Short Claustrophobic Poems

Close, wrap in ball porch
A child like claustrophobic
Birth sign light for torch....

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she's claustrophobic,
yet faces her fear head on
she goes spelunking.



Date written: 02/03/2020...

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I stay awake; I am like a solitary bird on a roof
Psalm 102:7 CSB

lone bird,
wings claustrophobic, abalone-gray
sans dandelion’s glory
surrounded by seeds
...

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on the elevator
going down or up
 
hidden in the attic
holding spotted pup
 
I hate those musty minutes
no fresh air to be found
 
on the elevator 
going up or down...

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I can feel the walls getting thicker. 
It all closes in, but it’s fine this happens all the time. 
A spliff or two keeps away the shivers.
No time for loathing, these walls are by my design...

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In anguish he screams 
What you want from me
Then hold his head in his hands
With his whole body shaking and heaving

Claustrophobic and feeling undone
When will there be rest
From the sorrow of self pity 
So he can lie in peaceful solitude.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Claustrophobic Closets 
...full of personalities and promise

what to squeeze into…
what to hide under?
fitting and proper it should be
for this moment, yes?

Metamorphosis into 
that which is necessary to 

...accessorize the lie

It’s all just dress-up anyway.

Now you should try....

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Silk-
starfish
of fervent
fate weaves soft-quartz 
feathers of marshmallow metaphors that 
croon with firefly's fluorescence amidst life's
claustrophobic 
clouds, shading
bitter
smogs 
with
plush sweet-
dahlias;
And I chase light
within saffron skylines beyond dreamscapes....

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 Lately I like the way
The earth swallows me up
Pulling me into the shadows
Like quicksand

I am invisible
Even to me

I am claustrophobic,
Yet love the locked closet
I am living in

I am in the eye 
Of the tornado
Blinding 
Bright
Black
That surrounds me

I 
Am 
Ready
To 
Die ...

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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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I wish you weren't apart of me
Traces of you flowing through my arteries
Deprived of essentials like a commodity
Wish you were someone who fought hard for me

Take it all, at least what's left
You've burnt this candle from both ends
See the light through the plight
Counteract the claustrophobic tesseract...

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Claustrophobic walls

These claustrophobic walls
That grasp and hold me tight 
Destroy my very soul
And end my will to fight
Enclosed I am in loneliness
My mind a silent yell
Age became my jailor 
And my home a prison cell
I hope each day for visitors
I pray that someone calls
But all I see in my final days
Are these claustrophobic walls...

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Lone snowflakes drift in
As anorexic, claustrophobic bats shiver
Wrapped in their bat wing sleeping bags.
A field mouse plays “Three Little Pigs”
With a patch of straw.
An eerie wind whistles wickedly
Alarming an itinerant mole.
I snore, noisily unaware,
That my brother sub-let
His half of the den.

John G. Lawless
©1/21/2023...

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Languishing inside a cell(his demons) so fierce
        and punishing; isolating loneliness pierce
          the core of his misery. Every so often,
      he feels claustrophobic, as if inside a coffin.



Rithimus Divisa 4 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Gregory R Barden 
Taken from the 1st stanza of my poem, "Ballad For A Man Walled In"
Date submitted: 08/06/2020...

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Fear
                                                  panicked
                                               entrapment
                                          hemmed in by great
                                                    dread
                                              
                                                    




Written on 4/29/2017
 Lanterne...

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perfection in all things
easy, you would think, but not when
re-daunting love is demanded,
forever constant drip of words
eating away my soul, feeling
claustrophobic, being smothered, by
total love which is demanded back

loyalty closes its eyes as
overbearing mother decides my future
vitriol thoughts circle my brain
erased my natural love for my mother


penned 1/2/2016...

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CATATOMB

Silenced
in claustrophobic
dry walled ebony air
where stones hold
nothing
of soulessence

I do my stretches
I crouch and stare
at…
that place underground
deep where soil cloys
Suffocating
Permeating

Perhaps…
someday I will leap
laughing above the
surface. But for now
I lay buried alive

Silenced
in
Catatomb




© Kim van Breda—14 September 2015...

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Blue
twinges 
of lament
cast gaunt shadow
o’er my dreadful  pang
as a grim mist segued
into dark claustrophobic 
cantons where rabid zeal of hearts
once smouldered from magma’s deep red vein
Yet I cling to golden dawn recall 
of lazy strolls in lush green mead  
wild sniff of purple heather
neath sun-drenched sky aflame
gusts of joy rippling
froth-rim brook waltz
now toilworn
gaudy
dream...

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“NA”

Blue
twinges 
of lament
cast gaunt shadow
o’er my dreadful  pang
as a grim mist segued
into dark claustrophobic 
cantons where rabid zeal of hearts
once smouldered from magma’s deep red vein
Yet I cling to golden dawn recall 
of lazy strolls in lush green mead  
wild sniff of purple heather
neath sun-drenched sky aflame
gusts of joy rippling
froth-rim brook waltz
now toilworn
gaudy
dream...

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“Don’t-stand-so-close-to-me,” he said to her.
I’m feeling claustrophobic. Every time
I turn around, you’re right there at my shoulder.
Were you a poem, I’d make you its end rhyme!

“How rude you are!” his girlfriend then replied.
“The way you talk to me is a disgrace.
We’re finished!” As she strode away she cried,
“And    this    is      me    now    giving    you     your    space.”

For Black Eyed Susan's Space Contest...

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A million people just like me
All close, claustrophobic, strangers
I may not seem or look alone but I am
I am alone 
Alone, alone, alone
Those words roaring in my head like a wild fire
I feel alone 
All teenage girls like me
My mum in the woman's section
I miss her
My dad in the men's section
I miss him
And my brothers in the boy's section
I miss them
I am alone 
I feel alone
I don't want to be alone
Alone, alone, alone......

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Feeling claustrophobic in this cell
The walls are coming down on me
Retreating back into my shell
I’m not who I used to be
I’m suffocating 
Is it hard to tell?
These venom infused words are killing me
Chocking me out till I can’t breathe
Trying to change the very essence of me
Freedom is just a door away
But my cell doesn’t have any doors
Only a window sealed with bars 
Feeling trapped and alone
The darkness is enveloping me
Is this the end of me?...

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SANCTIFIED

I am available, a friend, sensitive, an answer

I love the real, the honest, and Y O U

I have an idea for romance, a poem, a talk

I feel claustrophobic, hot and cold

Afraid of a llamaless world, the ceiling and floor

I would like to cruise, hangout, congregate

Resident of the rain, the Southern sun and forest


SOUL


4/14/2020
Dear Heart’s Bio Modified Poetry Contest...

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I wake to the screams for the walls to
		STOP IT!
From closing around the claustrophobic.
Sound waves riding through my head,
Picking up the thoughts my brain has shed.
Spiraling down the vortex of infinite chaos,
Begging the question,
		Is life among us?
Can we stop the voices that make our hearts race
Before it all just explodes in our face?
We cry out and raise our arms to the sky
As we all wave good-bye. 

(i know the last two lines just arent right, ill appreciate any comments.)...

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I can't breathe
My ankles are shackled 
I can't feel my feet,
My neck is manacled
The weight of your knee upon my neck,
Crushing my jugular, bursting veins
Tears of blood running down my cheeks,
As I pleaded for mercy, tapping out 
But it wasn't enough to quench your thirst
The world is silent, racism pushing through
Its walls, we have become claustrophobic 
Tearing through the roofs, windows and doors
To undo this Injustice served by the uniform 



Sir D'Champ's Poetry...

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