Best Tunnel Vision Poems

Graffiti frames a tunneled tomb, beneath the city's core
where writings stretch upon the wall in dialects profaned
A hallmark and a tell-tale sign, but somehow, no one sees
Unspoken fears have set apart the lives that mingle here 

In every shade the masses grow, and mingle side...

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her tunnel vision
let her see only his wealth
and his handsome face

in a tunnel she lies dead -
victim of the rage he hid



Jan. 28, 2021
for Kai Michael Neumann's Murder In The Tunnel Poetry Contest...

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A missed countryside.
Tunnel-vision motorists,
Race to smoke city
...

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In the night
In the dark
No fright
No sight
Intoxication
Tunnel vision
Blurred wisdoms
Emotions burned
Heart of ice
Poetry stagnant
Swamps frozen
Sperm on a dead end street
With all my might
I rise
Fall of chair
If only I could walk
If only there was fresh air
Locked inside my own insanity
In the basement lies my corpse
The museum of...

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Headlights on? Tunnel ahead
Keep claustrophobia at bay
"Only way to get there", he said
"You know I don't like this", I said
Brake lights flashing to my dismay
Panic arises, heart beats wild
Taking deep breath and start to pray
His punishment won't be mild



Written by: Shani Fassbender
for the Contest: ...

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As I watched the sweat roll down
past my chin and down my sides
I stayed determined to keep up
my stamina for this one track ride

I pumped the handcar trolley
through the tunnels twists and turns
keeping my eyes focused
although at times they stung and burned

As I pumped I...

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She follows a dream that smiles at her
With movie star teeth;
The faint scent of Aliage
And lilac traces of lavender cologne
Dance across her memories
On toe slippers..

And the black silk gown she wished for
All her life
Never graced her closet;
Hanging on satin arms
To just above the carpet floor
In...

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Pick a bad apple?  Cut down the apple tree?

Tunnel vision alive and well, in good old USA
it's really not about a flag, it's just another way
Narrow streets for narrow minded, people you can't please
they really can not even see, the forest for the trees
Next...

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On hindsight
my eyesight
could be called narrowmindedness
due to periods of shortsightedness

Any stubbornness
or obsession is
called a one-track mind
due to my blind side

The myopia
and monomania
could be called intransigence
due to possible intolerance

My tendency to fixate
and over-concentrate
could be called constricted vision
definitely a form of tunnel vision

No I am not proud...

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You request him to travel to distant lands
on a quest to conquer the enemy.
A like-minded platoon battles beside him,
helping him achieve an ultimate defeat.

You keep him sheltered from tough weather
with electric lights, a warm balm on stormy nights.
You allow him to rest his work-worn feet,
and...

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burrowing rodent
reclusive frugal miser
poor tunnel vision...

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Fixation on sights only seen with severe constriction, 
can be obsessive when warranted with restriction-
Narrowmindedness can cower with a one-track mind, 
leaving only the fear of ruling blindness behind.

There’s a fascination in compulsion that’s fixated, 
only attraction to the dark side has been created-
Hang-ups and...

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Tunnel vision does apply
When someone’s really sick.
Just try to change the topic – 
Nothing else, you’ll find, will stick.

Prepare to hear a litany
Of symptoms and of cures,
While thinking all the while you’re glad
Those problems aren’t yours.

Of course, you’re sympathetic
To another’s aggravation,
But sometimes you’re bombarded with
Just...

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Will
the
one trick
pony show-
give a blinkered view....

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I  find myself travelling way off in time.
Visiting the deepest recesses of the mind.
Where man-made clocks have no reason or rhyme.
When they suddenly stop and go into rewind.
Mingling in shadows cruel and unkind.

With a roaring sound inside my head.
Along the crazy twists & turns...

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