Best Duress Poems

Living in the shire;
Searching for that ring;
You may have found a lot of things;
But you never kept a thing.
     You hid behind a bush;
     While purpose you compiled;
     Disguised yourself as innocent;
     But the dung you left was vile.
And...

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How can people in war ravished countries

Ever think about anything else

Can any one of these tortured souls

Ever sit down and write poetry

And if they can, could they ever write about happiness

Would their poems only be about killing and destruction

Or could their humble spirits rise above the turmoil

And write about a different, happier world

It is something...

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DRESS FOR DREADFUL DURESS 

The lady’s largesse did not this gent impress
Nor did the dress she donned with damnable disgrace
A woman whose embrace embodies deception’s face
While her grievous grace invades an otherwise sanctified space
With speciousness as a specialty to which she is inclined
A figure defined by the divine and the unceremoniously unkind
Beauty that makes a...

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I stay up all night and away I fly,
To the field in which to me, you convoked your goodbye.
I’m standing in a flowing white dress,
My ankles deep in rose-colored duress,
And I stumble without you to catch me.
And I never stop falling.
But sometimes there’s a falter in the way that I feel,
And for a moment everything...

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Theres all so much and so less in me..

My eyes and my heart
are but reckless youth 

Shouldnt you wonder for a moment
before burdening it so 

Quite a lot of you
Weighs my dear heart,
down like an anchor
Shame that it Seldom grounds


What that is about you
The pondering is long and listless


The something that gnaws at my heart...

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My Own Undoing 

Coursing through an unknown milky way ???. Well, that's my fate. Were we not born to succeed? 
This and many more should be answered, blatantly, if not unequivocally.
I am me, and you, should be you.
How far do we go to establish a point of un-duress? We should be cunning, as well as...

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was under duress
never approved of her dress
had been a big mess...

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