apparently, an angelic apparition appeared
bedraggled beauty befuddling and beguiling Beau
crafty cadaverous creature credibly crème de la crème
deceptively decent, deferential, deliberately delicate
effortless easing efficacious etiquette and eloquence
fancied phantom fascinating fawns and fey in fairyland
Categories:
befuddling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC
The silence, filled with whispers of turbulence
Crashed against the tide of an ephemeral moment
Perhaps fate has a strange way of entwining chaos
And we're meant to tie its loose ends with muddy hands
The affinity to tangle even the simplest ties
Is perhaps what's most befuddling
Yet I stand here
Pondering on this connection-
With our fitted glances and stolen good-byes
Could it have been any different?
Categories:
befuddling, anger, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
205. She was my dreamer weave, roaming grace in my dreamland
Unbridled a mystic riddle, puzzling befuddling kind
Days are gone by to seek , to beseech, they were
A tide met the will, and we met as wills met beyond verses, unsay-able
To garnish the scar, borrowing Scarborough next to Tucson
Then they foretold they all, the roll the call, all became a clear water in assimilation
Unsung, they sang my song
Unlearned they preached my heart song, in near and far intertwining chime
An invaluable hymn alone, sings there in a croon, nursing clues in my gone a noon, nap time
Eternally the stanza is returning back to the first my soul sings to overcome skeptic a critic
Only you dwell there to hue the twilight clouds, discernible.
Categories:
befuddling, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Different worlds
Different times
Growing up
In our minds
Neither here nor there
Ambivalence reigned
Father ruled
Mother gained
No holding
No cuddling
Sin running
Reason befuddling
Sickness and disease
Chaos ordered in line
Six days left
To leave it all behind
What's ahead
More of the unknown
Just a basket of fruit
Showing how creation has grown
Written by Trudy Schrader on 01-27-2024
Categories:
befuddling, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Erst desires manifest, within this dream
Burst of illusions, befuddling our mind
Thirst within our heart renewing all these forms
Worst are fears we thought we had left behind
Clue to freedom, in each breath pulsation
View void of polarity interchange
Cue, the pause of hearts metanoia
Spew joy oh hermit, in loving exchange
06-June-2021
(Syllabic Lento. Rhyme pattern abcb, defe)
Lento 8-lines poetry contest
Sponsor: Joseph May
Categories:
befuddling, fear, heart, joy, spiritual,
Form: Lento
If life's giving you trouble,
Last thing to do is to juggle.
The circuses' greatest master,
Made a performance disaster.
He was too old for the show,
But couldn't let go.
One throw went bad, then two, then three,
The audience thought, how bad can this be?
With each ball he'd drop,
The crowd thought he'd stop.
But he struggled bravely on,
As the drums drummed along.
The patrons picked up the beat, started to cheer,
The further he got, he lost all his fear.
His famous ten ring toss was his final thing,
Completed it perfectly, bowed in center ring.
Looked to the lights to give thanks and praise,
He'll remember the applause till his final days.
So on the journey of life no matter how old you are,
From collective compassion, you'll never be far.
Aging skills needn't be befuddling,
Go ahead, keep juggling while struggling.
Categories:
befuddling, allegory, courage, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Couplet
Fool's gold...
In the middle of cross road I stand.
My head growing heavier as I stare
at various paths,
Leading to different directions
with various results of course.
Tick tock!
Tick tock!
As the time waits for no man,
I knew I have to make a massive decision
A decision I have to live with it's consequences.
True gold or fool's gold will I reap?
Befuddling thoughts kept colliding through my head.
As I hear voices whispering through my listening organ.
Saying "take this path" , "take that path".
The question that kept piercing through my head was...True gold or fool's gold will I reap?
I prance as I walk into the path of my choice
with the sweat racing all over my body.
My fragile heart sinked into the pool of sorrows,
As I realised that I have
A fool's gold on my palm.
25/11/2016
Categories:
befuddling, best friend,
Form: I do not know?
Ask advice from they of whom it seems
All is as it should be and you risk
Provoking as it were the revelation
That nothing’s ever what it seems to be.
For the wise are not known by their words
Questions are answered with riddles
Befuddling with smug obfuscation
So just do as they do. Or don’t.
Categories:
befuddling, philosophy, riddle, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
An ogling of her scent, befuddling,
The sight of her voice, quite troubling;
The sound her eyes make, leaves me perplexed,
Her mythical touch left me vexed;
Her skillful beauty, stunning any day,
When I sensed her, it was not in the normal way;
To describe her, simply impossible,
Too many great qualities, solely irristible;
There are no sketches as lovey to illustrate,
The celebrated features, she holds innate.
9-5-13
Categories:
befuddling, beauty,
Form: Couplet
Alcoholism, the pariah
feeding on the collapse
of self-control
befuddling the brain's sensibility;
transforming intelligence
into ridicule.
Categories:
befuddling, depression, education, family, health,
Form: Free verse