Best Dissonant Poems
Enlightenment
...Quietude endows hushed mystical space
Admonishing words have no role to play—
Look how in solitude its posture bends
Bowing in deference to calming intellect.
Listen to the utterance of wailing......
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Categories:
dissonant, deep, endurance, introspection, peace,
Form:
Free verse
When the Lone Bird Flees
...Though she holds his hands, he feels all alone
As moonlit desires sense his dissonant vibes
Emanating from pulses beating in discord
Plundering away ambiance to vacant thoughts
When a cogent con......
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Categories:
dissonant, break up, love,
Form:
Verse
Miracle Divine
...In the midst of great turmoil and strife,
There is a force manifestly to be heard…seen….touched
A voice—ever so soft… yet loud enough to break mountains at their base
It can make a grown man cry—......
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Categories:
dissonant, analogy, blessing, change, deep,
Form:
Free verse
The Dream and the Song Live On and On
...When I’m in glee of your alluring smile
As you gaze merrily ebullience of dawn
Caressing blush of emerging sunrise
Scintillating fervor upon magenta arc
Whispering gingerly to budding revelry
St......
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Categories:
dissonant, life, love,
Form:
Verse
Rhythmic Perfection (Anapestic Trimeter)
...There's a river that twists in the mind
that I plunder and ravish with sieves,
on crusades to the summit of rhyme
where my Phoenix of tropes and schemes live.
In a war to free diction's fair Qu......
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Categories:
dissonant, imagination, on writing and
Form:
Rhyme
Justice In the Quest For Love
...I saw how martyrs longed for love, and so began the play of my flitting heart
A strange girl had I become, with airs of fickle dream,
My heart an embodiment of wonder to all that dared to behold it......
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Categories:
dissonant, beauty, birth, change, inspiration,
Form:
Narrative
Not One Word
...
Silence
The sweet rhapsody of quietness
Sit back and savor
the music of the void,
where no dissonant voices are heard
It's so relaxing in this soundless realm;
break not the peace, speak n......
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Categories:
dissonant, dream, imagery, love, sleep,
Form:
Verse
Intimate Truth
...She walks with dreams, deep passions woo,
Into euphoric ambience of a moonlit night
Carrying sweet secret, so intimate and true,
Sprouting in her womb blossoms of delight.
Though they are toget......
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Categories:
dissonant, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
Bipartisan Dissonance
...When oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leadin......
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Categories:
dissonant, conflict, math, parents, political,
Form:
Political Verse
When Music Stopped Playing
...Searching your voice amid dissonant vibes
I followed your shadow into shiny meadows
Till mild breeze conspired with gusty winds
Turning sunshine into gushing rain showers.
Lost in the rainstorm......
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Categories:
dissonant, heartbreak, love, metaphor,
Form:
Verse
Banksys On Razors Edge
...In a house of cards
in torrential rain
social media overload
floods my brain.
Wave after wave
you feel the pain.
Heading down the hallway
into the dark,
the imminent
and dissonant
hellho......
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Categories:
dissonant, character, community, conflict, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Under Skeletal Remains
...The sea summons in unrelenting whispers
haunting the night as waves spin their spliced harrowing tales
Hallowed echoes an unending scourge over tenderness
weeping secrets wait held in bondage’......
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Categories:
dissonant, anger, angst, anti bullying,
Form:
Couplet
Anchored On a Windy Beach
...I
Anchored on a sun filtered shore
Upon rocks which lay the days of yore
In swirling pristine aquas of alluring calm
Let it serenade heal my bruised palm
To chronicle tales of my hearts lon......
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Categories:
dissonant, africa, beach, beautiful, confidence,
Form:
Free verse
Once You Were My Song
...There was a season, precious was that time,
When you were my dawn of ebullient sunrise,
Song of my mornings, exuberance of spring,
Blossoming gleefully life’s verdant prairies
Whispering to dream......
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Categories:
dissonant, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
Happiness Rages Outside Smiles
...Happiness rages outside smiles that wend ‘round my cracked doorway sirens fade from
the street music stops commercials scream dissonant chords walk across cat eyes lay
down on the keys sorrow is ......
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Categories:
dissonant, visionary,
Form:
Free verse