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Best Befuddling Poems

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The Clown's Monologue
I am a clown: silly, simple clown. 
People do laugh at me: I often wonder why. 
They call me 'fool' when I am being honest,...

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© Max Brown  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: befuddling, home, life, longing, money,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member A Time To "sew"/ a Time To Reap
The time was 1969, the place- Home-Economics class in junior high. While guys got sent 
to “shop,” those of us of the softer sex learned...

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Categories: befuddling, education, nostalgiatime, high school,
Form: Bio
Premium Member hero - the war unseen -
soldier ...

I know I'll never understand
   how maimed you are inside ...
      so many wounds aren't visible
 ...

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Categories: befuddling, mental illness, moving on,
Form: Rhyme
9-5-13
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...

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Categories: befuddling, beauty,
Form: Couplet
Alcoholism
Alcoholism, the pariah
feeding on the collapse
of self-control 
befuddling the brain's sensibility;
transforming intelligence
into ridicule....

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Categories: befuddling, depression, education, family, health,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Four
The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Four

Lovers stroll down her nubile spine blithely to pubic isle
Where under linden boughs and mulberry spread connive smile
Old...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: befuddling, allegory,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Juggling While Struggling
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...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: befuddling, allegory, courage, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Couplet
Fool's Gold
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...

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Categories: befuddling, best friend,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Sly Skunk's Non'scents'
A Sly Skunk’s Non’scents’ 

If you remember correctly, one night, I came upon Steve.
‘Twas a normal day that led to such a befuddling eve.
For, Steve...

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Categories: befuddling, animal, character, conflict, hilarious,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member That Day
She lives in the desert
with skin the color of sandstone
and the texture of an orange.
She’s a man’s man if you ever saw one.
Her carbine seems...

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Categories: befuddling, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Quote Prompt I Entry
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...

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Categories: befuddling, philosophy, riddle, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pregnant Pause
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...

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Categories: befuddling, fear, heart, joy, spiritual,
Form: Lento
Is the World Ill-Fated
In restless sleep my eyes fluttered
   Candle flames sputtered...
       I was lost in a dream

Enchanted night with...

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Categories: befuddling, fate, world,
Form: Rhyme
Counterfeited Matron
I can't take it anymore
She is so lovely in every way
Just by observing I have
No words she's like the sun
Filling me with energy! She's 
So...

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Categories: befuddling, beautiful, beauty, care,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member ORPHAN WORLD
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...

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Categories: befuddling, growth,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things