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Strangles Poems - Poems about Strangles

Rooted
...Today, my hair is jazz— wild coils improvising in the wind, syncopated with no apology. It scats when I walk, riffs when I laugh, and plays the truth off-key because it knows perfection never ......

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Categories: strangles, hair,
Form: Other
Liturgy for the Damned of Progress
...My wounded heart drinks deep from the rotting gut of misery, Humanity vomits its relics onto the oozing tiles of the real. I see kids chewing syringes like candy canes, Their innocence smashed, fa......

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Categories: strangles, america, change, christian, community,
Form: Rhyme



Fatherly Haikus
...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 Lov......

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Categories: strangles, father, wisdom,
Form: Haiku
90 Mile Beach
...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 Screa......

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Categories: strangles, anxiety, birth, boy, child,
Form: Bio
Gun shots in my neighborhood
...#The_gun_shots_in_my_neighborhood My heart bleeds, as my mind wonders, I wonder if it be not a mother's child at the receiving end, wondering if while I'm busy wondering there be a life that's being......

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Categories: strangles, anxiety, bereavement, community, night,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member voyeur
... cold rain to slow-streak the glass I watch you through - you and your christ ... the ginger bread man, sugar daddy savior, all that I was not, (and less) ... choices of compromise, to prov......

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Categories: strangles, analogy, break up, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Hopeless
...Hands of time are pacing, I'm idled and numb. Dreams and wishes that never wanna materialize, stare in the far reach of my hopes, only dust traces are witnessed. Impatience, cripples my sanity, I wan......

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Categories: strangles, character, dark, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member reconnection
... like Icarus choking on his wing’s wax Phoenix too laden with ashes to rise Sisyphus stoned by rock bottom an Angel suffocating on its halo the witch seeks to be a Fairy Queen assembles the m......

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Categories: strangles, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I gave my love to the Light
...I gave my love to the Light I loved a woman very, and for so long, she didn’t accept my feelings of love; I lost everything Years have passed, and my life almost too, I lost my present life, but ......

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Categories: strangles, fate, life, light, love,
Form: Free verse
Evil in me
...How much can i be vicious? How much can i be worst ? If i stop forgetting and start holding.. The devil whispers in my ear  Heart started to sink . Lets just forgive  Then here comes villainous......

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Categories: strangles, 4th grade, anger, betrayal,
Form: Lyric
free to feel the way I feel
...You don’t know how it feels To be misunderstood and jaded You won’t ever know till it kills you inside To you, I speak words of wisdom And it feels like I’m a million miles away Just to feel iso......

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Categories: strangles, angst, courage, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Set us Free
... Verse: Calamity, atrocity... Lord, if you please, we need a little help. Monstrosity, ferocity... Here on our knees, we pray for your strong Hand To ease this pain, bring on the rain; w......

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Categories: strangles, faith, freedom, humanity, life,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Brain Damage
...Pain settles in quite instantly your senses are totally unprepared for this graveness the notion to sleep sets in like an energetic twilight phase the injury abruptly strangles thought my ears......

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Categories: strangles, allah,
Form: Munajat
Premium Member conflict coming from our graves
... if the rain were to fall and the sky were to bubble in clouds would you return to me would you clean the wounds of my life and sacrifice some of your soul for my own what is it in this worl......

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Categories: strangles, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The End of Freedom
...("Turning of the Tide", 2019, original encaustic) The End of Freedom In the long winter nights As everyone sleeps Or long summer days As everyone plays The force of habits Long ingr......

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Categories: strangles, america, dark, future, society,
Form: Free verse

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