Short Gagged Poems

bound, gagged, blindfolded
my statue of liberty
freedom or fiction?...

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The smile, so tender and byzantine,

stretches to cover

a mouth gagged by truth....

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the whole world now knows
pulling the plug on free speech
is the new order

 © Harry J Horsman 2021...

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So much left out.
What begun undone.
Gagged germination 
   withered the wine.
Despite despised
  by measly meager merely....

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A woman with underarm hair
Decided that she would go bare
She lifted her arms
Revealing her charms
But everyone gagged in despair...

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Opinions sanitized
Freedom of gagged speech
Trespassers legalized
Patriots criticized
What values do we teach?

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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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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I tiptoed near the gulag
This eve of new year.
The gulag
Gagged like a grave yard.

I stooped
And waited.

Midnight
Ungagged the gulag.
I grinned
At the gust of "hapi nu ya!"...

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She was pretty. Her long hair was yeller.
He was ugly… a balding old feller
He slurred, "ma handle be Luke,"
She gagged and started to puke,
‘till she saw the gold stashed in his cellar!...

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Prison Of Flesh

Pregnant and constipated
Gagged
Asphyxiated
Want to jump out of my skin
Nonplussed and exasperated
Black bagged
Unenumerated
Everything is without
And I am locked within...

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Pity poor cheap old Adolfo Santiago Minestrone
  Gagged on week-old baloney and congealed macaroni


        April 22, 2019
Entry in 'An Epitaph to Make us Laugh 2' contest
     Sponsor:  Jesse Rowe...

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Here I sit, as the King upon my throne.
Logic bound and gagged by Fight and Flight.
Amygdala, my Kingdom of hormones,
turn up heart rate, improve hearing and sight. 
Perspiration, my signature cologne.
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Someone’s tied me up,
And gagged me.
Must be someone’s cruel ruse.
I try to breath but it’s no use.
The rope is breaking into my skin.
Please, Lord, help me,
This pain just won’t end.
So shoot me now,
And end this cruel ruse....

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When Mother Eagle returned with her wormy swag
Each of the eaglets grimaced and gagged
"Eat that slimy thing?
You've got to be kidding!
We'll wait and see what Dad bagged!"


7/29/11

Received 6th place in "Pure Thoughts on Nature" contest...

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For Aung San Suu Kyi

manacled
you remained unyielding
bruised by their bayonets of power
you remained unyielding
gagged by their coarse brutality
you remained unyielding
today you return
and we salute
your spirit
that remained
and remains
unyielding...

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GAGGED

a gale force
wind gagged
my mouth with
long and fierce
violent hair

a green slime
lake oozes its
eyes sick with
all that time
has swallowed

turning elated
pallets from
green to red


© Kim van Breda—2 November 2015...

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Beauty held her
      Light soft feather
Brushing his nipple so
It was as if a million
      Shudders flooded
His skin a crimson glow
Tethered hands gagged mouth
      No stifling his moan
The feather crept lower
Teasing ever lightly
      A will of its' own....

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Wrapped up 
Kept up 
Gagged and bound 
Lost and found 
Running 
Stunning 
All the same 
Say  my name 
Ans shut down 
Never frown 
Dry your eyes 
No one dies 
It's the end 
Non need to fend 
Just carry on 
And wait till down 
Then you will see 
It was always me....

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Blood soaks the streets in your name
Eating offal in the rain
The dogs of war are howling
As the rain washes it down the drain
Empty shells fall to the ground
Everywhere rotting bodies are found
We are bound, gagged, beaten and raped
Blood soaks the streets in your name....

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The game, our game
Played by daughters of Eve
Sand-witching sons of Adam in their laps
No man ever had good tales to tell 
When gagged by the Sharon’s daughters
Indeed the serpent of our time  
Our game, their game, the people’s game. 



Alayande Stephen T.
11th February 2007
2.16am...

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Eyes of the past
Look into the present,
Seeking the future,
muted by time-
gagged by the grave


Note Although not inspired by this poem ,the painting seemed to fit 

http://jssgallery.org/Paintings/Daughters_of_Edward_Darley_Boit.htm

 by John Singer Sargent ,noted for his society portraits...

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The average one is restrained by mental leashes 
Bound and gagged twenty four hours a day
A common trap that remains difficult to avoid 
The free one is overwhelmed with possibilities 
Too much to do in one day 
An uncommon landscape that remains hard to locate 
Barricades mold the thought process...

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he uses twitter
so few words disguise the truth
read between the lies!

political aides
are sacked for whistle blowing
gagged for truth telling

the world’s media
contaminated by lies
read between the lines!


Contamination Contest
Sponsored By Kai Michael Neumann

4/2/18...

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Life, A melody
Meticulous blending
Of sorrows and joy
An unknown peninsula
Where we gain weight
Too long to fly
Stick to our own plates
Rapturous in Proportion
Inducement sediment
Parameters of love and lust
Sneaking hours of indolence
Gagged life unworthy to live
Only one way is left
Luscious hours
But you should burn them all....

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The day began in ordinary ways. 
I said goodnight to the dawn-gagged morning, 
tipped my hat to the lone cricket 
who'd hung around to sing me to sleep; 
and dragged my Gemini muse, kicking 
and screaming, into bed for some 
subliminal conversation. 

My pen wants to write a song 
and she's stomping around my head 
in combat boots....

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