Controlled Poems

Controlled

Controlled

You controlled me,
Who I wanted to be

Who I was as a person,
And as a son

I wanted to be fitted to perfection,
While it was only depression 

Even with you gone,
Your never really gone

Still the puppeteer,
Controlling and full of anger

While I’m left with strings,
That still stings

I’m controlled.





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Categories: controlled, anger, father son,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBouncing Back Self-Controlled


In the seamless sky of my fervent yearning,
I let the enraptured songbird of heart soar high,
glide in the spring-rippled amorous breeze
that carried your jasmine fragrance to me.

The dulcet dawn splashed the spectrum of ecstasy,
blossomed the buds of my euphoric dreams 
in the seamless domain of depthless desire.
I didn’t see the sandstorm slither in the slate
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Categories: controlled, heartbreak, lost love, uplifting,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberLove cannot be controlled or confined

Love is thinner than a piece of cheesecloth,
transparent yet confusing to navigate.
More conservative than a political debate
More hearts are broken than mended
.
I am determined to search globally for an end to this love.
We desire it fiercely and embrace our fate to heal humanity.
Love may be a fleeting remedy,  
Yet we pursue it with fervent
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Categories: controlled, addiction, anxiety, beautiful, friend,
Form: Blank verse

Nazriel Rising

Nazriel Rising Small World Ace

She was as pretty as ever on this night
With me smitten to bits with her aura
As we met on our usual pickup location
Nazriel that one who so compliments me

We were on an official business briefing
One of Epic proportions with intricacies
This time the operation was offshores
With me providing intel logistic n liaison
We
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Categories: controlled, allegory, allusion, conflict, extended
Form: Epic

The Chronicles of a Tortured Mind 1 of 10

"Who Am I"



Voices in my head the unheard of
 They mimic, they pester, they lie
  All to just torture my mind

Who Am I...
        Who Am I...

I question I can no longer answer
 They've erased Me, Myself and I
   Changed into the hopeless, heartless, unkind

Who Am
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Categories: controlled, abuse, dark, deep, evil,
Form: Free verse


Cadaverous Climate Controlled Cave Creature

Cadaverous climate controlled cave creature 

(Idea birthed, engendered, and germinated 
from Lombok Indonesia earthquakes
On 5 August 2018, 
a destructive and shallow earthquake
measuring Mw 6.9 
(ML 7.0 according to BMKG) 
struck the island 
of Lombok, Indonesia),
rendering Johnny on the spot, 
Jack of all trades able, eager, 
ready, and willing to rig up 

much sought after jakes,
which
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Categories: controlled, adventure, anxiety, august, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberControlled Demise

Love plays all shadows
Cosmic reference holds tight
Human free planets
Invasive species
Inevitable losses
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Categories: controlled, abuse, analogy, anger, fear,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberLife Controlled

What I knew
as I grew?
Little, true.
What's taboo?
Not a clue.

Now I'm old,
life on hold,
sold and polled,
sites enrolled;
things controlled.
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Categories: controlled, life,
Form: Verse

Self Controlled Life

Man who does not live in godliness 
is far away from God's blessings. 
If one renews not his life, 
it won't be good for him. 
He who stays away 
from wicked deed 
has steadfast 
and strong 
faith.
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Categories: controlled, poems,
Form: Nonet

Premium MemberSoul Controlled


You were leaning over the rustic, wooden bridge.

Elements of a cold autumn eve approaching.
I just was entranced by the sea of you.
Black full hair, corduroy pants, tweed jacket.

Book of our favored poet, rested on the bridge lustily.
~ ee Cummings, his poetry blessed our union, for eternity.
That magnificent, modern poetry, not meant to be in any
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Categories: controlled, love, memory, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCreative Or Controlled

Creative
                                      Wild, wanton
               
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Categories: controlled, art, life,
Form: Diamante

Premium MemberControlled Isolation

When I was a kid, I learned the meaning of balance by walking
railroad tracks.  It was both fun and a self-imposed classroom.
At some point in my life, I learned that isolation was not a good thing
when it contributed to the death of people disconnected from others.

Nevertheless, in 2020, I am learning the value of
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Categories: controlled, caregiving, christian, community, family,
Form: Light Verse

The Dead Life

“The Dead Life”
(Sleep is the Sister of Death, so I am told)

Wake every morning take a break from death. From the life I live inhaling immortal breath. Uncontrolled vision of lives lived in my head. Most nights are dreamy, some nights are sad. 

Fears of our days under lights brightly shining. Return to us in
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Categories: controlled, death, dream, life, remember,
Form: Prose

Shalom Is At the Basis of the Universe

MY FIRST DIMINISHED HEXAVERSE (with apologies for fumbling)

I
Unless underlying
Peace is our bedrock
Surface war delude
As beneath strong waves
Oceans are at peace

II
Shalom, siblings
Good Creation
Designer God 
IS and  named: Peace 

III
Recall nuns
Cloisters call
Of Peace, Ohh

IV
They know something TRUE
We sometimes do too

V
F L O W


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NOTE: In Line #3, I ought to have written "Surface wars delude," or "Surface
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Categories: controlled, bible, blessing, conflict, earth,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse

Controlled Chaos

What's going on here 
Something feels way off
Barely keeping a grip 
This is controlled chaos 

Everyone is running
In different directions
They can't get far
Alarms sound on detection

With it's sensative sensors
The secondary defense's 
They tripped the alarm
So very relentless

Someone has slipped by
But they won't stay lost
We will catch them 
This is controlled chaos.

You patience will be tested
To
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Categories: controlled, conflict, confusion, crazy, integrity,
Form: Rhyme

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