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Best Disillusionment Poems

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Premium Member Breaking the Surface
A millstone around my neck and weight about my feet
drag me down so deeply 
that I’m being pulled toward something. . .  
something from...

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Categories: disillusionment, allegory, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Truth About Truth -
Truth burns at the center of all occurrance,
it is a heat that motivates appettites to enlarge,
truth is a multiplier of quests, 
satisfaction always arrives at...

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Categories: disillusionment, sports, future, truth,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member One Rare Night
One rare night
   fell
      midnight blue
as a multitude of stars, like lofty thoughts,
pulsed with light,
confessions from
the depths of...

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Categories: disillusionment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pale Shelter
Ashen was the sky 
That rejected hand of sunrise
Sullen was the heart
That stumbled in affection,

Incapable of lauding
Ruby blush of budding rose
And pink passions on horizon
Defying...

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Categories: disillusionment, angst, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Life Encounters Opaque Space
When gusty winds blow, riling my troubled dawn in gelid woes
Squall of my throes dissipates in scented whiffs of budding rose.

As brazen fog shrouds mind,...

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Categories: disillusionment, angst, endurance, feelings,
Form: Couplet



Zebra
Allow altruistic artistry among ailing american adversaries.
Bartering begins before begging beasts break brothers.
Capture calamity controlling catastrophe calming castration.
Dedicate decisions directed down dreary deaf disillusionment.
Eradicate equality...

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Categories: disillusionment, parody, people, social, kindergarten,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Broken Horses
We long for relationships
that know no borders,
in which hearts can roam free,
frolicking with each other,
and galloping at will
through fields and streams
in broad daylight,
and spontaneous affections
can...

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Categories: disillusionment, angst, relationship, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Those Youthful Days Were Intensely Sweet
Those Youthful Days Were Intensely Sweet

In poetic words, disillusionment I often paint,
about a wild man that was never a saint.
A life that raced into darkness...

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Categories: disillusionment, art, beautiful, emotions, memory,
Form: Sonnet
Lifting of My Veil
I been seeing my life through a cloudy veil.
Although it was my fault, my own sight I did curtail.
I believed in going with the flow,...

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Categories: disillusionment, introspection,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member The Mask

“Fear whispers worry into your ear, anxiety into your hopes and doubt into your faith… Love whispers hope and peace” – by poet

With a brain...

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Categories: disillusionment, dark, fear, health, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Growing Hope
Violent as the gleaming blade
Of a vicious criminal crazed
Ferocious as the lion’s jaw
Lingering on an innocent calf
This wicked affliction forces
Its teeth into the harmless heart
Bites...

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Categories: disillusionment, angst, cancer, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love In the Time of Uncertainty
"Love in the Time of Uncertainty"



Like the tide of the ocean
coming and going
with its calm seductive 
hushed reassurances and
vociferous remonstrations
dragging me towards the undertow
I have...

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Categories: disillusionment, journey, life, love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Longing For Kind
Once she stood outside the circle, pining and afraid
Her best gifts a trifle, far too meager to assuage
The Exalted Ones, but, trembling, she still offered...

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Categories: disillusionment, loneliness, longing, missing, moving
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member His Guiding Light - 2
Bleeding music into
A heart who cries
Tears so gentle, so tender
They reflect the hope
So often called to mind
By one who knows
Lost love – left behind

Breathing light...

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Categories: disillusionment, inspirational, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Staring Into the Abyss
Staring into the abyss of crises’ appearance
I’m stricken with panic, disclosing my unbelief and ignorance…
Yet with God’s radiance, I can behold His gracious sustenance
Indeed assuring...

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Categories: disillusionment, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs