Shackling Poems

They're called Crisps not Chips

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Across the Atlantic ocean

They have a pedantic notion

Quip us Brits have a frantic lisp

Did slip..meant to say chip not crisp


Semantic antics causing a commotion

Misunderstand ...
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Categories: shackling, food,
Form: Rhyme

Temptation

...Flames that ignites
bright red at its core,
ravenous hunger linger
overwhelmed by its
hot desire and through 
the night it burns,

its visible heat scorches
the skin of its next victim,
leav...
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Categories: shackling, black love, desire, fire,
Form: Free verse


Premium Memberthe door of uncertainty

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seemingly undeniable certitude and conviction
handle hinges slats panels lock and key
maybe a cat flap for escape towards illusions

a trap door of revolving gates
sometimes we are framed by c...
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Categories: shackling, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOUR KELOID HEIRS

...They are the fruits
of our sown seeds
in the womb of life;

They are the foot-stepped
followers of today’s times
and its challenges;

They are the precious gifts
that our Creator’s love
has...
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Categories: shackling, allegory, black african american,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJUST LIKE WE USED TO DO

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Looks so peaceful there upon thy grave 
where once these flowers never bloomed 
I think the concrete angel on your stone 
is lipping me a truth I've never known 

Up there in heaven where yo...
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Categories: shackling, appreciation, life, longing, lost
Form: Free verse


Premium Memberwhat a year

...fan swirling the proverbial
not a pretty picture
all in black
the canvas covered
with no glimpses of light
chakras hidden 
from root to the crown
darkness galore

from self inflicted abyss
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Categories: shackling, addiction,
Form: Free verse

I'm being led

...#Im_being_led
Invisible chains on my body, shackling my abilities.They said "we are molding you, crafting you, to our own like".They "said I wasn't refined enough".

They straining and enforcsing ...
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Categories: shackling, africa, baptism, blessing, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShackling His Tongue

...I am frustrated and annoyed by his ticking,
or perhaps it should be labeled the 'tocking'
By the never-ending tongue wagging clicking
in the language better known as 'clocking'

Must Gra...
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Categories: shackling, time,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIn the abyss of a heavy silence, I feel like an anchor weighing down dreams

...In the abyss of a heavy silence, I feel like an anchor weighing down dreams,
And the world seems an atlas that no longer knows how to bend me towards heights.
I call tenderly for shadows that can p...
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Categories: shackling, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Chasing Dragons of Thoth

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   In the Abaddoned depths of Faith's cosmos, 
a delusion of grandeur 
and of wonder blunders in awe, 
puts its hook securely in blasphemers jaw.
Curiousity opens Hell's salivat...
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Categories: shackling, art,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOrchid Oxymorons

..."Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~ Rumi

Dear Diary,

I’m a hopeless romantic, 
a sentimental ...
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Categories: shackling, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHydrangea Hideaway

...Listen to the shifting winds 
carrying musical meteors,
there soars floating
letters between 
lyrical lines,
emanating runes
that reflect 
revolving rhymes
of faith within
and beyond.
F...
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Categories: shackling, faith,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMoonstones in Artless Skies

...It feels like the world
has been struck by a 
plague of pathological lies,
where fictional truth 
seems to sell better,
the allure of
imitation glistens 
even brighter, 
while superficial...
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Categories: shackling, angst,
Form: Free verse

Looking Back Through a Front Windscreen

...Inevitably places have changed,
where I was born looks like an alien city to me,
it's now a tourist trap for indigenous aliens.
The world was younger back then.
people were more dangerous yet muc...
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Categories: shackling, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Dickens Christmas Carol Revisited By Nicked Saint

...Dickens Christmas carol revisited by nicked saint

Frigidaire - from upper atmosphere 
hammering and whipsawing debris 
ferociously with an angry flare,
cuz mother nature - fed up to here
(re: ...
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Categories: shackling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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