Long Straitjacket Poems
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Sarah’s Origin
My eyes stare straight,
fixated on something in the distance,
humming a song that would send chills,
if you ever got the chance to listen.
A padded cell and a straitjacket,
the doctor giving one of his ‘visits,’
his moans...
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Categories:
straitjacket, dark, death, gothic,
Form:
Epic
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
No don (except me)
doth trumpet within the aborted
barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm,
I annexed courtesy manifest destiny,
which peoples now inhabiting said jurisdiction
circumscribed by following coordinates -
Latitude: 40° 16' 22.20"...
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Categories:
straitjacket, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, celebration, dark, hair,
Form:
Free verse
The Missus Served Me High Test Coffee
The missus served me high test coffee...
Ah... tis nothing more heavenly
(to one borne again devout atheist)
then a spring like January 18th, 2023
here at Highland Manor apartments
picturesque green covered landscape,
where intrepid dandelions
dare to defy...
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Categories:
straitjacket, angel, appreciation, atheist, blessing, dedication, drink, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
I gaze out the window of my soul
I gaze out the window of my soul,
Scanning a distant horizon where dreams and reality intertwine,
Seeing patches of ethereal clouds,
Drifting across the vast expanse of the blue sky.
I am bound for a realm called Insanity,
To...
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Categories:
straitjacket, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Poetic Nugget Discovered Today March 29th, 2021
Poetic nugget discovered today March 29th, 2021...
while rifling thru outdated electronic drafts,
whereby yours went back to our memorable past.
Circa 6/30/ 2017 - Lost missing master car key...
plus additional ordinary travails affecting me
such as near bankruptcy,...
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Categories:
straitjacket, absence, adventure, anxiety, community, crazy, environment, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Mockingbird
Mocking Bird
Mocking Bird...
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Categories:
straitjacket, abuse, angst, anxiety, betrayal, birth, dad, father
Form:
Free verse
Ma'Am
The Webb’s my second Mommy and Daddy of the year ; It’s only June
Mr. Carver, the social worker rambles on as we pull into the driveway
My five year old eyes open wide...
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Categories:
straitjacket, childhood, family, sadhumorous, me, home, home, me,
Form:
Free verse
A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR BLUNTS THE SHARP BLADES OF REALITY
"Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing." –Allen Klein
A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR BLUNTS THE SHARP BLADES OF REALITY
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I lay on the table, a modern-day sacrificial...
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Categories:
straitjacket, 12th grade, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Is the Search Over
I’m a man of many theories
based on life and death alone,
With my human head buried
intrinsically in the ground,
A limited lack of imagination
stymied by reason I’ve found.
If I’m to find real answers
must...
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Categories:
straitjacket, change, creation, death, hope, imagination, life, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
A Trio of Sonnets
Sonnet to puzzlement
And there I look, eager mind ready to offer a polite
Salutation; hopeful introduction to eventual
Happiness.
That first hello, shyly voiced, a certain questioning
In its intonation, the rising ending signalling hope.
I wonder why? Why...
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Categories:
straitjacket, emotions,
Form:
Sonnet
LSD trip
In the sixties, a mere chemical fooled Timothy Leary
He became a missionary, to the jaded, the weary
He thought he had the answer to the question:
how to get the key to the doors of perception.
We could...
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Categories:
straitjacket, addiction, confusion, drug, freedom, mental illness,
Form:
Lyric
A Dose of Love Feeds Pleads To Be Heard
Despite our own struggles inner and outer, visible and invisible
Let’s go on, loving, caring, making a difference
In our families, communities and cities where feasible
Whether in reference to their struggles or during a conference
To eat caviar,...
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Categories:
straitjacket, poems,
Form:
Free verse
In the fabric of night, poets craft their dreams
In the fabric of night, poets craft their dreams,
With the thin thread of the moon and fingers intertwined with falling stars.
They seek perfection in the world's crevices, in the uncertainty of the unspoken,
The splendor of...
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Categories:
straitjacket, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Empty Pots of Sadness Stew
Follow your heart and capture pleasure and leisure
Follow your brain and nurture strain and pain beyond measure.
Follow the path your heart suggests
Unless keen you are to embrace the path the brain digests
Leading to a destiny
Ensconced...
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Categories:
straitjacket, poems,
Form:
Free verse
If Thunderbolts Clinch and Pinch My Gold
If streams of my dreams should screech to a halt
Inside a smart heart gone stone cold
Enabling losses, mosses and tosses to unleash the thunderbolt
That with no iota of care clinches and pinches my gold
In addition...
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Categories:
straitjacket, poems,
Form:
Free verse
THE CHILDREN OF THE CODE NOIR
They hunted, captured, deported, raped, flogged, and dehumanized our ancestors for centuries.
With the complicity of some of their own Negrophobic kin.
They were chained in slave plantations and in colonial trading posts.
They were movable property—docile, servile,...
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Categories:
straitjacket, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Burka
BURKA
Being housed daily in a cage of cloth
Heavy and burdensome I yearn to be free
As a person in a straitjacket I scream
My yoke is colored black
It is hot inside my burka yet there are...
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Categories:
straitjacket, abuse, angst, freedom, women,
Form:
Free verse
Beyond Persistence In Silence
Asleep while awake
Walking among the living
Trying hard to break
The monotony and gluttony misgiving
Lends to the sultry atmosphere
Saturated with dope
As departed souls in the troposphere
Perambulate on cumulus clouds grope
For eternity in serenity
Ensconced in minds so busy
They...
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Categories:
straitjacket, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Dr Seuss Paranoia
Did you ever have the feeling there's a man in your can?
Or a ball down the hall with an eye to spy?
Sometimes I'm sure I have ants on a tour of my house without cure.
And...
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Categories:
straitjacket, confusion, fantasy, funny, me, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Revoking Doc's License
Revoking Doc's License #1
A word from the State Medical Board committee
The #1 injection will always be P.D.
Doc, I am considering to slam you out of pity
I do not mess with poets whose licenses come from...
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Categories:
straitjacket, slam
Form:
Free verse
Three Wise Monkeys
Must our eyes even when we blind see
I closed my eyes but Zipporah D ‘Ead was aborting the Evil
Zipporah says Kevin Daddy closed her eyes not to see
And that mother sees but to...
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Categories:
straitjacket, abuse, africa, art, corruption, emotions, sad, women,
Form:
ABC
Vivid Dream Part 2 (Based On True Events)
I turned the corner into a beautiful living room with a leather couch
The finest, softest leather you could ever feel
But the leather didn't catch my eye; it was the dark silhouette of a man
Sitting...
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Categories:
straitjacket, deathbody,
Form:
I do not know?
Consign Eddies of Mounting Ire To a Pyre Fire
Inside a bar in my town
I drown brown sorrows, swilling beer after beer
Feeling tall in my gaunt gown as I play the clown
Wishing I could wipe away her memory into a low gear
Which in...
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Categories:
straitjacket, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Iambic Pentameter
When it came to iambic pentameter
Alexander Pope was no dumb amateur.
In his strict use of it he achieved a skill
often with a monotonous overkill –
a danger every poet should not commit
unless he likes his thoughts...
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Categories:
straitjacket, writing,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
I'Ll Show You How To Feel
The words are falling outside my window
Burying even the snow-covered paths.
The words will never end
Because you’ll never end.
You’re gone.
You’re mine.
Why should I discard your pretty torture?
Abandon the wild pain your calm...
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Categories:
straitjacket, death, depression, funeral, introspection, lost love, words,
Form:
Free verse