Madhouse Poems - Poems about Madhouse

Four men in search of the truth

...There were four men
searching for truth
They all knew 
that sixteen hundred years before 
Someone was asked
by a washing hands' man
to say what was the truth.

One of them 
is on the tower o...

Five minutes

...
Anxiously he waits for his wife
She was supposed to be home at five
He needs to teach her a lesson
He knows she will after this session

five minutes later, she opens the door
Without greetin...

Garden of Chilies

...madhouse of a ménage à trois —
the bawdy chamber of the blitz,
where three depraved darlings conspired in pagan rituals,
their lover's lament a discordant dirge amidst,
detritus of a bygone era,
...

Bob Dylan's Hard Rain updated for 2024

...
Oh what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you see, my darling young one?

I saw truth tellers doxed, and their addresses listed
I saw images on my cellphone put on by the twisted
I s...

Citizen Soldier Band songs in a poem

...Sometimes life is a Still Frame and I know others aren't as Broken As Me. I can Pretend My Pain Away but I can't Just Be Happy. You can talk about Who I Am or who I was but I will never Give Up To (M...

It Is Was On My Morning Stroll

...it is was on my morning stroll 
i first noticed that common
white house dress, pearl buttons
busy in her garden
sauntering on, a most common sight
on subsequent passings 
my evaluations were sh...

Finding Me

...I carve a path out for me
trying to make it in this soulless city
confined to a big house
aspirations seem to drag out
sitting in this pink room
trying to catch my breath at noon
This heat is m...

Polite

...you push a pipie
you might pray
your words form
a formula 
a rode house 
a street
a madhouse 
a madman dressed in burlap
a court hearing 
a presences 
a feeling 
a song
a picture from Wal...

The Waste Land Today

...One hundred years on
Our Waste Land we celebrate
Desiccated and dry as a desert
Within our dehumanised souls
Where the tumbleweed of untruth
Sits with such disconnection
From reality,
Myriad v...

Christmas Whenever

...Snow sprays off crow wings.
Flurries drift like torn lace curtains
over the blacktop. 
The porch rocking chair
is draped like a madhouse ghost.

Nobody is going anywhere,
the side-roads are ge...

Love Me None

...love me none

I reserve a table for two for a stupid reason.  
I am waiting for somebody to return.

Your empty chair inside a deafening resto,
I’m not sure if I’ll ever see your shadow once mo...

Sanity Seen Through the Eyes of a Mad House

...Sanity Seen Through The Eyes of a Madhouse'''
There he was
Alone sitting in darkness
with lingering shadows that lurk in and out of troubled dreams
waiting like thieves for another walk down memo...

The Strange Case of Ft

...
"The Strange Case of F.T."



They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace 
confessional shared amongst 
...

Ask Yourself

...Money isn't what you want, and I'll prove it too.
You only want the things that money do for you.
You can't eat it, drink it, it can't keep you warm,
you can't stack it around you and build a dece...

After the Party

...There comes a headache
when you want to disappear from the scene. 

Head still cloudy with last night's drink,
Crumbling decor strewn all over,
Leftover food, stinking in a corner.
Not a chair,...

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