Long Push down Poems

  I feel so damn trapped in rage 
Like a rainbow lion in a cage 
I feel so much pain in my brain
And it's driving me quite insane

Numb my solace shame
Get me feeling more...

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Her paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.

One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That this girl will fall
into an eternal sleep.

She doesn't remember how...

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This piece was inspired greatly by the horrors of the tornadoes that leveled miles of life in this Kentucky and neighboring states, killing over 100 people.  The grief I and so many feel, I...

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There are those who would come into "God's House" ,and try to takeover"in vain"!The Lord God Almighty" "Give Life" and The Lord God Almighty "Take Life Away",and that is the truth,and that is "God's way"to...

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So I was walking down Market Street
There's a guy in a suit, with a leotard over the shirt and trousers (but under the jacket) in 28 degree heat
His thing was dancing to Michael Jackson's back...

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Wandering Ways
I walked many places and what I only saw was paths not chosen
These paths are what to take when there are many things in life
For most of the time I walk it just to...

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"Gosh, you're such a freak."
"Did you wake up that ugly?"
You say to me.
It has become a daily ritual that we partake in.
You say what comes to that cruel, 
unsympathetic mind.
And I sit, 
listening,
telling myself I'll...

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Head on, twist and turn, pull and burn, push down and torn, Head on. 
To see the glimmer awaken in the tear of your face, the solid aroma of an after-
taste, the stolid complexion upon...

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HE’S LOOKING FOR YOU
By Roy Merritt

The monster goes to the road each day
Ah hopin’ to hitch a ride
He’s puts a grin on his pretty face
A toothy one and wide

Well he sticks out his thumb then...

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Carefree and sunning,
Scenery stunning,
Relaxed feeling free,
Kids play in the sea.
Then people are screaming,
Pinch, am I dreaming?
Past me everyone runs, 
I look for my sons.

They are not running,
Nature is cunning,
A tsunami wave,
God! I must run, save
My...

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Blue dreams filtered through blood soaked eyes.
Dreams that swept by with tornado speed
creating a vacuum that pulls my very being
awake to face another day. i`m thirsty.

My skin crawls with a thousand chills from
the cheap wine...

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Our lives are like stories 
Like the ones found in books
We all play our part in the plot
But you were a bit more than just a character
Babe, you were a chapter

Chapters begin and end so...

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Old empty bed...springs hard as lead
Feel like ol’ Ned...wished I was dead
What did I do...to be so black and blue

Even the mouse...ran from my house
They laugh at you...and scorn you too
What did I do...to be...

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Pressure. Oh I wish I'm not struggling to free away from under.
They continue to push down with words of threats, only bringing me down.
They think it's easy, when in fact, they only suggest the easy...

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I am seventy-seven.
It’s a hot, summer day in Florida in 2019.
I have just finished raking our backyard.
The carrot wood and live oak trees have littered
The lawn with their leaves.
I rake them into neat piles and...

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I check my feathers then I spring from the tree
Longing for my companion I climb up to feel free
I push down on the wind with all of my might
Hoping to see you again on the...

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What is the most important thing in life?
Some say money,
Others say family.
One might say success and prosperity.
The most important thing, though,
Is maybe something you wouldn't expect.
What is something people always say to have?
Hope.

We must always...

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Once upon a time, there was a swift hunter
Chased deep into the distant dense forest
While searching for animals, he saw a tiger
Roaring, footslogging to a fresh meat nearest
The hunter rushed to a vine, climbed on...

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I wish they all could see the darkness I have built up inside of me.
I wish they could see the scared and broken girl who hides within me.
Everyday I push her down,
push down the feelings...

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MY POEM ABOUT DEPRESSION 
A dark place, A wet slimy wall and a damp cold floor, A refusal to surrender or to be seen as weak and needing of support, a mask of two hands,...

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Painted Nails
By Kevin Robey
December 9, 2013

It goes beyond painted nails I wear
When hands I hold bring judging stares
I dare you to come over and talk to me
And I’ll let you know every way to be...

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Stand under the proscenium arch
Listen to show tunes till doomsday comes
Dawn with the songs of ever lasting darkness

Tap dance your last dance on Broadway 
Burn the last lime light down
Take midnight with you
Pay no tolls...

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(a Salute to Howard Moss)

Although it is not yet warm,
we have shoved to the backs of closets
snow-boots, gloves, and woolen scarves, 
locked tire chains and ice scrapers
into trunks of automobiles as if
tomorrow the first bloom...

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Pine needle ashes in reruns

Each breath hurts,
in my chest and in my mind
Such a poor example of life,
this heaving flesh, 
up and down, corrugated movements inside my shirt,
not even a consistent rhythm 

You see it...

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Fluid Drive for Gwen   

Sleep is a many splendored ring
[lostfully] lust in sleep’s  [giant] silent loss. 
rungs of ‘nipples, climbing...[
ladder] in  [Vegas,...chest-quest 
frost, first cropped then tops
stops and sings a song...

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