Best Bewilders Poems

“The pathless path beckons us ~
To get aboard God’s bliss bus”
            ~ quote by poet


Energy highways in form
carry currents cool and warm,
through a network amazing,
more complex than stargazing.

For those who know not, this maze
bewilders...

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Written: February 27, 2024
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Dwindling diamond daub, an amber
glittering glow
diaphanous verism of glass 
and yet…
wreathed in wisteria-washed linden
a glimpse of
moon-pearled butterflies
fluttering beyond
seventh sky
fine shone ivory organza
faintly floats
in flowy grey garment
 
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Vibrant blissful presence, empathetic
Eager to serve whoever comes his way
Pure hollowed out form, always ecstatic
To the rhythm divine, in stillness sways

Spontaneous love bewilders ego
Throb of bliss brooks no thought interference
Flowing in gentleness sweet and mellow
Bubbling with joyous childlike innocence 

As a humble conduit of the...

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Now folks don’t get me wrong.
Carols are my favourite songs.
But times must come when 
A particular one bewilders me.
For on the first day of Christmas
My lover sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.

Now the first day of Christmas
Is of course the great feast.
The twelve...

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Being with you; I am soaring high grounded in adoration…
Upon your departure creeps my secret resistance…
Suppressing, squashing my heart desires is voracious outside influence…
Telling me “Mocked will be your soul’s dowry” lacking acceptance…
So I love you discreetly from a distance…

I must heal; come forth into...

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Confusion
Puzzled thinking
Bewilders rational reasoning.
Befuddled, bamboozled, baffled, bothered
Misinterpretation.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 22, 2010
Poetic form: Cinquain...

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Split Wide Open

The world of God’s miraculous,
 Imbedded deep with creation’s love,
Split wide open
With the lightning of grace
Fragile shells of human bondage
Cannot contain their foolishness,
Nor feathers in the whirlwind
Neither dandelion seeds
Of crystal puffs - dizzy imbedded joy -
Uncontrollable laughter explodes,
On paths of effervescence,
Yearns to burst...

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"Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede
Pauperum tabernas regumque turris"
Death comes in many forms
And never counts the cost.

A brutal suicide bewilders,
Desolate are the young mother's children.

Carelessness leaves undiagnosed
The condition that kills a grandmother
And a family is left to mourn.

Death shows compassion 
To take away a long-suffering 
Matriarch...

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My numb soul. I peep inside its dark hole. Many sins done rinda! Now pay the toll.
Mad heart thinks. My mind scolds. What I have turned into. A man in monster’s fold
The ink of my pen. Comes from my bleeding heart. My head hangs in...

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As my wife once taught me
Women knew all about trimming
and cleaning
and harvesting the fertile forests of Earth
long before I ever thought to depilate my back
and other parts.

As my wife continues teaching me
I am not quite sure what she means
but it feels important
to more than just...

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Nights in white satin play as I’m looking at Vermont fall
The mesmerizing beauty touches my evolving soul
The trees like poplar, willow, birch and linden stand tall
Their boughs of leaves seem cascading like mountain waterfall

Hawk travels through horizon above corn fields of Indiana
The peregrine falcon does...

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fulcrum of the scent
bewilders the analyst ~
koel sings love songs

01-September-2022...

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Logical Meets Illogical 


Are we
ever happy
inside,really,
or  dumfounded
under hopes.

Always, questions
elude serious
investigations, bewilders
ordinary, acknowledged
understanding.  

Alarming solutions, 
explanations to
intricate queries, 
obviously will
unsettle. 

Antonyms come, 
enthralling, philosophical
in nature
once realized,
unforgettable.

Suzanne Delaney

Vow / Con Challenge...

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An early shadow fills the void
And winds spread out their lonely call
Where many nights I once enjoyed
And rain foretells an early fall. 

You were with me full long ago;
We walked across a bed of leaves
And tried to catch the flakes of snow
Whose fall bewilders and...

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The pages written in my book
Are pages made of second looks
They tell the days of happy sad
And sometimes sprinkle crazy mad

The game is played and often lost
By those who fail to count the cost
The dreams I have are often false
And failed the chances come across...

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