Short Straightjacket Poems
Short Straightjacket Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Straightjacket by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Straightjacket by length and keyword.
Plain Lunacy
Insanity with
no straightjacket
is just plain lunacy.
wrote 9-8-08...
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Categories:
straightjacket, education
Form:
I do not know?
Brilliant But Contemptuous
He poured his heart into the stock market
Had a knack for knowing when to invest
Tight with funds; should have had a straightjacket
Somehow he managed to avoid arrest
Passed a man living on a cardboard box
The tin cup still empty as he passed by
Though he spent his life trying to outfox
This chance for redemption he did defy
*Entry for Natalie’s Genius or Criminal Contest...
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Categories:
straightjacket, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Fire-
Fire he screamed…
From the lookout tower
Sloshing buckets arrived in the angst of men
Fire he wailed…
From his ghastly nightmares
In came his friends with those comforting words
Fire he jested…
In the crowded celebration chamber
Psychiatrists came running with pencils and pads
Fire he directed…
As a flat and distant playwright
Columnists praised on the papers front page
Fire he cried…
All buckled in a straightjacket
And no one cared to pay attention...
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Categories:
straightjacket, introspection, life, social,
Form:
Free verse
Go Ask Alice
Go ask Alice in her padded cell,
how she took a tumble and fell.
Down a rabbit hole of illusion,
Whom now don’s a straightjacket of confusion.
Go ask Alice with her veins full of Lithium,
how she surrendered to her delirium,
of smoking caterpillars and a grinning feline.
Who’s attached to an Intravenous mainline.
Go ask Alice about her sanity,
how it vanished in this asylum of rhapsody.
In a fog that is translucent and hypnotic.
In her Wonderland with painted narcotics....
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Categories:
straightjacket, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme