Wombstorm: A Herstory of Hysteria
I. THE WANDERING
I was born with a life that bled—
a seafloor womb
dragging tides of fern
and marigold char
The priests brought saffron
and fear
crowning me with diagnosis
They said: She is too empty
They said: Fill her with figs
with seed
with stillness
They said: Her belly speaks too loud
Mute her
O Plato
old patriarch of phantoms
my body was no beast—
just prophecy you never learned
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Categories:
hysteria, body, history, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
thinking about Hysteria
Am I here, am I there ...
Am I screaming everywhere,
Can't get in, can't get out
Snared by what it's all about
Beats of blue-green 'round my head
Share the space with rockets of red,
Splashes of yellow paint pour ...
Black and white reassures me more
Louder and louder, nearly deaf
Are there any sane one's left?,
Just what is it,
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Categories:
hysteria, art, color, confusion, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful Hysteria
Lost in the crowd but I can only see you
The outside world falls into the background
I succumb to the frenzy all around me
feeding off your energy
I'm infatuated with the way those nimble fingers tickle those strings
I laugh at the gentle violence nudging my thoughts
Wishing it were me
These vibrations fill my body
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Categories:
hysteria, muse, music,
Form: Free verse
Emagi Hysteria
T S ELIOT 'HYSTERIA'
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g L o
B a L
w A r
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Categories:
hysteria, poems,
Form: Shape
Hysteria Encourages Her
Sheila is thirteen
So everything is worst scenario
Woe is me
Consistent melodrama
No one likes me
Everyone hates me
This pimple is the size of a barn
Hashtag I am a failure
We all tried to encourage her
Especially me
I am her grandma
This is my job
We could not get her out of this thirteen-year-old-girl mode.
No matter what.
I am ugly! Sheila whined.
Hysteria, her hamster
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Categories:
hysteria, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Prose
Hysteria Uncontrolled
My gorge rises, my blood boils.
Exasperated I bite my envenomed tongue.
Incensed I spout mad words
that have no meaning
defending my attitude,
maintain my poise.
I bait, fret and nag,
like a tantalizing volcano
that has yet to decide
whether to erupt or not.
Don't answer me back,
Twill only fan the flames
of my irritable ire.
For if I erupt, then
there is no going
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Categories:
hysteria, anger,
Form: Free verse
Hysteria
Locked in a cell
key was lost long ago
from every wall
slimy pink speakers squirm
they shriek
and my eyes are clouded in pain.
the noise crashes to a stop.
suddenly empty,
the cell screams in joy
doubled over laughing
but the tears won't stop.
I shiver with excitement
shaking with laughter
as the droplets fall from my eyes.
the speakers shriek again
but I don't notice.
So stuck in
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Categories:
hysteria, angst, anxiety, crazy, cry,
Form: Free verse
What About China
What about China?
When they compel you to stay home,
imposing cloaks on nature's beauty
as a fellow friend becomes a foe
and the media unhorsed propaganda
Can we all all ask
what about china?
When old Brit's prime minister
masked tyranny by orders
confining millions to solitude
for the fear of his fickle frame
susceptible to the
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Categories:
hysteria, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Lyric
Hysteria
The storm was a net of butterflies
let loose in me, and the dark
was you. I look back now at the natural
seduction, how you brought me
a key to open the right kind
of love in my heart, only to be
and how I was just entirely too much
You glued your
lies to my lips because you feared
your
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Categories:
hysteria, 9th grade, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Mysteria's Hysteria
Little known virus billed with hype
is much like the elusive snipe
look for clues and bilk mysteria.
COVID-19 is a blight
take your temperature, dispel fright
combat the urge of hysteria.
Cancellations? don't groan and gripe
take wise advice to wash and wipe
learn CDC’s criteria.
Counter laziness, use your might
raise your normal household fight
reduce viruses, bacteria.
Social distancing is an archetype
of honest
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Categories:
hysteria, 11th grade, mystery, sick,
Form: Tristich
Corona Dream
I'm sleeping amongst mass hysteria
Compulsed with my own mania
Are we living in a fallen world
Is it a sign of the end, settled
O' Corona, Corona
Please go away
I full of snoot and decay
Don't know what to say
It’s scary, snarly
I cough, rasp, wheeze
Speak hoarsely
I'm old and weary
But none the wiser
I hear my angel whisper
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Categories:
hysteria, angel, dream, health, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Epidemic Not Endemic
EPIDEMIC NOT ENDEMIC
More and more people worldwide,
Are becoming aware of what could,
Become an international crisis,
As a virus seems to be spreading,
Many have sadly died,
What are we to do or rather should
Do, our freedom will fearfully be minus,
The lifestyle we knew, will be changing,
Countries are somewhat more allied
Taking heed of safety regulations for the good
Of their
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Categories:
hysteria, death,
Form: Free verse
Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever
I have used words and phrases from the Beatles song
‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ in order to create the
Desired effect in this poem.
How beautiful it must be,
Let me take you down,
Just you and me,
For no one else is
In my tree!
Misunderstanding is easy
If you live with eyes closed,
You see,
Nothing is then real,
Why become someone
Who is
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Categories:
hysteria, song,
Form: Free verse
Mass Hysteria
Movies these days are filled with violence
Perhaps one reason for this rash of mindlessness
Pushes one over the edge
When already on the ledge
Perhaps one reason for these mass killings we all dread
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Categories:
hysteria, mental illness, suicide,
Form: Limerick
50 Words For Poe: Hysteria
"50 Words for Poe: Hysteria"
Incantation to you
Manifesting the Phantom
with the Hysteria Paroxysm Blues
Hellfire Club got nothin’ on you
Hot hysteria paroxysms
flying on your broom
a whole new world
Black cat purrs
You, the catnip for this girl
https://youtu.be/boQ9ytantA0
(LadyLabyrinth/2019)
https://youtu.be/ETIPuORrPyo
“I put a spell on you”
“Little gusts of sunshine blew, strangely bright, and lit up the celandines at the wood's edge,
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Categories:
hysteria, dark, imagery, magic, muse,
Form: Romanticism
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