Best No Choice Poems
I hate it when I'm
told to do
This damn thing
or that.
And I hate it
When I don't do it
And am made to
feel a rat!
So what is it that
I hate much more
To do or not to do?
The former is within myself
The latter within me, too!
I was born white in this country without a choice
I was born male and I had no choice
I have blue eyes and what use to be brown hair
I had no choice
I went to school to learn as a child and I had no choice
I had three brothers and a sister I had no choice
I grew up in a poor family I had no choice
My father was an alcoholic I had no choice
But now I can choose Love over hate
Gluten free.
Not Me!
Hungry.
I'm tired,
and I need to get some sleep.
But I'll spend most of my night,
in a self-imposed fight.
Trying hard not to write
about how I, right now,
must write.
I'm caught in a bloodless battle
where no one gets killed.
But in this altercation
only ink will be spilled.
No chaos or carnage,
or even subterfuge.
I’m just facing a reality
knowing I'll always lose.
I'm a victim of inspiration
a slave to my passion,
and seduced by an epiphany.
I have no choice
but to pull out my pen,
and lord help me,
let the writing begin.
You see I feel a desperate urge,
a great need to write!
And I, like a junkie looking
for a two-day fix.
Must write and right now!
Each word pounding on the paper
like an intervention.
I need more of the soothing sensation
of a pen in my hand.
Because writing this piece,
was never my plan.
Oh God help me,
I'm a Poet.
Not withstanding that two hearts may break
Lovers must love for love's own sake.
Entered in Brian's "A couple of lines" contest honorable mention
Go chase them from their dugouts,
Go chase them from their trench,
bayonet all their Look outs,
ignore their dead’s foul stench.
Tomorrow you go over,
The top, that is my lads,
and there is very little chance,
of your return from France.
The rattle of machine guns,
displace a man with space,
That space, is Soon refilled,
with another of his race.
'No man's Land,' is where they die,
their bodies all strewn around like chaff,
with eyes unblinking, to the sky,
Never again to smile or laugh.
This was the war,to end all wars,
Well that hope now lies buried,,
Man cannot close, hell's gaping doors,
his hope of peace, a losing cause.
It is not the dead that answer ,
When you ask the question why,
But they showed us by example,
How to live and how to die.
Their lives they gave, for freedom’s sake,
To save Our heritage , their dream,
To remember them all, is the pledge we take,
Our debt their sacrifice, to redeem.
© a month ago, Damian Cranney
My muse wishes me to let her relax for a while, having no choice, I reluctantly agreed!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
15 May 2017
* See you later my friends. Thank you!
As I watched the children out playing,
I kept hearing a soft little voice;
It seemed to be saying, again and again,
You really had no other choice.
Remembering times when bruises were new,
Those seen as well as unseen;
though I'd hidden the truth from everyone else,
you saw through the lie, so it seems.
You knew the pain I was feeling,
Though you'd never been there yourself;
you saw I was hurting and lonely,
so why couldn't anyone else.
I didn't want to cut the rope
I wanted you instead
But daddy torched my innocence
Placed a gun up to my head
My naivety was gone
12 years is not that long
I fought and screamed and tried to run
But I was not that strong
You see little one, I would never want you dead
I would have rather killed myself than killing you instead
You see mommy has no money
Mommy has no home
And mommy doesn't want you living here when you would be alone
Cause you deserve a heaven
Not a bleeding broken home
I never meant to make you hurt
I know I crossed the line
Just know by taking your life
I was really taking mine
I'm crying on the staircase for the life we could have had
I wanted a life so bad with you
I wish you had a better dad
As I'm opening this bottle
I know we can make it through
I will never leave again because
I'm coming home
To you
"SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS CONSTIPATED ,"BILL QUIPPED
"TALK IN MY GOOD EAR I'M KINDA DEAF , "BOB DIPPED
"SO I PUT TEN PRUNES IN HER CEREAL , " BILL GIGGLED
"GOT GAS BUDDY DON'T GET TOO CLOSE ," BOB JIGGLED
"JUMPING JACKS WILL HELP ," ITS WHAT I SAID TO HER
" BILL, I 'M GONNA LET ONE GO, MY STOMACH SAYS GRRR
AS BOB SINGS FRANK SINATRA IN A BARITONE VOICE
BILL FARTS THEN SAYS "SORRY BUDDY I HAD NO CHOICE"
11/04/2019
For Eve Roper's contest, #2 photo
There is no such thing as society,
society is just you,her and I,
there is no such thing as community,
only you,him and I is what we see;
Thereby,there is no such thing as the state
or village,town,county,city to hate
berate,blame as we collectively moan,
forgetting,no one exists alone;
Each connected,mother,child brother,
one to the other,neighbours,and unique;
We must love one another,is the cry,
without philadelphia,we die.
Inspired by a phrase in WH Auden's poem 'September 1939'
Between two evils
No choice
But if you forced
Take the one
Less evil
No one can say
You done
A good choice!
And then after only to see, but never with out.
The small weak with out is strong.
After with little less none to be.
He was the most powerful
And that attracted me
His eyes were deep and soulful
Maybe he’ll set me free
Dancing in his arms
He made me twirl and swirl
His magnetism and charms
Were undoing for this girl
His velvety voice
Whispered in my ears
He left me no choice
To back stab my dears
My final humiliation
Was his revelation
I’ve been living alone
trying to get you out of my life
but after all this time
I can't help myself but miss you
you're once a dream that came true
an illusion that turned to reality
but suddenly, things turned differently
the way they used to be
until such a time I have no choice
you're the reason for my sleepless nights
because you keep stay in' on my mind
I can't help myself from my heart crying
because my heart is missing you so much
all the pain & sadness are bound inside my heart
all the memories are still preserve in my mind
my heart is questing me when you will came back
because I hide the fact from my heart
Because I’m still in love with you
my life will never be the same again
because you never come back to me
I’ll be trapped in this loneliness forever
I thought this was a letter I would never have to write,
I hoped my heart was something I could’t swallow.
I've realized it’s just something I cannot do …
But I knew that I have to do this…NO other choice left me.