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Best Kafkaesque Poems

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Kafkaesque
Now stand still and take the oath
define your choices by their trace
as this is the one and final case.
Fears are melting with confusion
a Kafkaesque pursuit...

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Categories: kafkaesque,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Study In Kafkaesque
I slowly come to 
as light creeps across the floor
and dissolves what I thought
had fallen through
the torn sides of a dream.
Nothing is there but
the scuff...

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Categories: kafkaesque, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nightmare
"You are welcomed to your room at night, everything is in the same familiar place. It's been long day. Climbing in to your comfy bed....

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Categories: kafkaesque, anxiety,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member A View From a Window
As dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground,...

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Categories: kafkaesque, peace, people, political, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ring a Bell
Tinnitus tinnitus, innocuous by name,
invisible tasteless, sounds pretty lame,
Ears hissing, snakes inside my head, 
Growing louder, causing turmoil in bed,
Room’s spinning, feel like getting sick,
Banging...

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Categories: kafkaesque, abuse, anxiety, confusion, depression,
Form: Rhyme



In Sandy On a Sundy
In Sandy on a Sund’y
Can’t even buy a pie
The High Street is a ghost town
From some Kafkaesque sci-fi.
Not a single caf is open
No point in...

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Categories: kafkaesque, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Hunger Artist
Hunger Artist - A Kafkaesque Moment
                 By: Earl Schumacker

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Categories: kafkaesque, addiction, change, dark, death,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy,
approximately 800 redundant pages
of Kafkaesque scoffing
at relentless banalities of economic and political elitists.

Rather like transcribing often inebriated conversations
within the all-night celebration...

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Categories: kafkaesque, books, humor, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
The World Ain'T Seen Superheroes Yet
This is nothing similar to a fairytale
Grossly not the packaging of an unwanted mail
Nothing close to a Kafkaesque display
It is FACT!!! On the head I...

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Categories: kafkaesque, devotion, hope, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
The Burning Man
Rolling there on the ground
petrol soaked a burning man

I could not whisper a sound
him suffering a youtube death 

Sitting here quietly writing at my desk
what...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kafkaesque, sad,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Gates
Lost consciences are passing the gates to divide the Kafkaesque instincts of freedom.

Valeria Iliadou
"One Amazing Line"...

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Categories: kafkaesque, life
Form: Monoku
Kafkaeqsue
There’s a charge against you
Though we can’t say what it is 
In time, your list of crimes will be released

Pardon our procedures –
We consider grievances
We’ll...

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Categories: kafkaesque, anxiety, business, corruption, work,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Path To Self
Oh, now and then I lose my way, could this be true for you as well?
Though dreams suggest a brand-new day, there's something left to...

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Categories: kafkaesque, life, love, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oh My Golly So Jolly
I never knew that Stonehenge refers to hanging gallows


While solstice gives solace as the sun dial moves forth

Many years of mysteries immortalized for sacred worship

	Blue...

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Categories: kafkaesque, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Almost Wrote a Poem
“I need you
and dream of you
while I try to
drink you away”

I almost wrote a poem
that began like this
(many years ago)
to express my 
unrequited infatuation
for a...

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Categories: kafkaesque, addiction, humor, loneliness, love
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things