Dream Psychological Poems

In the weeping crack of dawn, a battleground unfurls,
Reflected in the mirror’s gaze, a storm behind two girls
One, a wisp of tattered light, eyes shimmering...

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Sonnet I

In realms of emerald hush, where sunlight strains
Through veils of green, a silent throng takes root,
A clovered congregation on the plains,
Their stoic forms a...

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Sometimes I don't know you,
Other times I don't know me,
Sometimes, you are just a stranger crossing the sky's limit,
Other times, you are my dearest brethren.

You...

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Pregnant with intense distress
Fists fly eyes not yet open
Break and fight not fully woken
Metal to metal, bone to wall
Impulse festered in my chest
It did not...

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That hot afternoon when the winds were shy, 
The Earth froze and the birds refused to fly, 
I sat on the soft cold cushion of...

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(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a...

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(Lights dim, a single spotlight illuminates Judy Garland, center stage. She wears a faded housecoat, her eyes holding a lifetime of stories. She speaks directly...

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In borrowed plumes, a masquerade we stage,
Thoughts echo doctrines, passions preordained.
From broken families, where fractured spirits weep,
Mothers of sorrow, 
With eyes that never sleep.

We inherit...

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I exist - but I also exist inside the heads of other people
both knowing what I’ve done and what they have me do
when they close...

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With hair ablaze, a jester unconfined,
I scoffed at the mundane, its life declined.
My wardrobe, a riot, a rhapsody bold,
Mismatched socks my standard, stories untold.

In classrooms...

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Embroiled in
Pre-dawn delusions
Assuming the
Cloud covered moon is
Destroying its symbolism
For my own amusement
As the parking lot becomes
Mystical, enlightened
Full of
Ambient apparitions 
Of the eternal type
With the coyotes...

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Our Mysterial World

Our Mysterial World

I dissociate to observe myself
from outside my body
I feel separated
I’m dreaming 
Flashbacks torrent
I’m in one place
yet my psyche is in another
Simultaneous...

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Mind Games
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Pack away the day
Lay back lay back
Park..
It is nightime
Wait the exit wounds
Here comes the game's
To mock and bother
And the mind 
Beguiles you as...

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In sun-scorched dunes, beside a weathered sentinel, 
a glint ensnared his weary gaze.
A tarnished lamp / grazed / its secrets unknown / 
a genie unbound,...

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I hear you calling my name
But it's strange
Cause I don't want to hear it
Not because it's you
Something in your tone
I fear it
Trying to pull me...

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