Best Disbands Poems

POTD June 15 2025

Smoke And Mirrors – Channelling in the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe

When regulation picks at pillaged dreams

The searchlight shines its brutal beams

As shadows spill its borrowed light.

judgement retains its fractured fight.

A blind eye turns as life disbands

the gavel strikes by unseen hands,

The...

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Each reel of snowflake leaves behind,
fine traces of her glowing days,
a melancholy cast of mind,
while color sets the world ablaze.

Where flies a gold and opal whirl,
as the moon's lulling course disbands,
and chilly winds of winter swirl,
the hardened heart against it stands.

And yet this night contrives...

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Nothing is constant but change, it is said...
I hate that saying
I hate change
I hate the change of love to indifference
I hate the change that makes a lover a friend
I hate the change that makes a friend an acquaintance

I've witnessed changes...
a band of friends disbands
collaborators collide...

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While midnight bats are gnawing gnats and feasting free unseen,

a toddler’s fed from garbage sheds an elegant cuisine.

Along the trails in distant dales a lonesome wolverine

feigns appetite on fogy nights and days of crystalline.



The circus gongs excite the throngs in nighttime Never Land –

they swarm...

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Behold the picturesque anachronism, attempting to control are lives.
A donkey and an elephant arguing before our very eyes.
A donkey and an elephant debating all their lies.
Multitudes of donkeys and elephants spreading filth, despite the cries.

We don't need security.
We don't need your laws.
We don't need technology.

We...

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celestial ladder
human trope bridges divide
divine curse disbands...

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As time and space dimensions jelly-fish…
Quiet falls the cement-turf of lock-box seas;
Milky Way kisses answer my wish -
She nestles ‘neath an orchard cloak of apple trees:

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Gray!  Everything is gray!  Gray is the sun!
But there she is…Providential Happenstance;
Butterflies turn.  Acceptance - There’s nowhere...

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The Circus gongs excite the Throngs in nighttime Never Land –
They swarm to see the destiny of Freaks at their command,
While Acrobats step pitapat above the shifting sands
And Lady Fat sits down to chat and oozes charm unplanned.

The Dwarfs in suits, so small and cute...

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Glorious brace glow from beams of shine
Yellow orange peeps streaming strip lines
Darkness disbands eaten by the sunset
Conjuring baby blossoms to life's sweat
Graciously drowning beating the twilight
Waving hope to a spick-and-span fright

My shining star, healing my aged scars
Into the sunlight, my knight on sight
New dreams burst...

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Oh, there are days when I still wonder why
     I'm here upon this place we call our Earth.
And, there are days when looking at the sky,
     I wonder how or why, or what it's worth

to live each...

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As for the Silence of Clouds
By David J Walker

How random the trek of thoughts
Floating through the grey ether of  imagination 
In  connected but disassociated ways

Like stray clouds 
Passing by with 
Nothing to say

Each a form of its own meaning
Needing to be painted on...

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do you know what is falling
do you see the stones a calling
is it you who is going to die
is it really what you need
as you look inside there 
is nothing at all to hide
you where caught in the middle 
just squeezed out a little 
no...

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No One Dies Alone
By John Herlihy

The scene has been repeated for thousands of years;
The body lay supine, eyes no longer have room for tears.
The life has been lived; all is now said and done;
The ball of yarn has unraveled; the web of life is spun.
A...

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The light of your radiance has begun to pale
The golden parasol spawned in your prime now tarnished by silver mail
Your effervescent shine now eviscerated by a callous shell
Your passionless glare disbands our symmetrical estate nail by nail
Your youthful complexion scourged by a strain that is...

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“No photographs!” the guards implored.
To my surprise, they were ignored.
The cell-phone cameras snapped away,
No matter what the guards did say.

The guards were powerless, of course.
No one could possibly enforce
A rule like that among the crowd
Who could care less what was allowed.

Back in the pre-cell-camera day,
A...

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