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Sit With That Feeling

...when you feel like pacing up and down hitting yourself in the head on that perimeter fence of enclosed emotion bracing for an onslaught of pain that won’t dissipate on the barbed wire fences a......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, courage, depression,
Form: Free verse

The End of a Life

...I ended a life just like that. It was the tiniest of creatures Scurrying across my arm. I didn't mean to do it, it happened Just that fast. And after the deed was done, I reflected. I felt......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, innocence, loss,
Form: Free verse

Love Requires No Thought

...A heart filled with love forgives what an empty one would not, for love's a knee-jerk reaction that requires no thought. (Liberum Divisa) 10-25-2020 original......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

A Knee-Jerk Reaction

...An outpouring of feelings that surges up from the heart and splashes against the soul, love is exclusive to humans. The heart entertains a multitude of inexplicable emotions beyond all norms o......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Reverse Engineering a Better Life

...Unlearning a reflex takes quite a while As I cross the flooding Nile Overcoming my thirst adrift in the sea Mouth full of sand, blood too thick to bleed I'm losing a staring contest looking at a ......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, addiction, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Me Creature of Comfort Bah

...Me... creature of comfort? Bah Once again mine lock, stock and barrel trade in balderdash finds yours truly (i.e. me) to type poem frisson a$$ off as dentures chatter and gnash, while still i......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Anatomy Down

...By a HAIR, the bullet misses There's more than meets the EYE today But the river's MOUTH is too wide, My NECK of the woods far away The weariness hard to SHOULDER This BODY of water my bane ......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, animal,
Form: Quatrain

Gender Genuflection

... The sergeant says, you know the drill And the new grunts get the spit down Pressed pants and shiny boots in the barracks are military grade thumbs up But, in the showers, eyes are......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, discrimination, military, society, truth,
Form: Free verse

There Never Was a Box

...We live a life buried alive, mentally, burdened by guilt and circumstances. We live in our own angular box, oxygen depleting, but dare not kick out at the sides, imbibing clean, fresh air. K......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse

Walking In the Fog

...In this desolate world so filled with every distraction Each situation so demanding of a knee jerk reaction Where time is money allowing greed to become king Know that the fog will never lift unti......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, future,
Form: Rhyme

Knee Jerk Reaction

...I once had a Doc take some stitches Apparently not without glitches Because now when I sneeze I jerk at the knees And kick people in the britches......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, funny,
Form: Limerick

Over the Mountain

... A winter vacation to Grandpa’s farm Involved a drive over the Great Divide As long as we didn’t hit a bad storm I can make it in three days, if I try I know now, it would be better to f......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, travel, car, lost, winter,
Form: Rhyme Royal

Slammed

...They try to silence, say it's about violence, repression, oppression, obsession, ignorance is bliss, quess what they can kiss, they slander, they pander it's a knee-jerk reaction to the right-win......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, on writing and words,
Form: Lyric

Exterminating Angel

...What you have done to me defies my best description, A downfall orchestrated by your self-absorbed affliction; You saw me as what, a time filling, knee-jerk reaction? A neurological stimulant, a m......Read the rest...

Categories: knee jerk reaction, angst, life, loss, lost
Form: Verse