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Self Protection Poems - Poems about Self Protection


Premium Member I Close Down For Self Protection
Bistro blowhards jump around in Johnny time Bota bing bota bang Bota bang bota bing. Dendrites are clicking, where did they get teeth? Who invited them anyway? Gray matter coughs. Fishnet stockings fairly frolic along my brain highway. My soul shuts herself off, not wanting involvement. I am on pizazz power; polka dotted persimmon pot pie. No one better ask me anything...

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Categories: self protection, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, 2021
Now I lay me down to sleep Dear Lord, allow me, my head to keep? Insane Taliban, coming to our shores, Heavy padlocks on all my doors! If one Killer, into my house comes, Beneath my pillows, I do have a gun. Will use it too, without reservation! I intend to stay alive, in this American national ...

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Categories: self protection, america, courage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Uncovered
I button up my cardigan The weather's closing in. I'm follically challenged, not my hairline, but my skin.. As the clouds begin to gather and wind whips up to boot.. I twist my collar skyward.. deploy my bumbershoot. And so.. I hurry past you, we nod but hardly share the time of day and just pretend there's no time left to care. "Is there fear of being...

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Categories: self protection, angst, anxiety, faith, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Little Girl That I Once Knew
There is a child in me, she hides way down beneath, the adult in me. She saw awful things, she felt many painful things, and heard many harsh things. The adult in me, always attempts to protect her, but there are times I fail. That is when, the adult in me, cries for the child, that I once was. My tears remember, the pangs of distress, for...

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Categories: self protection, child abuse, childhood, how
Form: Free verse
Self-Protection
An unstable globe One nation will toil and groan Injustice for all...

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Categories: self protection, angst
Form: Senryu




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