Short Constrained(P) Poems

Constrained, restricted hair in bun
Gray hair flows like a  high waterfall...

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My pen constrained and kidnapped
   as ink bleeds evermore

Voices cry: “Something More Be Done”
  —fury to rage and roar

(Villanova Pennsylvania: Dreamsleep-February, 2016)...

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Constrained-
By the construction of our youth;  

Making the same mistakes, in order to 
discover the truth.  

And we fight till the death of us,  
In and out of lust -
We thrust,
For our subconscious knows we must....

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He begets the inferno within
Such impediments
To one's own happiness
Covetous in his own disguise 
A condemnation to misery
Constrained to emotional infantilism 
All forlorn and empty
He can't attain anything 
Other than froth.......

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In my childhood
they 
impressed on me
not to galumph,
lest I be typed
in stereo
as my eternal twin,

and yet, 
somehow it pleases me
to see that you 
are now
constrained to know
that I will go
galumphing off
into the nevermore. 
               ~...

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Baggy elbow
Whisking a wow
Flapping & flopping
Constrained by conforming
With ambition

Baggy elbow
Blowing a bow
Swinging & swagging 
Hung from haggling
With normalcy

Baggy elbow
Trying a toe
Cracking & creaking
Tired from trusting
Itself...

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Lament
I have wished a thousand times,
That you had let me go....
When the wind sang on the rooftops,
And the ground was white with snow.
But you would not bid me leave you,
I was by love constrained.
To toil until tomorrow,
In the cold dark driving rain. -...

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An effect without a cause	
A bolting into being
Is anathema to reason	
A delirium or dream 

Proximate – and ultimate
Phenomena exclaim
There is one rule inviolate -
Determinism reigns

The implication staggers -
Our will constrained, unfree
Yet if this be so
How can reason be?...

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If we lived in a state
With no societal contract
Formal laws, constrained movement
or expression

Would that bring out
a hidden harmony?
or would humanity
debase and debauch
having no recourse
to reward and punishment?

Would we still exist, love, and share joy?
With no social control or design?...

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Rattling the cage, the raring beast twists and turns
It claws the net and filters through it a roar that burns
Its wings are constrained as the winds and sky yearns 

I am off stage, opportunities missed and faint
I know my worth, my focus is strong and straight
My voce suppressed as my audience waits...

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Suborned to serve without recourse
Bonded to fight in dissonant force
Branded as national material resource
Sanctioned to bridge political discourse.

Constrained to go on amorphous mission
Commanded to kill with cunning precision
Ordered to sacrifice without condition
Feted to die in lowly contrition....

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To count, uphold the beauty of the form,
Or to depart, defying honored norms?
To contact ground with regular impacts
Or syncopate one's way off beaten tracks.
The bard, in famed soliloquy, departs;
To be, or not to be constrained, these arts?
For I am bickered, battered, torn and worse:
A muse abused or joyful freed in verse?...

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Those silent flowers, they swell. Setting sun, open hand, clasp one by one, exposing none. Blooming figures, constrained, slight stems, Oh so fragile, resigned, alluring blend. Winds rock, gusts scream. Fragmented petals drift side by side like their swan they say goodbye. Until soft breezes, lukewarm skies, begets the silent flowers rise...

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Free will
 an
illusion.
Free, limited 
only.
Programmed 
to a path,
course of
actions
predetermined!
Endless choices,
genetically 
constrained.
Aggressive 
by nature,
or timid be.
Anything
in between. 
Choices constrained 
by nature.
Niches filled,
genetically so.
Preprogrammed, 
following 
the
genetic path
to
free will....

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That mindset
I desire
Where my thought's
Are free to roam
Flow
Without constraints
Between
The hemispheres
And home
Emotional strings
Attach me
To Earthly troubles
An drowning bubbles
I look a bout
I've lost
That mindset
Plunge
Straight back in
To Earthly bubbles
An drowning troubles
Where
My thought's
And words
Are constrained...

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If you live your life fully, death approaches as a
   friend

If you’ve risked it all, holding nothing back,
  his greeting will not offend

If you exceeded your limitations, you are finally no
  longer constrained

If you’ve given back more than you hoped to receive,
—the wind whispers forever your name

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)...

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Our Real Enemy is the Jealousy 
Hiding in our hearts 
Sometimes it can be very Greedy 
And showing very big guts

It wants this, it wants that
It wants everything occupied 
...

This state should be constrained
In case, souls fed up,
Morality  broken, laws distortion
The sunshine of Humanism extinction
We will be forced to walk
In charcoal dark...

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Deafening silence screams with rage
Unrivaled violence, no need to engage
Here inside I remain abstained
While Inside, you remain constrained
Tainted tongues our words are choked
Blood stained hands cannot be cloaked 
Internal solitude remains ignored
Incoherence love cannot afford 
Isolation triumphs, as affection shatters
Frustration devours everything that matters...

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An Attempt to betray the one you hold dear.
Turns the tides on you good sir I fear.
Truth behold your chances are slim.
Energy its self will not bend to your whim.
Monsieur I bid thee to not waste your breath.
Perchance the betrayer become the betrayed.
Time and time again you will be constrained.
Endless times I have seen it before.
Detest before you go too far....

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My options are limited.
My heart, on the other hand, is not.
I could be constrained.
My mind, on the other hand, is not.
My body hurts.
My soul, on the other hand, does not.
My options are limited.
My ideas are not.
My words are uninhibited.
My conscience is clear.
Even with my hands bound.
I will always acquire a firmer stance....

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I would rather spend a dollar commenting
than waste a half-dime on replies (SORRY!!);
I would rather say how good yours is
than thank you for applauding mine.
I do like remarks, genuine;
obligations, please do not maintain--
feel free, not painfully constrained.
Sharing thoughts that stimulate
massages both our brains.

Copyright, August 19, 2014
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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Famous garb of tighty-tights 
In flying high a child delights 
To never have a crappy day 
He smiles and floats and flies away 
 
Propensity to lie ingrained 
From that moment mind constrained 
If only we could fly again 
The smile would surely follow 
 
Old and tested never tried 
Life a disappointing ride 
Until the day that I decide 
To be like Peter Pan...

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Its outside of us somwhere.??
Inside of us; it is in our being.'
And breathing, hearing, seeing.'
In touching..We are a whole.' I
Must open up.' Defeat is passing
The spirit is not constrained, death
Is but a perception, eternity 'is real.'
As are we! nothing is the division.
We are comprehending' dreams are
Part talisman.. Our experience's are 
Woven in Gods eternal plans.'...

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writing is neat
no paint at the bottom
of your pants no splash
of blue on the shoes
it is easy
a pen and piece of paper
you are constrained by the 
words hence careful no hurry
shackled by rules of language
we are sort of organised
in art on the go
it is absolute anarchy
delving into the soul of colours
like a lunatic
beyond time and space wandering
colours are absolute bliss...

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Using the intellect
to understand God
A circle unending
no light in the fog

Our mind like a hammer
to pry and to nail
Constrained by our motion
and destined to fail

But deep in our essence
that we’ve named the soul
A voice is there calling
a bell waits to toll

To ring in tomorrow
with songs of today
Proclaiming the music
—our spirit’s ordained

(Beaupre: January, 2022)...

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