Best Gagged Poems

the whole world now knows
pulling the plug on free speech
is the new order

 © Harry J Horsman 2021...

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GAGGED

a gale force
wind gagged
my mouth with
long and fierce
violent hair

a green slime
lake oozes its
eyes sick with
all that time
has swallowed

turning elated
pallets from
green to red


© Kim van Breda—2 November 2015...

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Watching as you
glide into apathy’s arms,
and collapse
listless and wondering
in awe of emptiness.


As your hands lay open
mine are bound,
our words of hate
hang from barbed wire,
string out, 
fluttering,
like the miles of fur
on a rabbit proof fence,
separating us forever.


We passed
into other lives
now as strangers,
and when meeting,
our smiles freeze,
sharing...

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