Read full poem →Playing their flesh arms against the twisting wrists of
steel :
Dictionary Entry
The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. wriststogether wrists
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Poetry examples for “wrists”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →She had nice long legs in silk stockings. She smiled at me, reached out a
hand and touched one of my wrists.
Read full poem →Bows at the turn of the white wrists ;
And when each knight within his stall
Read full poem →slowly with pinkish ponderous arms bedecked
whose white thick wrists deliver promptly to
a deep lap enormous mindless hands.
Read full poem →Their necks are galled with chains,
Their wrists are cramped with gyves.
Read full poem →I go in the rain, and, more than needs,
A rope cuts both my wrists behind;
And I think, by the feel, my forehead bleeds,
Read full poem →I go in the rain, and, more than needs,
A rope cuts both my wrists behind;
And I think, by the feel, my forehead bleeds,
Read full poem →Grim silence on my part as I sank lower,
My small wrists stretching till they showed the banjo strings.
"Why, if she isn't serious about it!
Read full poem →They leave their trenches, going over the top,
While time ticks blank and busy on their wrists,
And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists,
Read full poem →Not in the subtle nourishment of the air,
Not in this beating and pounding at my temples and wrists,
Not in the curious systole and diastole within which will one day cease,