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Stockades Poems - Poems about Stockades

Urban

...our lifearchitecture is helical,
she remains unbalanced,
missing the central angle.
the staggering spiral,
descend from altitude and plummet.
it's a spring that rolls like a ball,
plops on the ...

Categories: stockades, city, future,
Form: Burlesque

The Family of Man

...

Let's pretend, that life is one big joke?
We will end up in stockades,like pigs in a poke.

Laughter is enormously great therapy.
Yet some prefer jokes to reality.

Guffaws won't help y...

Categories: stockades, humanity, perspective, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

My Self-Published Book On Hate, Written In 3 Chapters

...Chapter 2, The 1492. 
That’s where they like to begin. They skip over the terrorists activities of theft, plunder, and genocides. When we naively thought freedom was free, We paid our lives for it d...

Categories: stockades, america, bereavement, black african
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

4th of July Bbq

...Too many kabobs
to skewer
plus bone-dry ribs.

Me?  I’ll stay
with pink lemonade

and watch 
       the turbid sky
and watch
       the stars reload

And so study 
serious stockades a
s...

Categories: stockades, america,
Form: Free verse

Asylum Thoughts

...In a cemetery,
a boy is holding a lurking flower
he carved his father's face on his palm. 
He waited for the mouth of the grave to open
so he could use a basket to gather his tears. 
He crossed ...

Categories: stockades, absence, age,
Form: Blank verse

The Trash Heap

...Note:  All lines in this heap are from failed sonnets that I tried to stack without having any two consecutive lines come from the same poem.  I had to break the rule twice.  It was nice to find a us...

Categories: stockades, silly,
Form: Sonnet

Within My Mind

...There seems to be a problem inside my mind,
There are dragons roaring behind closed doors
Princesses scraping along prison bars
And usually dancing fairies trying to dig their way out

There are...

Categories: stockades, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse