Imagination Abuse Poems

I can’t breathe it is killing me. It’s so I can see is this void happening below me I can’t wake up that’s a trap...

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I pressed my hands against my face 

 and rock my body to and fro  

and let the rhythm flow  

where my imagination...

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I am the maker of your fear, says the silver ocean.
like the dessert sun to a scotched frog,
I strike the sand and bury you deep...

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In court, the accused
is produced and
charged with abuse,
no evidence is adduced, 
the sentence is reduced,
he is not amused
to pay his dues
his name is in the...

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Lessons Learned from the Tennessee Valley

Spoiled have we become!?
When you look back from whence, we have begun,
the provision of profit to our young,
that sheltered them...

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A dazzled getaway and a lost soul
An imagination so earnestly cruel
Midsummer paradise of love 
Made a parody of the land over once they drooled

Nature was...

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When I look into the mirror, I see a boundless bouquet of beautiful beginnings,
a thousand flawless faces all wanting to be seen
But...... 
I only see...

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I was friends with a selfish liar 
pathological habit of desire 
lying when there was no reason 
low on friends he chose treason 

A football...

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So far gone 
Estranged and withdrawn 
Blinded by this melancholic shroud of mist 

This depression revealing 
My inability to confront these feelings 
That continue to...

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In the crimson dawn, a tale unfurls,
A scorching day, the heat unfurls,
Lost in a haze, my mind unfurls,
A journey from haven to infernal swirls.

Amidst this...

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Surely I‘ll break 
after you pointed out all my mistakes
I know I may not be the most outgoing 
But if that’s the reason you‘ve been...

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There he sits that monstrous hypocrite. There he dwells as I wash these dishes, his dishes. There he slouches, watching his games, his news, his...

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thin sandwiches 
we make thin sandwiches in thin times 
we don’t have much but the rust of the engine 
and the dust of an old...

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The looks,
The stares,
The awkward glances,
The whispers,
The rumors,
The indignation,
The imagination of seeing,
Yourself in the eyes of others.
How Will They See You?
Will you ever be their equal.
I...

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Worry knot chokes out the living daylights

I know from personal experience
the foolhardiness of
courting, flirting, honeymooning...
worse case scenario,
particularly when just a wee lad,
yours truly internalized
unfamiliar bodily...

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