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Best Asphyxiation Poems

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Premium Member Oblivion
“I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
Chuck Palahniuk


Is there such a metaphor as...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: asphyxiation, abuse, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse



A Banished Breath
The toxic air begins to plow
A banished breath below his brow,
A contorted face the last thing we see
Ignorance thrust by just one knee;

My brother’s pain...

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Categories: asphyxiation, abuse, betrayal, fear,
Form: Quatrain
Buried At Sea.
I watch the ocean waves from underneath it all.
Deep down.
It's getting harder to breathe.
This water makes its way into my lungs.
You're suffocating me.
Asphyxiation.
Just leave me...

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Categories: asphyxiation, angst, loss, sea, sorrywater,
Form: Lyric
The Earth On Which She'D Walked
She was made of the Earth on which she walked,
built by the Love that, from her, poured, 
brought to life by the light she shone,
imbued...

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© Sara Jolly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: asphyxiation, earth, emotions, environment, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Sugar
I would breathe you in
Like oxygen 
Hyper with no ventilation ,
Asphyxiation
A mellow mush
Together dried 
Crystallized and surprise!
A lightning bolt
Electric jolt for the

Lady of the Labyrinth

Rainbow...

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Categories: asphyxiation, life, love, nature
Form: I do not know?



Psychotic Trip
PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Feeling really beat,  I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not...

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Categories: asphyxiation, allegory, allusion, dark, dream,
Form: Rhyme
-mitochondria-
Daily Poetry #59, March 28, 2017
Word: Mitochondria 

108 billion people, and still, life just plays on repeat,
It’s grown so dull that we don’t care who...

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Categories: asphyxiation, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Preyed Upon Victim
I’m sure you don’t remember me
Yet forever branded upon my memory is your evil spree
I was far from your only victim
You and your pack bullying...

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Categories: asphyxiation, bullying, character, childhood, judgement,
Form: Narrative
Exquisitely Unique Creativity
I'm slinging dope rhymes from grams to kilos at times. 
Committing felony crimes weight of these lines. 
My word's hold weights of digital scales an...

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Categories: asphyxiation, addiction, beautiful, character, hip
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Traditional Healer
Sometimes I cannot sleep
In the abyss of my stomach
My muscles weep
My gut sinks and falls deep
Into the ashes of my sadness
And I hear that feeling...

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Categories: asphyxiation, africa, anxiety, confusion, culture,
Form: I do not know?
The Jellyfish Chronicles
Beneath my tendrils,
Hidden by waves of despair
Lie Souls lost in storms nightmare
No cross, or family visitors,
 Except crabs and eels 
And curious seals

Picking away at...

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Categories: asphyxiation, nature, sea, sea, mother,
Form: Free verse
Just a Bit of Meditation
If greed had not been passed down by generation 
If love and peace had not been reduced to confiscation   
If the rules of...

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© Lisa Geier  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: asphyxiation, love, peace, philosophy, war,
Form: Free verse
All What People Say
I don’t know 
I just don’t know anymore 
Tears sting in my eyes
I thrive to release them 
But then all would ask “why” 
Signs and...

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Categories: asphyxiation, confusion, depression, me, people,
Form: Free verse
Jamaica
The sun rises high over the tropical trees
White patchy clouds survey the blue sky,
Time drifts slowly into the clouded breeze
With the colors red, green and...

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Categories: asphyxiation, beach, community, history, holiday,
Form: Free verse
This Space For You
This Space for You...

Darling, my darling, how I long to see you so,
Such a long week of papers, pencils and meetings galore,
Prepare yourself for such...

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Categories: asphyxiation, depression, introspection, loss, space,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs