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Unclenched Poems - Poems about Unclenched

The Stillness Beneath Me
...The Stillness Beneath Me They said I’d know I’m fully alive when laughter bloomed or sorrow cried. But both are gusts that pass me by— and neither one has ever lied. Yet neither te......

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Categories: unclenched, addiction, deep, happiness, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forget About It
...Reciting, of the alphabet, not a waste. I may get an A plus for trying. I whistled for it, foraging through its branches. Collaborating with the Alpha and Omega, searching for gold - that Atla......

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Categories: unclenched, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member What is death
...before we begin to inquire what both life and death represent is fate fickle, does God exist let us pause to ask, who we are with an open mind, unclenched fist lost in the maze of metaphors ......

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Categories: unclenched, death, god, spiritual, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The practice
...Pause before action and after action pause, reviewing first the play of cause and effect, double checking whether it obeys love’s laws, doing at all times, as conscience does direct and if this b......

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Categories: unclenched, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member here now reborn
...having surrendered, we allowed God’s bliss tempest to rise as we are consumed by the flame that that never was dies ego disappears, soul remains free from fetters of mind we are he we set out......

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Categories: unclenched, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member A Real Boy
...I walked beneath the ribcage of a giant whale; Encapsulated in the briney entrails of an empty long-dead being. Its grimace echoed in these halls of boned wall, Of which calcite chambers temper;......

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Categories: unclenched, age, courage, innocence, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thought of the day
...open heart and unclenched fist there being no to do list each emote distilled by love invokes God’s grace from above......

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Categories: unclenched, blessing, god, love,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member There is no one here
...The seeker who seeks does not exist but to begin with, this truth is not known, so being accustomed to needless striving, the earth entity begins its God search quest, searching high and ......

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Categories: unclenched, spiritual,
Form: Sestina
Angry Fist
...When you try to solve your problems with the swing of an angry fist that cannot be unswung nor the damage caused undone regret will sidle up hollow out your belly and set your mind awhirl con......

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Categories: unclenched, anger,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Night Embrace
... Written: August 13, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ Hidden stars, out lights of the sky, In the alleys where secrets lie, Tall black houses built ......

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Categories: unclenched, analogy, appreciation, endurance, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
No Anchor For Rancour
...Icicles hung from the roof like translucent fingers Clawing towards the ground While behind the eaves, She brushed her plain brown hair Tired gray eyes in the mirror, Discolored around th......

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Categories: unclenched, winter,
Form: Free verse
No Anchor For Rancour
...Icicles hung from the roof like translucent fingers Clawing towards the ground While behind the eaves, She brushed her plain brown hair Tired gray eyes in the mirror, Discolored around th......

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Categories: unclenched, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Living Light
...Magnetised palms and crown blissful, conspire to make our heart feel full, drenched in an ethereal mist, propelled by a mystical pull. Staid silence has no to do list, so childlike hea......

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Categories: unclenched, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member What Is Love
...an unclenched fist unresisting love’s gist is this 13-March-2023......

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Categories: unclenched, love,
Form: Than-Bauk
Premium Member What Is Love
...an unclenched fist we resist not love’s gist is this 06-March-2023......

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Categories: unclenched, love,
Form: Than-Bauk

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