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Best Poems Written by Ben Johnson

Below are the all-time best Ben Johnson poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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A Caged Bird Still Sings

A finch 
Caged in a corner 
Of the living room 

Never allowed to sleep 
on it’s own
Without having to endure
the noise

Beckoned
Whenever you 
had to get the song
Out of your drink 

A stream of castigation 
Flowed from the bottle
If it dared to refuse 
The voice you missed 
from yourself

Claim it as yours 
So your friends could go along
Say that you taught it
so well

Leaving your 
son in the cage
So long as 
you could hear it 

Was that all
I was?

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Lead Me To the Morning

The crescendo 
of love I’ve had before
Rushes through the air

The memories 
Of who we thought
I overcame myself with 

Lost in worship 
of each other
With the irreverence 
of a charlatan 
Tongue-in-cheek

Until the hands 
came apart
Closed alone
ending each piece

but melodies 
have a way of 
embedding themselves
when the music is gone

As the words fade
you forget the face
They aren’t as important
as the notes

Fueling a smile 
strong enough to part 
eyes closed 
to tomorrow

In moments
like this
Reasons to find 
the morning
Aren’t difficult 
to come by

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The Closest I'Ll Come To Suicide Is Smoking Alone

A faint scarlet glow
behind me 
Allows me to see 
the lines
Supporting me

Beyond the lines 
Silhouettes fall 
from the sky

Creating a gentle
rhythm to match 
the winds 
I’ll follow this piper
wherever he leads

A small patch of sea
below 
Calm in the turn

Only to awake 
in the undertow

Rippled glass
Flowing
Calls to me
Silent sirens sing
for me to fall

A slower decent 
Glows from the tips
Of my fingers.
Hanging across the lines 
That keep me from her.

Its ashes scatter.
Leaving to tell her 
I have already answered 
their call.

They boast to her,
“It is easier to deceive 
when they think you are
giving something in return”