Best Lunatic Asylum Poems

Porcelain doll, with a face so pretty 
a country gal, ran away to the city 
Worked in a bar, dancing on tables 
beat shovelling sh-it, in Pa’s stables
Looks for love, but only finds bums
lowlife gamblers, in rundown slums

Go back home 
not a chance 
One day...

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

George Bernard Shaw, born in 1856,
Wrote plays and novels,
But for me the most
Important was he wrote many a poem
A quote of his “Write your sad times
In Sand, write your good times in stone”.
My poem ‘From Humble Beginnings’
Just the title mind you, is exactly...

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TWO CURIOUS MINDS

1
TWO CURIOUS minds entwined with the
mind of God
Einstein and Bohr
The debate was difficult
and more
tipsy from decades of argument 
their friendship soared

2
determinism an evil force if 
to be believed by?
refutes all claims of an 
eternal spirit that decides
external scapegoats lay blame
says those without souls

3
and...

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Translation of Mathieu POKORA’s « Je suis tombé, tombé, tombé » by T Wignesan

(NOTE : I just thought I’d translate the lyrics (see the French original herebelow) of this lilting catchy tune not just because of its self-mocking candid insouciance and playful seriousness, but also...

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I have been made mad before
With my clothes on my hands
Shabbily treated by children in the street.
My hair shaggy and rough.
YOu could see me going through the hoote-nanny
Smiling to every one that comes
on my way in a mischievous manner.
Then they sang the lost song of...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LX - LXI

The Yijing says : " If the common folk commit crimes, the fault for them shall reside with this one person (i.e., the Sovereign) himself… " Transl. R. J. Lynn

The common taken-for-granted French adage proclaims :

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Around the Laptop
On my table
As if garbage dump
That is useful to me
As a worm in it 
Opened and a half or a few page read books 
Written notes never completed
As if a lunatic asylum 
Without treatments

Left side and right side
The things my hands easily catch
Behind...

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The theme park was crowded. Elephants on roller coasters, mosquitos bracing the water slide, ferrets enjoying the ferris wheel and leopards shooting crack in the gallery. A myriad of personification and abundance of fairy tailed suggestions. ‘Its a small, small world’ blared from Magic Mountain...

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foisted upon her was the merry go round crystal chandelier

it stuck in her beautiful mind like a beacon of flaming desire

of clouds fried by a cuckoo with an indestructible socket

her eyes wide upon pupils dilated endorphins personified

life liberty pursuit of happiness revolutions and counter attacks


the...

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Yes madness is my escape, in my deepest darkest thoughts, all the hate inside my soul, all the hate that I have got, in the lunatic asylum in straight jacket getting shots, leave my happiness behind, and I leave it there to rot. All the...

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a deafening cacophony
ego spawned thought spirals phony 
earth a lunatic asylum
everywhere swaying pendulum
mindless chatter, each soul lonely

23-September-2021...

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SHRIEK

As Edvard Munsch walked with friends
Across the bridge spanning Oslofjord
His sister’s situation struck a chord
Admitted to the lunatic asylum nearby
He saw the blood red colour of the sky
Nacreous clouds now hovering lower
Perhaps it was a symptom of Krakatoa
That famous volcanic eruption of late
And had an...

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