Best Bewilderment Poems

Within the echo chambers of his mind
distorted voices battle to be heard,
familiar in tone yet undefined;
connections faulty, messages now blurred.


An excerpt from my poem 'In disarray' 20.11.19

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Bewildering

Is the experience

Of many seekers of

Nothing..

Complexities and

Assumed 

Foreknowledge

Thread through 

The teachings ..

Feeding the

Narrations of

Bewildered 

Searching......

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Demented dimensions seal the fate
That I was graciously provided.
Inopportune circles reveal the truth;
That reason lies in paths once divided.
I am the broken and the shattered,
A flavor of another time.
The sun must set on this horizon,
The wind must ring its chime.
Times of joy meant to last...

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I wish I had
A way to say
I’ll love you til 
The break of day.

But when the morning
fog doth lift
A mystery hath
Left us betwixt.  

While sunshine spins
A merry-go round
Into my heart
Earth too confounds.

But if brighter days 
give way to fruit 
I’ll love you - I...

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He left home this morning 
With his hoodie keeping him warm
Saying goodbye to his mama
And continuing on out the door

He sat down at his favorite desk
Where he could hear the best
And began to flip through the pages
Of an amazing book he’s found

That’s when the silence...

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That morning
you had asked
your maid
why she wasn't
smiling happily.
Was it not
Independence Day?

She had paused
in her meticulous
dusting of you
priceless paintings.
She had looked 
at you;
dead eyes
set in a
blank face.

Bewilderment
lacing her voice,
she had asked,
"Independence day?
What are we
free from today?"...

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