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Emotional Blackmail
Oct 2014

Emotional blackmail
Rejection unveiled
Manipulative plan
To get what they can
Absorbed in their needs
Their own ego’s to feed...

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© Laura Hay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: emotional blackmail, emotions,
Form: Rhyme



Emotional Blackmail
blackmailing of the heart 
shakedown of the soul
regression threatened  
reversion tactics used  
estrangement loomed
extraction of emotional attachment 
gone from the world of connection...

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Categories: emotional blackmail, anger,
Form: Lyric
Terms of Endearment
This is western society,
How much is distorted realism?
Talk in sinister sexism,
Casually call criticism,
Typecast fashion femmes,
What about men?
High heels or no,
They'll call you a ho!
You can't...

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Categories: emotional blackmail, bullying, men, society, women,
Form: Free verse
A Poetic Block and the Numbering of Ex-Husbands
 chaos seeks an impression
this paved means to extend 
leading to the latest of bitter ends 
the intent of happenstance
suits my pen
down to the motives...

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Categories: emotional blackmail, anger, dance, divorce, feelings,
Form: Prose Poetry
Dirty Laundry
She talks often of dusty surfaces 
and laundry, more
I think, these last months, of leaving 
the housework and me;
she tells in barbed epithets of 
past...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: emotional blackmail, life, lost love, love,
Form: Blank verse



Foot Steps
Words betray me
Abandoning in the time
Of their need
Thoughts escape
Unfaithful thoughts, evaporate
I panic
Memories, sweet memories
Please come rushing back
I need to recall
I have to narrate
Emotional blackmail
Whatever it...

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© Manal Khan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: emotional blackmail, loss
Form: Free verse
Pursuit
the solid rock, from its tallest perch
was tumbling down, after navel – gazing –
in songs of darkness ; had the hidden
aloofness in space and time,

i...

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Categories: emotional blackmail, anniversaryprayer,
Form: I do not know?
Children of Divorce
He had to leave . He was forced to go.
A loveless life . Apart from his kids .
Kids he adored . Tricked by her .

Used...

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Categories: emotional blackmail, childhood, confusion, father, loss,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Secret Service Among the Homeless
secrets of a homeless shelter
group of people
fallen victom to the game of making one's life unfair
granted i am good at giving them their power back
allowing...

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Categories: emotional blackmail, history, uplifting, visionarypeople, giving,
Form: Free verse
I Am the Antichrist Superstar
With my names as genocide
and birthday a loveless weapon
who do you think i am?

never in world history 
has half the planet looked upon one person
and...

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Categories: emotional blackmail, angst, historywar, world, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Promisary Acts of Repeating Backwards Logic
Scene 1 act 1
no other scene thus far
the game of making one's life unfair
studied and carried out
like a metaphorical game of baseball
Batter up actor
the bases...

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Categories: emotional blackmail, confusion, life, people, places,
Form: Free verse
Torture Chamber (Something the World Needs To Know)
in your own backyard
people being tortured by a game
of making your life unfair
without breaking any laws
people like charles manson have proved it
a manipulative emotional blackmail
of...

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Categories: emotional blackmail, historyworld, food, life, drug,
Form: Free verse
Masquerade
Masquerade
 
Tilt the balance scale gently
then to find what maybe
the culmination of action
speaking
doing
building by impression
the mask of another person
 
Eventually totality of what shall be
the...

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Categories: emotional blackmail, childhood, socialself, self,
Form: Free verse
In Poetry Or Lullaby
There are strange noises happening in my apartment. Voices groaning in pain, and crying in anguishing angst. I called the police, as I just thought...

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Categories: emotional blackmail, angel, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Prose
Destined
Destined 
Her cries were heard before her head moved out of her Mother’s womb.  Her eyes, 
a deep blue, which, took you into the...

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Categories: emotional blackmail, angst, heart, life, world,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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