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Best Bound And Gagged Poems

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Great Quote To Ponder
“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”


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© Chris Con  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bound and gagged, angst, appreciation, class,
Form: Epigram



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...

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Categories: bound and gagged, deep, depression, sad,
Form: Lyric
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...

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Categories: bound and gagged, dark,
Form: Rhyme
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...

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Categories: bound and gagged, angel,
Form: Free verse
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...

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Categories: bound and gagged, dark, death, deep, dream,
Form: Free verse



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...

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Categories: bound and gagged, history, people, sad, social,
Form: Free verse
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...

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© Ira Dawson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bound and gagged, hope, memory, nostalgia, moon,
Form: Rhyme
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...

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Categories: bound and gagged, funny
Form: Free verse
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...

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Categories: bound and gagged, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
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...

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Categories: bound and gagged, anger, betrayal, body, character,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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...

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Categories: bound and gagged, america, anger, history, poems,
Form: Free verse
Screams From Within
Having always used words,
to express the emotions inside.
Now unable to find words to define,
allowing the feelings to hide.

Not knowing where to start,
lost as to how...

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Categories: bound and gagged, confusion, sad, feelings, me,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Save Us
They cry out to be saved
By a darkness they did not birth
But even as they reach out
Their hands are cut off
And they're bound and gagged
And...

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Categories: bound and gagged, america, anger, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death and Deep Sorrows, Cold Dark and All Alone
Death And Deep Sorrows, Cold Dark And All Alone

Sorrows are dreams dying of thirst
or apathy which is worse.
Burnt and decayed, cast into pits
misery in lost...

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Categories: bound and gagged, dark, death, deep, fate,
Form: Sonnet
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...

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Categories: bound and gagged, city, environment, men, myth,
Form: Free verse

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