The dark place
...There’s a dark place where I used to live that sucked me in down deep.
The walls were huge, imprisoning and slippery and steep.
Anxiety, depression, panic attacks just grew and grew and grew,
u...
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Categories:
immobilised, anxiety, cry, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Mortals
...Mortals
By Michelle Morris
31/03/2023
Here we mortals turn to stone
By our hardened hearts
And callous disregard
For each other and our planet
Let us embrace our humanity
And melt the ha...
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Categories:
immobilised, community, freedom, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
Getting a Hair Cut
...As a small boy
the barber would sit me
on a wooden bench
placed across the armrests
of his chair.
Mirrors in front and behind
imprisoned countless copies
of me stretched out
as far as I cou...
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Categories:
immobilised, childhood, hair,
Form: Free verse
Rest In Peace
...
I
Was a midwinter morn gravely put
to ground, and parish
leaves wet underfoot
led to the sermon ‘neath the mount
and to its dirges i...
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Categories:
immobilised, death, funeral, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Death
...Death the Dreaded, Devastating and Devouring,
Omnipotent, Overwhelming and Over –powering, When with outstretche...
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Categories:
immobilised, image, imagery, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
At the End of the Road
...Breaking free from collusion
A watch tower stands tall a look out in the circular prisons
surrounded by wardens laying down prescriptions and rules
with us in the centre fragmented in dead ends...
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Categories:
immobilised, freedom,
Form: Quatrain
Danger Love
...subtle it starts, those thoughts of you
so cunning and quick, little I can do
with each pounce unexpected
claws dug in my mind
Love has me infected
no cure to find . . . .
loudly it roars! with ever...
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Categories:
immobilised, adventure, allegory, animal, beauty,
Form: Ode