Best Shrieking Poems

Do silence them
Do prick the mortal flesh
Spin a web in what they bleed
And chain them to the garden gate

Maidens of the high teas
Casting a tower of pollution
The thick smoke clinging to the inside
Of a cautious lung, a war of attrition

Taking to the top, with their...

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I saw her the other day staring
Up close and shrieking her face into mine.
I did not like this stare
And I hate all people who 
Carry a stare like this in their back pockets
Waiting for the rain to pull it out.
Well I am the rain and...

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Madness has come to get me today.
She whisked me out of the food line, and told me 
I did not have a chance. I am a loser, a dupe, a pawn.

She put nails in my head, and drew blood from my teeth.
She kicked me unmercifully...

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The Shriek of the banshee will find you
Like the shark finds its prey in the sea. 
Staring at my reflection, I realize the tortured,
Screaming banshee is ME. 
Could you ever Love me? 
Love this shell of a human I am?
Or will I be doomed to
Wander...

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** Shopping Center Blackbird **

He, rising in defense of the others,
Presenting himself, to all with ears 
To hear and before all eyes,
The black, flapping silhouette atop
The silver, double-bulbed street lamp;
This loudest shrieking,
Not to be ignored
Blackbird,
Appearing actually, 
Half the size of his declaring all
This territory his...

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