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Best Perplexing Poems

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Premium Member Repent and Believe
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  Up until the summer of 1999, I only knew of the words "Jesus."
  I knew what was being taught in church.
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Categories: perplexing, bible, christian, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mankind's Greatest Mystery (Inspired By Chris Higgins)
If 2012 prophesies prove true
And Earth’s life cycles again renew
Mysteries of man will be more than a few

Challenges may await future life forms
With intellects far...

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Categories: perplexing, dedication, inspirational, mysterylife, may,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nothing To Write About
I would like to talk about "nothing"
It is a most peculiar word
I have heard it used so often
The way it's used  is often absurd...

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Categories: perplexing, history, philosophy, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member People of Mystery
Should doomsday prophesies prove true
     and our planet’s life cycles renew
          mysteries...

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Categories: perplexing, future, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Behind the Mask
Behind the mask there is a frail and fragile me
Enigmas clothed in conundrums; that the naked I can’t see

'Behind the mask is concealed, my authenticity
Examine...

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Categories: perplexing, depression, life, sad, slam,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is...

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Categories: perplexing, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
If I Knew, Then I'D Know
Promises are made to be kept, though they are wrapped in a cocoon of razor wire. 
The words that fall out of your mouth turn...

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Categories: perplexing, change,
Form: Concrete
Dividing Divergence
Standing at the edge of forever
as one thought leads to hell
for I stare at the empty never
the other to a heavenly dwell

I must choose before...

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Categories: perplexing, conflict, confusion, identity,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Labyrinthine
The tangled intricate emotion of love
washes a thin blood red line on the heart
where a glow waits patiently
on the winding path chosen
that leads to a...

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Categories: perplexing, journey, love,
Form: Free verse
Attention: Word Nerds--------- the Eight Parts of Speech
---------------------- "Word Nerds" (like me)...
************Please Have Fun & Read VERY Closely:)***********


now and again
a word 
sneakily obscure
approaches the fog in me
screams its name 
suddenly 
apropos adverbs...

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Categories: perplexing, art, education, family, children,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Random Entries From My Diary
"I never travel without my diary - One should have something sensational to read"
...Oscar Wilde, 1891

30 May 48:  I graduated from high school today...

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Categories: perplexing, funnyschool, family, family, may,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Her Ever Changing Moods, the Rapture Reprising
“Her Ever Changing Moods, the Rapture Reprising”

Lavender seduces symmetry  
in her ever changing moods
slips into something more comfortable

a swollen tangerine sky 
moves its tongue...

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Categories: perplexing, muse,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Genius and Madness
Thin line of perception between genius and mania
Monsters in misunderstood minds
More fearsome than Transylvania's elite

Rebellious Van Gogh’s indignation
Self portrait of passion wedded with lunacy
Artist’s perplexing...

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Categories: perplexing, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tech Zombies
Tech Zombies
Written: by Tom Wright
10-6-2016

Some have lost the ability to use their head,
And depend on gadgets to get by instead.
A Phone, Pod, or tablet now...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perplexing, technology,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Ain'T America Great
Miz Liberty welcomed Luigi to America's shores to begin a brand new life.
He arrived at Ellis Isle with piles of baggage, three kids and his...

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Categories: perplexing, funny, words, me,
Form: Rhyme

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