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Best Confusing Poems

Below are the all-time best Confusing poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of confusing poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent One
When we search for answers from egotistic minds,
life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere.
You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams,
corrupting...

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Categories: confusing, abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Time For Poetry
There is a time for poetry, 
a time for petals as metaphors.
There is a time to sing, 
a time for lovers to serenade.
There is a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: confusing, community, conflict, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Reverie
When life becomes confusing,
my only saviour is my 
simple musing.

Susurration of sighs,
reflect sands of time,
like an unbalanced hourglass.

As words lose 
innocent connotations

i drift into my
silent...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: confusing, analogy, deep, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Sleeps, Never Dies
An old man
A Grumpy bitter old man
Bitter face
Red nose
Wrinkled beady eyes
Scruffy clothes his best attire

Life has not been kind
So his bitter words bite those around
He...

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Categories: confusing, angel, beauty, child, hope,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Snow Falling
Snow falling—
Falling.
Feathers escaping from the pillow-heaven
Confusing the air
With the steadiness of a stampede
Advancing, clinging, smothering.

Snow falling—
Settling.
White fleecy lambs atop every protrusion
Sleek ermine boas
Draped upon the...

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Categories: confusing, beauty, winter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Drowning In the Darkness
Drowning in the oppression of darkness, 
adrift in realms of the unseen and unheard,
her mind becomes blank and blind,
plummeting without sound.

Loved ones watch helplessly, unable...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: confusing, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Michael
A wilted violet bows its pretty purple head,
Like me it has no energy as sorrow pleads.
My love, once so pure and vibrant now is dead.
My...

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Categories: confusing, angel, bereavement, husband, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sex After 40
(WARNING  SIGNS)

You are old and fragile
Claiming to be a lion when in bed
In some way, you remind me of the walking dead
Your bones make...

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Categories: confusing, body, change, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Mental Health
My mental health is complicated
Now euphoric, next sedated
Nightmares daily duplicated
All my friends are alienated 
Happy times? They're confiscated
Mental health is complicated 

My mental health is...

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Categories: confusing, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To My Dearest Children - Potd
Dear Children,

I can only give you a deep love that lasts
The span of my lifetime, nothing less.
On a quotidian basis, you will feel 
The warmth...

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Categories: confusing, encouraging, meaningful, wisdom,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Memento of Motherhood
When silver waves of crystalline crescent
     emanate rhapsodies glazed in
        Jupiter light.. reflections
 ...

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Categories: confusing, emotions, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nuts In the Soup
"Nuts are in the soup!" 
That's what I've heard: not so absurd
Some add a pinch of spice now and then,
from wit and the sharpened nib...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: confusing, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetic Meraki
Upon the twinkling of silent twilight,
tranquil thoughts set adrift, 
infatuated in elysian reflection.

The mind wanders, 
observing and listening - roaming;
avoiding confusing crossroads
leading into chimerical phantasms.

Overwhelmed...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: confusing, analogy, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Drink the Kool-Aid
Chug-a-lug, Chug-a-lug – 
no matter the fly in our
President's mug, the bug in 
his thinking...my reflecting on
his ailing brain, and it's obvious
volume shrinking:

Those mindless, confusing...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: confusing, christian, evil, leadership, political,
Form: Free verse
Autumn, a Painting of An Artist
Confusing thoughts in Fall, me ceased to stalk
worries into the heart, floated and stepped aside
wonders from afar spreading their smiles in a flock
along with October...

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Categories: confusing, autumn, beauty, growth, happiness,
Form: Pantoum

Book: Shattered Sighs