Best Cornered Poems

Birds go crazy
    In round cages





*my bird guru would seek out round bird cages listed for sale 
  and purchase them to destroy them

  he told me that goldfish were similarly affected in round bowls

  makes me wonder......

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When you paint yourself into a corner,
You have got to be insane
It's no use to blame others
When you are the one to blame

Standing in the corner.
Completely trapped and alone
Who's fault is this,
Your's Mister, Your's and Your's alone

I wonder what you are thinking,
It deserves some serious...

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Writing in a room with an insolent ceiling,
Haughty in its skill at keeping thoughts out of reach,
Emotions darted above me, bat-like in their evasion,
A rapture of denial, pushing me away.

Ever I spun toward memory - always a quarter-turn ahead;
The seasons hid their faces, the Heavens...

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She came tearing through the parking lot
Finally she brought the car to a stop
From fore to aft I count three lines crossed
What worries me more is how near are the people

Finally she brought the car to a stop
The "other two" tires again touched the ground
What...

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THREE CORNERED HAT  (double Ethereee) 

This
Being
A human
All the contrast?
From Saint to Devil?
I fight it every day
Think about it in my sleep
Awake to such good intentions
Before noon I have changed my colors
I must go along with the middle ground
Wavering    wavering  ...

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the steam from my winded breath 
hits the cool air
and lingers among lifeless trees 
left black and bare 
like a group of hunters, winter has crept
through the lands
the snowy crystals cover me like the
dry desert sands
 
these winter flakes land on the earth 
and seem...

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I am cornered
by the solemn
barrier of the evening
somewhere, somebody
is adorned with happiness...

Silenced by fatigue
console me birthing clouds
roll into my deepest dreams
a distant thunder different from death...

A woman comes and goes
coming to touch
the waiting years of a man...

I recall her long black Hispanic hair
as I count...

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The floor cornered the wall
In the bedroom...

the door and the window
saw the whole thing....

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Soldiers with the cornered colonel
Said to crack him like a kernel,
Easily made him surrender,
Account of his orders render…

Colonel Smith, on his neck flannel,
Suddenly facing a Panel
In his house and front verandah,
Two watching from his Coriander…

They knew where to questions channel:
“Who’d twelve men shot from tunnel?”...

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Upon exiting side door nearest
to our single bedroom
(few dozen strides to access way
out apartment - complex edifice),
I unexpectedly encountered
(on August 30th, 2021 ~10:15 pm -
née namely heard but did not see),
a small screeching creature
whose anatomical features it did splay

yours truly raced (fast as greased lightning)...

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I can’t believe, I did what I did.
I didn’t want them to catch me, so I ran and I hid.
I wonder now, why it took so long.
To see that what I did, was wrong.
I stabbed a man, in the head.
Stabbed him and stabbed him, until...

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A Cornered Rat


No matter what the enemy’s might.
The smallest of beasts will stand and fight.
Whether a cat or a mighty bear.
Confront him only if you take care.
For a cornered rat will stand and fight.
No matter what the enemy’s might.


By
Josehf Lloyd Murchison...

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Staring at my learners in my four-cornered room
I see the dynamics of life as I zoom into 
The shadow that’s not displayed
Some smoke weed 
Not realizing that they will bleed in the workplace
Some enjoy cough syrup with a cool drink
Not realizing that this simple addition...

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rest easy
lost in this maze-
amazed- can't get out.
'help' useless,
can't find their way
in. safety made 
by inversions....

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Hope is lost
Dashed aside
Tears are falling 
From swollen eyes

Desolate and trapped
Huddled in the corner
Boundaries vast
Freedom's dreams are dimmer

Puny justice, my own
Fighting for my right
Secrets untold, yet
Looking for a light

Goals of the past
Become the future
Goals of the present 
Lack the hope forever...

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