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Fight or Flight Mode Switched On

Fight or flight mode always on
Can't explain to anyone
what is going on in life
Internal/External strife

"Take a breath; you'll be alright"
Set a match to dynamite
World without is going mad
World within is getting sad

Cortisol spikes all the time
Rarely am I doing fine
"Wake up! Someone's calling you!"
"Look around! There's much to do!"

Balance work and what's at home
You're fenced

Categories: switched, depression, loneliness, mental health,
Form: Quatrain

Pandora's Box Switched On

Pandora's Box

Is truly alive and well

Thriving to this very day 

Streaming and beaming away

Into the vast majorities of family homes

Not actually opened 

But rather willingly freely 

Switched on under the misguided illusion

We believe and buy into it to be 1 part entertainment

And 2 part information and knowledge

Based upon truth and facts to impart 

And like

Categories: switched, abuse, community, power,
Form: Free verse

Light Switched

Living without Jesus is like walking around in a dark room you can’t see where you are going but once you find Jesus it’s like all of a sudden the light has been switched on and you can see all the obstacles in your way and God gently guides you into a new day

Categories: switched, blessing,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Pissed Off Is Switched Off

A man who is hurt beyond words
Begins to think of crossing swords
The air rending with harsh war cries:
"Shame on who for cowardice flies!"

A man who is hurt beyond words
Terrible things does to binding cords:
No more rushed "Hellos" and "His"
He leaves minds to find out the 'Whys?'

A man who is hurt beyond words
Accepts to fight in

Categories: switched, character, cry, emotions, violence,
Form: Rhyme

Baited and Switched

Salt lick temptation
lures that dangle,
camouflaged darkness
masks and blinds

Easily captured
when most attracted,
flypaper memories
—trap and bind

(The New Room: November, 2021)

Categories: switched, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Switched Back On

Emotion comes in so many forms, 
Out of nowhere, it simply arrives,
A certain feeling comes over you,
Can’t believe, twas buried inside. 

Now this is fantastic, boy it’s great,
Lost and carefree, again aged three,
Uplifted and ebullient all at once,
Impervious to decadence I’m free.

Nonchalant as a meandering river,
High as a steeple, I’m touching the sky,
Lost in translation,

Categories: switched, appreciation, cheer up, depression,
Form: Rhyme

The Day I Switched Classes

"Miss Stokes, what do you think Pip was thinking?"
Uh-oh. I possibly should not have pretended to be my twin today.
I am taking her classes, pretending I am sick, rather than she.
This is 7th grade English, and I have not even heard the word
Great Expectations because my twin hates English as much as I
despise math.

In my

Categories: switched, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse

Switched On

Not a switch 
To turn off 
Then back on 
At beck and call 

Push one way 
Then the other 
Words meaningless 
Without voice 
Obey when spoken to 
clap 
did it work

A relationship 
More like a slave 
Do I exist 
Maybe invisible 
Need glasses 

Awakening light 
Pressed too many times 
Icing on the cake 
Let me

Categories: switched, sound, voice,
Form: Free verse

Sequence-Switched On

A
light thrown
onto life-
the visual 
word
is 
risen-
a constant,
in a changing
world

See more @ John 20:21 & 22

Categories: switched, hope, love, peace
Form: Lanterne

The Light Switched On!

I celebrate no light switched off,
I celebrate no ragged cough,
But sing, I do, the men of mind,
And I myself, who am not blind.
I sing the pride of happy wealth---
That light-foot walk of free men's health
When, with chains of tyrants cast away,
Promethean minds invent and play.
They lighten loads and brighten night,
They make the wings of length'ning

Categories: switched, dedicationlight, light,
Form: Rhyme

Switched On

Wall
hangings-
neon lit
decorator's
piece.


Ekphrasis after Dan Flavin

Categories: switched, art,
Form: Lanterne