Best Confusingly Poems

Written: December 07, 2023
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An art...

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What, I wondered, would advanced age be like.
Sighting the elderly set my mind to rousing.
Becoming like them overtook me with fright.
But now I'm old with...

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Fountain of love; spread your dewdrops on me
With this never ending joyful cherry
Transcend, higher than all possibilities
Embrace happiness under your magical wiry,

Ignite hearts that once...

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I'm starting to think the starving poetist stands alone
As the barest, most creatively nauseous human
I'm starting to believe the whole face of poetry shifts my...

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Crisp brown,
Delicate in softness,
Rare, brown-skinned feminine being,
A Goddess you are.
The dust from which your highness was molded from must have been kissed by the sun.
Vividly...

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(alternately known as the Doubting Thomas Crown 
Taj Mahal Cupid Affair)
-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -...

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A Taoist's View of Bill Plotkin's
Wounded Southern Orphan.

Really, dear,
that's too long for a co-inviting title,
How about just-us for
Wounded Taoist Anawim?

Oh
I don't think we want to...

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River Line, meandering transparent ribbon of cold.
Whirling companion, confusingly refreshing white gold, 
The road adjusts itself to the water's strong will. It lives
Its wild and stubborn...

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You'd ask yourself whether this is real
Are you ready to seal this deal? 

But you've walked away
To pray...
Confusingly, you didn't stay!
Communicate!
Is that not the way?

And...

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I am what I hate,
broken and weak.
With unspoken words,
shattered and meek.
Duellessly twisted,
soaking in hand.
Do not own a mirror,
my face I can't stand.
My words lay but...

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I've stood here before,
Within, this shadow of Pain...
It cloaks me, when I'm sad,
It keeps me from going Insane...

This mass of Darkness, lures me,
Takes me on...

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Someday, il take all the pain away,
Someday, il find my soulmate..and she will stay 
If one day her love finds me 
Will I know if...

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Along some bank of ambiguity.
Isolated while in wonder,
I lacked motivation.
Consequently, I preferred to be someplace different.
I perceived myself wandering near the banks,
Concerning one Tiber River...

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tequila smells like nail polish 
and then lemon put in it
tequila now smells like nail polish with lemon

and youre vulnerable to retching
because nail polish regardless...

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Branches of frozen trees have beautiful frost ready to drop like knives aiming for hearts
Your heart skips a beat, yet
Better yet  
Mine never skipped...

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