Within oneselfIf I did not see it
Was it there at all?
I thought I heard the flutter of wings
Did I not hear the sound of a call?
The song of a bird
Nor an angel or worse?
If I did not hear it
Am I my own curse?...
Continue reading...
Categories:
confusion, depression, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
AlwaysAlways the cheerleader
Never the star player
Always the sanctuary
Never fully safe
Always a poet
Never a poem
Always a romantic
Never ‘the one’
Always smiling
Never at peace
Always sleeping
Never fully rested
Always trying
Never enough
Always an option
Never a favorite
Always a friend to all
Never had a true friend
Always hating myself
Never truly hating others
Always here to stay
Never been stayed for
Always begging for empathy
Never understood
Always terrified
Never...
Continue reading...
Categories:
confusion,
Form: Free verse
No titleA bond like ours is like a bud,
Innocent with no identity to mud or blood.
A bud is small and delicate,
It describes our bond as I dedicate.
A flower bud is fragile and vulnerable,
Giving our bond a name is unreliable.
A bud has full potential for growth,
So is our bond and must be nurtured by both.
Let's not rush...
Continue reading...
Categories:
best friend, confusion, dedication,
Form: Free verse
the train back homeThe cold is leaving the air
And the smell of the grass is sneaking in.
The train is bringing me home,
The home where I was the reckoning.
My body shivers in the summer while remembering,
Remembering how the other me was acting.
The lowest part of my soul is gravitating
In the cafés, passages, and places,
Without fear, shame, nor guilt,
Screaming: here...
Continue reading...
Categories:
change, conflict, confusion, heart,
Form: Free verse
Before the Latched Gate“Keep knocking as hard as one can and wait patiently before the closed gate is the best way to enter it. But find if it is a gate to perdition or salvation.”- By Poet
On a late evening, wandering
lonely through the forest track,
an eerie little house I saw.
Its tiled roof and tall chimney,
peered through the thick...
Continue reading...
Categories:
angst, confusion, fear, lost,
Form: Free verse
What is love?What is love, really—
a figment of hope
sharp enough to shatter
centuries of lived patriarchy?
To think
education could make a dent
in what’s already carved
in bone & name.
To think
a stranger could be chosen
over the familial veins of caste, of home
over the womb of belief one never questioned.
Perhaps what’s
whispered in secret
was always meant to be hidden—
buried, before it flowers into...
Continue reading...
Categories:
angst, conflict, confusion, cry,
Form: Free verse
ForeverIn the Odyssey of curling bloom,
The void lying within goes inerasable
Even though the means used are fragile enough
Yet, unable to detach complexity
Yet, unable to fulfill the felicity
of constructing those curling blooms, contented & voidless
Is stability indeed a coffin?
Or maybe it's more of a sin?
Or maybe, I lose and Life always wins
But...
Continue reading...
Categories:
art, conflict, confusion, cry,
Form: Free verse
CanvasDo you know what it feels like
to brush your fingers against a lifeless image
and pretend it’s enough?
To touch thread instead of skin,
to cry into cloth because the man you loved
is no longer made of bone and breath?
It’s rage,
not just grief.
Because he deserved more.
More than a silent death,
more than a blurred photo,
more than a world that...
Continue reading...
Categories:
angel, anger, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
8th grade, anger, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
When the Truth, LiesIt's brought to you
as if sincere,
"The News"
truth be damned!
Knowingly false,
the agenda, deception
without compunction,
to what end?
Now its up to us
to decipher,
when the "Truth" are really lies!...
Continue reading...
Categories:
betrayal, confusion, truth,
Form: Free verse
Fear in the Gate
it’s the groaning, spoken
a feeling, bleeding, bruising
remembering the broken
silence in the heart who’s losing
it’s the story, unfolding
dark as a shadow, stolen
by the ghostly, scolding
even my breath is swollen
it’s the distance between hope
and the futility of grave doubting
oh, if only I knew how to cope
how my soul is shouting!
it’s the color, gray and bleak
too weary for...
Continue reading...
Categories:
angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Nothing Like A Thank youFor the favor you did but never let me forget,
for the “no pressure” laced with regret.
for every “no big deal” that came with fine print,
I paid with a thank you,
and smiled like a flint.
For all the gifts that came with a clause,
For the cheers while citing my flaws,
For every applause wrapped in dissent,
I returned with...
Continue reading...
Categories:
allegory, betrayal, confusion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
In Time
The clock holds nothing about time,
Where a mood I star on her face.
Love, still the numbers in my cry —
The clock holds nothing about time,
A glass that's always ~left and right~
Oh, darling, for a brief while, stay —
The clock holds nothing about time,
Where a mood I star on her face....
Continue reading...
Categories:
angst, confusion, deep, love,
Form: Triolet
How Did You Care To Love Someone Like MeHow did you care to love someone like me
Whose name is burdensome for you to bear
A boy whose reputation suffers glee
And whose tomorrow uncertainties scare
How did you care to love someone like Wems
Who wants to turn you a fornicatress
Whose plans have only been to use condoms
And treats you like nothing beyond mistress
How did you care...
Continue reading...
Categories:
confusion, addiction, age, art, break
Form: Rhyme
the life of an artistIs my writing only good when I’m drowning?
When I’m down to my knees and my soul shouts heal
Is my happiness on only when I’m socializing?
When I cry of laughter only so my sad tears can be sealed
Is my depression the only motive of my paintings?
When I pour into a canvas only so my ideas can...
Continue reading...
Categories:
art, confusion, identity,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Confusion Poems
Definition | What is Confusion in Poetry?
Poems Related to Confusion
anarchy, bewilderment, chaos, complexity, complication, consternation, difficulty, disarray, dislocation, disorientation, distraction, embarrassment, mistake, trouble, turbulence, turmoil, upheaval