Countervail Poems


My Coping Method Fraught With Utmost Futility Thus

...My coping method fraught with utmost futility thus...

My professional treatment plan
predicated upon duress in extremis
hence Electroconvulsive therapy,
a last ditch effort I avail
and surrend...
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Categories: countervail, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSuch Times Are Here

...Such Times are Here
                    51.

There be utter madness
That pervades the world today.
It's enough to cause a troubled soul
To just up and melt away.

Such times are here to try u...
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Categories: countervail, anxiety, appreciation, character,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberMy Muse

...Racking anguish vandalize my soul,
as my pen crawls across the empty page,
leaving the mirror image of my vitality.
A futile exercise turns into self pity.
A useless effort in self agitation.

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Categories: countervail, how i feel, muse,
Form: Free verse

Countervail

...I told you to be little
You didn’t know why
Signal bead of spittle
Not rain from the sky

I told you to be small
Be stealthy, go unseen
Under a rock go crawl
There display your sheen

I’m t...
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Categories: countervail, bullying, courage, fear, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

My Treatment Plan

...Electroconvulsive therapy,
     a last ditch avail
able effort optioned, aye bewail
as desperation if standard
     psychological measures peter

     out leave ving paul tree
(paltry) choice,...
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Categories: countervail, grave, judgement, miracle, obituary,
Form: Bio


Premium MemberVale of Tears

...She walks along an avenue
some call the Vale of Tears.

Her agonies and sorrows brew
in eyes that vail her tears.

She whiles alone, her gaze unmet,
behind a veil of tears.

But can she flee...
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Categories: countervail, hope, sad,
Form: Rhyme
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