Best Misfortune Poems

There aren't many chances for misfortune to come across the path of the wise

For his concern is spirituality that his soul him with it preoccupies!  









© Demetrios Trifiatis
       17 June 2021...

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Welcome to the "Wheel of Misfortune"
With your host, “Dirty Clothes” Pat
And dear sweet “Hole In Her Gowns” Vanna
You could lose your fortune like that

Players contribute ten grand of their own
The one with the most money loses
Ain't easy giving all incorrect answers
Ya feel like a bunch...

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Hey blokes…do you really know what life is…?
Like living in the ghetto…any memories of Soweto…?
Maybe you can’t…make me a chant…
Yes…I know…because I grow…
In the streets…where my feet…
Would meet…the dead…and the underfed…
Where food variety was scarcity…like living is atrocity… 
Where poverty…like a sin…makes u thin…wary and...

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There's room for improvement in my heart 
continually I'm aware of love's presence in my life 
I better be fair at least with others if not myself 
If I lost this precious piece of ground
tell me would i be capable of winning her heart at...

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Oh, heartless Misfortune,*

My gratitude to you immeasurable is


For


Having the names of my true friends, 

Inadvertently to me revealed!




© Demetrios Trifiatis
     16 July 2015 


* Whenever a misfortune comes our way we 
 realize who our loyal friends are!...

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You were my first love,
And I wanted to make you my “LAST” love.
But instead you became my “LOST” love...

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hapless they who become entangled  ~  in webs of deceit 

Written May 10, 2022...

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Life is a river in spate, with froth, noise and rapid pace, some currents are eddy, some flow so smooth, on its journey to the vast ocean. Do not resent the knots that block the flow, for the more knots you undo, wiser you become.

fortunes...

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Alas oh how grave and horrendous misfortune...

Relapse written all over whole
fudge besmirched countenance
American as apple pie garden variety troll
tell tale evidence eats away
at me heart and soul
argh so much for new year's resolution
straight and true healthy eating goal.

Lofty ambition to attain once upon time
coveted, prized,...

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They were wavy heart told,
there was a silver star-shaped pot of gold
at the end of the hellstorm rainbow

This was the time-honored 
private talk 
to the latest crop 
of pawn fodder privates

Battlefield grunts on the frontline
A pact of brothers
	of diverse colors
		in the Death Metal Band
Human shield...

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A Date of Misfortune 

The bus was late it was raining when she alighted… 
my temper was moody, since it was late the kitchen 
at the café was closed, but they still had slices of 
“black forest gateau,” we had that with white wine 
because...

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"a dagger of pain, a tear of grief"

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A walk home 
...And there he lie in fetid squalor,
Upon the chaise in vacant parlour...

“What befell this young man?” a query.
A sorrowful tale - tis quite dreary. 
Tricks! The superstitious mind doth play. 
Bested - a quite unfortunate way. 
Let it be warning for thy...

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Crown 

I'm disappointed of myself
I don't know how I got here
I don't seem to be able to change
no matter the sea of tears
I keep doing the same
hurting whoever is near
I'm feeling so ashamed
I want to dissapear...

I sit here daily to write
without knowing what to say
I...

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Difficult to understand are the languages spoken by life
“he who works should eat,” but why the constant shift of the goal post?
Seriousness in following principles may lead one to be swallowed by the earth
I have always been an adult, let me be taken care of,...

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