Best Disconnect Poems

It occurred to me
I think more and more like a poet
Thoughts jumbled with imagery
Off in my own colourful world
Small wonder there’s a disconnect
With dusty musty pencil pushers
People whose minds have shrivelled up
Have trouble seeing art and beauty for what they are
Gifts from above

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While attending a social do
You meet and greet others
It’s more a social norm
Than any ‘real’ connect
As you attend to calls
Or get yourself updated with ‘Updates’
Or simply fiddle with your phone
And mind you
You are not alone
Almost everyone is doing the same
Some listless bites of conversation
While chomping...

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A high school reunion on Zoom;
Alumni all home in a room.
Each face that I’ll see
Like a stranger to me
As I will be to them, I assume.

I haven’t seen most now for years.
We’ve traveled in different spheres.
So then why should I care
What I look like or...

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Watch me walk through the sadsands of stupored time 
trading youth for aged ashes, suredness for shyness
knowledge for retirement, candor for cowardice, 
diligence for dunceness, eagerness for 
edginess, fairness for flakiness, goodness for gonadness,
healing for hurting, idealism for idiocracy,
judgement for jealously, kandor for killing,
loving for...

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stars hang above
suspended like so many
sick children – distant
in other countries

look up, look down
how to ever know them?
this is all old news
faces and light, trapped 
in separate frames

images still travel,
are understood as physical
wonder when the day will be
to reach out, reach them
before they burn out....

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I’m sick of the disconnect between me and you,
Complacency, fear, and the pettiness too.
Long gone are the times when we’d help, not complain,
And not for the reason of personal gain.

But today it is all about what you can get back,
Some don’t care who they hurt,...

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Grim grabs hold the spring 
strangling with a fervor 
as I grasp for another breath 
drugged and dragged 
six feet deep below 

Infected, I'm connected 
to the disconnect 
the treacherous and mundane 
a world's gone insane 

Astray, I wander in the wonders 
of an ever...

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I inhale vapors spiced by Aurora’s deep tang and her sweet, rose kiss,
on such nameless mornings all my ghosts combine,
folding into neatly pressed layers of gossamer sheets
offering the refuge of a cocoon before a world that stares.
I stare back…

Deep within the ruins of my crumbling...

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EYE DISCONNECT

i’ve always been drawn
to eyes — a smorgasbord of colors
but that’s not what i see
i drift beyond what most can tap into

the shroud of evidence
the red rivers
a canal lock

bulging, ready to burst
the big bang
the upsurge of rage
shocking severance

the world in ethereal mist
the feel of...

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There was a tear in the laughter,
Unwelcome and intruding,
Muffled under the big booming sound,
As she laughed her way through the tears.

The clouds were all white,
Like a bed of soft cotton in her sky,
She felt she could lay up there and fall asleep.
But at the fringes...

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when
scientology has 
deemed you an
enemy for being
antisocial, for 
being a POTENTIAL
TROUBLE 
SOURCE (PTS), for
getting in the way
of the 
BRIDGE TO TOTAL
FREEDOM for
others---you are now
a suppressive person (SP),
you bring the whole 
bloody cult down, don’t
ya know you got to 
stop making all those 
that drop their...

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Suddenly auto-disconnect entered
-	Like a mechanical mal-function
All too soon, I felt smothered
-	System shut down at this junction

This train is moving too fast
-	I keep applying the brakes
But I know this can’t last
-	I don’t have what it takes

Though I’m feeling slightly derailed
-	Tied to previous emotions
My heart left the...

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***********What is a disconnect?********



         - When -
 We spend....
More Money defending
              Our people,
Than We do feeding
      Them, then....
 ...

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Soft Red hair decorates skin so fair
Sad brown eyes never tell  lies
Secret smiles  linger for a while
Kisses and pearls from oriental girls and little brown curls

Peaches and passion never  out of fashion
Midnight dreams soft with cherries and cream 
Windless kites sailing through...

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The living room,
Laughter clinging like a warm embrace,
Yet silence wraps us in a shroud.
Faces aglow from screens,
Eyes reflecting curated lives,
Fingers dancing over glass,
As warmth slips through our grasp.

We scroll, searching for connection,
Moments polished and perfect.
But intimacy dims,
Lost in the sterile glow of notifications,
?Voices mere echoes,
Fading...

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