Short Oubliette Poems

Oubliette
Dark, alone
Isolation's naked, truth
Lonely hunger, sadness withdrawn
Dungeon...

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from the oubliette
far down in the lonely ground
the sound of weeping
out of sight, but not of mind
drown out the echoes with wine

by Gail...

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If the day comes
that I shall write no more
not aTo exist as ordinary.ble to canvas
visual fantasies of my soul.
On that day! I shall be ousted as an artist....

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In time my senses came to terms 
With such medieval justice,
And found the hole they cast me in 
Accustomed to my taste.
I’d made myself a tidy home, 
Proclaimed myself Augustus.
Content within my realm of stone,  
All memories erased....

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The threshold of my Rubicon,
a thousand times been crossed!
For though I've lost I've also won
at such a dire cost.

Locked inside my oubliette,
covered in frost, I cannot feel.
I pace and fret, and shan't forget-
I'm but a cog in a greater wheel......

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Like the deepest darkest chamber
Way below the castle wall
There’s no one to see the teardrops
There’s no one to hear you call
High above a light is shining
Is that laughter you can hear
People talking, people playing
While you’re trembling with fear
Though the cell is non existent
You have only you to blame
There’s no lock, there are no bars
But it holds you just the same...

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My companion is confusion
There are demons to be fought.
They reside inside my mind,
Messing with my thoughts.

I try not to listen
But they whisper in my ear,
They tell me awful, awful things
While laughing at my fear.

I was given medication,
Saying it would help, but yet
My mind is still imprisoned
In this mental oubliette.









Entry for
The I Of The Storm Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Maureen Mcgreavy.
23/11/18. Placed=1st....

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