Long Lock away Poems

Let your skeletons out of the closet and let them dance with mine, the way that our bodies once moved together in an unspoken of time
I am one of these skeletons, maybe your biggest one...

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Slowly with unstable steps, she approaches.
The room is dank a foreboding intensity permits the air.
She is shaking as the memories wrap their inky hands around her throat.
The terror starts to build as the anguish she'd...

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we should be realising the fates
and who is belonging in what safe place
those who build bombs around the world that should be locked up
and those who guide us to kill one another
and blindly spin in...

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As my tears crawl from my mascara stained eyes, down my blotchy red cheeks, 
curling onto my trembling lips, leaving a salty trail behind; I think back to how I arrived here. 
Here being my...

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IV: Nothing will bring it back...

Nothing will bring it back, ever again
So must learn to live with or overcome the pain
A tough decision the brain will have to make
The heart will need to follow for...

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I’d heard of Persephone, that beautiful earthly maid, 
Who’d vowed her love to Hades, although her mother forbade –
An enraged Demeter scorched the earth; a desolate paradise was made,
But Persephone visits still, embrocating this soil-...

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NAME:SHIVANEE BRIDGEMOHAN

DATE:2ND JULY 2015

LOVE TAUNTS ME


WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES AND REFLECT ON THE PAST, WHERE IT WAS JUST YOU AND ME,KNOWING THAT THE CHOICE I MADE AT THAT INSTANT MEANT SPENDING EVERYDAY WITH A...

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Cold Hearted, ice-crusted, frozen, dead inside,
I thought I was immune 
but your stinging words cut my heart, I should take it in stride
Mean spirited, spiteful, ruthless, arrogant, obtuse
expected, accepted I should be use to this...

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Hey blokes…do you really know what life is…?
Like living in the ghetto…any memories of Soweto…?
Maybe you can’t…make me a chant…
Yes…I know…because I grow…
In the streets…where my feet…
Would meet…the dead…and the underfed…
Where food variety was scarcity…like...

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Rolling tides are to changing seasons as changing seasons are to broken bones
Scars are to mistakes as mistakes are to experience
Scars are to be celebrated as we would celebrate anything else
The embracing of scars is...

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I cradle and rock him,
He's so fragile a thing in my arms,
So perfect, so innocent,
So unlike his mother.
His mother was broken and wicked,
A being rotten from within,
But I had loved her still.
It was foolish, I...

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This world of ours is not always a good place
behind closed doors so many terrible things occur.
Hidden from plain sight some suffer endless torture
by the very ones who should love them the most.
Terrible things done...

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Cellar Door


The word cellar door, may paint a cold, dark image,
But the two words together, are simply magnificent.
They roll off the tongue, like a red silk carpet
And when you find something so beautiful, 
You should...

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Reclaiming my time

18 years spent wasting away
I’m a lost scavenger every new day
Time spent searching desperately
For new eyes to help me see
The key that will lock away the disease
I’ll probably never live a life at...

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The day you left parts of me died.
Go ahead and call me dramatic
Yes, i have thought about everything bad and that it was a good thing.
Yet I still long for the good memories we once...

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put me on trial and lock away this simpleton from society
Pronounce judgment and say guilty forevermore to this little gent
The words I say are cruel and unkind to those who have a sweet and beautiful...

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I am made to feel alone in a battle where there is no room
My thoughts are not heard my tears shall not fall around your eyes
I lock away the pain you gave with the unknowing...

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Late at night and asleep again 
Rarely now do I miss my friend
Silver light brings that to an end
My full moon queen comes to talk to me

Come to harvest
Come to occupy

Only now does she turn...

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Do I live in Paradise or a constant living hell
In four walls that surround me like a sentinel
Are these bars that lock away all hope of life
Or a sanctuary from rejection, life’s horrors and strife
Are...

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I question Adam’s hymn, O’ Holy Night,
while I retreat upstairs on Christmas Eve
comparing his to mine to fill the night:

His was a quill that spilled of quelling leaves,
of grace contrived to save the petty thieves
once...

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Originally posted in 2017.

I relinquish my pen before the storm
of her tears falling upon my bare arm
her gentle whispering breathed in my ear
Muse of mine, adieu to your wit and charm

With piqued reasons I have...

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THINK OF ME

     
Nothing is the same!  
I reach out for your touch  
but you are gone.
I am all feeling

All consuming:
Feelings of desperation
I must somehow leave behind
They pull me...

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I relinquish my pen before the storm
of her tears falling upon my bare arm
her gentle whispering breathed in my ear
Muse of mine, adieu to your wit and charm

With piqued reasons I have come to deduce
It's...

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You think this is quaint, a case of the blues
A handkerchief for a dainty cheek
But I want to howl, I want to shriek
I want to tear the world in two

As you safely stand
In your well-dressed...

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Hot summer sun in clear blue sky
	golden light pounds down on pavement black
searing heat reflects on walls near
	boiling hot the wet summer air

shingles of white reflect to sky
	captures the heat that lies beneath
wire screened windows...

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