Tightening Poems - Poems about Tightening

... Written: April 19, 2024, For Robert James Liguori Contest Inspired from the Lyrics Gettin' Tighter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <......Read the rest...

...In the hollows of power’s grip, where shadows twist the heart’s cry, there—mights build thrones on backs bent, where abuse wears the mask of guidance, control, a cloak woven with the thread of fe......Read the rest...

... Written: March 31st, 2024 for Matt Caliri Coagulation Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Finally, my blood began to coagulate; I am initially concerned over p......Read the rest...

...You are the reason why I am here because I have so much to share. You are the reason why I am here, and you act as if you don’t care. What kind of person are you? You are just looking out for you;......Read the rest...

...I emerged with a silver pen in hand, …and a tempest raging within. Words writhe, a serpent's coil, …tightening their grip, A soul adrift in a sea of …self-made iniquity. I buried my daddy ......Read the rest...

...A hole so deep I cannot see past the bottles around my feet pop another, you'll be fine the pain will fade in due time. Pop, one, two, or three the hole grows  that sinking feeling as eye......Read the rest...

...To sound the right musical note, string of the guitar is made taut, so likewise for our light to shine, trials we face, make us self-taught. Stuporous is mind, heart unkind, insipid stance, cl......Read the rest...

... It started with dry leaves pirouetting around the yard on the back of a skittish breeze, the magnolia rubbing against the fence as if scratching an itch, a few raindrops teasing a thirs......Read the rest...

... I. Fold, crease, unfold, sheets of paper thin as possibility, a crisp white plea to gravity. Forty-five times, a cosmic origami building bridges from table to the moon. The mind dreams, un......Read the rest...

... hold still … eventide - I am a capricious cad among wraiths waltzing with a mop in a Marrakesh courtyard - catching stars as they drip with waxy and wild wonder into the braids of my maudli......Read the rest...

...Beneath a night veil bordered with black roses, such a pallid, yet beauteous face, nightingales nestled at her feet. She's adept at knowing when to let herself in. She sits, sighs of sorrow, eb......Read the rest...

... Shadows hiss_per, of secret, buildup-congealed, no longer trapped within curiosity's seals. Oceans of thoughts crash, unrested, on the rocks and hard-placed reveal of fait......Read the rest...

...this is how the rich win the war this is how the rich win the war        magnifying differences,     triggering all prejudice this is how the rich win the war this is why you're destined......Read the rest...

...I've battled every year, To keep the Wisteria clear. Away from the tree, Swaying so gracefully. The vine has caught a branch, Refusing to let it go. Tightening its grasp, I wonde......Read the rest...

...The ooze of earth and water, rivulets of mud, Moves slowly, then faster, as rain pushes its mass. Both water and earth mix in this massive great flood, As it's trapped and rises in a slot canyon's......Read the rest...