Befuddle Poems | Examples

Algebra

Whilst algebra for many is so poorly understood
At school I put the effort in and I became quite good
Three apples being equal to a carrot and two pears
Was obvious, for camels are a donkey and two hares

A bicycle without a wheel was equal to a boat
But take away an apple and you’ve got a mountain goat
Though if you multiply an orange by a seedless grape
The answer’s twenty six and a recurring hairy ape

Who knew that one banana added to a coconut
Might equate to seven minus half a water butt
But, hey, I passed exams that say I’m clever as can be
Two peaches plus an aubergine will not befuddle me

The usefulness of algebra is difficult to see
Unless you need to prove six plums are very nearly three
But what I learnt of algebra I never did forget
Though now I’m ninety seven… and I haven’t used it yet

sorry witchhunter

royal boil foil trouble

put this man inside a bubble

hang him to a tree

splash some frog newt tea

stranger to these woods befuddle.

You Can But You Can't

You can talk down on my name.
You can crack open a can of chaos.
You can recruit others to do the same.
You can try and crisscross.

You can send the 'evil eye'.
You can play behind my back.
You can tell a dastardly lie.
You can send a spiritual attack.

You can try and dull my shine.
You can try to weaken my fight.
You can try to befuddle my mind.
You can try to block my light.

You can attempt to sap my energy.
You can even scoff.
You can try to step on me.
You can write me off.

You can lurk and spy.
You can wait for my downfall.
You can poke and pry.
You can sing Satan's call.

In the end, you can project your negativity,
But what you cannot do is stop my destiny.

seek and ye shall find

in our earth life role
that we feel blissful and whole
we search for our soul

feeble thoughts muddle
and holy books befuddle
with fear we huddle

silence sets us free
head and heart with love agree
soul frolics carefree


made in God’s image
we then must be living light
free from earth life pain

past life regressions
proves we are soul eternal
but we’re anchored here

in tranquil silence
thoughts ebb and then ego dies
the false falls away

Shanquella's Sanpaku Tale

Eyes! Doleful and lonely as they quietly penetrate my soul

In their silence, I can hear clamorous rumblings of a tale that pleads to be told

Far-reaching and clamorous are these eyes

So much so that not even their beautiful abode can cover or disguise

Beautifully haunting, they are

So deep and so regally divine

I see them. I feel them. 

Deeply, 

Deeply, 

Deeply, they touch

As they meticulously befuddle every morsel of my being

I awkwardly attempt to look away

But like a magnet, they pull me close,  closer

Then they speak of many tales, from a whisper to the pinnacle of rising octaves

Sorrowful narratives of manipulation, deception, jealousy, ghosting, envy, greed, betrayal, hurt, sadness, and even the macabre

They speak of wondrous hopes and dreams in the dawn of life that were quickly and heinously turned to night

All we require

Life’s inflicted many a scar
From God’s light, we’ve drifted afar
Desire begets fear, fear desire
Love and light is all we require

We drift through life, as though we’re blind
Shifting goalposts befuddle mind
We’re caught up in ego’s quagmire
Love and light is all we require

Milestones attained have left soul stained
Trapped in desires, we’re by lust chained 
We’ve toiled all our life, now we tire
Love and light is all we require

Within heart rages a great fire
Love and light is all we require

Nights Infusion

Nights infusion
bleary eyed rivals
in Soho tweed
Pharaohs joke was here
Denim clad oxymorons
with spotlight eyes
Archways lean close
as sticks befuddle
their spark of epiphany
A jewelled silence
captures the gangsters in silhouette
Freaks five a penny
prolapse the night

Life Laughs, Death Waits

That which thought wrought yesterday
may befuddle us now

but with the coming of a good day 
lives can survive the morrow

though the mind be confused
and heart sickened

the sun will rise still 
and some beleaguered souls

in their final resting place will lie
and greet the dark with peace.

I Only Wish

Kiss me, cuddle me
arouse me, befuddle me
time albates with seduction
enkindle, caress, slowly undress,
resist all other disruptions.

Tempting Time

Time, O Time!
Rest a while in my arms.
Cannot I waylay you with silken whispers,
sweetened promises, and love irresistible?
Come and drink deeply of my mortal sap.
Let it befuddle your senses and cloud your judgement.
Let it drive you to madness and obsession. 
Let it bring you before me begging and pleading,
for a taste of life and death upon my lips.
And then you will be still -
and we shall be eternal.

29 October 2021

Hysterical Blindness

It continues to befuddle my inquisitive mind
why many of you have attacked and maligned
vaccines, and have decided to become aligned
with other naysayers. Are you physically blind?

It's not amusing when false dogma spreads terror
Your claims are outrageous and uttered in error
Open your eyes to the truth, and be a torchbearer
instead of creating hysteria as a rankled despairer.

I'm not suggesting you wear rose-colored shades,
but stop throwing darts at hearts and live grenades
at those fighting for the right cause in the crusades.
Life or death is not a game to play like charades.

I wonder how you'd feel if one you loved had died
for refusing to allow a needle to pierce their hide.
Would you admit your theories had been cockeyed
or pig-headedly insist, "Vaccinations are unjustified."

Remove the cloth binding your eyes. Set yourself free
of lies sweetened with rhetoric, so we all might be
safer in a world that's not destined for its apogee.
Listen, if you refuse to see. Please consider this plea.



October 5, 2021
This or That, Vol 7 Contest - Hysterical Blindness
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh

Take That

Little Miss Take would steal anything
She’d steal from a pauper, she’d steal from a King
Don’t show her a bell if it goes ding a ling
For when you’re not looking she’ll half inch its ring

Little Miss Take does not like to pay
She knows what she likes and she’ll whisk it away
She’d steal the moon as it slept in the day
She’s barred from the grotto, she nicked Santa’s sleigh

Little Miss Take if she needs to be fed
Will nab eggs and bacon and butter and bread
And getting it cooked won’t befuddle her head
She’ll just nick the camping stove out of your shed

‘Little Miss Take is my name,’ she once said
But she wasn’t named as a thief, but instead
’twas only a quick drunken fumble in bed
And her mum and her dad hadn’t planned to get wed


[If Adam Hargreaves would like to get his hands on
this material (or to sue me) I can be contacted through
Soup Mail... or any half way decent lawyer]

Be Not

Be not becalmed, but busy, buzzy, bustling; 
bedazzling but not bedraggled;
beloved, bewitched but be not besotted.
Be bewitching, but not belittling nor besmirching.

Begin to be -
become, belong, befriend, beseech, beget
Bewilder, befuddle, bedazzle, 
Make bequests - beguile, beseech, bestow, bequeath,
to belay fate bedeviled with
what is not to be.

Beyond the buzzing, hustle and bumbling
be businesslike, but not belligerent nor bossy
Be bespattered with pollen begotten in harvest.

Happiness

world's trouble

dark sky...

depression subtle

i deny...

emotions muddle

i sigh...

thoughts befuddle

i belie...

tears puddle

i cry...


God subtle

I comply...

Divine cuddle

I rely...

Believer's huddle

I ally...

Blessings double

Blue sky...

La, La, La, La, La

A love burning bright
A hatred bringing fright
It ends in a blaze
Two hearts trapped in a maze

You loved your puzzles
For the masses to befuddle
Our blood forms quite the puddle
And the monster guzzles

La, la, la, la, la
You were my first
La, la, la, la, la
Watch my heart burst

When you let go I knew
And the reasons left me blue
Fight after fight I sought reasons why
Not to tell you goodbye

You loved your games
And tricks made your day
These would be your greatest shames
Because eventually you had to pay

La, la, la, la, la
Don't speak to me
La, la, la, la, la
Please set my heart free

La, la, la, la, la
Don't
La, la, la, la, la
Speak
La, la, la, la, la
Please
La, la, la, la, la
Don't
La, la, la, la, la
Speak

Please speak...

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