Deactivated Poems


A Way Out

speak word that
   speak, but how hoarse
   Do not scream...
   be more than one
   deactivated mine, which is
   a sword without a leaf
   which is no longer used...
   Cultivate total fight like
   if we could,...the way out
   bend and become
   freed...
   No luck and no luck
   wear wind wings and
    accumulate sparks...
   light bonfires
   to set hearts on fire
   of pure energy... but to be
   quite dissatisfied for
   sink in time...
   discover ourselves
   on disarray of ideas,
   but  be sure  of wishes...
   feel whole in
   fairest measure,
   to search in infinity
   the truth and the plot...
   Calcinate anyway
   of disenchantment or war
   so that however perfect
   that is, to doubt the present.
   Burn in the day to go out
   at night, but don't despise
   the flame of human creature...
   Don't judge by the
   melted skin, no blame
   similar by word
   missing... but seek
   always the sun, even having
   own light...!
Categories: deactivated, allusion, appreciation, encouraging, extended
Form: Free verse

Our Dippy Technology

Once deactivated,
       after forgotten,
        played were the
        ancients toys...
       after finished
        all jokes
        and merriment... what do we have!?
        We are "STATUES"
        from Internet...
         dippy, daffy
          of technology... !
Categories: deactivated, allegory, allusion, irony, loss,
Form: Free verse


Disarray Contest

I am such a mess have you guessed
Up or down and all around what a mess
I am in this jungle all bungled upside down
Manhandled by this trifling toy

I have flirted and swooned upon the moon
Star gazing experimenting with flickering
A light so bright I have become uptight
Now deactivated by this bright steak of light

She has flipped my switch up and down
And turned my head around and around
I have fallen from the sky for her
What should I do?

Contest: Disarray
Sponsored by: Nina Parmenter
Date Created: 11/15/2019
Categories: deactivated, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Wood and Fire

Harmonizing the act
Piercing the asunder
A wood that fires
A fan that burns

Keeping the fire burning
Smokes higher unto the sky
Eating it raw
Digesting it saw

A wood that must not finish
A fan that must not stop
It doesn’t only warm you
It keeps wild beast away from you

Intoxication of new wine
Red eyes as the lion
Offensive mode activated
Defensive mode deactivated

Wood of timber
Fire of caliber
Wood firing
Fire wooding
Categories: deactivated, christian, faith, fire, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDeactivated

faint scent
of peppermint
permeates
his linens.

limp puppet
lies motionless
waiting for puppeteer.

By: Joyce Johnson
9/18/2012

For Contest Septolet the Puppet
Categories: deactivated, sad,
Form: Verse


A Lifetime of Joy

A stark raving madman has strapped a bomb to a nine year old boy's chest.
The boy is still in danger even though the man has been placed under arrest.
I'm very nervous even though I work for the bomb squad.
If I fail to deactivate it, the boy and I will both meet God.

If the bomb detonates, he will die before being able to have a life.
He'll never be able to shave, drive a car or take a wife.
Only a monster could do something like this.
I have to be calm even though I'm pissed.

I only have thirty seconds left, this situation is extremely dire.
Luckily I just deactivated the bomb by cutting the correct wire.
People are patting me on my back because I saved the boy.
Just knowing that I saved him will bring me a lifetime of joy.

(This is a fictional poem.)
Categories: deactivated, angst, childhood, fear, me,
Form: Rhyme
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