Short Barbed Wire Poems
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The casualties of war
It shocks me
to the core
the
barbed wire fences
at your door
then
we ask
for peace
once more
Once
I roamed the grasslands
Free
Once
Full quick alert vital
Free
Nature framed my existence
Now
Your barbed wire is all
I see.
Confederate types some admire
Punctured DEI's entire hire
The world is a throng
And civil war's wrong
But that car just hit their barbed wire
Sitting on the fence I get entangled
in the barbed wire,
I lie on the heap of ashes
of my cherished dreams
wondering when a stray spark might
rekindle the flames of my dormant desires.
feel the hedge the dunnock had slept
its lines a scribble toddlers had drawn
he nested in a pen test on scrap paper
edging fields in barbed wire branches
sleep static acrobats on frozen trapeze
Dark emotions like barbed wire wrapped around my heart
I grab my blade
I watch as blood flows and my skin comes apart
With the blood goes the pain
A temporary release to keep just barely sane
and so it begins....
my withdrawal from an addiction
that causes so much pain
frustration and confusion
as I bounce off
of these barbed-wire walls
I know I am strong enough
to finally break free
There's a fairy in my chest
Live's with two crooked knives
In a barbed wire nest.
She loves to play and hide
In the dense and dolorous vines.
And I can get no rest.
As she tortures me at all times.
Rusted wire against a tree, year by year recedes
The countless rings of outer bark enwrap the wire within.
I mark the circles choking me. I’m taut, stretched thin.
Thus Time is so absorbing me. Consumed. The oak tree feeds.
I’m a fencepost
With barbed wire
Leaning
On the prairie
I don’t know
What I’m keeping in
Or
What I’m keeping out
I’m just a fencepost
With barbed wire
Leaning
On the prairie
I saw misery
in three horses
huddled in the corner
of a paddock -
cold, rainsoaked
they stood motionless
in the open
heads turned towards
a large tree
with its wide canopy
a few lengths away
on the other side
of a barbed wire fence.
Zena hailed from the Zeta Reticula star system and she
was bored with the military’s handling of her. Day after day of
interrogations and discussions for weapons or space travel.
barbed wire
she yawned wondering if it was
to keep her in or them
we climbed a barbed wire farm fence
falling into brambles that scratched us up
suddenly we were in a meadow
with tiny wild strawberries, daisies, violets, iris and queen anne’s lace
we’ll take it, we told the realtor
a Shangri-la which we still love
Breathing tedious life into a heedless cadaver,
Peering over barbed wire to see the edge of never,
Building on the ashes of love that branded the heart painfully slow,
Deteriorating hopes plunge deep to the abysmal stillness only received once below.
How To Handle A Scandal
With honor, how would you ever handle,
Someone who has been in a big scandal;
A bad deal,
Did squeal,
Wear sharp barbed wire thong or sandal.
This is what Stephanie Ruhle said from
MSNBC News.
James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
Protective barbed wire
pricking with it’s touch;
Blood just rushed from
the lock on your heart;
Penalized necklace;
Scratches so deep,
there’s no way back;
Feral feelings,
aortic slice;
It’s heavy,
a burden
in silence;
Let go,
embrace
love.
Rusted wire against a tree
Year by year recedes
Inside of the circling bark, invisibly
Consumed. Relentlessly, the oak tree feeds.
The countless rings of outer bark
Enwrap the wire within.
Thus Time is absorbing me. I mark
The circles choking me. I’m taut, stretched thin.
Gods Country
Gods country as a whole
Is a whole country united
A whole continent un-subdivided
Without senseless violence
In any shape or form.
Unlined
with barbed wire strung tight
Spanning the Pacific to the Atlantic.
Simultaneously
all of it, and none of it
private.
Take me out to the kill people game
Turn me loose on the crowd
Give me some kidneys and backs to crack
I don't care who it is I attack
Let me bash, bash, bash as they scream loud
If they don't die it's a shame
Cuz it's one, two, three strikes you're dead
In the old kill people game.
My life is barbed wire
Shall I string myself along?
Suppression takes more forms
Than Playtex has bras
Am I to be dominated
By someone else’s God?
We addict ourselves
To all we hold most dear
Our loves ... Our fears ... Our hatreds
Enslavement is liberating!
Pass ME the yoke
Of freedom
Barbed wire, it sure ain’t pink
Poor Barbie, she can’t think;
she’s a smart, sharp dresser
wire’s a sharp oppressor.
She stares with steely gaze;
wire’s steel, invokes delays.
Barbie is a girlfriend, true;
wire’s no friend of me or you.
The whole world is Barbie’s kin
barbed is there to fence us in.
I AM BARBED WIRE
CHAIN LINK FENCE
COLD METAL ON COLD METAL
NOT LETTING OUT NOR LETTING IN
I RUN THE LENGTH BETWEEN
THOSE ON EITHER SIDE OF ME
I AM ELECTRIFIED
DANGER NOT CLEARLY SEEN
THERE IS NO GATE
WHERE I OPEN UP MY LIFE
JUST A BARBED WIRE CHAIN LINK FENCE
HIGHLY ELECTRIFIED
Dark eyes peer through freedom's grate
squinting in a spotlight glare
lost between a fear's folly
and bloody fingered courage
Escape - denied the body
freed the passion of the mind
a visage in the twilight
dark eyes challenging their fate
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In and around Auschwitz
Barbed wire still weeps
through too long denied rain.
In and around Annihilation
Denied climates fast creep
toward pathology's pain.
Through surrounding Anger
Charged hate denies sleep
for those who must explain.
In tyrannic Asps
Barbed boundaries sweep
out lies of monstrous strain.
A hazy Cheshire moon,
Above a fog-laden lake,
These natural wonders,
I can only see through a barbed wire gate.
Flocks of birds soaring,
Through an ocean of marshmallow clouds,
I wished I was free,
But, “they” said I’m not aloud.
If I want to get fed,
I wait in “their” line,
Because they control my body,
But only I control my mind.