Best Disabuse Poems

"Happy Easter To You!", is the greeting I hear them shout!
Alas, I just lamely roost here, brood, ponder and pout!
I've worked for weeks making eggs and I'm all tuckered out!
All this hoopla about rabbits, I can really do without!

Me, my mom, aunts, nieces and innumerable...

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For each gift that you make to a man’s spirit,
Servant gift, not the kind that dishonor brings,
There’s a peace that comes soft. (Can your ears hear it?)
And the heart of the man soon forgets its stings.

A first kiss from a girl that you really love,
Like...

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Inner child, forever confused?
Puzzled by alcohol misused.
His angry dad when so infused,
Did with hand, belt and bat abused.

Inner child, cruelly accused,
With arms and hips then deeply bruised.
His ‘self’ reduced and made diffused,
Mental pain left talents unused.

Inner child, who was once enthused,
Broken by violence, excused.
Mind distorted...

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Those that belong to God go to a much better place
For such as these - there’s always plenty of space.

Those that depart from us do not have regret
For such as these are blessed - lest we forget.

Those that are heaven-bound shall rest in peace
For such...

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ON LOOKING AT SCHILLER’S SKULL
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Here in this charnel-house full of bleaching bones,
like yesteryear’s
fading souvenirs,
I see the skulls arranged in strange ordered rows.

Who knows whose owners might have beheaded peers,
packed tightly here
despite once repellent hate?
Here weaponless, they...

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Today, when I'm in search of news, seems no honest place to choose

          No matter where my surfing lands, my wits are placed in biased hands


Facts and lies chewed in a blender, served up smooth for...

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My inner monster lurks around.
Amid my anxieties, it can be found.
What I believed is hard to face,
Is where trauma finds a hiding place.
It could evade, disguise, and get loose.
This is the time to confront; disabuse.
Only I can set me free,
Transcending this horrific grasp on me.
I...

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I am powerless,
The drug I can't disabuse ...
Addicted ... to YOU....

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Mike and his father went grocery shopping.
Mike, age 4, chooses a tuna meal fish can.
Since his hands were full as he was swapping.
Mike opts to put the tuna in his pocket as a man.

A while later, once Dad has paid for the goods.
While they depart...

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The first few years of life 
is little different 
than death or dreamless sleep
There is nothing we can recall
as if we didn’t exist at all
events failing to stick 
like an omelet sliding perfectly
from a Teflon pan onto a plate
or sand slipping 
through splayed fingers
Then for...

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Is it ‘friendship’ you proffer (to strangers who ask)
If you’re ‘sap for sad stories,’ deny other’s truth,
If you’ve something to barter, a ‘twit’ for ‘****’ thought, (1)
Good advice you call ‘currency,’ aids in some plot
In which you stand to prosper, a carnival booth
Where a kiss...

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Go on, redouble, and write a great Rondeau;
Get out your best pen and call on your muse.
Let your light shine like Deliverance banjo;
The Lord gave you gifts He wants you to use.

Sure it’s a challenge, but that’s no excuse.
Stop thinking it’s hard or put off...

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and when she saw that vagrant man
the gears all clicked; she had a plan
to share his footsteps for a span
and then as was her style

thinking this life was his to choose
not being one to disabuse
I watched her buy some brand new shoes 
to go the...

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If I have to leave you, it won't be my choice,
But a desperate move by a man with no voice
In the judgments 'you' make on 'dark' friends I hold dear,
Don't just fear they're around, but demand disappear
From my world. In my life, what's most precious,...

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to take a whole bottle of pills
to knowingly give up on life
to jump to your death
just to avoid struggle and strife
to disabuse alcohol
to take a drug over-dose
to voluntary check out of life
to have death's door close
the coward's way out
to just cave in
the coward's way out
suicide...

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