Best Anesthetized Poems

To the legend of silence
that speaks in trembling stillness
I’ve seen your halcyon halo~
that illuminates wilted weeds 
and tilted tendrils 
unfolding perfumed wings,
allowing sizzling seas of stardust to rise.

But something about the way
your soft skin caresses 
my bruised bones,
ignites poetic sparks,
carving scarlet skies of fears
with luminous...

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Yesterday’s sweet corn
     now rests among the shucked,
          where norms’ victims lay.

Side-by-side in rusty silos,
     awaiting the gristmill;
          dull...

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We’re monopolized by the Saran-wrapped food,
the plastic cutlery,
absorbed by the clutter of the food tray.

Numbed by hours of jiggling,
the carting of torpid bodies through interminable distance,
we’re wedged now into boredom, uncomfortably numb.

Anesthetized – we fear nothing.
If the aircraft stalls, few will scream.
We’ll keep decanting small...

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Unshakeable groggy state
plagues mein kampf
impossible mission to awaken
this comatose zombie
drugged horror - by potent

self manufactured narcotic -
oppressive tantalizing
nightmares indistinguishable
when supposedly conscious,
eyes cannot differentiate

dusky "reality" from
twilit zoned lifelike slumbers
confused with medication
induced hallucinations ferrying
me to lands unknown

lack proper visa to allow
this migrant citizenship,
cannot escape tangled web
spun since...

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As I crawl upon a sober Road.
A friend lends a hand, and many stories are told

so many people like me that have chosen life 
Chosen to be free 

Addiction is a Family Curse that does not discriminate
cares not about your race, or how much money...

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Youthful temptress, aging oracle,
Nymph-like debacle, Gorgon spectacle,
Retreat from retribution’s precipice,
And a transient victory wrought by avarice,
To listen to a parable
Devoid of the empirical.

Several centuries ago in the land of the Saracen,
You were born to a tribe called the Bedouin.
Clad in hijab to protect you from...

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Early morning
his first thought:
A glass of Gin
A refreshing effect
Relationship of evil to
devil's medicine

One glas
becomes to three ... or five
The clock shows half past seven
in the morning
Mother and the children wake up
It's a new working day
and school for the three children

He hides the bottle
The brain is...

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Pouring drops tumble as Sin shares her final sensual treasured embrace prior the sanctified storm

Once the Crowning Rays threshold is now the traverse shadow, tattered and tangled amidst destiny’s yarn   
Warn decree, reminisced jeweled land plateau accuse is now stone-cold alleyways aging in...

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Floating in vacuum,
morphine intravenous supplied,
pain deadened,
she lies dormant, oblivious to all,
thoughts suppressed,
unfeeling and benumbed
in  the emergency cubicle.
 
Her husband holds her hand,
icy, like winter at its worst.
She moans, eyes flutter,
only to fall asleep again.
Anesthetized she finds rest.
Monitors bleep to rhythm,
steady as she goes just...

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Have we now reached that place where lives lost to violence are so commonplace that we pause only for a moment to take note?

Are we so anesthetized by the drone of voices and talking heads on CNN that their mindless chatter concerning yet another senseless...

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An Air Of Death - Haiku

asphyxiated
anesthetized under leaf
bug silent, death calls...

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After what I have claimed and said
After the moon had glittered and the sun had shined
After a day, exactly a day 
A new hour began 
I look at this, I look at us 
So much to tell, so much to ask 
So much to discuss...

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He turned twenty-one on that beautiful fall day
Driving to his home from college, he got an early start on his way
The father who raised him since his mother died at his birth
Wanted to have his first beer with him that afternoon after work

He reached the...

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KINDNICE

kind and nice
drift around
this house
damn 
kindness
she is so 
nice

windows
mirror 
sweet
smiles

trapped
butterfly
disguised
desperate
to be pinned
anesthetized

nice and kind
picking up
pieces after
the fall
stuck on 
blank walls
blind
kindness
dies



© Kim van Breda—24 November 2015...

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Anesthetized constitution,
Demoralized contribution;
Righteous inconsistency-
Wrong-doers frequency.

Subliminal conflab,
Criminal back stab;
Caseless quarrels-
Faceless morals.

Psychedelic legislation,
Humanity disintegration;
Tormented composure-
Indecent exposure.

Respect annihilation,
Sacramented violation;
Varnished illusion-
Tarnished delusion.

Armed paraphernalia,
Strung up genitalia;
Mouthed truths, clamped-
Sealed lies, stamped.

Commune travesty,
Immune amnesty;
Synthetic jurisdiction-
Pathetic contradiction.

Vengeful retribution,
Carnaged institution;
Marred government, lineated-
A nation, desecrated

© 31st October 2013...

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