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Straitjackets Poems - Poems about Straitjackets


Dickens Christmas Carol Revisited By Nicked Saint
...Dickens Christmas carol revisited by nicked saint Frigidaire - from upper atmosphere hammering and whipsawing debris ferociously with an angry flare, cuz mother nature - fed up to here (re: ......

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Categories: straitjackets, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Needed Wings Today
...To my Poetry Soup friends - this was written as a thank you note for all of your beautiful, uplifting gifts of poetry and comments. Your words can mean the difference between a dark day and ......

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Categories: straitjackets, hope, poetry,
Form: Verse



Spouse Sports Unbridled Consummate Gluttonous Appetite Serving Second
...scariness), which ill affords this unlucky husband to maximize tasting, savoring and relishing every sacred moment lest any given instantaneous moment find me in dire circumstantial straitjacke......

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Categories: straitjackets, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Release My Mind From Churlish Chains
...Sometimes in churlish chains Fed up with ribald refrains On my mind inflicting pains and strains In the morning, afternoon and night When from life I gain no delight Sinking into sorrows on th......

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Categories: straitjackets, poems,
Form: Free verse
Restricted Life
...Human life deserves a platform to unfold Away from straitjackets of pious scrutiny Whose eyes, ears and hands feel so cold They reject freedom and project a mutiny Born from the scorn society......

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Categories: straitjackets, poems,
Form: Free verse



Braggart Batons and Sombre Sorties
...In my mind somber sorties unfold When morbid movements scar a hundredfold. Normalcy dead, transparency scared Empathy bearded, intransigence endeared. In my mind sordid scenes grow cold When ......

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Categories: straitjackets, poems,
Form: Free verse
Mental Illness
...Mental illness affects one in four Yet we still close the door Terms- crazy, mad, lunatics, kooks Let’s confine to history books Images of Bedlam and straitjackets distort our minds Screamin......

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Categories: straitjackets, depression, mental illness, prejudice,
Form: Couplet
Love In Straitjackets
...You bite your lips whenever I call your name with my native accent. You smile dreamily whenever I look into your eyes; sometimes I doubt you hear what I say. Your soul feels like a supernova, wh......

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Categories: straitjackets, addiction, beautiful, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Houdini's Back To Tell You All
...They orbit long with brief visions of each, four pitch-lit eyes strike the shapeless hour. How handsomely becoming is Houdini ‘pon a coward, and who, really, is he, to hide away the breach? Hal......

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Categories: straitjackets, death,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Paranoia
...Paranoia: short circuit to madness Walking around freely, Yet our minds are in straitjackets All these voices & choices Will offer mental hazards Control your action As thought misfire accident......

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Categories: straitjackets, absence, anxiety, lost, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Finally
...Finally Doctor, it's been 7 months The MEDs aren't kicking in My dreams are getting stronger, The blood remains to run code red It's getting harder and harder to get out of bed Dark ima......

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Categories: straitjackets, dark, deep, evil, horror,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Typewriters
...A few of the famous had their preferences. Jack Kerouac went on the road with his Underwood early thirties portable Royal Standard. Isak Dinesen, the Danish Dinosaur, (said with love, she was my h......

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Categories: straitjackets, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Detox
...No more water hosing or truncheons beaten on bare feet, no nightsticks cracking skulls on Bowery streets. No cold water straitjackets or rubber padded rooms, no laudanum doses sweeping minds lik......

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Categories: straitjackets, caregiving, health, water, water,
Form: Couplet

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