Long Restricts Poems

[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]

Prologue
This,  Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...

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Back to you Billy, for ways I whiled away herding ennui

Ah...a flood of memories wash over
this anointed Goatama Boo Da,
whose respected G.O.A.T status
among generic green acres, 
which swathed across Highland Manor 
analogous to petty coat...

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footsteps as I walk to the podium*



Lights dim, where words writhe like serpents in the darkness, I concoct a brew of bitter brutalities. 

“The cacophonies of criticism, discordant symphonies, assails my sensibilities, a symphony of...

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Radical planet friendly measures
equals earning kudos as unsung hero
(think environmental/carbon footprint)
nearly absolute zero
while global population quarantine
suspension of civil rights
would never fly with trumpeting pharaoh.

Since United States economically crippled
(as well rest of world wide web)
courtesy coronavirus...

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WHOOMP, WIMPA WINK, WHOOMP, WHOOP WHOOP!< WOOGIA:WOOGIA: WHOOGIA WINK!

IT CONSIST OF ENVY
AND HER NEED TO
 CHANGE THE CONDITIONS
OF HER PRESENT 
CONDITION OF BEING
HER RELATIONSHIP
WITH ONE MAN
RESTRICTS HER FROM 
BEING WITH ANOTHER
BECAUSE SHE LACKED 
THE CONFIDENCE...

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Reality check let’s look around us 
conspiracy theories mean feet ain’t grounded 
heads in clouds like white powder buzz 
black man screams white power just because
not what is but cliche what was 
Media feeding but...

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A hidden world, like a heart's inner word
it cannot be seen, nor can it be heard
everyday of your life, it exists
you try to resist, but it persists

Just as thoughts control one's mind
so too, the will...

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A hidden world, like a heart's inner word
it cannot be seen, nor can it be heard
everyday of your life, it exists
you try to resist, but it persists

Just as thoughts control one's mind
so too, the will...

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I feel trapped. Inside my own body.
There’s so much I want to change about myself and who I am, but I can’t. 
I feel the tiny ribbons of who I am fighting against each other...

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Our preferences always align,
With what our minds believe.
Our ideologies alone,
Are what our minds perceive.

And we accept no other truth
Than what our minds prefer.
Our reasoning is built upon
What preferences infer.

Some prefer that no God exist,
This is...

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My daughter posed to me a curious question.
She asked, “Dad, where do you get your inspiration,
To get up each morning before the rising sun,
And put your garbage collector’s clothes back on?

I know you told me...

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Your company restricts me,
To get around with others in world.
Whenever walks with you,
Assumes there are only me and you.

Forget my pains,
With you only bliss is what I gains.
Even in the darkness,
My every way is enlightened.
The...

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Storms of the soul invade my perception
Yearning for a personal resurrection.
Fragmented emotions dangle from each new face
Leaving me in an empty place.
Fires once ignited grow rapidly dim
Because of the sin that dwells within.
Phantom lovers drift...

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I am a wild animal by blood and nature
Loving the outdoors each chance I get
Bred to be a domesticated pet
Free range is the only way I know to be

Why am I sent to obedient schools...

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Allegory (Fable-Parable) Poetry Contest
Crystol Woods

They were two snakes in the grass buried in the pit of life
now bemoaning their past with hisses, coils and strikes
she constricts he restricts
venom spewing out
she thwarts his advances and he...

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Be disgusted by your body's limitations, You are just a sack of meat. Indigestible and rotten, so throw yourself into the forest but not even the dogs would eat.

Your body is decorated inside by a...

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in this unexplained feeling of drudgery there is a discontent.
omnibus clouds of insecurity circles around;
It's much like vultures waiting to consume the dead remains.
the chill in the bones restricts the breathing;
And each exhale leaves one...

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Rainy Days

On a rainy day, the kids can’t play,
But the farmer views it a different way.

As a cloud passes over he’ll anticipate,
That it brings the water which his crops await.

The rain falls from heaven and...

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The fable of the two snakes in the grass

There were two snakes in the grass, 
buried in the pit of life, 
now bemoaning their past, 
with hisses, coils and strikes
she constricts 
he restricts
venom spewing out
she...

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Plastic, weak, never entered my wildest of imaginations
Leather was present in fantasies of all natures
Food was exciting but hunger would prevent the further
Whips sound too, too painful but a close cousin to pleasure
Bondage without physical...

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You gave me words to decipher
I let them wrap around my mind
happiness
joyfulness
what are their opposites?

I think
trying to grasp beyond the obvious
why do we strive for happiness?
is it a state of being?
for me I wish to...

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Its the working classes prolific breedin’
That ends up with their needin’
Handouts when Trident needs replacin’
Buck house needs renovatin’
Royal weddin’ funds need allocatin’
Brexit needs payin’ for
And so much much more

if we tax the rich and make...

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What can I do? I’m helpless
Witches are stuffing my brain with straw
Pernicious thoughts raining spurious angels-
Sons of bloodsheds, their beautiful faces
Wait for a cab sailing to perdition.

My organs are atrophied as head swells
Like a big...

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Toys Are Us
By Cody Brandon Turner


Sweating and tired
Heat hovering over my skin
This day has got to stop
The only question I ask is when?
Parched and dehydrated
It’s too much to take
The sun is beating down on me
Like...

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The cellar is his bleak repose,


in concert with the cockroaches and flies;


there he wipes his runny nose,


toils the day long, sunshine tries,



insinuates through rough and crumbled boards.


Lessons can't assuage his conflicts,


the bottom of the pile,...

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