Best Strangles Poems

I wonder
Who I might become
If I wore another man's clothes
If I thought his thoughts
Dreamed his dreams
Lived his heartache
Felt his insanity
Walked along his razor's edge

Would I
Understand
Empathize
Digest...

Read more of this work...

“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s...

Read more of this work...

a girl a child a life of 12 years 
a by stander an innocent with no sense of fear 

coerced, bribed, begged and beckoned 
kidnapped,...

Read more of this work...

WISH UPON A STAR

eyes drawn upward —
   like a candle on a cake
first birthday or too old

the lottery is billions upon billions
 ...

Read more of this work...

I see you from a distance
Silently you cry as your heart is crushed by indiscretion
You scream out from within to be free
Loyalty and desire hold...

Read more of this work...

*not a tradition haiku because it is subjective it is my judgement you are told to see the vine strangling the maple something a person...

Read more of this work...

Damn this isle of mine...
solitary awkwardness surrounds
  stifles, and strangles, and estranges
    deranges, debases, encases, entraps
     ...

Read more of this work...

There is a hostile villain that lurks deep inside,
turning the human body into a battleground.
With disdain, it causes pain one cannot abide,
but the fight goes...

Read more of this work...

cold rain
to slow-streak the
glass I watch you through -
you and your
christ ...
the ginger bread man,
sugar daddy savior, all that
I was not, (and less) ...
choices of
compromise,...

Read more of this work...

THE IMMORTAL

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
 Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree


You will go to the land of Oblivion to...

Read more of this work...

To lie is like a seed being planted into the soil,
and just waiting for it’s down roots.
Every time another lie is told this seed gets...

Read more of this work...

Though earthly life, as we all know, is full of strife,
Like most of men, I am in love with my life.
I know, on earth we...

Read more of this work...

loss of control. an aberration. a defect,
when the perfection of creation is lost,
a cell grows and grows without a stop,
and all its purpose and function...

Read more of this work...

When hurt descends from the tree of life and

The stepladder breaks straight onto your pain

A trampoline turned jo-jo strangles creeping ivy

Entangles in trapezes and dreams...

Read more of this work...

Verse:
Calamity, atrocity... 
Lord, if you please,
we need a little help.
Monstrosity, ferocity...
Here on our knees,
we pray for your strong Hand 

To ease this pain, bring on...

Read more of this work...