Best Ball And Chain Poems

well, there you go, sweetheart; 
i have done it at last - 
the unthinkable, the reckless, the bold 
and possibly suicidal thing...
i have gritted my teeth and hurled myself out into the 
void, 
into all those endless miles of frigid soul-sucking vacuum 
that stretch, echoing,...

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Hassan harbours hard-worn hardship in his heavy homeless heart

Drones dereliction devastation and dire disintegration of daring dreams

Dear daughter dead at dawn Delisiha demised dismembered decapitated 

Harbingers of hell in heaven heaving with helter-skelter and hatred


Skinny skull surreal surrender to salvation and suffering’s solitude

His maimed mind...

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Eradicated, exquisite, hypocritical, and divine
Given your own heart --- but not given your own mind

Slaving through this lifetime to just rush to the next
Disqualified, degraded, and generation-hexed

Unintelligent, psycho, and deranged
When you open your eyes --- your life has already changed

The flashes of your past speed...

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To refer to your wife
As your ball and chain,

Is like saying
That she's holding you back.

And that should drive
Any woman insane,

When she's keeping the train
On its track....

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YOU'VE BEEN GONE TOO LONG AND YOU'RE TRYING TO GET BACK.
DID A DOSE OF REALITY SLAP YOU IN THE  FACE.OR IS IT A
MID-LIFE CRISIS?

I BALLING AT THE FACT THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO GET BACK.A COMMITMENT  WAS A BALL AND CHAIN IN YOUR BRAIN.
ARE...

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Do you ever wonder if you're alone?
We're simply here in a world of "unknown"

Do you ever walk miles just to hear your steps?
Going on journeys and missions --- but never actually finishing a project?

Always second-guessing --- always second-best
Or think you know it all --- but...

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ball
bouncy, inflated, 
chasing, juggling, throwing, 
footwork, kick, imprisonment, shackle
dangling, yanking, dragging, 
tethered, unbroken
chain



Submitted for...
Dazzling Dizzy Diamante Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Caren Krutsinger 
Date created: 08/07/2022...

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I'm just sitting by my window, staring out at the rain.
Just sitting at my window, escaping my pain,
but then love got a hold of me, and it felt just like a ball and chain. 
That's exactly what it felt like, dragging me down.
Why does every...

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When you hurt so much inside with pain
You carry around a type of ball and chain
It reminds you of everything in the past
Like reading the Moon’s weather forecast
Nothing bright or special childhood time
No one wants to listen to hurt it’s all mine
I was scared from...

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No mirror shows reflection
were it not for light and
dark, that which surrounds
and enfolds us, warms and
chills our inner – the deeper
degrees of being. Numbers,
weights and scales are our own 
inventions, for God keeps no such account, 
seeing only, who walks in with
us, and how we...

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Hostage to fortune,
prisoner of time

Trophies a burden,
 polished and shined

Greed but a jailer,
freedom denied

Hope in confinement
—wishing a crime

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)...

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There was a big party for smiling groom
Ceremonial before his wedding at noon
The men celebrate 
The smallest handcuff made
Is the wedding ring he will wear will soon...

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It seems all I know how to do is cry,
  It hurts so deep I feel like I'm going to die.

    A smile never comes I sit and frown,
  I can't get HIGH I can only come down.

  ...

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