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Tighten Up Poems - Poems about Tighten Up

Premium Member Loretta
...She might have painted the sea— or a golden field of wheat beneath a hazy summer sky— but he took her brushes, left the bristles splayed, the paints dried out, and the turpentine cloudy. And t......

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Categories: tighten up, art, devotion, family, father,
Form: Free verse
When Virtues Wait
...The life you walk now sighs beneath your feet— a path once clear now tastes bittersweet. Even as you carry grace like gold, judgment greets you, distant and cold. Kindness speaks, but you hush ......

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Categories: tighten up, life, spiritual,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member WAITING IN LIMBO
...WAITING IN LIMBO Sitting on the muddy banks Of faded realities, Lingering in the spaces of time, Lost souls struggle: Seeking another Dreamer. Powering pawn brokers, Tighten their mogering......

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Categories: tighten up, abuse, allegory, analogy, angst,
Form: Prose
Gather up stones
...O youth of my land, gather up stones, Not for the mob, nor for bloodied thrones. But to build a revolt, one fierce and true, For the chains of complacency tighten on you. You scroll thr......

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Categories: tighten up, addiction, anti bullying, change,
Form: Lyric
Threads of Time
...one thread unravels quietly from the cuff of yesterday— loose and golden, tugged gently by wind ......

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Categories: tighten up, time,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member Stop waiting for the world to love you, for it never owed you that
...Stop waiting for the world to love you, for it never owed you that, Do you think you'll feel worthy if you win, accumulate, and prove enough? That shame will vanish one morning, that the mirror wil......

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Categories: tighten up, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Shed
...The Shed ...was Granddad's before he died. And now its loneliness reached out to the boy from the shaded, shuffling shadows that shushed the sheltered garden. They pulled, they tugged at his gu......

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Categories: tighten up, farewell, grandfather, love,
Form: Free verse
Tired
...I’m tired. Not the kind you sleep off— the kind that settles in your bones like a storm that never passes. I’m tired of checking the volume of my laughter like it’s a detonator. Of reading t......

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Categories: tighten up, abuse, betrayal, inspirational,
Form: Spoken Word
I made a noose out of the stars
...Of then, Smoke of a squandered summer morn The barrel of a summer afternoon And the spittle of the soundless shots of the stars within a summer eve Homeless homage, tainted talent awaits to watc......

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Categories: tighten up, change,
Form: Free verse
Inside cell of 16
...By 11, I thought I'd have it down by 15, But by 16 and a sour sunday morn, And daisy chains foiled into the moor, And hands that tighten but ne'er lighten, Hands that strangle, stitch, and liven......

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Categories: tighten up, absence, abuse, childhood, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When the Poem Became Tears
...When the poem became tears As the ink drips, I have become an emotional basket case. My keyboard squeals, as the businessman's anxiety climbs At the sound of the opening bells, Tariff wars t......

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Categories: tighten up, addiction, africa, america, analogy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member song of the mattress
...song of the mattress she slept, wrinkled and small on satin sheets, a band-aide covering her mattress, knees tucked tightly beneath her chin and legs pressed against her breasts ......

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Categories: tighten up, allegory, emotions, hurt, pain,
Form: Free verse
How to Make Love to a Didgeridoo X
...A cello moans through cedar fog, low notes trembling between her teeth. Amber bowstrings tighten, vibrating against ribs— wood groans beneath the weight of sound. Resin clings to fingertips, d......

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Categories: tighten up, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE STORY OF A HOUSE
... I pass a lot of houses in the quiet of the morning as I walk the streets alone. It gives me time to think about how every house has a story all its own. And though every story of each house is ......

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Categories: tighten up, house,
Form: Rhyme
What It’s Like Without You
...Knots in my stomach never untied I feel them tighten more and more each time tightness in my chest inside and out tears as they are swell up in my eyes waiting to be released Trapped in a l......

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Categories: tighten up, 9th grade, dad, death,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

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