Short Agoraphobic Poems

A stubborn old Taurus
I wish I was a tortoise

To live life at a reasonable pace

But more on topic
I'm agoraphobic

I could go out never leaving my place





05.05.18

Viv Wigley
I wish I was a - Poetry Contest...

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My lifeline was severed,
I scream but no one hears.
No communication, no oxygen.
My god, I’m going to die out here, 
doomed to float around 
in black nothingness,
prisoner of my fears,
agoraphobic and claustrophobic,
until my brain shuts down.
And my killer watches.
My lifeline was severed,
I scream but no one hea......

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Setting sun

Splash of burgundy paan-spit
and the paterfamilias nodding off

pink  filial freeness
silhouetted against a crimson feel- flare
(or was it orange flair or even purple fair)

symbiotic exchanges
slapstick sequences

elfin  hemlines and tarty décolletages
catching agoraphobic impulses
homing…


04 aug 13

For Charlotte's contest...

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knock knock
who's there
tax collector

knock knock
who's there
tax collector

knock knock

knock knock

knock knock
tax collector

shhh maybe
he'll go away

(later that day
too agoraphobic
to go out and
play came
another rapping
almost rasping
upon my
chamber door)

knock knock
knock knock
knock knock

(a voice using
a bullhorn sighed
then said) i
know you're in
there

(no subtlety
has Death)...

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