Long Soundproof Poems

Take my lips from me, steal my teeth
Rip my voice from my throat
Throw a wrench at my voice box, there's no point in the lock
Sorry for being abrupt, carrying this halfway through a morning tune
But...

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Highlights from Highland Manor

Courtesy Goofus and Gallant 
who began their broadly-drawn 
moral plays in the 1950s, 
initially depicted as identical twins,
but later on, editors for Highlights 
indicated the two were brothers, 
but not twins, and...

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- - - An observation of true events - - - 
  - - (insatiable person's search) - - 

Aiming to embellish my identity 
Rural persona branches further 
Tight city existence not meant for...

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Sinister voices heard...

and ethereal disembodied spirits seen
from the other side of the woods
said phantasmagorical sound and sight
particularly experienced every Halloween.

Though dog tired
ready for the nocturnal sandman,
but before succumbing to countless winks
namely, quintessentially, telepathically 
fictitious mythical...

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since becoming housed here since this year
july first two thousand and seventeen, 
   tubby more precise where
with thee missus, amidst bucolic environs, 
   (one could don underwear

Schwenksville, Pennsylvania   
...

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Here is my dreamiest, dream job.
I will get to drive a fire truck and use the sirens - all the way to work and back. The gasoline will be paid for by my company.
 
There...

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What's new with me...Matthew?

Well for starters Nationwide
road service emergency
one man cutting crew
with battery charger in tow knew
exactly why no juice (think electricity),
his hunch found trunk light kept lit,
an innocent looking (to me or you)
lady's handbag...

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We will swallow hard this spit hanging in 
our throats for the love of our eloping country. 
We will soundproof  our ears before the
immediate suffering of our honest stomachs. 
These are our tracks decorated...

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True workplace beauty resides not in grand corner offices
Or sleek designer furniture that impresses.
Nor is it found in trendy open floor plans,
Or state-of-the-art gadgets in employees' hands.

It doesn't dwell in fancy lobbies with marble floors,
Or...

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when the war was finally over they placed flowers

          into the heated barrel of his battered cannon

         ...

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I write because silence was a tyrant
with a velvet muzzle.
Because childhood was a soundproof cage,
and I was taught to swallow every scream
like communion.

“Poetry is not therapy,”
the judge says—
but he has never been buried alive
under the...

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You feel lost
Away from your safe hands;
You feel so lonely,
You are the only company to your soul.
You are hurting deep down on the inside
And you have to comfort yourself.
You have waited for long,
And the helper...

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It was snowing, and in the middle of a great big storm… as… 
Another storm raged on, inside our dear, sweet little Dragon,
His penguins so care free, were now chasing after, you see…
The great Dragon...

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3 January 2012
For a friend in need who felt no one could understand him...

I dreamt I was falling
Through black clouds and lightning
The wind tunnels swirling
I don’t know what to do.

Awake now, I look around
I’m lying...

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All hallows eve festooned, spooked sight,
tricked out ghostly haunted house fright
especially 'pon dark and stormy night
courtesy creation gnarled skeletal hands
iron grip strength steely bewitched might
fashioned superior eerie abode I write

vampire fangs drip blood, hooked warty
nose,...

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**For Ruben O, My little Bro**

(This poem was written and a recording made for the contest sponsored by Team Poetrysoup which was deleted before it was judged.  I wonder if this would have received...

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When I think of my father my heart
starts beating in time with his 7 A.M.
footsteps on hardwood floors. 
His image rests in the second chamber

of my heart. If I could shrink you
down and put you...

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Classes scattered throughout the week,
learning the right way to speak.
People swarm in hoards,
living in brick-walled wards.

Allegedly adults,
without the results.
More space to learn who to be,
strong hands guiding us how to see.

Plenty of peers,
all trying to...

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The real you underneath 
The tumour hiding beneath the surface 
Secreting poison into the blood
Toxin controlling every motivation
The knife should cut the malignancy out
Hide it under the rug
Mould the clay and be reborn anew 
No...

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Audio hallucinations, voices not angelic, they're atrocious and scathing.
No one else hears whispering every now and then: Did you hear that?
Going mad a big fear; her visceral crazy dreams are becoming unclear. 
Entertains, never complains...

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I'd build creative writing, art, sculpture, music centers in 500 towns.
To benefit any students aged 7 to 18 who wanted to utilize the facilities.
I would hire art teachers who love art for art’s sake.
Our music...

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I wake up in a bath of sweat
 I am late starting my journey
 Weightless clothes hide my being
 Protect the skin from reality, my reality 
 The garage door shuts up in a rearview...

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I wake up in a bath of sweat
 I am late starting my journey
 Weightless clothes hide my being
 Protect the skin from reality, my reality 
 The garage door shuts up in a rearview...

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I’m just a working stiff
droning along in life
Everyday
me be doing 
what the boss queen bee say
Following orders,
never once do I ask why

I’m just a wooden bottom-rung peg
soldiering along dutifully
The folded antennas in my head
informs me...

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