Best Dumbstruck Poems
Dumbstruck Is Me (a rhyming, acrostic kind of thing)
Discombobulated, how apt the word
Utterly gobsmacked by the absurd
Mind numbingly mortified at the nonsensical
By waking to find I’m without either testicle
Silenced as side by side they’re strung together
To hang on the wall there forever... and ever
Running around with another man’s wife
Until I returned to a well concealed knife
Could not comprehend the Snip! Cut! and Sever!
Knock me down with a feather
I’m finding my voice is now three octaves higher
She says that it’s my fault for poking the fire
Mandy, it’s not fair that I lie here dumbstruck
Even though I was a self serving dumbf...
10 August 2021
Contest: Dumbstruck
Sponsor: Charles Messina
DUMBSTRUCK
Every time I am with you, I am dumbstruck,
overcome with excitement, being stuck
in feeling funky, groovy, crazy like I am seventeen.
Hard to behave like a lady, nearing seventy.
Sitting across you, gazing at your smiley eyes
while we talk, sip our drinks between our smiles,
makes me feel a wild flower child instead of a grown,
mature woman for letting all my feelings out, known.
I am surprised for it was hard for me to like somebody
for my elusive heart was frozen in time, numbly.
I caught your eye and you melted my frozen heart,
made it feel again and warmed it until it sparked.
I am amazed by you and when I find myself dumbstruck
thinking of you under the moonlight, I become moonstruck.
Submitted on 8/31/21
Your Favorite Rhyme Poem In August 2021 Poetry
Constance La France
8/10/21 - Written
Dumbstruck Poetry
Charles Messina
8/29/21 - Judged (5th place)
Used: RhymeZone
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Something's changed, like I knew it would
The feeling's subsided, like a piece of drift wood
Chasing shadows in the dark
Calling out your name in the stillness of the night
You stole my spark
You robbed me of my sanity
Kept captive to the mark
You branded upon my head
Something's wrong
The strength I once had is now gone
The knowledge I once possessed
Has been reduced to frivolous babble
Am I strong enough to vanquish these demons
Who linger in the dark?
Am I strong enough to relinquish this fear of failing?
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
Yet the question remains...
Disguise I find myself ,
Deceit his vanity,
Diabolism doesn't work,
Devil can't cite scriptures ?
Distress is camouflaged,
Doing, only delight,
Dumbstruck why should I be ?
Written on 29/4/14
By Dr. Upma A. Sharma
Contest name- let's Pleiades
Sponsor- Nette Onclaud
One day, I died for heaven’s sake
And let the angels my soul to take,
I had no transgression, no grim sin
A ticket to heaven I was sure to win.
Looking forward to all honey and milk
Gold bed and sheets made of pure silk,
Moon and stars of sparkling crystal fire
Flowers of diamond, ruby and sapphire.
Making nothing but love, day and night
with heavenly maidens to soul’s delight,
To quench my thirst, satiate my appetite
More splendid than we can think or write.
But here I was, absolutely dumbstruck
Cheated, cornered and totally out of luck,
Nothing was in heaven, just utter solitude,
Methinks, I was happier in the multitude.
Pray, give me my life, give me my world
I will take back my disdain for the world,
Oh God, just look! What a fool I’ve been
Much is made of a place no one has seen.
08/11/21
Contest: Your favorite Rhyme poem
Sponsor: Constance La France.
~Contest: Dumbstruck Rhyming contest
~Sponsor: charles messina.
By things I see sometimes today
I’m dumbfounded and blown away.
I’ve seen folks driving far
all alone in a car.
Covid masks they still wear anyway.
I could see once a girl IN the pool.
Did a double take because that fool
kept the mask on her face
(though she swam with such grace),
yet there wasn’t a Covid mask rule!!
Once I watched from inside hubbie’s truck
a cute couple that jogged. What the fruck!?
Out in nature they wore
covid masks. Furthermore,
by themselves were they! I’m still dumbstruck.
Aug. 14, 2021
(nothing against masks as mandated! Just a few things I thought were funny)
for the Dumbstruck Poetry Contest of Charles Messina
Dumstruck - Dk
I am dumbstruck by the advent of invention
Not jut in science and technology but also in art and writing
For now I create and share poetry without even knowing
Poetry my first love
Art and craft my next
We are now in an era where time is flying
Good to know we have advanced so much
That malice and greed is no longer that much
Nations are helping
People are learning
Civilizations are changing
People are doing
It’s a good era to be born in
People are awakened to their own potential as human beings
I seldom remember times when we had no computer
Those were times when food and shelter were for go getters
Those fights are not anymore if you do it right
Enjoying the birth of invention
Is a privilege for very many
Let’s not waste them frivolously
I’m dumbstruck by the good luck
Of a woodchuck on a spree
The harmony of living well
And laughing heartily
But still, I often wonder
In a jungle canopy
If nature is the nurture
Of the forest or a tree
When lightning bolts and thunder
Break asunder by and by
They scare the ones down under
By the wonder in the sky
But they are not a vain glow
By the time I hear a sigh
For tears become a rainbow
When I hear a lullaby
I’m dumbstruck by the numb chuck
With a big truck full of wood
The hacker in a whacker
With a backer in the hood
For love is true devotion
By the notion that we should
The logic of emotion
By the healing hand of good.
Submitted to the
"Dumbstruck" Poetry Contest
on 8/12/2021
Sponsored by Charles Messina
Mind numbingly mortified at the nonsensical
By waking to find I’m without either testicle
[extract from Dumstruck Is Me for Your Funniest Couplet contest]
Sponsor: L Milton Hankins
A few days back I visited an old time friend
To travel down the memory lane on a week end
As we spent the quality time over high tea
The evening passed us by on a lively spree
While leaving I inquired about their daughter, Suhash
Her mother said she was busy with paint and brush
Being interested in painting I wanted to see
How much accomplished in this art she might be
I saw the young girl sitting upright a bit tense
Arranged in front were paint tubes in VIBGYOR sequence
The brush in her hand made strokes rather unsurely
I thought because she was in a room lit very poorly
Her mother said to her daughter destiny hadn’t been kind
In her world darkness didn’t matter for she was blind
In color she dreamt her dreams she would paint
Until in darkness they dissolved and became faint
Looking at the girl and her painting I was dumbstruck
Felt sorry life had proffered a young girl such a bad luck.
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August 14, 2021
Contest : Dumbstruck
Sponsor : Charles Messina
Example for my contest.
DUMBSTRUCK-DK
I drove past this girl...on Sunset & Vine
I couldn't see her face...so I beeped at her behind
When she turned around...I nearly hit a caravan
Because the girl that I had beeped at...was an ugly long-haired man
So I drove on down the road...and I passed a lonesome guy
There was something attractive about him...and I admit, it caught my eye
When he turned around...I nearly hit a pick-up truck
Because a beautiful girl turned around...so I felt a bit- dumbstruck!
DUMBSTRUCK
All on a sudden loud thunderbolt struck
Our ears! That sound causes phobia
on my dearest wife Emilia
Promptly she put ear plugs.
I rushed to give her hugs.
But road roller running leaving us dumbstruck.
08/15/21
I shall turn a blind eye
and hold my tongue
I'll sharpen my hearing,
breathe deep in my lungs.
My stare will be flat
like the eyes of a shark
and you'll feel a chill,
both icy and dark.
I'll gather each word
like beads on a string,
a necklace of nouns
and verbs in a ring.
I'll keep my face blank,
an inscrutible mask,
I will not speak,
no questions I'll ask.
You told me one time
you admired my strength,
but that's just my wall
of great thickness and length.
My wall does have cracks
and occasional chinks,
old mortar has crumbled,
stones fall and then sink.
Words are the weapons,
so carelessly thrown,
like heat seeking missiles
they cut to the bone.
Life is a river,
a fast moving creek,
it tosses and tumbles
all those that are weak.
Now I am a stone,
a smooth river rock,
your words like the water
are given no thought.
As the waters rush by,
the stones do not care,
nor does the water
know that they're there.
The soft curves of your smile,
echoing mile after mile.
Not reminiscent of a grandma,
but rather, a banana.
Your glowing doughy eyes,
look as squishy as thy thighs.
You create a fervent need,
akin to a vampire, lusting to feed.
You send my brain a-boiling,
as a custard that is spoiling!
Left unable to speak or think,
A simple blank stare, forgetting to blink.