Best Misreading Poems

MISREADING LOVE'S MESSAGES 

                    Hunted through...

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Traveling feet,
Trudging the sidewalk.
Every hundred goes not seeking,
Single soul sees.
Across through,
The foggy misreading of appearances.
Heart simulcast emotional bond,
Welcoming home inwardly.
Walking the pavement,
Thousands careless bypass,
Giving time...

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Philosophers, down the ages,  
Have strenuously tried
To figure out language:
Their numerous narratives polarize 
Into two Grand narratives, a binary:
Language is referential / differential.
This binary...

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OVERNIGHT

beautiful 
past tense
no language
living our
limited lives
misreading 
words and feelings 
personally
refined

so let’s bed down 
in a drawer 
overnight laughing 
hysterically
at the start
of this new year

exiled in...

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I see them, everyday,
the hipsters and the fags
in their fancy jackets,
flipping their feminine hands,
nails just cut and short.

I hear them, everyday,
the young girls getting raped...

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Coin’s the name, don’t call me Al.
Business only, I am not your pal.
Friends are few, family gone
Profiteering, I am the one 

Avarice is good, money...

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Lucifer laughs
gloating about the pandemic
loving our anguish

Keeping us apart
trying our patience
miscommunication and misunderstandings 

Reveling in our sorrow 
And our social distancing
Lucifer thinks he is winning

Not...

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How can I exist without your grace?
Your sharp tongue or your liberal lies?
I keep breathing, believing  in dry tears

Where do I go now that I'm...

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Sitting in disbelief feeling anger and grief,
as if I’d wish the worst or place a curse
On people with more worth 
while I’m trying to turn...

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Make pause upon 'ere dusted trail
as bursting clouds bring welcome rain
lift my face to wash unveil
solitary travel not made in vain

In silence...surroundings I absorb
natural beauty...

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I don't believe in one sided love affairs.
I don''t believe that only one can share.
I don't believe your heart's incapable.

It's hard to believe you don't...

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I'm trying to find the correct words to capture your smile

The very essence of who you are that keeps me staring in amazement at you
I...

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You're so rich all you have is money, you don't even realize how everyone looks at you funny, not like a friend but more like...

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You wanted to be the savior in my story, the healer, the King. 
The way I looked into you, full of mystery, but eager to...

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Tonight the act of naming fell through the floor.
We speak permeable solids inflect’d by light.
Things move indistinctly: a pine palette floats
momentarily from semi truck’s bed,...

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