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Lunatic Asylum
Lunatic Asylum Poems - Poems about Lunatic Asylum
Shriek
...SHRIEK As Edvard Munsch walked with friends Across the bridge spanning Oslofjord His sister’s situation struck a chord Admitted to the lunatic asylum nearby He saw the blood red colour of the ......
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Howard Osborne
Categories:
lunatic asylum,
anxiety, stress,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Porcelain Doll
...Porcelain doll, with a face so pretty a country gal, ran away to the city Worked in a bar, dancing on tables beat shovelling sh-it, in Pa’s stables Looks for love, but only finds bums lowlife......
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David Kavanagh
Categories:
lunatic asylum,
age, allusion, girl, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Aliens Overheard
... a deafening cacophony ego spawned thought spirals phony earth a lunatic asylum everywhere swaying pendulum mindless chatter, each soul lonely 23-September-2021......
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Unseeking Seeker
Categories:
lunatic asylum,
lonely, violence,
Form:
Quintilla
George Bernard Shaw
...GEORGE BERNARD SHAW George Bernard Shaw, born in 1856, Wrote plays and novels, But for me the most Important was he wrote many a poem A quote of his “Write your sad times In Sand, write your ......
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Jennifer Proxenos
Categories:
lunatic asylum,
poets,
Form:
Free verse
Afflictions and Perspectives
...foisted upon her was the merry go round crystal chandelier it stuck in her beautiful mind like a beacon of flaming desire of clouds fried by a cuckoo with an indestructible socket her eyes w......
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Kai Michael Neumann
Categories:
lunatic asylum,
addiction,
Form:
Free verse
Truth Be Told
...The theme park was crowded. Elephants on roller coasters, mosquitos bracing the water slide, ferrets enjoying the ferris wheel and leopards shooting crack in the gallery. A myriad of personification ......
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Kai Michael Neumann
Categories:
lunatic asylum,
allegory, black love,
Form:
Narrative
Translation of Mat Pokora's Je Suis Tombe By T Wignesan
...Translation of Mathieu POKORA’s « Je suis tombé, tombé, tombé » by T Wignesan (NOTE : I just thought I’d translate the lyrics (see the French original herebelow) of this lilting catchy tune not......
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T Wignesan
Categories:
lunatic asylum,
french, happiness, love, love
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
If Ever I Had a Country : Lx and Lxi
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LX - LXI The Yijing says : " If the common folk commit crimes, the fault for them shall reside with this one person (i.e., the Sovereign) himself… " Transl. R. J. Lynn......
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T Wignesan
Categories:
lunatic asylum,
bullying, immigration, leadership, people,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Dark Thoughts
...Yes madness is my escape, in my deepest darkest thoughts, all the hate inside my soul, all the hate that I have got, in the lunatic asylum in straight jacket getting shots, leave my happiness behind,......
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Maxwell Collier
Categories:
lunatic asylum,
art,
Form:
Rhyme
Two Curious Minds
...TWO CURIOUS MINDS 1 TWO CURIOUS minds entwined with the mind of God Einstein and Bohr The debate was difficult and more tipsy from decades of argument their friendship soared 2 determi......
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Ernest Robles
Categories:
lunatic asylum,
angst, anxiety, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
A Mess On the Table
...Around the Laptop On my table As if garbage dump That is useful to me As a worm in it Opened and a half or a few page read books Written notes never completed As if a lunatic asylum Withou......
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Udaya R. Tennakoon
Categories:
lunatic asylum,
birth, books, change, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Because I Love You
...I have been made mad before With my clothes on my hands Shabbily treated by children in the street. My hair shaggy and rough. YOu could see me going through the hoote-nanny Smiling to every one ......
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John Chizoba Vincent
Categories:
lunatic asylum,
art,
Form:
Narrative