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Best Perplexity Poems

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Perplexity
Perplexity …

To be or to become, death is the question. 
Not knowing the end, show me the direction.
What is a chain if it is broken?
Today,...

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Categories: perplexity, appreciation, beauty, crazy, life,
Form: Masnavi



Perplexity
EACH THING SUPPORTED BY INCERTITUDE
MERELY SMALL OR LARGELY BIG
EACH THING AT OCCASIONS IN MULTITUDE
SILENTLY THE SADNESS DIG

THE ASSISTANCE OF BRAIN
THE THUMPING OF HEART
CAN'T STOP ITS...

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Categories: perplexity, passion, philosophy,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member 'distant Star'
You want to fade away?
Want to be that distant star
That brings about perplexity

It’s not who you are
You were never intended to be
Just a distant star
Your...

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Categories: perplexity, friendship, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Meeting With a Mermaid
In the deep silence of the night when perplexity 
Confuses the mind, I feel your power descend upon me,
Surrender becomes inevitable
As I become malleable under...

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Categories: perplexity, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Grinning Cheshire Cat
What lies behind that grimacing catty coy smile, it’s upside down
Thinking perplexes me mentally, topsy-turvy confusions beastly
Kitty, popping off riddles to confound all humanity’s realistic
Way...

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Categories: perplexity, adventure, animal, cat, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wolves
"Wolves"



Pulchritude is not a beautiful word.

Dark can be beautiful
when walking with wolves
hearing their stories
sad songs of love lost 
soft they begin 
and then hungry
for the...

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Categories: perplexity, dark, halloween, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Warring Hypocrisy
I toss the coin anxiously
For both sides perturb and dazzle me…

The first side, well, it is a beauty to say the least
It is clear, crisp,...

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Categories: perplexity, change, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What It's Worth
They say a picture is worth a thousand words,
but let me tell you what a word is worth

Worth it all     ...

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Categories: perplexity, allusion, bereavement, deep, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dream
It was something
that brought a smile
to my face.

It had unusual underpinnings
with desirable overtones,
a pleasurable experience

as I wandered aimlessly
through concoctions Neanderthal
perpetuations ministered aloft

in dreams drearily
bound by...

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Categories: perplexity, fantasy, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Withdrawal In a Dream
How different this place
this sanctuary feels, here
inside one’s head. Where
insidious illusions fondle
a subvert mind, and obscenities
resonate within the confusion,
when fidgety creatures, assume
guardianship of my preternatural
situation,...

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Categories: perplexity, angst, depression, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blues In the Background
My life was so exciting and busy, but still I was dissatisfied,
For my job was going nowhere, like blooms with noplace to hide.

I had for...

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Categories: perplexity, fantasy, friendship, imagery, music,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Subtle Beauty
My best recall is that I saw her for the first time at a Starbucks store several weeks ago. Approaching the door with two large...

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Categories: perplexity, america, humanity, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Fluttering of Wings- Part I
She seemed restless
Their gilded cage of love
That she had begged him
To imprison her in
With the bars of his passion
Seemed to be confining now

She never said...

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Categories: perplexity, imagination, love, pain, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Universe
Oh, how my nethermost being aches for your answer

You yawn like a glistening wound above me, tugging at my will

A pregnant astral enigma, weeping with...

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Categories: perplexity, appreciation, beauty, space, stars,
Form: Free verse
Since We Fell In Love
since we fell in love so many 
warm and special moments 
past
let me say from the corridors 
of my heart 
how much you give to...

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Categories: perplexity, love, love, me, i
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs