Long Handcuff Poems

The grey clouds are slowly moving away and it feels like something good is coming my way, the financial jamboree is skipping up and down the street and the banks are messing with my heartbeat....

Read More

VISIONS OF ME IN HANDCUFF

12 heads near the left center room, 
bystanders watching as the Man with the 
book determine to make my life heaven or 
hell As I stand with my head high in...

Read More

Dead by Morning II
(Dead by Morning, 3/13/20 explained what will happen.  This is the followup.)

I’m no prophet…
  I just pay attention…
    so cough it…

What say you? Ah choo? Who?
 ...

Read More

I will stop reminiscing over the 1700s when the 2000s stop mirroring the same values
plantations upgraded to prisons, chains to handcuff, masters to head leaders and coaches
shall I keep going!
Segregation to isolation, shacks to the...

Read More

How long will I have to write rhymes? 
Till the time I accept the logic?
Watch it! You’re caught and fastened by fossils, 
No Entry, Kill Bill, with ease as ya see!
With Illmatic words, overheard by...

Read More

Malice police injustice
This is a career choice
Not a choice to be a criminal
A profession just normal
Like any other
Tell me if the police have power?
Over the residents of own motherland?
How will strangers be treated?
Tell me if...

Read More

The nation is very rich indeed
 But,
 Wounded out of loss direction;
 Wounded out of lack of ambition,
 Weeping out of lack of impulse;
 Wounded out  of  lack  of imagination,
 Ingeniously exhumed...

Read More

Continued From:
11. BTK Coming Attractions Part 3
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poem_detail.aspx?ID=195843

****************************************************************************
Billy the Kid's Great Escape (Continued)
 
Billy entered the outhouse closing the door behind him. 
"Let's not take too long in there Kid," Bell said with a humorous grin....

Read More

In the funky train,
 All the hoo-ha-noisy end in fisticuff;
 As the crumpled greenback hand-out cough,
 The law has nothing to handcuff, 
  
 Maneuvering on the sloppy storey hill
 A frantic dance of...

Read More

With my doctor’s ok, I’ve come to this small room of a little-known clinic
hoping to have the damaged nerves inside my brain “reset” in a long session.
I relax in a reclining chair as the dissociative...

Read More

When I was in third grade,                             ...

Read More

He was a nice quiet gentle man
He had family friends wife and a daughter too
But Rayshard Brooks was also a black man
He was just waiting for a burger at Wendy's drive-through

He'd been for a drink...

Read More

“In the Box” is a police
colloquial phrase indicating
the interrogation room



As soon as I walk through the front door,
you start grilling me
Giving me a burn notice ... 
the third degree
Those handcuff marks are from you 
squeezing...

Read More

BI IN A DUNGEON

“A beam of moonlight woke me up. 
I have had it enough; brushing up the dust in my lap, I rose.
The dark dungeon in the valley…
 I scream out because they suffocate...

Read More

Flesh is subtle…vulnerable…
All scarlet-covered, under skin;
The thin, hard smile of the harlot
Tells how many have stormed in. 

We are spoon-fed careful lies,
As they rewrite history, quash dissent,
Say Oswald killed The President…
Explode our towers before our...

Read More

Dark, twisted stiletto,
Crouched and feral at the end of my bed.
It’s my night off tonight, 
Or it was supposed to be until the doorbell rang.
Show him on up, a girl has to eat.

Hello again sir,...

Read More

when they come for you
with a fistful of “legal”
excuses,
covered in camo, bearing guns &
battering rams,
when they handcuff you &
the people you live with,
when they turn your house upside 
down &
accuse you of being in places
that...

Read More

The neighbors complain every night 
All because we have our little fights 
You kick me between the legs 
I twist your arm, I make you beg 
Then we kiss to make up 
I promise tomorrow...

Read More

He held on to your frail love
with a velvet iron fist
Scarlet finger imprints ... bruised bracelet
on your wrist
showed you the depression bends
of his obsessive love
How deep, how sick ...
How twisted below 
his vile bile desires...

Read More

my left tooth is 
communing with the dead
its sending me mixed messages 
in my head 
that I may already be dead
so I wiggle it around 
and spit it to the ficken ground
and yell out, to...

Read More

http://www.poetrysoup.com/poets/top_100_poets_most_poems_all_time.aspx

Handcuff Wrists

What constitutes correct campaign contribution?
Also, show me what should be right solution
That will put proper feather in our each cap
So we can avoid having a political mishap.

Maybe might be a maximum requirement
And where all...

Read More

The Color Blue
© Ben Burton 

The press is pushing hard
Promoting racial animus
Creating a canard
Like Rosa Parks had missed the bus

The first black President
Who should have made ol' Martin proud
Instead, it came to this
Obama cannot shut...

Read More

It's been a long journey here now the road gets rough
From the wildest dream  to a wonderful realization 
We finally have tested the waters is love now enough 

From the very first days ...

Read More

Its halloween  my favorite time of year.
Grown women running around half naked.
Makes me wanna awake the spirt and grab a beer.

Boy i wish my last nurse dressed like that.
My recovery would have been so...

Read More

Listen to everything I tell you son
You will see that you will have fun
Go to the house of Lady Loo
Knock on the door and do what I tell you to do

So with dad’s advice at...

Read More