Best Choke Poems


Premium Member EPILEPSY ANGUISH

Written for my heart, my son, Kyle
Wash me gentle in the river –
	Ease me on down with care.
I’m an emotional giver –
	It’s my song in the air.
Dry me smooth upon shore’s sliver -
	Warm away my despair.

Constant tears are in my eyes,
but I’ll deny that I cry.
God loves me inside and out,
He knows what I’m all about,
but I can’t settle the shout
that sticks down inside my throat
and threatens to choke me dry.

Emotions lacking corners
have only circle borders
and trap me in feelings bleak.
Searching answers to know order
leaves me sadly limp and weak.
First I prayed, but now I rage:
oh, dear God, please turn this page.

World, you allowed darkness,
with its brutal hurtful hiss,
to maim the child life of his.
Harsh cruelness such as this
brought me to my knees
with a Mother’s enraged pleas.

Wash me gentle in the river –
	Ease me on down with care.
I’m an emotional giver –
	It’s my song in the air.
Dry me smooth upon shore’s sliver -
	Warm away my despair.

Choke Hold

Your fingers begin their release
pinkie, palm, to thumb.
The sensation lingers on my skin.
My knees week, body numb.

The indentation around my neck,
it is starting to bruise.
A shade of yellow appears.
Slowly, a green, purple, and blue.

I fall to my knees
kicked while I try to stand.
I slowly raise up my head
it’s met with the back of your hand.

Viciously from your mouth
the venomous words spew. 
I can smell on your breath
the remains of your afternoon chew.

This is how painful it is,
to be in love with you.

Choke My Womb

choke my womb
with your
toddlerd
thoughts
catch my breath
as you watch
my words
rot
run
like
coward
yellowd belly fled
glimpses
of
word in head
freelance riddler'ing
middle-class pauper-erity
heathens featherd features
eons beyond fleas on the dog
love me again beyond all wrong
slaughter another hotter hatter
make me mad'der than a mat
lay me under flying on rug
give me vital fetal hugs
touching my breaths
colord me lessons
eloping my hues
while you
choke
my
womb
?


Peace of Cheese

Can you forget that piece of cheese
that you inhaled? Oh, just a crumb it was.
But breathing while chewing, then choking!
Was it Cheddar, Cheshire?

Or that Limburger, Parmesan?
But, oh, that piece of cheese!
Not a morsel you'll forget,
or a temporary amnesia that will bring you peace.

A double Gloucester, some feta or mozzarella?
What about that Parmigiana-Reggiano?
Better, far better, not to inhale
a piece of cheese. It's peace you need.

(8 Jan 2024)

Stab, Choke, Torture, Shoot To Kill

The rage that screams against the sky 
A battle ground of angry hate 
Death's anger looms; threat reaches high 
The rage that screams against the sky 
A voice it struggles to deny 
The venom 'fore it spews too late 
The rage that screams against the sky 
A battle ground of angry hate. 

What made bit** think she could deceive 
A fam'ly grown so sick of hurt 
I'm one she thought that would believe 
What made bit** think she could deceive? 
Fed up with lies, we're so naive 
Her many victims her desserts 
What made bit** think she could deceive 
A fam'ly grown so sick of hurt. 

I want to choke her scrawny neck 
And make cruel vengeance mine to give 
To make her bleed, knife's wounds inflict 
I want to choke her scrawny neck 
And twist until I'm held in check 
But not 'fore I know she'll ne'er live 
I want to choke her scrawny neck 
And make cruel vengeance mine to give. 

I lay my head on Satan's bed 
The price was worth my deadly fate 
She's cold and lives with devil's dead 
I lay my head on Satan's bed 
No tear I shed, no more to dread 
It's over now, there's no more wait 
I lay my head on Satan's bed 
The price was worth my deadly fate. 

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Premium Member They Just Choke On Their Artichokes

Just about to launch a new career

Or maybe I should call it a hobby

Dani Spies has certainly caught my attention

With her mouth watering recipes

And easy step-by-step videos to help us along

I'm drooling all over the keyboard as I type

I'm always game to try something new

And of course the payoff at the end is the ultimate reward

Now I hear some of you saying...

"Are you nutso!!! Aren't you kinda old

To be firing off in a new direction?"

My answer to that is this, "I ain't dead am I?

I'm always ready for a new challenge!"

And man, what a rewarding hobby... yum, yum!!!

I'll keep you posted as to how much weight I gain

(ie. one of the annoying side effects!)

Wish me luck all you nice people!

Next thing you know, I'll have my own show on PBS

Entitled "Old Chefs Never Die

They Just Choke On Their Artichokes"



© Jack Ellison 2014


A Hearty Choke

She awakes each day to it.
She ate it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
She bathed in it.
She let it wrap it's postulating arms around her.
She made love to it.
She lovingly cursed it, and then realized it's tangible effects on her.
She'll forever remember the start of it.
It was at the beginning of her bastardly life, but then it disappeared for a short period of time when she was under the nurturing care of her grandmother.
It reappeared with her mother and was a constant companion down the languishing road of poverty, devastation, rape, and abuse.
It came with benefits; a craving for perfection, control, and paranoia.
There was those who tried to take it from her, offering her love and encouragement, but she love only it.
Even a fleeting moment without it, she felt broken .
There was those who tried to name it and handle it, but she knew their falseness and clung tighter to it.
She knew that it dined on her conscious and subconscious, yet she revel with the delight of it.
She was lost inside, it was a hearty choke, but she just didn't care.
      
      Written 12-11-06 copyrighted 2006

Water of Life

I
On this terrestrial ball
Water is it, almost all
But for prayer

II
When love blooms, we can fast
Avoid breakfast, any repast
But "whence such love"?

III
Prayer will consume private sins
Or Sins "will choke prayer,"
Wrote J.C. Ryle before dying (1900)

IV
When all is dark and I'm hopeless
Yet i pray (Thy will be done, O Universe)
Because prayer is my water, living water.
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.

Stress Choke

I woke up choked up
could not breathe 
felt like I have to heave 
throwing up everyday
like its a pet peeve 
angst choking in my sleep
from the food I eat 
stress causing sleep lock 
gives me the creeps
the sheep flock 
like a new drug 
on the streets 
birds of the same feather
flock together
forced to face everyday 
hoping for better
be a leader not a follower
write your own story
live your own life 
forget bad thoughts like Dory 
swim with the fin you do have
and strive for glory
never give up let go of worry
life will get better slowly
not in a hurry.

Art I Choke

Breathing without lungs
In your center a cold heart
Living without blood

By Robb A. Kopp

Premium Member The Choke - a True Story

Sitting alone in the locker room
My eyes still filled with tears
As I choked in the championship
In my high school senior year

Winning the wrestling match
By a score of 8 to 2
Already thinking of the first place plaque
And with it what I would do

Only 15 seconds left to go
I’m already wearing the victory smile
The next thing that I am to know
I’m on my back counting ceiling tiles

Five victories in the book
And this match I am poised to win
Only 10 seconds left to go
If I can avoid having gotten pinned

With 2 seconds on the clock
The referee slaps the wrestling mat
Indicating that my opponent has
Held me for the count of 3 laying on my back

A life lesson was learned that day
You must stay focused until the very end
Or you’re apt to blow the championship
Like I did that day, my friend
© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.

Choke!

Coughing up all of this blood
unable to utter a cry for help
laying here dying
is this going to be the end?

Have you ever loved me
did you ever mean that sweet-talk
every god damned kiss
those infernal love songs...

Or was it all a lie
a little story to get
exactly what you wanted
a subliminal message in every thought

Killing me with these ideas
was it true or false
were the words ever meant
did i fall for your lies?

Each question suffocating me
i cant breathe, some one help
can anyone hear my pleas
i'm bleeding out my last words.

"I love you."
© Erin Paule  Create an image from this poem.

The Heartbreak Choke

You dont see it coming

no one ever does

but its only a swallow away

so count them silently

and hold them dear

because the next one comin

you should fear

you will know when it comes

and know so clear

that this one coming

is your last

because heartbreak grabs you

hard around your throat

and there is no way to escape

so you just choke

and you can wish for death 

and it's not coming

and that my friend is

The Heartbreak Choke

Premium Member They Just Choke On Their Artichokes

Just about to launch a new career
Or maybe I should call it a hobby
Dani Spies has certainly caught my attention
With her mouth watering recipes
And easy step-by-step videos to help us along
I'm drooling all over the keyboard as I type
I'm always game to try something new
The payoff at the end is the ultimate reward
Now I hear some of you saying...
“Are you nutso!!! Aren't you kinda old 
To be firing off in a new direction?”
My answer to that is, “I ain't dead am I?
I'm always ready for a new challenge!”
And boy, what a rewarding hobby... yum, yum!!!
I'll keep you posted as to how much weight I gain
(ie. One of the annoying side effects!)
Wish me luck all you nice people!
Next I'll have a show on PBS entitled
“Old Chefs Never Die
They Just Choke On Their Artichokes”

Choke Point

CHOKE POINT

Our roads are at choke point 
as traffic descends into gridlock chaos. 
Cars, lorries, buses and vans 
all bumper to bumper in a traffic 
jam ten miles long. This is a vision 
of the technological world 
in which we live where both man 
and machine grind to a halt.

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