Short Constricting Poems

Wedding band binding
Constricting Obligating
Love bands holds uplifts...

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Right now 
covered in wounds 
you shed the dead tight skin 
that has been constricting your breath;  
Newborn....

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Fear presses, cold steel
Constricting thought, killing love. 
Freedom paralysed.
A swallow with tethered wings
Longing for the Sky...

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Squeezed to a deadly degree
Trying to wriggle out
Of a constricting grip
Knees weak, as blood 
Rushes to my aching limbs
I feel nothing
And nothing is all I want to feel...

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Misrepresentation of life
In constricting colors
They tell a different story
That my ears prefer to hear
You’re sweeping strokes across
A paper waiting to be filled
And you’re dedicating it to me...

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“Truth
a distraction”
the media pouts
Constricting
those voices
trying to shout
Dumber
than dumb
brain dead by degree
Digging new graves
for the few
— still left free

(Dreamsleep: April, 2024)
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No dial tone to dote on
My memory is made
And my format is filthy
The tone is tempting
But the pause is pressing
My volume is voiceless
And the channels are changing
And a constricting clasp on cancel
Is my only option...

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Do you ever feel like you are dying
Like someone is sitting on your chest
Constricting the flow of oxygen
feeling the shortness of breath
Pressure that threatens to steal your last breath
I'm not dying
Although sometimes
I wish I was.
...

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                                      chlorophyll cancer
                                constricting aquatic breathe
                                         suffocating life




                                                  ....

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Heat waves burn the Summer air 
deceit makes it difficult to breathe; 
Deplete my lungs of oxygen 
beat like dog days lies beneath; 

Rush of sultriness over and over 
paintbrush colors a soft breeze; 
Gush of flames constricting 
hush now your pain can ease....

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To breathe is constricting
to walk is now strained
My passion is boundless
My power has waned

  The music demands 
that I keep up the pace
so much to do,
when I look at your face

  I see hope rekindle
I feel I can try
to put down this opus,
this work,
ere I die....

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little coil
shiver and shake
tiny squeeze
squeak
tah dah tah dah

anaconda arrives
need any help? she asks
python hisses a warning
constricting a bit tighter

louder squeak, then silence
dinner’s eyes pop out

python smiles
not about to
share her
lunch
anaconda 
slithers away...

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Gleaming, constricting-
   Swallowing Ancient worship
      Anaconda creeps.



* Anacondas were once, and perhaps still are, revered and worshiped as
A God figure to Amazonian tribal natives. Anacondas are also one of the 
few animals who actively seek, and ambush, human prey.

A. Green...

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Buildings block light
only darkness is in sight
no where to run
and no place to hide
salvation is more and more difficult to find
as factory smoke gets thicker
laws are constricting more intensely
and the sun can't be seen anymore
only one thing left to do
become the personification of morning...

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Hands to lovingly hold

Holding back

Comforting, yet

Boa constricting

Loudly wrapped, into

Strangled silence

Declarations of love

Concealing muted anger

Mother of my dreams

Warden of my nightmares

Protected by your spirit

Smothered by its dominance

Momma's boy

...Emasculated...

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Lose your mind
and I'll unwind
the constricting twine
that confines 
your wrist to your spine
and you're always mine
until we elegantly dine
on the golden bread and the crimson wine
for this pulls you across that sacred line
form martyrdom into the divine
but unless you lose your mind
your hands continue the suffering of their bind...

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Broken words thrash in my tears

as I way the price of living fears.

Abusive anticipations constricting my perception

of the delicate times I desire 

in the approaching tides of time.

But more do I value the delight 

of present times spent with my significant.

So I wait for the tides to drift in 

and relish the love I currently possess....

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No where left to run
No more Time to hide
You can't stop this disaster
Once our Worlds Colide
Stand Strong in the mist of this Calamlity
Doomed to our Compressibility
False hope so addicting
Freedom Constricting
I Won't see you again
For this is my End
Though my story is over, another one is told
All watch and listen as this story unfolds....

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Wasn't I crazy,
Or was I mad,
To yearn for love,
That could be had.

Wasn't I reckless,
To believe that skies,
Would clear once more,
For my weeping eyes.

Isn't it ironic,
That life should remain,
After all that's treasured,
Has ceased in vain.

A melancholy storm,
Constricting love with its noose,
Has left me alone,
In a life so obtuse....

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Tomorrow left abandoned
with every choice I make
Constricting all potential joy
and limiting my fate
Each short term indecision
restricting unrestrained
My future playing out of tune
a timed and dull refrain
Most often I have missed it
when no outweighs a yes
For temporal gain my judgment strained
—an orphan in regress

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)...

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Charlie consumed countless calories
chomping Christmas cake
chocolate
cookies 
candies
chewy caramels
cherry cheesecake
consequently 
Charlie complained of
cavernous cavities
and cramped constricting chino’s
Charlie can’t control continuous Christmas chomping!

Alliteration Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Eve Roper

12/11/20...

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Shadows dancing about,
encircling around wrists
changing into snakes
and then it rains blood.
Constricting coils of rope,
a clattering of bones.
Laughter surrounding,
legs run but everything
is slowed down.
Screams are silently
stolen from lips.
Falling down into
a pool of fire.
Eyes close in horror,
open again....safe.
Alive.
Awake, in the real world.

Karlin K. Jensen, November 21, 2012...

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Dreams course through;
Constricting , a noose,
Draining your oxygen dry

Attached to paranoia ;
... Back and forth ,
Eyes twitching with it

Until they catch the wind,
Until the flames are fanned,
the slow acceptance of 'real'

Your pencil draws the line,
Transforming fantasies ;
Shaping the perfect path

no more empty direction;
The rope is severed
You release the Hangman...

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Wrapped tight; 
the softest shackles 
Braided like arms .
weaving us together ,

How tight will you tie,
how much can I take?
Before the ribbon breaks,
pretty little lace

splitting all over the floor 
I want to be free 
you pretty little ribbon 
they can have that face

My laughter carries on the wind
I have my release 
constricting little ribbon 
 In pieces, reckless abandon...

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There is no breath only pain
Pain mocking draining down
Down in the sick sully vein
Veins constricting stopping now

When the illness comes...

There is no beat; only pain
Pain maddening searing up
Up in the hearts red veins
Veins constricting stopping now

When the illness comes...

There is life and no more pain
Pain ending stopping now
Now God is graceful in this vein
Veins breathing loving now...

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