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Paralysing Poems - Poems about Paralysing

A Genocide

...Kill the Boer, kill the farmer

A song sung in a stadium by thousands

Reverberating a chorus of spine-chilling fear

A call to incite hatred and violence

Tomorrow, we mourn - another farmer...
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Categories: paralysing, africa, anxiety, death, endurance,
Form: Free verse

A Day in my Shoes

...Practicing how to breathe, when there's a shortness of breath.A slow rhythm in the background calms me down, when a void tried to look into me.I was up alone yet again while the demons of the night v...
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Categories: paralysing, anxiety, betrayal, childhood, deep,
Form: Prose



The Black Dog

...Trying to live by imaginary rules,
We believe we have to follow,
Only to think we're always failing,
Left feeling useless, empty and hollow.

With eyes red raw and burning,
From all the tears t...
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Categories: paralysing, depression, mental health,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI became the Bard, because I was outside of myself

...I have stared death in the face
with its huge gaping jaws
most of my life 
i have evaded those paws

My families crazy made up scheme
of overdramatizing my diagnosis
made my life a paralysing ...
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Categories: paralysing, abuse, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme

Dear Diane 2

...I wish I had something important to tell you
than hoping to see your face once more
again

I do recall the moment theft that left us by
just to go through most of the day without
shredding in m...
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Categories: paralysing, black love,
Form: Other



Beautiful Woman

...beautiful woman 
is a full course meal
an appetizer
a cupcake encasing a bullet
sweet course pie with a deadly desert
served on a golden platter 

she is an intoxicant
a red fine wine
spiky ...
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Categories: paralysing, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBest Test

...BEST TEST

At school, I always tried,
To do the best I could.
Then along came " the test."
Paralysing my brain,
As I knew it would.
I resent the word test,
It makes my thinking go awry,
If I...
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Categories: paralysing, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Hawk and Puny Birds

...The hawk flies over
         in paralysing calmness       
           puny birds flutter...
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Categories: paralysing, allegory, allusion, bird, extended
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberParalysing Venom

...My hands have gone rigid, feel like lead
       Ok! I’ll type with my feet instead 
    Now they don’t work, just went numb
    Ok! I’ll press buttons, with my tongue 
   Can you imagine, things ...
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Categories: paralysing, allusion, anxiety, endurance,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHe Gave Her a Book

...“Keep the love light burning, whilst young hearts are learning,
for from love children know, beautiful people grow.”Quote- Poets own
He Gav...
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Categories: paralysing, anxiety, basketball, books, friend,
Form: Rhyme

My Spirit Animal-The Slippery Loathsome Creature

...Every mid nights I stay partially awake..
Haunted by schizophrenic nightmares,
Detached from conscience,
Convulsed by delusions..
"Serpentine spirit" swings me into unimaginable
adventures and t...
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Categories: paralysing, animal, dream, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Free verse

What Love Feels Like

...That night, under the luminance of my city, listening to your music, you asked me what it felt like to fall in love. At first I was at a loss for words, although in my head I could write countless po...
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Categories: paralysing, beautiful, cute love, deep,
Form: Narrative

Fear

...Fear
Breathing down the necks of men
Holding them captive in the cage of monotony
Never freeing 
Until one learns to release the chains that bind them

Fear 
Trapping those without courage
Sa...
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Categories: paralysing, anxiety, courage, dark, evil,
Form: Free verse

Slowly, Carefully, Lovingly

...I watched you as you
Smiled softly, strolling through the stools.
Your shirt clung to you like
The spidery fingers of love that gripped me.
Your matted hair was silky soft
And your skin ...
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Categories: paralysing, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Titan's Rage

...Raging, Stamping, shooting flaming fire bolts
Thor unleashes his titanic rage on us
charged spears that send paralysing volts
teaching all a lesson he send us a cuss

Fury emanating with every jolt 
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Categories: paralysing, anger, angst, fire,
Form: Sonnet

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