Swimming With a Hook in my Mouth – Poem of the Month – January 2023

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Swimming With a Hook in my Mouth

In this prison I am not alone
There is food and warmth
A security the body craves
but a nourishment
unable to feed the mind
Here in your jail my soul possessed
Cramped in a cell, my words stifled
Expectations to meet
A schedule to follow
Duties to be performed
Resentment builds within
I tread water to prevent drowning
in your sea of servitude
I am tired of swimming 
with a hook in my mouth


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I have been writing poetry since I was a child and it has helped in the good times and bad times. I am always looking within to find the answers to life's problems and to write thought-provoking poetry and prose. Thanks for checking it out. Christine

43 thoughts on “Swimming With a Hook in my Mouth – Poem of the Month – January 2023”

  1. This is a powerful and intense situation that you’ve portrayed. It makes me hope the narrator can find some relief and break out of that confinement.

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  4. Hook removal is always painful and usually leaves scars, but swimming away, freed, overcomes all negatives. Wonderful work. Thanks.

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  9. Bravo Christine, I think you capture the experience very effectively here… That said, I have never been in prison, but have visited on a number of occasions…

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    1. Thanks Susi! I’m happy it resonated with you but it saddens me that you too were in that position 🥲

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      1. I feel there are so many who were or are still in that position. 😦 But it is how I learned never to be “swimming with a hook in my mouth” ever again. Life lessons. 🙂

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      2. Yes, too many in that position. I have been there like you, and never again 😦 Thanks, as always, Susie ☺️❤️

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