Short Tunnel Vision Poems

Will
the
one trick
pony show-
give a blinkered view....

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Wind, tornado,
Whirlwind, tunnel vision
Heightened senses...

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burrowing rodent
reclusive frugal miser
poor tunnel vision...

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pain is in living
   the near death experience
   is feeling nothing...

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Web caught in my head—
The tunnel vision clears, as
A poem slips out....

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A missed countryside.
Tunnel-vision motorists,
Race to smoke city
...

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Tunnel Vision
By: Tom
8-11-2019
Haiku

Those who have closed minds
Only see their side of things,
And are often wrong.
...

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dread
vibrates
echoes howl
left right left right
walk into the gloom
tunnel vision
sky obscured
candle (no more)
light (sight)...

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If my melancholy can polish bliss
Sifting dust of distress for pebbles' shine
Crack a rocky lair to a gemstone mine
What colors do my tunnel vision miss?

1/18/20...

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All I need is your trust
And like Gold I’ll never rust 
Solid as the earth’s crust 
It took me time to adjust 
I was nothing but dust 
Often blown away by gust 
Until I found my ambition and thrust...

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Sleeping with the sexes
Causes confusion amid the covers
And the sheets are turned down
To allow for clear tunnel vision 
But my eyes remain blurry
And between the time I rub my eyes clear
You’re gone...

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The world lay at his feet
   He never thought to look down

His Creator smiled on him from above
   Preoccupied, he never lifted his eyes ~

He just looked straight ahead
   until he was stone cold dead...

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her tunnel vision
let her see only his wealth
and his handsome face

in a tunnel she lies dead -
victim of the rage he hid



Jan. 28, 2021
for Kai Michael Neumann's Murder In The Tunnel Poetry Contest...

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With My Eyes Scene of HORIZONS

Envisioned eyes watch the horizon;
Tunnel vision cross the skies;
Sun and Moon beams overlap;
As the rays soars cross blacken skies


7/9/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2019...

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my tunnel vision

allows me to see only

the river of steel leading

to where - I do not know.

imagination has fled me


Aug. 16, 2019
for the 'SECOND EDITION OF WAYRA' Poetry Contest
Sponsor: nette onclaud...

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Day break, coffee drunk
   click click computer typing
     ring coversation

Mid Day, coffee drunk
    sleepy sales meeting hard boss
       numbers low always

End of business day
     tunnel vision setting in
        engine sweet music...

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Shake off the blinders
Shatter your shameful shackles 
Shape your destiny
I see dreams thirst for freedom
And a soul plead for release



AP: 3rd place 2021

Submitted April 16, 2018 for contest TUNNEL VISION sponsored by  KAI MICHAEL NEUMANN...

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This cold scheduled grey life 
Has me so on point and on task
The tunnel vision is nauseating 
The horse blinders debilitating 
Want for what, wish for who 
An existence built to hypnotize
Time coerced me into being  
Unapologetically institutionalized 
...

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A Provision for Tunnel Vision

Pretty prostitutes were in tunnel vision;
What Trump did was make a decision;
A lot of static,
And problematic;
For such action added perfect provision.

Jim Horn

Have you ever outdone yourself before
writing poems? Think I just did....

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Tunnel vision.

Superficial image
Of an acquired mental sickness.
Breath constricted.

Face pale, eyes bulge.
Tears of blood

Form a river and its tributaries.
Writing my own obituary.  

Pen on paper, ink on snow
Snowy fields, melted bones.

Thinking fast, moving slow.
Growing old....

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Listen to poem:

Envision if you will
how your tunnel vision
denies sharing, context and scope.
Your ambit roundabout whirls in blinkers
denies entry with right-of-way blocks
as you go round and round
spinning endlessly in the dark
on a roundabout game in the park.
Your circumspect vision funnelled 
down tunnel into your black id hole....

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words to move
fit the grove
into the haze
a smoky room
city rattle-boom
on rainy days
a maze of thought
 twists the  space sought
between ears painted in rage
of passing years that turn a page
tunnel vision
on television
where all the just
buried love in dust
and all the world must
dig around to find it
find it inside...

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Headlights on? Tunnel ahead
Keep claustrophobia at bay
"Only way to get there", he said
"You know I don't like this", I said
Brake lights flashing to my dismay
Panic arises, heart beats wild
Taking deep breath and start to pray
His punishment won't be mild



Written by: Shani Fassbender
for the Contest:  "Hutain This One!"...

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Did you give me confidence when I grew up, I'd be strong?
Did you favor the other two, cause you thought, they were more like you?

I wish I could have changed what you thought of me
I'm not as weak as you let others believe

But if it was just you, holding together our family
They can go their own way,I will let them go someday!...

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        with tunnel vision focus on you 
        around you I see nothing else
         I've got e y e s only for you. 
         you're diamond in the rough
              the eye of the storm
                 yes, my dearest,
                  you mean that 
                       much to 
                          me
...

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