Best Convulsive Poems

Raped of all freedoms, basic democratic rights
Restraints ever tighten casting underdog to fight
Sharp scratch of needle pierces State sectioned vein
I submerge to a world of...

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* Bringing this gem back in the hope Becca Teagan sees it and returns. We wrote this together, a labor of love. The poem ends...

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While snowflakes continue to fall,
upon a night  pale as ghostly winter
I falter from my own distraught pause--
the hazy  moon watches my young girl
a...

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A cold dark yellow unhallowed moon smiles beguilingly
In the pitch-black starless and cold empty night sky 
Suckling upon the blood and the very life force...

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kaisers, kings, emperors fight for territory
  dispensable bodies left in the ground on foreign soil, unreturned
  militarisation of memory and folly
  an...

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My tranquil world is trembling 
with sublimated anticipation,
I’m losing my footing of romantic resistance
Body shaking is convulsive proof:
equilibrium quaking; off balance, I deduce 
Mind trapped...

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A Cold Dark Yellow Unhallowed Moon

A cold dark yellow unhallowed moon smiles beguilingly
In the pitch black starless and cold empty night sky 
Suckling upon the...

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in stark contrast to pastoral silence-
prolonged convulsive sobbing
of a distraught widow


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"Oh my god that was good" he said, as he rolled off of me to the edge of the bed. Reaching for cigarettes carefully placed,...

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It is generally thought of to be one of the myriad,
Guiding, governing, binding principles and precepts of all 
Mature civilized countries that what horrors that they...

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Politics are like long excruciating 
Unsatisfactory sexual experience,
Politician the lad equipped 
With the tiniest tool 
Crowing as sex goddess, 
Polls the bed covered with roses...

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Her evening gown was studded with opalescent sequins.
She had chosen the dress herself, deadlier than the male.

     Why had she brought...

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The United Kingdom – which direction?
Is there any detection
Of a slight hesitation
As all this political diction
Is becoming an addiction
HardBrexit, a continual affixation
A convulsive sensation
A preoccupation
A...

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Passed Life	
by Robert Denton (October 2014)

I've walked through the wasteland,
Where after 34 years I found you
Stretched out on a bed of memories
And covered with a...

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TREMBLES and THRILLS Contest
Sponsor: Olive Eloisa Guillermo


Involuntary,
The ground quakes since you left me,
Convulsive shaking,
Shuddering and shivering,
Lost my warmth inside your...cold.

Vibration instinct,
No peace found in my...

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