Peace Psychological Poems

(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)

Can forgiveness mend, a childhood, 
fractured in the dark?...

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They invaded the neighbouring town by night,
Stripped it of its serenity before daylight,
They had been to the town before,
No one knew they would come for...

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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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Salacious, sultry
Simplistic signs of
Seedy sensory
Semi sentimental sales on
Socials
Surreptitiously
Slinking ..
Slowly
Sliding into your 
Sphere and
Psyche.
Psychologically
Seducing
Some senses so
Suspiciously 
Satisfying 

So,
Surrender self;
Shield for safety,
Stand strong
Secure salient sentience 
Successfully 
Set...

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A light shines brighter than the northern star 
The brightness illuminates my heart 
No longer do I feel darkness
My perspective is shifted to mirror ambition
With...

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Within the chambers of the skull, a hidden world resides,
A tapestry of thoughts and dreams, where reason often hides.
A mental landscape, vast and deep, with...

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Deep in my shrewd mind, a storm rages on 
Dark clouds gather as the wind howls till dawn
A tempest of thoughts, I cannot control
A battle...

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Through shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare, 
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...

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No light

Sharp words tearing at my soul
No way out, your constant taunt
Everyday my life you did haunt
Great beast me you tried to control

Snapping, tearing, destroying...

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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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Be not blind
Open your eyes
And see this world for that
Which it is,
A temporary stop upon
A journey through the cosmos

Be not selfish
Open your palms and let...

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My mental notes are like those from a psychologist
Full of monologues and constant wars between myself
Cause most times I'm undecided whether to take the high
For...

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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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("Eye of Storm" - aka "Tibetan Blue Poppy", 2017, original encaustic)

Eye of Storm

No matter where you go, there you are.

(11/5/23)...

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Far from the madding crowd,
I seek solace,
In the serene embrace of nature's solace.
Where the gentle breeze 
whispers through the trees,
And the sun's soft rays dance
on...

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