Short Strangles Poems

Where brackish liquid
strangles pristine innocence.
Once I even flew....

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Alone in the dark,

Surrounded by cold damp fear

that strangles my heart.

I now know freedom

As never before....

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The Eagles Nest


The master’s shelter

      Once promised eternal reign

                                   My city strangles...

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Now stolen by the seconds
before blurred and moth eaten
Tomorrow still yet formed
Destiny take its chance
laughter strangles silence
and noise creates the home...

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velvet voices dance with vibrating violins
octaves often overreached, to
inoculate innocence in
children's choirs, our
expectations exceeded, our experiences
string us along, and strangles us subtly...

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suffocating,
sooty smoke
swirls silent,
serpentine;

coils around,
hisses above
crude contours
of blackened
smokestacks;

strangles the air,
dims morning light,
darkens ashen fog:
toxic smog....

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Courage is action
When terror strangles your heart
You act anyways

Violence subdued, men
Become peaceful, not harmless
Peace is self control. 

Love exists only
When acted upon in pain
Love's not without grief.
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TIME


Mantled with the cloak of
Time
Weaved by the hours’
Hands,
Man strangles to escape
Mortality’s embrace
But all his efforts  
In no AVAIL:
The law of
Fate
Unchallenged remains! 



©Demetrios Trifiatis
 28 December 2012...

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The Infernal Serpent
coiled ’round the soul of man
strangles the love and understanding
imbued by the Creator 
supplanting it with hatred and distrust.

The result
	conflict


Collection: Attaining Peace
Written: June 2019...

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The sea is melting
The water level rises
To the eyes as tears

Even in earthquake
There is no wave in that lake
Grief numbs a man's heart

Birds taste their voices
The air clamours with fresh songs
He knows it is spring

The sun melts the mount
The river strangles silence
A vision of peace...

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How Are You Feeling Today? 10- 10-23
"There are no winners in a war initiated by hate...only victims"
Quote by Poet.
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Horror

Horror strangles me…stunned I see bestiality’s swords shred innocence…my tears light candles for hallowed healing....

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Odd feels awkward
Feel not backwards


Odd angst linger
Point no finger


Odd strange regrets
Loss strangles set


Odd echoes curl
Sour tense now hurls


Odd flavours greet
On mad sad streets


Odd angles stake
Touch pampers fake




Leon Enriquez
26 April 2017
Singapore...

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I want to be free;
Free of this disguise.
I am held captive,
It chokes me inside.

The rope that strangles me;
Takes away every moment of Glee.
I wish I could be free,
From this eternity of misery.

I want to explore;
But I am bound to the shore.

Every time I try;
It burns mean to the price...

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Odd affair
Old style air
Prompts despair
In full flair


Jazz jangles 
Mad tangle
Now strangles
Lost dazzle


Crazy craft
Pierce loose shaft
Leaking raft
Drowns old draft


Goodness strains
Watch wet rain
Flush old drains
To stream pain




Leon Enriquez
28 September 2019
Singapore...

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Look now:
Do you see
Somehow
More clearly?


Look here:
Do you know
How fear
Strangles flow?


Look deep:
Do you find
How sleep
Can be kind?


Look well:
Do you feel
Thought tells
How glimpse heals?


Look then:
Do you dance
Here when
Joy flings chance?




Leon Enriquez
21 May 2017
Singapore...

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Such subtle strokes
Private pen pokes


Buzz busy boom
Rich rapture rooms


Strange strangles spoils
Oomph only oils


Touchy thoughts tell
Signals sure splice 


Be beyond blame
Fool flashy flame


End easy etch
Swift sonic sketch


Dig deeper dear
Craft crazy cheer




Leon Enriquez
17 November 2017
Singapore...

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My love is on a rope
A string from my heart
That dangles around my neck
A noose of love
That when pulled too tight
Strangles my trust

Walked like a tightrope
I tiptoe around your lust
A balancing act 
From above
If I fall there’s 
No net or glove

So I light myself on fire
And walk out on the wire
Waiting to see
If you truly love me...

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Grows like a weed
Strangles my mind
Takes over me
This evil vine
Planted in madness
Sadness it's seeds
Watered with fear
Sunned in mediocrity 
It's ravaging, savage
It twists things, it lies
Pain's it's photosynthesis 
That's how it survives
I have to break free of it
Hack off it's leaves
Pull it out from it's roots
Before it overgrows me....

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In years, the real tyrant in any country is gross bigotry 
It's like a rope that strangles the will to be free 
It's like a poison that kills the heart of one's volition 
It's like a potion that sways the whim of one's emotion
If on heaven's will I shall have the chance to live again 
I'll not choose to be born in a land  full of disdain 

June 16, 2023...

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Mime in sweet chime
Rhyme cites crisp time


Joy in swift ploy
Employs fond toy


Bright words take flight
Sight in brisk light


Play on the way
Stray winds the day


Sketch in firm match
Catch a new batch


Voice words of choice
Poise strangles noise


Know what you show
Grow with prompt flow




Leon Enriquez
11 May 2019
Singapore...

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the one i love refuses to love me back
screams with joy to another
and whispers nothing to me
stares and mumbles
something uncomprehendable

But i long for his attention
seek for his voice
found his tolerance
and was rewarded with his vengence

i silently beg
turn around and notice
the girl sitting beside you
and...
evoke the pain that strangles mine heart...

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90 Mile Beach

Watching the waves surrender 
The beauty of this dance 
Played out like a contract killing 

The wind rips at the land like a starving rat
Angry at the moon for the tide 
Screaming for answers 
She strangles the trees 

Barely visible in the blue-black light
A silhouette against the sand 
Longing for the horizon 
He waits like a wayward anchor 
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So tell me a tale
Make it a grand sale


Tell me a story
But make it happy


There's just too much tears
That corrodes my cheer


So please tell me now
The why that strings hows


All I want to hear
Is poise in good cheer


I know too much fear
That strangles me here


Crowd your crisp telling
With happy endings




Leon Enriquez
29 May 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT...

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My memory endures a tourniquet
as it tries to forget, while holding blood.
It used to sport a bouquet
as it tried so hard to boast.

Bouquet becomes tourniquet.
A flow is held.
A part of me is throttled, my throat is squeezed.
It wants to loosen - but strangles.

Some things will not release.
Eyes will gawp, try to pop.
Memory can cause so much pain.
That tourniquet that holds so much.

(4 May 2003)...

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In the darkest room
In the bleakest corner
There I lay
Lash wounds across my skin
Dried blood upon my lips
A whimper strangles my throat
And you stand at the doorway
With menace in your eyes
And hatred in your heart
But somehow
Deep inside me
I love you
And when the sun kisses my skin
I hope in a moment of clarity
You see me in a new light
A human born
Just like you


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