Best Misconstrue Poems

Take from me that which you will
Those things that I possess
Strip from me the trinkets
That speak of my success

Look at me with jaundiced eye
With disdain...

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Color me blue
As I think of you
A love once true
Has lost its radiant hue

Tomorrow I begin anew
How?  I haven't a clue
A love once true
Has...

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Love
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Love approaches and does not scare.
Love bears and does not let go.
Love cares and does not shrink.
Love declares...

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Poe laid flowers on her grave
    His lost Lenore
    One he’d love forevermore 
    But doomed...

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Some painters challenge us with art abstract
We study them and speculate intent
My love, he takes the short route; it’s a fact
He speaks three words, no...

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Remembering days of azure skies,
     I dream of you,
     Knowing we're through.

Cerulean thoughts impose;
   ...

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Knowing what she knew
she let them misconstrue
and righteous was her smile
it made her feel worthwhile
Knowing what she knew

Knowing what she'd seen
She wasn't really keen
to be...

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Tell me, Sweet One, if you've the nerve,
how is it, that you love to play?
Is it warm, with a touch of verve
that softly steals the...

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And so legend goes, of a daisy, not a rose
of a love to behold that quickly grew cold
Etched in regret, Daisy ponders in a fret
should...

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My foolish heart; I had no clue
that you could ever be untrue.
Our time was great. You can’t deny
together we were flying high!
Why did you leave?...

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You want to hear me say I’ll love you forever.
And yes, I well could say those very words to you: 
For after all, they simply...

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As we did the month preceding 
This the next department meeting
Time and time without a reason
To be present or to listen

For there’s nothing on the...

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The coin snaps off the fingers
As gravity works the spin
I turn for you, flip and land
I see your patience running thin

It's heads, not what I...

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“With Education you can change the world”

I was a fly on the wall and I saw...         ...

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A  stunning scene. Edited for our insatiable reading pleasure.  High on a tight-rope.
The debutant wearing her 2-piece at one end. The isis general...

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