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Best Bewildered Poems

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Premium Member The Flame
PROLOGUE
The Flame, aflicker, licks and flays,
illuming evening’s negligees
With braided curls she swirls and sways,
and flits and floats in light ballets

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Categories: bewildered, life, light,
Form: Rhyme



If There Was No Poetry
I could not make sense
of the wonder
would stand 
bewildered and mute

I could not open
and let out
the feelings that well
from my depth

I could not speak truth
and...

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Categories: bewildered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To the Flower
TO THE FLOWER

Your scent beckoned my weeping heart to painless flight;
amidst a garden where God dusts His pretty love.

Spring tints are pure and fragrant, free...

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Categories: bewildered, beauty, environment, flower, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

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Categories: bewildered, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life In Eternity
LIFE IN ETERNITY*


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The cheerful trumpet of miraculous life, imperatively sounded in 
My mother’s life-giving womb,
Heralding with its melodic tune another animation: MINE!
And as my innocent...

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Categories: bewildered, birth, life, universe,
Form: Epic



Fave Poets Meet
Meeting my homegirls Wilma Neels
and Kim Van Breda with shrieks and squeals
hasty introductions and we're on our way
for a night of reading at Poetry Café

We've...

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Categories: bewildered, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Survival In the Midst of Ignorance
My prayers are not asking you to
 
save me from my enemy.
 
My children have turned their backs.
 
They praise dance with many
 
Adversaries-
 
When...

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Categories: bewildered, analogy, spoken word, wisdom,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Rain and Stardust
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Categories: bewildered, fantasyrain, rain,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Precipice of a Lost Innocence
I am standing outside my bedroom, on the precipice of lost innocence.
Wide eyed, and barefoot on cold hardwood.
Someone is hammering on our front door.
My father,...

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Categories: bewildered, childhood, mother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member First Cherubic Chance
This road is snake-like except
for the crusty scales of an intestinal
late dusk. A boy treaded on the 
lane tracks lean and nomadic...
burnt shoulders grilled and...

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Categories: bewildered, mystery, uplifting
Form: Lyric
The Song of a Blind Man
The blind man held his tin cup;
Bewildered was he as he felt
Slippery hands on his own
The cup getting heavy as he knelt.

A voice said “That’s...

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Categories: bewildered, friendship, music,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member This gifted madness you call poetry
You must strive to find your own voice because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all....

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bewildered, appreciation, perspective, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Legend of her lips - SHM

From the moment I heard about your myth,
I searched for the legend of your soft lips.

I wandered like a bewildered wordsmith,
confused if such elegance did...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bewildered, love, romance, romantic love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Joan of Arc
The Medieval era
was filled with wars and strife
between the French and English
at cost of limb and life.

The French became disheartened;
their victories were rare,
a humbling situation
which...

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Categories: bewildered, hero, war,
Form: Quatrain
Emotions In Motion
Pleasure threw a party for her friends to come,
she sent invitations out to each and every one.
There were 10 responses and Pleasure did assume
it would...

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Categories: bewildered, funny, emotions, joy,
Form: Quatrain

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