Short Deprivation Poems

the

foot lights

in blackout...

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Music and the sea 
sensory deprivation, 
I can think clearly....

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cold damp silent dark
sensory deprivation
fear alone screams bright...

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Somnambulism
GPS is off the grid
Sleep deprivation




Contest Theme: Sleepwalking...

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Elevation 
Sweet deprivation
From this world below us 
Weightless 
Lungs full 
From the high of 
You...

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The child in me was a fan
Of peanut butter, one brand
It cost more
At the store
So I never got Peter Pan...

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Blank thoughts...
dead like sardines
in a  can  I bought at  Cosco's,   
deprive me of freedom's
sweet words!...

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Longing
For Affection
Self-denial, Self-afflicted, Self-fulfillment
What condition caused deprivation?
Starved!...

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My mind is calm,
flooded with endless moments;
Tasting your float tank
sensory deprivation,
I'm left completely weightless....

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Deprivation of the situation,
Starvation proves exploitation
Fascination makes determination
He’s calling but  no explanation...

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Deprivation is a seed
An aura so haunting yet 
sinfully attractive,
pulling, and magnetic
to ignore like a laugh 
so simple yet contagious 
to whole....

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Tied up
Blinded 
Gagged
Deprivation of my senses
By my Master
No control
Loss of my identity
Trapped in this tunnel
You created for me
To keep me chained to you...

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Moans, sleep deprivation,
Groans across our great nation.
Blame all dumb inventors, 
Droughts, floods, some mentors!
We'll vanish on timely wings,
Faults saving daylight brings!...

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Clip a bird's wings at birth
so she may never feel
the deprivation of stolen freedom,
never a sitting bystander to the open
air, her song never leaving the nest 
from her body, trapped 
Eternal...

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Withered zest of life, and ashes of bleak hope,  
will have been seeping through the slits of this green heart, 
For one that was not imbued with love, 
is meant to forevermore remain dry and torn apart....

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The hungry creative seeks a morsel but fails to get
The helplessness and lack of support makes it fret
The one that yearns to succeed seldom gets the floor to tread
The right time, the right care is always to be bred...

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Fatigue rests in the foggy recesses
Mindful of the deprivation
Of the door about to close
Before the eyes wide shut
That lingers below the lids of madness
Waiting to shout at sleep that
Yells at processes of thought soaked havoc...

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If we knew in advance that all daughters and sons
keep us up every night: yours and mine — everyone’s
(teething, peeing and screaming,
yet so INNOCENT-seeming),
we’d be living in convents like well-rested nuns....

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SUPERSTRUCTURES

Skyscrapers in every nation,
Signs of mankind's aspiration,
Millions of plebs face starvation.
No dwellings for them, deprivation,
No, skyscrapers they keep building,
How many lilies are they gilding?
What else could they be doing?...

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The lighting, it was over-bright
Sleep, now a luxury deprived
For here there is no day or night
The lighting, it was over-bright.
Lethargy saps the will to fight
How long can he retain his mind?
The lighting it was over-bright
Sleep now a luxury deprived....

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Society has been infested and inflicted
With wrong doings, crimes, immorality, horror, terror
Causing deprivation, sadness, unrest;

Let’s share our joyous, happy moments
With the sad, the deprived and the distressed ones
To make their lives easy with comforts....

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Life is not a banquet or a treat my mortal friends, 

Neither is it a playground for ourselves to enjoy

It is instead a place of strife and deprivation

Where to last we need, God-given talents to employ! 







© Demetrios Trifiatis
   01 November 2022...

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soothe is an abyss I cannot seem to climb down into.

when I realize I am comfortable I feel uncomfortable .

calamity 

is all my body knows.

this little blue “calming” pill

does little but make one somnolent.

sleep deprivation is torture?

then I am my own castigator...

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Satan GHOSTLY haunt dirty men
He looks like a GOSSAMER adviser
He is not found in GRAVE so man may rest in peace
Satan for sure loves GODFORSAKEN places
Satan followers shall have GRIEF-STRICKEN end because of loss and deprivation
GROANING is main result of opening gate for Satan to comes in and obsess...

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High fives.
Jive talkin'.
I get off at five.

Five is dark these days,
thriving is scarcer and
scarcer.

Deprivation has lots of syllables.
So many that it distracts from contemptible
WAIT!  That sounds judgmental.

I don't want to sound that way.

So I will make my way.
Hope somebody's god grants me
patience!...

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