Short Muzzled Poems

CDC muzzled
on a need to know basis ~
this dog person cares


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TAMED    DOGS    OF   WINTER



The unleashed howl and snarl 
Of the winter winds
Is silenced at last
And their bite is muzzled
And put to sleep by the 
Soothing sunshine of spring...

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If things all go well, got about 5 more years
Not a good forecast, don't listen, block your ears
Could live to a hundred
Who knows, stay muzzled
No guarantees as the magic number grows near...

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The dark spot on Jupiter has scientists puzzled
Galileo is keeping our intelligent civilization muzzled
No need for panic
Or reactions manic
Just curl up with your sweetie and stay unruffled...

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Dare I deign, or faintly feign
A focal point of interest?
Imbibe, implore- inquest for more
When you tell the world your business?
Why not try and leave a crumb
For Imagination's sake?
All the drivel leaves me numb
In Information's Wake......

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I wander alone at dawn,
dreaming over cobblestones,
when light strikes four, fifty-three,
uninvited, I have little choice, 
than to still and see,
muzzled, while my night,
is stripped of wonder, and,
my sun declares,
supposedly,
I'm free. 
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Silence so loud.
At times, deafening.
Vacant stare,
Exposed, exploited.
Muzzled, mocked.
Engaged in the war
Fighting a losing battle.
Rifles out, ready.
One, two, fire.
Man down.
Mayday!
Yes, send help.
Stay calm,
Escape reality,
Lost again.
Fragile soul.

1/13/2017...

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As in days before the virus
We voyaged free as air
Til rulers sought to confine us
In penned and muzzled care

Now with freedom at hand
Yet with caution, unmanned
We steal out cross the land

So let’s fly once more
As in days before

29 September
Quietus...

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Noshing time 
for but a moment muzzled 
to bring vaccinations 
up to date

Far from a ceasefire 
this is but a pause 
without relief
for the pending prey
it is palpable 

The paws that pace
the hackles that raise 
the eyes that are laser fixed
that a purpose bred 
purpose trained
war dog
lays in wait
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A mouth that's muzzled
by chains of childhood fears
prevents the expressions
from escaping troubled lips.

Words beg to be born
into the sky of conversation,
but sentences die before living,
leaving a soul trapped in silence.

A voice that's afraid to speak
remains left in yesterday's dust.
While conversations are lost
when the mind succumbs to fright....

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Cry Me a Dawn

we fought
and sought
the light
of night


one dance
took stance


puzzled
muzzled


for each
we breach
a path
with wrath


marked hex
what next

plunder
thunder


lightning
heighten

teeth bite
our night
tongue thrashed
hearts splashed


fate drawn
hate spawn
night gone
no dawn

bye curse
it hurt

by chance
ghost dance

connie pachecho

10/29/17...

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My dear, hear me and not my perceived guilt
For my distancing quiet you demean
It is not a wall but a guard I built
To keep my darker heart in quarantine
A bitter thorn in a twisted ravine
If some midnights produce a muzzled roar
Escaping the planks of my placid floor
Allow me this one secret to withhold
It is for our love I don't show you more
These stones too crushing to leave uncontrolled

08/02/23...

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Monetize my word,
Or else its point is dull,
And pokes me, prods me ever toward,
A push without a pull.

Monetize my action,
I ought to spare it of the aught,
To feign the law's ideal attraction,
And idle sold when never bought.

Monetize my thought,
Then I'd be less inclined,
To sip from potions brewed in plot,
To mute my muzzled mind.

Monetize my being,
Perhaps then I'll have a chance,
Of freedom found in guaranteeing,
I've fled my fear of song and dance....

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