Strangle Poems


Two Drunkards

They sat holding bottles
In their hands
And armpits
Pouring mouthful 
Of liquor to fill 
Their hollow stomachs.

 They gazed at each other
As cat and mouse
And spoke a lot of
Inglish with slain syntax
To devirginate 
Their motherland.

The two drunkards! 
Spoke of a nation's illusions 
And the wilted state of
A nation's elites
Raping the cultural norm
Who raped the temple?

They said something
About
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Categories: strangle, africa, allegory, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Free verse

Bloodwork

Somedays I want to choke myself to death
To strangle my neck until my face turns blue

To wrap the ends of a nylon string to my hands
Like corsages on a ballerina’s wrist

To keep dancing 
Until my face turns blue

Somedays I want to carve a pattern on the insides of my wrists
Weaving intricate patterns bleeding red with
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Categories: strangle, anger, crazy, dark, death,
Form: Free verse


Strangle

Strangle

You don’t realize
How much I hate your guts
Clutch a glass so tight
I don’t see the blood 
Leaking from the shards
That’ve dug deep into my skin.

Eyes twitching like I’m on caffeine 
Gritting my teeth as the steam rises out of my head
Every molecule in my body boiling over
To the point of a whistleblowing like a tea
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Categories: strangle, anger, dad, dark, death,
Form: Free verse

The Things That Strangle

A pen quivering above a page,
a thought drips hesitantly, like sweat
in the heat of fear.
Water does not quench this,
the dry around my voice that
stops my sound
before it reaches the world. 
When I reach into the heart of me, 
my words lay covered 
under a quilt of words
others have used to describe me,
a patchwork identity:
stupid, worthless,
asexual.
In
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Categories: strangle, abuse, anger, angst, bullying,
Form: Free verse

Peace, Rebel, Strangle

I want to
s         e
t           l
r          g
   an
the neck of the demon
who pushes me to
be in a state of
r        
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Categories: strangle, allegory, corruption, dark,
Form: Free verse


Strangle By Society

threats regrets
expects 
neglect
pace and trace
connects the steps
to face my debts 
and get me along
my way... 
rent do.. baby crying
need a diaper or 
too.. just for this
night to get me threw
sweat.. nightmares..
waking up in the mornng
like night still here...
flesh bones 
eyes vison
hands felt 
that love  in a instant.........
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Categories: strangle, inspirational, introspection, me,
Form: Narrative
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