Best Dismay Poems

for love is what the angels call dismay
knowing not the longings of the heart
nor can they comprehend that endless day
on which these quite strange feelings had their start

for men, it seems, these feeling try to hide
beneath the stony face of stoic’s lie
such tenderness, such joy,...

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       Tingling passion arose as you came close.
         Romance rolled to tell ‘we would not stay apart.’
         Unfolding your wish you dared to...

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A Partridge perched upon a tree
entices him to throw something!
When songbirds sing and flap their wings  
two turtle doves, cause headache pain.
Those mocking words, thread-worn with wear.
 remind him of the dollars spent.
Defeat caves in, ... the thought of debt!

He bends his head to...

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I'm filled with wonder and dismay.
Is life real, a dream, illusion?
A construct, maybe, I could say,
who'd author such confusion?

If me, I dread what might portend; 
I'm not that good with tools.
Others think they comprehend, 
maybe sages...likely fools. 

Call up all the ones I know;
sample their...

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Centipede so tiny crawls
trekking on a fence
hundred legs, he never falls
I watch in suspense…

My two feet are bad, you see,
pain comes when I walk.
Should I be a centipede,
you would hear me squawk!


*Entry for Andrea’s 7/5 Trochee contest...

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The choppy sea turned leaden,
ominous clouds covered the sky.
The wind became chilly and strong.
The flustered kite went dizzy; 
it twirled, then dipped and crashed
to the young girl’s annoyance.
She had had more than enough.
Shivering, she called it a day!

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Paul Callus ~ 14th December 2015
Contest: Oil Paintings...

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For reasons unknown,

I am just really bothered,

when poems don't rhyme....

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I’ve endured a thousand thunderstorms in my brain
I’ve cured a thousand more to feel your rainfall’s pain
I’m apologetic for the wrongs I’ve done to you and all,
But I will not fall for your gain’s sake and I will stand tall

I’ll make it out alive someday
As...

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Verse 1:
I took several selfies in the dark
Tonight, I want to sing my heart out
I want to be your flaming spark
Or a swirling, singing lark, no doubt
Silence your screams, a harmonic drought
You led me to an awful puppet master’s route

(Be a banger by banging away...

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Her vacant breath beside me; a fallow gateway through a harrowing demise. Truth be told I'm a Slave to my own passion, a withholding regime to which I preach divine. Resting upon a sinful pinnacle my spine tattered and torn; concave to a yearning delicacy...

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Doors swings,
The 'galadima's' walking steps,
He possesses,
As if he was a gladiator.
A poised glance by everyone,
He bounces outside as regular,
Complain yet to seize a hold
On his mouth,
The git he saw on the canoe,
Re-awaken his reserved anger,
Only in his attitude,
That anger sleeps and waits awaken.
All his explanation...

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Dark Cold tomorrow today
Hungry starving never eating okay.
Stealing and violence now the only way
Life of rage has now betrayed
Emptiness inside makes you afraid
Time to change has run away
What you find creates dismay
Shadows moving make you pay
Day by day body is creeping
Head hangs down and your...

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This year, the wonders appeared drastic..well, enough of the old.
I miss fear of the unknown-that sense of tried and true never the less has left you.
However considered, mishaps past; not lost, just, and forgot as to mention the new path Same, the consequence of a...

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JUST LISTEN MY FRIEND 
When you are in darkness,
With gloom and dismay, 
You feel what's worthwhile
Is slipping away.

You wonder if life
Is worth living at all.
Your mind is in turmoil,
And you're apt to fall.

If you listen closely
Someone is calling
He whispers gently
“I can keep you from falling.”

“Don't...

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Destroyed cosy inquisitioned in light
    Detective sun floods roof lifted abode
    Harsh ray revelation, shark menace bite
    Adrenaline daggers stab at forbode


    Fireplace safe scaffold coughs in sunken fog
    Flight...

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