Best Bound And Gagged Poems


Premium Member Discombobulation and Beyond

One day she left her house, feeling out of sorts
as if some premonition spoke to her.
It said to just stay home; to not go out.
No logic in this, though, could she infer.

She ran her errands, then bought groceries.
To her car she went, exiting the store.
Discombobulation hit! Something wasn’t right.
That feeling now she just could not ignore.

A handsome man approached her as she neared her car.
It seemed as if that guy came out of nowhere.
She saw his knife, then felt its menace at her back.
She looked around; the parking lot was bare.

Discomfort and confusion turned into grave fear.
Like acid in her throat, great dread was rising.
Bound and gagged, how she wished she’d listened
to her instinct! Sadly, her fate was not surprising.

Smokescreen

Have you heard who’s coming to town? 
Why, she’s only the very best actress in around!
She can make you angry,  make you cry
She can make you laugh so hard you’ll wonder if you’re high
Always graceful and always sweet
The kind of girl anyone would want to meet
But when the curtain closes at the end of the day
When she removes her mask,  and puts it away
She’s just another faceless girl
Empty and alone in an overrated world 
But the show must go on, now where’s our star?
She’s bound and gagged in the trunk of her car!
Someone go get her,  she’s terribly late
We mustn’t make these darling fans wait
Unbind her hands,  but don’t cut the rope
It’s on to the stage and on with the show
Step into the dress and slip on the gloves
There’s the perfect girl we all know and love!
She takes center stage,  Mom must be proud
An encore performance dazzles the crowd
And that’s when the curtain falls
She hangs her mask up on the wall
She opens her trunk, so cozy and safe
Slips into her bindings and takes her place
She sighs as she watches the trunk lid close
Hoping that would be her final show.

Doctor, Doctor

They say dreams are the gateway to the show, the subconscious
like dreams are the free movies you subscribe to 
once you close your eyes
If that's true
then what kind of movies am I subscribed to
What on earth do I think about while I sleep
This nightmare, the images I can't get out of my head
I repeat
incomplete are my thoughts
as I fail to sleep yet these drastic slumbering memories
find a way to seep through the disguise
of a day going all too well
freaking swell
Doctor, doctor
please tell me what all of this means
Doctor, doctor
tell me one thing
is 'delusional' the ailment to my disease
a spectacle of sorts
Doctor, doctor
What does it mean for you to be possessed in comatose by a ghost
then proceed to rip apart your own skin
to remove the demon within
shouting that you will not die today
What does it mean
to witness video game like death
a female apparition scratching names off her list
as she takes life after life
in search for her daughter just to kill her too
then resurrect the players to pursue and destroy again
What sense does any of this make
to be saved by a gaming controller
from a pack of werewolves on an abandoned dirt road
Doctor, doctor
what is your diagnosis
Doctor, doctor
Doctor, doctor
could you tell me something, anything
Doctor, doctor
or would you shrug it off 
make a joke and tell me to sleep it off
tell me to kill myself in my dreams
so I only find truth in my demise
like a personal cocoon to retreat in
and relive the moment where I thought I was in immortal
only to float back down on my magic carpet
bound and gagged
for me to be killed by corrupt castle guards
till I wake up in a panic 
a childhood movie ruined internally
Doctor, doctor
am I delusional or am I really that evil 
for even my dreams wish to bury me so far deep in the ground


Premium Member My Angel

My angel is bound and gagged
As I still don’t listen for her
No matter what she did to warn me
I ignored and bound her some more
She can’t help me anymore
I’ve secured her in a dark room
Away from any helpful thoughts
And she is completely ignored by me
My angel has now been ruined
For she is of no help anymore
And rendered useless
She now turns to pixie dust
And floats into heaven rejected
Defeated
And with a feeling of being useless
Never will she help another soul
Her powers are gone, forever
Nothing can bring her back
She has been made worthless
What have I done?
What have I done?

Russell Sivey

Star of David

he stood 
among the swasticka's 


a star 
in the center of chaos


and still
he couldn't comprehend


with ticket in hand 
for a train 
that was heavily laden 
with lost hope 


he was bound and gagged 
by religion 
that was neither practiced 
or received 

yet he was convicted 
by birth 
advocating his death


tears would not save him 


German words would convict 
spoken with accents 
of David 
yet there would be no 

slaying of Goliath 


and so he went 
without a word in yiddish


to ovens readily heated 
and skin was but butter for 
German bread 


he walked among the gentile's 
and was slain 
for he was too gentle 


like a lamb to the slaughter

they dined on mutton 

of Jewish mute 

 

evil knows no boundaries 

for it exerts power and control 

 

and those that are complacent 

will pay the price with life 

 

Star of David 

shone 

but was covered 

by German eclipse

 

blocking the glow

 

extinguishing the flame

The Valium Bath

Fixed under water glass
Like a splinter beneath Poseidon's skin
There is no Sunday
And no one knows Rhyme
With her cool hands
And her goat's feet.

There are only
Walking dead
From whose wool-lined mouths
Pour blindfolds
And broken keys
Strangle holds
And bloody knees.

Rapunzel bruised
Left for dead forgotten
Bound and gagged
By her own golden hair.
Drowning in the Valium Bath
Warm and blind
Dying slow
But unaware.


Premium Member I Am Fear




Here I sit, as the King upon my throne.
Logic bound and gagged by Fight and Flight.
Amygdala, my Kingdom of hormones,
turn up heart rate, improve hearing and sight. 
Perspiration, my signature cologne.

Only In Movies

Tonight he saw within her eyes
A different kind of light
Laying beneath her smokey glance
Was a passion to start a fire
He knew what he had done
He thought it was a secret
But the look of disgust upon her face
Got him thinking different
This night not like the ones before
She was cold and so direct
Not like the girl he knew
All giggles and layed back
She poured them both a glass of wine
Than offered herself to him
But tonight he would be bound and gagged
At her every command
She slipped into her satin gown
With slit up to her thighs
She watched in amusement as
He undressed her with his eyes
Knowing he couldn't touch her
She touched and taunted him
Making him gasp and beg
Then she slowly slipped his silk tie
Around his head covering up his eyes
Promising to loosen his hands
Laughing as she lied
The games that she did play
He quite rather enjoyed
But what was to become of him
No horror story could top
So here he sits all bound up
No vision, no voice
She pulled some scissors from the drawer
Slowly she began to slice
It felt so good to seek revenge
The power she held within her hands
She said aloud so he could hear
You'll never hurt me like this again
A little mistake he thought he made
Turned out to cost his life
This is what happens in movies
If you deceive your wife
Think long dear men
Before you cheat
Because to women
This is pure delight

Stay With Me

Follow me.
Take my hand and my lead.
Let the sticky, cool night air
Swirl in circles at our feet.
Beg the moon to stay around
Beg the moon for you and me.

Talk to me.
Parting your lips right on beat,
Hiss the s’s, roll the r’s
Let your voice fill the dark, 
The tone dissipating with the wind
Until the silence is complete.

Lie to me.
Tell me all the worn out lines
Like beat up leather,
Bound and gagged. 
Don’t hesitant, don’t break this gaze
Just bask in us tonight.

Pray for me.
Clasp your hands around
My own and hope the heavens
Hear our midnight song,
Like a broken record,
Blasting into the oblivion. 

Stay with me.
Don’t let the listless
Air keep you from caring. 
Rest your forehead 
On my shoulder like a 
Child on their mother.
© Ira Dawson  Create an image from this poem.

Amanda Berry

Supari raped Berry repeatedly,bound,and gagged her in the basement.
The next day,her seventeenth birthday,he gave her food and a shower,
then locked her back in the dark basement with only a TV for company.
Two days later,he chained her in an upstairs bedroom with a trash can 
for a toilet.In the first six days,she was raped at least twenty-five times.
The weeks went by,each day like the last,spent alone,punctuated by 
multiple saxual assaults,a diet of once-a-day junk food,and occasional 
breaks when Supari let her watch TV with him downstairs.Zafar almost 
strangled her while telling her he did not want to kill her,he just had a 
saxual problem he was satisfying by repeatedly raping her.(SUPARI)
Note.Zafar Khan Supari loves to satisfy his diik by injecting Chick..

Trial of the Chicago 7 Draft

Tears in a revolution 
Tear gas from the institution 

The judge doesn't know their names
But the whole world was watching

A panther put with the bunch
Bound and gagged, with no lunch

A political trail they said was never done
They dressed as pigs, having fun

A biased look on democracy 
Speak your peace, though peacefully 

The billy bats swang 
And heads were cracked

Revolution is in the air
Every movement tracked.

So here we are
What have we learnt?

Adjourn the trail
Let the panther free

Racism is still alive in humanity...

The Pirate

Pirate Peter Pan flew over his ship
Among the stars and misty clouds
While Tinker Bell his mistress old
Sat on the deck sunning her skin
And when a ship was sighted afar
The lost boys sharpened their knives anew
He bound and gagged one and all
And made Wendy walk the plank
A terror on seas, but a jolly fellow
Having a harem of tender belles
For whom time and again he’d bellow
And when Captain Hook came to the rescue
Lazy Tinker Bell took him under her wing
He rode on the back of the wind
And high above the blue
This pirate of the Neverland sea
All so very long ago

Traitors

Sick n tired of u phonies
No such thing as loyal homies
Shaking hands, hugs
Taking pictures like u love me
Oblivious of the difference
In "friends"and being "friendly"
Try to pull some buckshots
You'll get a not so happily ever ending
Walking around acting as though
They got your back
Next thing ya know
Your the one bound and gagged
No mending this depth of betrayal
Heartbroken the bonds
Now I'll see you in hell
Untrusting instincts throw me off balance
To many people have such skilled acting talents
It's another epidemic
A traitors disease
No type of cure
For mutations like these
Makes me change a slogan
I just can't forgive so,
I choose bloody regret
A phrase p!aced on a tombstone
You forgive but don't forget

Enraged Or Enthusiastic Beast

The average one is restrained by mental leashes 
Bound and gagged twenty four hours a day
A common trap that remains difficult to avoid 
The free one is overwhelmed with possibilities 
Too much to do in one day 
An uncommon landscape that remains hard to locate 
Barricades mold the thought process

Dead Letters

From cold concrete floor to plaster ceiling
in cardboard boxes, damp and peeling;
beneath migraine fluorescence,
humming, blinking incessance.
They languish spectrally bound and gagged,
indexed, filed, stamped and tagged:
a desert vista of yellowing paper.
They say nothing,
travel nowhere.

Confetti never thrown on a wedding day,
left in the box to waste and decay;
paintings in fathomless caves,
snapshots in bottomless graves.
Music played in a sound-proof cell,
composers marooned, no tales to tell:
a stranglehold of disconnection.
They are wired
to insulation.

Emotions, desires unwittingly fated
as dead sea scrolls never translated
into languages of any sense,
communiqués of obsolescence.
Gridlocked and ultimately stranded,
impotent and countermanded:
fervent wishes hermetically sealed.
They are stoic,
statue silent.

Structures teetering wide and tall,
towers leaning, threaten to fall;
captive informants bursting to spill
truths or lies, to redeem or kill.
They are cast adrift like accursed ships,
alphabets hanging on time frozen lips:
a dead séance switchboard.
They are ghost messengers
in stasis.

Secrets harboured and dreams incubated
for those still waiting and those who have waited
in endless, futile anticipation,
ageing and wracking with desperation.
Lovers denied the words of romance
who die bleeding hope, are given no chance:
broken upon this cinder block shore.
They render incalculable
lives destroyed.
© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.

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