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Institutionalised Poems - Poems about Institutionalised

The Guide

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(A lone voice whispers)

What a year to be alive to see poetry still thrives

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Well, I asked this once when I was institutionalised

Before in The Great In-Between 
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Categories: institutionalised, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

My Freedom

...My Freedom is,
  Looking at the world,
  with  child-like wonder,
  compassionate loving and
  Spiritual eyes.
     My Freedom is,
  Watching dandelion seeds
  Blow by me on a                 ...
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Categories: institutionalised, confidence, encouraging, freedom, humanity,
Form: Free verse



In the Time of Covid

...As the vaccination programme speeds along, and the end is getting near, 
I find myself reflecting on the year a virus came, bringing suffering and fear.

For twelve long months we were in quaranti...
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Categories: institutionalised, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme

Rhetoric

...Came here without my consent
Ended up in a party aboard Titanic 
Going South, fast.
What is Pursuit of happiness?
Feeding your pleasures relentless?
Or following your ambitions, towed by opportu...
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Categories: institutionalised, age, allegory, allusion, angst,
Form: Free verse

Apology By the Australian Parliament For Institutionalised Child Abuse 22 October 2018

...Some words have such power 
To us who hear them in this hour
To know when children alone cried
And justice for them was denied

Evil once ruled when children were abused
Their anguish was the t...
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Categories: institutionalised, abuse, child abuse,
Form: Ballad



A Salty Spray Is a Senseless Stationary Smelling Spitting Sprite How Rather Dangerous

...Petrified pottery ponders plots. Ploys play putting purring. And a frantically fraternising pickle arch can glow on many a skyline at dusk. In many hues. Many dusks many arches many hues and many hue...
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Categories: institutionalised, assonance, baseball, basketball, beach,
Form: I do not know?

Marian

...Marian;     Joe Canning  (all rights reserved)
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                            'Marian'

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 She was a small woman, a c...
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Categories: institutionalised, abuse,
Form: Free verse

And the Wisdom of a Pin Cushion Equals

...Castrated duck ran amok at a goose show yesterday. Then sat in a car. Blacked out to the par. An even score is a self wondering sacrifice. But no self sacrificing prawn could ever really be a pawn in...
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Categories: institutionalised, autumn, baby, bangla, beach,
Form: I do not know?

Stratification One Point One

...An animalistic painting in a cave can be considered as magnificent as a fortified wine kneeling in a chapel. Chapels cheer chariots. Charging. And the baked shrapnel recedes from many a bridge. Sing ...
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Categories: institutionalised, best friend,
Form: I do not know?

Ooooooio

...From a metre of cellotape one can actually fashion a spear. To fashion is neither fashionable nor cosmopolite it is merely to work an object into a work. And to work is to toil so don't throw the was...
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Categories: institutionalised, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?

Globes

...A nice young man in a nice crisp blouse is rifling through papers as we speak. Somewhat undisturbed it is imperative that he reaches the halls at the correct time. For all is structured and nothing i...
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Categories: institutionalised, animal,
Form: I do not know?

One

...A raccoon met a dustbin and began a chat. A curry in a barbeque had a very tasteful hat. In the world there was nineteen fish with arms talking about tailoring a view. Where they were exclusive to se...
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Categories: institutionalised, analogy,
Form: I do not know?

The Truth About Your God

...The truth about your God,
Is that he is not superior to you.

There is no hierarchy in God,
No matter what your institutionalised religion preaches.

The truth about your God,
Is that he is no...
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Categories: institutionalised, appreciation, deep, god, life,
Form: Free verse

Infiltration Inks

...Hop skip jump laugh and dance then for fear feeds fragile fornicating frogs. And as spots are squeezed and pus ejected. The falsities beneath are plainly on display. No more hiding in boiled bumps. S...
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Categories: institutionalised, arabic, bangla, beautiful, best
Form: I do not know?

Existence

...traffic jams, the constant beat ,bloody robotic tune, 
automobile cells, comatose faces, last stand, this subtle hate.; 
frying intellect, counting money ,faraway fields, mind machinery, 
comatose...
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Categories: institutionalised, society, symbolism, truth, drug,
Form: Free verse

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