Best Corporal Punishment Poems

Incomprehensible are the 
Petty landmarks that linger in a person's life
It happened so long ago
That I'm surprised I still remember.
In St. Thomas' parochial school
When Sister...

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Long arms of tender compassion
Oneness of embittered Humanity
Visceral faith was your salvation
Encompassing all vain materialism
Lenitive of the corporal punishment 
Illuminating a hope encrypted in a
Necropolis...

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New Girl: Amanda
like a breath of sweet fresh air,
I was only five
we held hands in the school yard...
corporal punishment rife.

© Harry J Horsman 2012...

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All human life on earth starts in a school! 
In my case I was born just left of hell 
It was a simple time but...

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At school I must have been naive,
for I was told I must achieve.
Add up, subtract even divide,
equations, algebra must be tried,
Nouns, verbs I had to...

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(for Jon Accomando)

mine was the last generation to be spanked. sensuous and real, w/ corporal punishment— at
least you felt something.
sadly, it too has been corrupted.
in...

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Heaven’s above, Hell’s below,
Purgatory’s in the middle, 
Guess what’s on the menu,
Our souls! To solve my riddle.

Players in the mix together, 
Yes actors and entire...

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Whether the weather 
necessitates to anchor 
     myself as a tether
when the frankenstorm 
     socks the east...

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Inferiority Complex As A Kid And Adult!

I recall father, (now behold
at near ninety years old - maintains stronghold
on life, cuz born of sturdy mettle -
rumor...

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Later on one evening
I sat down to have a think
Sitting in my easy chair
With a nip of rum to drink

Try to punish criminals
So that they...

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Belts, paddles, switches, and rulers were once instruments of punishment.
Although very rarely, in my early years, a belt was Daddy's favorite.
I was always a quick...

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MY LIFE

What life has previously portrayed for me
That not quite often, unfortunately,
Have I ever seen the overall picture unfold?
Or heard all the untold story told,
Sometimes...

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Now that eye have groan older inn thee tooth,
Aye recall fond mammaries of my feckless youth.
(End sum of them knot sow fond as ewe will...

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A hoodlum, (albeit respectable) in bedlam

whiling away his time playing solitaire...
November second two thousand and twenty
fast approaching the final countdown

With less than twenty four, twenty...

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A Harlem hoodlum, (albeit respectable)...

ready for night time in bedlam
after swallowing me favorite dram,
cuz reasonable rhyme resembles flimflam.

Whiling away his time playing solitaire...
initially prepped, honed,...

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