was always tight-lipped, But her dress she finally zipped, Relieved she would go on and prattle. To Ireland,......
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Victor Buhagiar
Categories:
tight lipped,
cheer up, cute,
Form:
Limerick
The Antics of a Yoyo Thief
...The Antics Of A Yoyo Thief Potential life of as juvenile delinquent (ala bam mean future streetwise thug) stopped dead in the tracks – manacles the above two lines hopefully gives hint nearly ......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
tight lipped,
5th grade, 6th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Related To Jim
...Grandpa was a Bowie. A tight-lipped protestant Ulsterman who drifted into the Poblacht na hÉireann in search of a cure for his cold heart. His thin lips wed a soft Catholic girl. He joined the......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
tight lipped,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Lita
...We’re on Fall break this week and Peter’s favorite aunt - Lita - is visiting. Lita’s a tall, slim woman (eek! A guess), in her early sixties. She’s nicely weathered and tan. I’m sure she once had Pet......
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Anais Vionet
Categories:
tight lipped,
boyfriend, family, halloween, school,
Form:
Free verse
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