Long Deadbolt Poems

A couple weeks ago today, while I was sleeping in,
And lay so very unprepared to have the day begin,

I thought I heard the doorbell ring and slightly twitched my head…
I hoped I had imagined it,...

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Not much about Goldilocks is really well known,
Except she liked to hang out in the woods all alone.
Of other customs and habits we have just a splintering:
She was whiney, persnickety,
And obviously skillful at breaking and...

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How often will I turn my head
                            ...

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There are times the wind will blow a door right in your face.
Sometimes, a door is slammed by members of the human race

There are doors designed to keep some people in and others out.
Sam did...

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Peter Pan Syndrome the most
accurate way to summarize
psychological mindset of yours truly,
particularly as a boy with brown eyes,
who did NOT holistically acclimatize

himself with peers, which insecurity
latched deadbolt draw
bridge guaranteeing Harris
parasite to cannibalize
(figuratively), sans rip

pull sieve...

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Why do strangers put faith in a double yellow line to prevent certain death by collision?

Or why do I believe the ground when planted must bring a day of produce?

I put hard earned money into...

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Mid-Day Break-In

Was just about noon
Normal sort a day
Told someone new
To come our way
Suspected not a thing
Blind to the more
Had a good dead-bolt
Lock'n my door

I don't sparkle much
Nothing to draw near
I ain't real fancy
So it would...

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Waiting is the greatest pain, 
Though most of me remains slain; 
Legs propped up on iron heaters, 
In my mouth spins an egg beater- 

Roughly, duct tape holds it there, 
Wrapped around my crimson hair- 
Holding in the spinning end, 
Tearing so...

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Rocky’s Nightime Visitors

By Elton Camp

In a sleazy hotel Rocky decided to stay
But he figured it would likely be okay
He turned the deadbolt and set the chain
In safety he intended that he’d remain

The neighborhood far sure...

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Do Not Open the Door-                              
Merely...

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I'll take some time to dance with my demons.
I'll take some time to speak with my angels.
I'll take some time to think for myself. 
I'll take the time to fulfill their requests. 

Then, I'll shiftlessly...

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The cabin sits against the forest wall
hidden from human site, it stands alone
isolated
in the dead of winter, the cold has a jagged edge
things crunch
twigs snap, upon a sparrow's landing
the freezing wind brushes painfully across the...

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Underestimated

A Poem by Debbie_Philly 
" I wrote this all the way back in 2009 when i was still getting my footing...  "
Underestimated 
 
The wind blows
My mind is frozen
Blocked, deadbolt
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Tomorrow begets tomorrow begets tomorrow 
Until the deadbolt day of sweetest sorrow 
When discordant bells chime frost on spiral stairs 
And time forecloses on it's borrowed wares. 

The days beget the days beget the days...

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Midnight at my bedroom window
I thought I saw hanging a black widow
When suddenly I heard a bunch of noise
And realized it was a hoodlum gang of boys
Looking for trouble down the street
Making my scaredy-cat heart...

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No deadbolt here;
No bell informing
Of presence--
My echo returned,
Calling me
An awakening voice…

Enter, I beckon;
Child of mine
Long before conception--
Loving you
Even when still
and though heartless--
Infant Summation
yet to be christened--
Brought forth shapeless,
Self of infinite imagination-
Dreaming: "To be or not...

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Minuscule marshmallows in weak cocoa 
there is no taste in the heat of the South;
It should always burn the top of the mouth 
and be soothed inhaling a ball of snow;

Those worn out carolers will...

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