Paralysing Poems | Examples

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



Umshini wami (my machine gun)

Paralysing fear runs through your soul

To wipe out the Boer and the farmer

A call to genocide, they cajole

Rat-a-tat, see how they run



There is no defence against this genocide

You must die, self-defence is a crime

Hundreds and thousands of crosses, erected

For the innocent these numbers climb

The Boer and Farmer in death abide.

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 visited me. Has it been a year now since sleep has become paralysing.I dared something much deeper within me, to find out it wasn't me who was talking back. A mindless creature may exist outside my comfort zones. Too long since we found a sense of belonging inside our lives, so I stepped into other people's life. Only to be found as different than all the rest. Being like this was never choice, have you ever seen what afflicts me? Please don't kick me out of your circle, it's dark where I am.I found you to understand me, helped me out of my misery. It's a gratitude that I don't belong with the monsters,my skin still remembered the abuse it's done to me. I've grown to be stronger than them, yet still my mind has captivated an attention of a million.

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 that's been cried,
Your demons begin to take control,
Stealing your soul and self pride.

Nightmares haunt you if you sleep,
Drowning in darkness through the day,
Happiness now becomes a distant memory,
Not knowing when you last felt that way.

Eating away at your contentment,
Suffocating your brain with black fog,
It can hijack you at any moment,
The paralysing curse of the black dog.

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 colourless vodka
a picky choice of men
to savour in her lust 

she is the venom
cursing through the veins
stopping heart beat
paralysing limbs
with mouth in sync 

a beautiful woman is beautiful
Pricey, elegant and ravishing
she's the beginning of fantasy
she's the end to reality
she's a beautiful woman

Best 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 have done my best all year,
Why should I even try,
To prove my capabilities,
Which I have already done.
My teacher knows my abilities,
She marks them everyone.
Pupils have homework,
To study after school.
My poor brain is going berserk,
As my cup is more than full
I am so nervous I'm shaking like a leaf.
I'll do my best to do this test.
That will give relief.

Hawk and Puny Birds

The hawk flies over
         in paralysing calmness       
           puny birds flutter

Paralysing 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 being so hard 
Bitten by snakes, yet unemotionally scarred 


By David Kavanagh

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
Safe Jobs 
Safe Lives
Never taking a risk
Until one flees the safety of the known and learns to truly live

Fear
Paralysing 
Crippling
Controlling your every action
Walk the line without a fear of falling

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 felt like satin on my lips.
Your name was heavenly on my tongue and only divine
Intervention could stop me from loving you.
But I doubt that even that, would stop the infection
Slowly rushing through my veins, paralysing me,
Heart outwards.
The heat and fire and web of desire
That was woven by the spiders of passion,
Caught the flies of love.
It devoured them
Slowly,
Carefully,
Lovingly.
Like my mind seemed to drink in your presence.
Slowly,
Carefully,
Lovingly.
My eyes raked over every detail, not allowing
You to escape me. Your hands, those hands which I
Had longed to caress, touched my back softly,
And shook me from my observations as you
Had shaken my world so many months before.
You smiled gently down at me.
And then you disappeared, like a perfect dream.
Gone, before I could kiss you once again,
Slowly,
Carefully,
Lovingly.

A 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 
despising, hating, destroying, callous
against mankind with passion he revolts
with powerful hate he does send onus

Killing all before him with mega volts
his anger  growing is most auspicious
his thunderbolts  these are no millivolts 
they rain down the killing so atrocious

Temper flaring intensifying each jolt
oh pray that soon he will hang up his bolt

written 3/07/2104

With All My Heart

I was deserted by fun
Locked in a lonely world
Looked upon like a clown 
My heart was then cold 
Then out of emptiness, yet bountiful
You emerged so graceful.

With your sweet charms 
You entered my world
With those paralysing smiles of yours 
You pulverised my crumbling world
You laid foundation for another
The greatest in heavenly uniqueness' order

The world seems yours
You turn it around so easily
You must be one of those three sisters
'Cos you manipulate fate so easily
You've washed anew being
You must be an angelic being.

The way you swept away my sorrows
And made sweet my tomorrows
Left me wondering
Reminiscing
Thinking much about you
Loving you.

I feel so on top of the universe
Ever since you graced my world
You've livened my world's romance
And distant my heart from cold
Queen of my heart
I love you with all my heart.

Unshed Tears

Slice me with your tongue,
Razor blade wounds,
To suck out all my poisens,
Sweet lonely lullaby,
Accusing eyes of sadism,
Picture perfect prodegy, 
My Deadly Sin,
A bitter taste of arson,
Burning in my vital organ,
Your the pyre that burns away my mortality,
A sip of tea made from Lilly of the Valley,
A shadow of Death stalking,
With odd angel like wings,
A Numbing kiss like Drowning in Morphine,
My Oblivion,
Sweet arms to rest in till my vision no longer holds,
Eyes neither like Hell nor Heaven,
Cocain Addiction,
That Drip of Drugs into your system,
Intoxicated blood stream,
I'd rather not dream,
And instead get lost within - Your paralysing,
Your Paralysing, Brain lapse,
Your moving too fast,
Stay slow and dreamy,
Dancing silhoutte,
Like a burning forest fire,
Pain throughout my veins,
Ravishing and Beautiful,
A voice torn from my throat,
Dying joyfully,
With my last sight of you. . .

Bloody Death

Bloodthirsty anguish torments my
Lunatic mind, seizing supremacy, paralysing my decrepit living corpse with
Overpowering obsession, manipulating my blackened heart and hurling me into burning
Oblivion, composing the malicious desire to self
Destruct-and i do-savagely i lacerate myself until extinction

That Uncertain Feeling

So, you see a golden fleece,
  snagged, hanging fire,
luminescent and inviting
  on a fence of barbed wire.

Would you take it to your heart,
  grasp it, reach for it,
or recoil for fear of laceration,
  of pain, of expectation deficit?

Here lies the timeless dilemma:
  if love does gloriously bloom,
will friendship bite the dust,
  consigned unto it's doom?

In this paralysing conundrum
  there lies my golden fleece,
a prison of uncertainty
  with no sign of release.

How can we be sure
  in resolve we can defeat it?
If we can have the cake
  and ultimately eat it?

Random Sleep

He tried to move but could not,
he felt for good that he was in bed,
his mind clearly confirmed that it was so,
was it the soft cosyness of the bed linen,
or that in the cold morning soft sun made a paralysing impact,
or that the mind did not foresee anything pressing or hard,
or was it that he did not sleep enough as per biorythm,
and still wanted to keep stuck to bed,
but his eyes were wide ajar,
and mind was sharp,near rather than afar,
most of that he had thought,
did not fit in with the logic ,
any thing that was not logical was rarely done,
it was normality of logic that had prevailed so far,
or was it that insomnia was spreading in "batches" to morning,
which was physical and had to be confirmed when it struck the next morning yet again and again and again,
how does he explain it all now and keep the pain,
of adjusting to it in entirety,
as he thought all this and was going for more,
his mind ached and pained really hard,
he was after all "adjusting" with the "uncommon" event,
and trusted that he could and really do so,
presto! he felt groggy and fell to sleep,
till he was woken again in the afternoon for another day

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