Constricted Poems | Examples

Premium Member she felt like his prey

she felt like his prey
personality deceased
no longer herself

trying to please him
angry sullen little man
enjoying her pain

she felt constricted
attempting to make him glad
her soul was dying

did she realize
she aided in her abuse
sadly I think not

The Great Return

Let's bring it back; let's go back
To that sweet, old thing we now lack

Make it great again, go back again
Let's start right away; let's begin

Back to organic maple syrup over Mama's hot, buttermilk flapjacks
And Daddy's Saturday morning tutorials on how to change the oil and how to use a scissor jack

A return to strangers saying 'hello' to strangers in passing
Souls offering sincere pleasantries that are warm and long-lasting

Let's take a trip back to Mayberry
With some good old-fashioned Andy, Aunt Bee, and Barney

Back to decency, respect, kindness, and hospitality
A good, wholesome place; a good space of love and integrity

Let's go back far away from the masks and the distant, cold stares
Back to sharing a sandwich at lunch and car ride shares

For too long, we've sat lonely in a sunken place
Such a cold, dark, and constricted space

Let's go back, let's revisit, let's taste that lost sweetness
That wholesome, rich thing that's bustling with goodness


Premium Member Can't See The Light

Tonight, I'm not doing well.
My mind is in a bad place.
It's forcing me to withdraw.
I'm trying to find some space.

This has already gotten bad
And it keeps on getting worse.
Why do I have this burden
Of having to deal with this curse?

I feel something around me
It has me constricted
The outcome of these
Can never be depicted.

I'm here all by myself
I have to be by design
Nobody can see me like this
I want them thinking I'm fine.

My body keeps growing tense
My muscles are getting tight
As this depression grabs ahold
I no longer see the light.
Form: Rhyme

Torment

A wind blasted tree,
not lightning struck,
but raped
by a heartless wind.

Just the one tree
on a bare-assed hill,
It stands pallid and naked,
its bark striped away
by raging teeth.

I pick up a stick from the ground,
it’s a severed branch
as stiff as an artificial limb,
tap the storm-shorn trunk,
note that the tree
is not hollow yet.

If lightning had split it,
it would have echoed
a deeper, deadlier silence.

Within the wood
is a narrowly constricted throat,
it is still able to speak
through that elongated windpipe.

What did I hear?
I heard a caged wind
being strangled to death,
and death, it had a ghost-white face,

that’s what I heard,
that's what I thought I saw
through wide, and astonished eyes.

Premium Member Human Limitations

Ancient maps,
streaked with stars,
charted paths unknown.
But oceans are vast,
a whispered warning:
the world too wide.

Stars explode,
a symphony of light,
a universe in flux.
But what is hidden
behind that cosmic cloud?
Our minds yearned,
but our vision blurred.

Humanity delves,
with sharpened minds,
seeking to unlock
nature's hidden code.
Yet the universe
whispers in quanta:
a mystery endures.

Concrete canyons
climb for the heavens,
our aspirations are vast.
Yet, the earth gasps,
her lungs constricted,
our impact lingers.

Our minds reach,
but grasp at phantoms,
caught in the cycle.
To create and destroy,
then recreate,
the endless dance.

To see ourselves
in the starry void,
is to recognize,
both vast potential,
and finite flaws.
For even stars
have a final burn.

We are creatures
of yearning and longing,
ever searching,
forever bound,
to the dance of the universe.


Premium Member Still Going for a Win

Hosed, he may not win, piehole’s constricted.
   Food tossed into pipe, and wedged.
      Yet, with save, he’s unhinged.
Form: Kimo

An Open Letter to the Flat Earth Society

Do you sometimes use GPS
To navigate your flat world?
Did you ever wonder how all those satellites
Get around to the underside?

Do you use a flush toilet
Or a siphon?
See, fluids can sometimes run uphill.
Your “the Amazon River is flat” theory
Fails to hold water.

Did you ever consider an Antarctic cruise?
Did you ever want to sail around the South Pole?
You could look out for the ice-wall
That you think holds the oceans in.

Do you recognize a metaphor?
When the Bible talks about the
“Four corners of the Earth”,
It’s an idiom for distant lands,
Or is your world-view ‘square’?

Every other celestial body we can see is round.
Why should the Earth be so different?
Phases of the Moon,
Pictures of Earth taken by astronauts,
The “celestial spheres” really are spherical.

If you need a book to tell you what is real,
Try a physics book.
If you need a tool to discern what is right,
Try logic or experiment.
Try to see beyond the horizon.
If your world is really constricted
To what you can see from your limited view,
Then, perhaps, start walking.
Form: Didactic

When the Walls Were Red

I remember when the walls were red.
Not a single person was dead.
The room was big and wide,
And it was so easy to confide.

I lived in cabin seven.
Jacque called it Heaven.
I never thought I’d forget.
It’s like we never met.

Now the walls are no longer red.
My old friends might as well be dead.
The rooms are so small and white,
And the air feels so tight.

Now I stay in eleven.
I just can’t connect with Kevin
Their calls still echo through these halls.
I’m constricted by these new walls.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Dime in His Pocket

   A dime in his pocket
     hope in his heart
   Just his clothes on his back
     but he’d make a new start

   Constricted at home
     he took to the road
   Foraged for food
     yet upright he strode

   Three days and two nights
     of this, all it took
   For him to come home ~
     let mom and dad off the hook
Form: Rhyme

sellout

You're not profitable
announced the sentence to the verse
and slapped him with her length

the verse gave a good long look at the sentence
staring look

(you're soo punctuation constricted)

- chasing after money makes people forget to be free

Beautiful Struggle

Beautiful struggle.
Struggle taught me to be bold.
It taught me not to be whom, I was the previous day
Struggle taught me to be strange and 
It taught me to wise and dumb at the same time
Struggle made me who I am today.

The bigger part of me is made of struggle. 
It taught me to see things I never knew.
It showed me future in a present way that's was harsh.
Struggle gave me best lessons to be better.
It showed me peace when everyone was crying. 

It taught me difference between hate and love.
Struggle never left me alone.
It showed me flames but I made peace with it.
Struggle taught to praise victory no matter how small it is.
Struggle taught me that heroes are not born but made through pain.

Beautiful Struggle. 
It taught me to have a very constricted mind.
Struggle and pain,are not the same in my world.
It will mould you and teach you to who you are.
Without Struggle I would never be myself again.
Happiness has no part in my diary
But Struggle is what I know best and the subject I do perfect. 

I'm the Best, Beautiful Struggle. 

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Craving

I live the invention of existing
in a constricted sensation of becoming
I want to live from life, the solution...
I long for the essence of creation...
But I fragment into
hidden projects
that reflect secret desires
while I just wish earnestly to live...!

Premium Member Place Setting For One

How long had it been
    since his lips touched food
  Hallucinations parade before him
    fork and knife, wolf and lamb

  His arms outstretched
    chin devours the sand
  throat constricted, the flame flickers
    oozing blood, consumes a man

Hawk Eye and Joni

Hawk eye and Joni 
taught me to dance
The dance of the shaking keys
Different status's same margins of collar and trance
Hawk eye and Joni taught me to dance
Real still time to trim crime fat chance 
Lift the thoughts a picnic of toler-ance
Bee Gees at the roller rink
Joni Mitchell with her genius iconic Ink
Running circles around constricted culture
Driving substance into something that was all show
We are at the setting of her dream
A memory to glow and light shining bright as a star
Always shining bright as stardust falls
Joni gave us a soundtrack during our growth
Where passion inspires A pin dropped
Dropped a heist on fate
The pain the fear sequestered by hope
Born to bring the song and our spirits higher
You bring the light that sparks our desire

On Floyd

On Floyd
Riots unleashed, arson, looting and destruction.
You officers of law mindful of your job
Are you aware of what you have done?
You judged and executed not your duty
But a human life.
Is that ‘bill’ more precious than breath
You constricted so brutally?
Were you so inhuman not to see him struggle
For his life?
You are no better than a beast
Officer of the Law.
You heard the protest of one man
Now, you have thousands screaming for your blood.

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