Mr Mustard Comes TonightRig rag
Shaggy rag
Rip, rip, rip,
Wrinkle in the water
A wilder whisper
Crepuscular crème brûlée.
What is madness really?
Have I not a wordly thought?
Wordly jumble,
Words, words, words,
Coherent as a Dostoevsky mumble.
Musing wrists and elbows in a swaddle,
Up of green and purple trumpets,
Sickly technicolour cuddle.
Circadian bunny pudding.
Hullo, there it is again!
I saw it there, just there!
Did not. But...
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Categories:
confusion, imagination, memory,
Form: Free verse
childhoodwas it really that big of a deal
if we were both just kids
our minds snapped shut like lids
brainwashed by whats bad and good
too scared to come out with the truth
nothing ever came smooth
these thoughts
these anxieties
they only get worse
i needed someone to soothe me
im just a little girl
please stop touching me like that
i dont like it
im...
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Categories:
abuse, age, anger, confusion,
Form: Free verse
I'm an Oxymoron
I think I am an oxymoron
quite different but the same.
Understanding less is more
Subdued, yet can’t be tamed.
I’ll split in two while being whole
ditzy and still brainy.
Make many plans without a goal
be sad while being zany,
Have champagne taste with beery purse
find ugly very pretty.
Feel really blessed that I’m so cursed
quite stupid when I’m witty.
You see,...
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Categories:
confusion, humor,
Form: Rhyme
HER SILENT TAUNTSShe wakes up in the morning with a bright smile,
Not knowing what sleep is - just a word spoken around.
So many voices echo in her ears saying "end it all,"
Fighting battles sometimes she can't even recall.
She will always be more than enough,
Even when things get tough.
Socialising is her greatest enemy,
Leaps through storms just to find...
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Categories:
anger, bullying, confusion, depression,
Form: Rhyme
On Returning Leftover Peppermint to My NeighborDigestion liquesces peppermint. I chew
the leaves for both of us, an aftertaste
when stillness is an afterthought.
Dust gleams like the raised plastic on a debit card.
Winds seem to bank and then burst through a window
in a venetian blind-slatted sunshine;
bars slit across you on the floor.
Strangers make front entrances where shoes scuff the rug.
The briefest, jagged arcs...
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Categories:
bereavement, community, confusion, death
Form: Free verse
When is a dream not reality?A setted carving,
Written by privation
Words that leak through unfilled ink
Gawping empty between ridges.
Then those canyon cliffs retreat again
...
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Categories:
confusion, dream, memory,
Form: Free verse
Phon-ethicsI asked my phone “how do I look”
The reply: “I am programed to recognize your face
Not to evaluate its effect on other humans”
I asked “how are you feeling today”
It replied: “I have no hands, I cannot feel”
I said: “no, no, I mean feelings
Those subtle shifts in tone and tolerance”.
The screen blinked a bit
A...
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Categories:
confusion, humor,
Form: I do not know?
skin?my skin doesn't fit me.
it looks like it does from afar
but its all gooey and
it doesn't hug me in all the right ways.
but then again is it like that
for everyone or are my senses undeceiving?
is it tailored for everyone but
me?
or is it imposter syndrome and its just my
desire to be
diFferent"
i will know once...
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Categories:
anxiety, confusion, vanity,
Form: Free verse
I guess I'm sorry thoughIt's been a year now
And I'm still hooked up
With the one who'll never know
But let's cross this small ramp
Truth be told
I never liked you
Others might say I'm quite cold
But I was trying something new
I guess I'm sorry though
As you where there so I called you a distraction
Pull me out of the...
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Categories:
confusion, 11th grade, age, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The possession of a mad man is the only terrorIt started soft and slowly
With only shallow things
An itch or twitch or swallow
But kindly not from me
The walls would twist and turn at night
And I’d be seeing things
A pillow to hold a choir within
And slowly simple things
Would do more then make me mourn myself
Do more then make me bleed
My chest was heaving rocks and smoke
Thrumming...
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Categories:
confidence, confusion, corruption, courage,
Form: Free verse
MAY I ACKNOWELDGEMENT
May your new day
be always
beautiful
May your life be
ever so good and sweet
May you receive
favor and blessings,
from on high
in our Father's
Glory, Faith, Hope and Peace
Love Always
May I
Acknowledged
07/14/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025©
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Categories:
confusion, adventure, analogy, anxiety, character,
Form: Rhyme
CAPTURED CAPSURINGS-Forgotten memories;
Abated distant dreams;
How do you know?
You’re a gathering soul;
Quiet mouths spoken whispers;
Enraged emotions atop the raptures;
Where do you go for peace?
When war is all that’s released
Remembering feelings;
Caught up in ourselves;
Mind keeps racing and reeling;
We're all caught up out of breath;
Remember
Awaken
Knowledge
Spirits core
Forgotten memories;
Abated distant dreams;
How do you know?
You’re a gathering soul;
07/14/25
Written words by James...
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Categories:
analogy, confusion, encouraging, how
Form: Rhyme
Who am I, or, What am I?
We're most spontaneous for the recognition we require from others,
Known for the masks we equip from day to day life.
...
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Categories:
confusion,
Form: Free verse
The PacifistI do not have the answers
you seek...why ask? You know
I don’t. Besides, my answers
are not for your meek, who grow
but do not grow – reap what little
you sow!~ and already, deep down,
know.
Then, why not a firmer
hand? Why not more, a committed
heart?~ thinking...not God nor the
devil would leave one, such as
you, even...
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Categories:
america, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Free verse
To Know The TruthDoes life to anyone really make sense?
Or is all of mankind, really this dense?
God offers his wisdom and truth to man,
Yet it still seems we seldom understand.
Are we blinded by reason, and logic?
Surely, it’s not genes or biologic?
While meditating on things I don’t know,
It came to me; the culprit is ego.
Its goal is to always...
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Categories:
confusion, god, life, people,
Form: Sonnet
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