Battling Mind
A whirlwind of emotions
A cyclone of wandering thoughts
A tempest of trepidation
That leaves me baffled and distraught
The devastation of my battling mind
Wreaks havoc in the soul's sacred shrine.
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Categories:
baffling, angst, anxiety, confusion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Baffling
supple body in a white nightshirt
that slips from a round pink shoulder
caressing the sweet willfulness
of a plump waist
her peasant face shining, over stimulated
full cheeks that cushion light
mud brown eyes, ornate longing
lower lip near quivering
silent fear or wicked curiosity?
breasts expansive
yearning flesh
delicate seduction
soft hand reclaiming a goblet
yielding obedience
telling me, "I was fully alive once too!"
note pad away
what melts into me?
that goes outside the frame
that ought to be known
Rubens' painting
uncommon intimacy
tucked into dark corners
beating heart heavy
like my stroked steps
that whisper to the ground
eager to learn her mystery
Poem composed: February 4, 2021
Revised: April 15, 2021
Sensual Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Charlotte Puddifoot
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Categories:
baffling, allusion, appreciation, art, beauty,
Form: Free verse
So Baffling
How can you look forward to a future looking through a horrific past.
I had to grow up alacritous.I ran before I crawled in the grass.
Fought many fights, A couple of them whooped my ass.
Every day can’t be to be strictly only stress in.
Faced many mistakes while learning my lessons.
Had to close a few doors to attend my true blessings.
It’s adamant to stay strong on my feet.
Carrying a rib caged heart that constantly skips a beat.
Gasping for understandings behind hot breath that don’t care.
I continue to embrace love regardless of emotions,fears and feelings that are so baffling to bare.
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Categories:
baffling, anxiety, feelings, poems, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Blindness Is Baffling
blind snake runs to sound
the frog call rain in the pond
splash! snake finds nothing
-Thursday, June 13, 2019 Chattogram
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Categories:
baffling, life,
Form: Haiku
Baffling English Grammar
Durin' my shaky academic career I was an 'A' pupil in gym and art,
But when it came to parsin' sentences, my grades just fell apart!
I could never get the drift or hang of puzzlin' English grammar,
Tho' teachers tried to pound such in my skull with not a too gentle hammer!
Beyond me was the understandin' and use of conjunctions,
Nor did I perceive anything about indefinite articles and their functions.
Predicates and past and present tenses I would not dare define,
Nor could I figger out how verbs and adverbs intertwine.
The definition and use of nouns and pronouns gave me a fit,
And describing adjectives, well, I could hardly pronounce or spell it.
I could not conceive the rules regardin' simple interjections,
And Lord have mercy if teach called on me to explain prepositions!
Somehow I muddled through English classes to gain my degree,
But I could have done without parsin' sentences if'n it was left up to me!
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
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Categories:
baffling, education, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Love So Baffling
The dragon’s time table comes with lots of bubbling
no other way of reaching Life’s horizon
other than chilling with iniquity’s agents.
Lust comes with lots of Gifts so appealing
and my thoughts in full acceptance of lure into evil’s modeling
makes me a master and my deeds reaching the point of boiling.
Swirled towards hell, my Life is at the edge of Lucifer’s sling,
a legion of demons extend their fellowship to make me their darling,
shameful vices catching my youthful eyes like bling bling
with my mind in a regular outing with the devil to play bowling
as all virtues line up under his industry of re-bottling
to ascertain the destination of this ever destructive fling.
Even with the load, I still gracefully feel your gentle cling
with every wrong step marked in an appalling register
knocking softly from the outside for me to yield to such calling.
Despite how far I’ve gone astray, you still stay willing
to relief me of this heavy load and release me of this shame
confirming that Your love shown through my salvation oh lord
remains forever great and baffling.
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Categories:
baffling, christian, god, spiritual,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Baffling, Cloistered Bliss
A question that baffles me most
is why some men and women,
at the peak of youthful vibrancy,
opt to exchange the glorious glee
and pleasures of mundane freedom
for a life of somber contemplation?
What is it in the mute adobe walls
of cavernous hallways, dungeons
and catacombs of ancient abbeys
and monasteries that lure them
to a voluntary monastic exile,
a life of deafening quietude?
How can they seem, or be, happy
tending secluded gardens and barns,
or kneeling in candle-dimmed prayer
in the doldrums of deep meditation,
with each ego dignified in humility,
grateful, still laced with childlike awe?
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Categories:
baffling, introspection, people, philosophy, life,
Form: Free verse