Best Kafkaesque Poems

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 for redemption
finding the end will be the exception.
''Guilty as charged''! Voices crawl
a door is thumped and people brawl
a Kafkaesque sharing...

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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 marks left 
by fleeing ghosts.

Unalterable facts assemble 
and lock shut around 
a narrowing space housing all 
that I think I...

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I ponder whose hands concertina time.
Sometimes my brain wakes up 40 years younger
for a few moments I am vital,
perfectly formed and a smile for every eye.
Other times though, I arrive in the world
already clawing at my coffin lid.

I'm riding a double-decker London bus,
there's a girl...

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From that synthetic blossom
Emanate both a swirling silence
And a timeless illusion
Embedded in rustic profusion.

Yet a timeless blossom
To a rustic mind
Signifies no swirling illusion
But from it emerge and emanate 
The opposite of a synthetic silence

On this planet timeless we are not
Unless our planet is a synthetic...

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