Short Ball And Chain Poems

Emancipation 
Ball and chain gets left behind 
New sun starts to shine...

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The sound of freedom falls with the November rain
as I stumble back inside to my ball and chain



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I have the ingredients for a funny limerick
You have to use a bit of turmeric
It eases the pain 
From a nagging ball ‘n’ chain
Stick her head in it and simmer it...

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To refer to your wife
As your ball and chain,

Is like saying
That she's holding you back.

And that should drive
Any woman insane,

When she's keeping the train
On its track....

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May I now feel free
No other way out of it
My ball and chain gone
I have a true life again
None to tell me otherwise

Russell Sivey

Entrant into Brian Strand’s “Two to Fourteen “ contest...

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A limerick obsession is my ball and chain
My body's all aching and racked with pain
Can quit anytime
So I mustn't whine
I'll be singing and laughing and be normal again...

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Hostage to fortune,
prisoner of time

Trophies a burden,
 polished and shined

Greed but a jailer,
freedom denied

Hope in confinement
—wishing a crime

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)...

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A limerick obsession is my ball and chain
My body's all aching and racked with pain
Can quit anytime
So I mustn't whine
I'll be singing and laughing and normal again


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Make little rocks out of big rocks, no hands have prison clocks
                       X's are the days on a jail calendar, the ball and chain
                                                     Time drags on...

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No valentine on Valentine's.
I haven't met one yet.
Each year I wait another
for a person I've not met.
There's nothing I've done wrong:
yet waiting is in vain.
And all that's left is hope
that love's a ball and chain....

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To some it is a prison in the desert, others a sea of tranquility
         Some it is a jungle, they thrive on noise, to a hermit it is his paradise
                                 Silence is golden or a ball and chain...

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              Crack 
 
       Across my head 
               with
         ball and chain

              Down
       i’m going under

Awkwardly I sit and muse

              does 
               she
              laugh...

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anywhere without you
aint that pretty
but i keep my peel on you
cold and wet in new york
the wind like a proverbial knife
crowded train
queues at the bus stop
pulling down the ball and chain
Unreal faces behind newspapers
commute at your peril




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In West Port Arthur
the winds blew hard
to carry her away
The times were ripe
Big Brother raw
that crossroads by the bay
Her dive was deep
through Kozmic Blues
a legend to unfurl
But not escape
that Ball and Chain
—still searching for the Pearl

(Ode To Janis Joplin: November, 2023)
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Burning so bright
With new found life
Released from his ball and chain
Out of the dark
And into the light
Flying… on wings of freedom again.

As he writes his life
His soul ignites
In flames of wisdom and sight
Brilliantly claiming 
His God given right
As his truth kills the evil ‘Black Knight’....

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I'm tired of feeling this way again and again,
Being this close to the edge,
I don't feel safe. 
It feels like someone will push me over at any moment.
This sadness, this depression,
Has a deep hold on me,
Like a ball and chain. 
Just like a prison,
I'm here locked up tight. 
I can't seem to find the light.
I feel trapped....

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Gold never ending, left fourth finger ornament
Inscription inside tells the beginning date for the union
God's joining, never severed
Love's symbol placed loving by a joyous December bride
Groom's cake, the old ball and chain, red velvet, looked like a bleeding heart on the table
Friends rejoice at the final celebration of the forever union.
Lord's will, we will rock our senior years away....

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Unleash your g'RETH
At the hour eleventh
Flip me a coin to start the jingle
Your ball and chain to tinkle
To face the two
Poles on your tattoo 
Shouts of jeers
Screams of cheers!
The gaze you hold is magnetic
The stare they hold, pathetic
Scoring is ingrained with the left
Goals caught like fish in their net
Grant them the Bale
To escape your jail
Before the striped number
Strikes again like a black mamba...

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He said…
Other guys go out to play cards
 Other guys go out to the bars

I tried to say no
Without starting a fight

 He wanted to feel like he could go anywhere
He said I was his ball and chain as he left


Finally the pieces fit the puzzle 
It made sense

Now I understand
This series of unfortunate events

I didn’t know what else to do
All I know is…

Misery loves company
That’s why I left you
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This haunted man - a prisoner,
his bitter mix beneath the tongue,
tastes the outer, tastes the inner,

and gasps for breath with broken lung.
The ilk of those who should be free,
who limit more than most among

the ball and chain, the tyranny.
In all he sees, a parable
to loose the soul, to disagree.

His acre lots, though arable,
such fertile grounds yet long the plow,
both beautiful, and terrible,

was tortured then, is tortured now....

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It's sad
This little part of the world I'm 
living on
And I feel like there are so 
many problems connected here
And I think
Maybe if I move away these 
problems 
These problems
They will evaporate
Like smoke through my fingers
But
These problems aren't 
connected to the place we are 
But are the thought and actions 
we are connected to
Our ball and chain 
Latched to our legs and buried 
in the skin of our bodies
They stay there
Forever...

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I'm leaving town and I wont look back I need a break from here and that's a 
fact, this dusty road may take me there or any where I just don't care.I'm breaking 
free from the ball and chain of this cold old town worth a crying shame it's been 
so long since I seen day another lonely night I just wont stay. I pack my things in 
a broken knapsack I'm ready to go simple as that,  I'm so excited let me tell you 
about. Are you going my way because I need a ride....

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ball
bouncy, inflated, 
chasing, juggling, throwing, 
footwork, kick, imprisonment, shackle
dangling, yanking, dragging, 
tethered, unbroken
chain



Submitted for...
Dazzling Dizzy Diamante Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Caren Krutsinger 
Date created: 08/07/2022...

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I'm just sitting by my window, staring out at the rain.
Just sitting at my window, escaping my pain,
but then love got a hold of me, and it felt just like a ball and chain. 
That's exactly what it felt like, dragging me down.
Why does every single thing I hold on to have to go wrong. 
It isn't fair, not at all what you do.
Why can't I let you go, why do I hang on to you?
Where do you get off causing me so much pain?
Love should never be such a ball and chain....

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I had that dream again. 
It was due, but still unexpected.
The reality upon waking, 
a shot to the chest.
Inticately wedged your bullet back home
where it belongs
between beats and valves.
I pray for my heart to be still
to die inside and be free of you.
Kick loose this ball and chain.
A force that cannot and will not
be measured by magnetism.
Excluded by gravity, you pull me
then push me away like the tides.
Do you dream of me? Or do you wake
and thank God it was all a dream?...

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