Democracy or Autocracy
MAGA folks, with Trump are mostly delighted
Democrats up in arms, yet affrighted
Is Trump dealing democracy a ‘death blow’
or just...
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Categories:
america, confusion, freedom,
Form: Couplet
21st Century Emperor'sThe emperors have no clothes on!
People are living in a trance
Psychologists like to call it cognitive dissonance
Perhaps even a carefully crafted chance
To see what isn't there, only to praise a hollow show,
While truth and reason disappear, common senses go.
It’s just simply a situation gone sad
I can’t help but wonder, have we been had or merely...
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Categories:
confusion, life, parody, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Yesterday in a MomentSoon dawn at plum morn
though pearly moon still keeps watch,
for the golden end.
Afternoon's recalled in dreams
adorned in wild color schemes.
Memory Lane sleeps
as orange noon is coming,
after dusk scarlet.
Lemon-lime hours revisit
and bluebird returns vivid.
Pink skies are coming
a jade past is repeating,
since tomorrow's gone.
Time's fallen asleep, at last
skewing the future and past.
...
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Categories:
confusion, dream, fantasy, nature,
Form: Tanka
Suspicious Upper
Planned a pretty picnic, yet didn’t predict
Pigs begged - please eat us
Allocated table had laid out a feisty feast
Mince never been seen since
Rolled in crackling casing, their fatty...
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Categories:
confusion, absence, angst, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
May the forest be with youMay you remember the sail ship
white wake behind, seabirds about
When the bedrock begins to slip
When life's purpose is in doubt
May you remember every friend
When enemies abound
When only on few can you depend
And harshness is the only sound.
**(Chorus)**
May the mountains come in waves
That lift you up from under.
like desert rain that saves.
Like a cavalry's thunder.
When...
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Categories:
betrayal, confusion, courage, forgiveness,
Form: Lyric
40Jazz notes ring out,
Teardrops beat down on my window dress.
Thunder has grown,
Thunder sings loudly and repeats until finito says.
Jazz notes ring out,
Inside,
Sunshine comes and goes instead,
Again and again.
Train tracks come along and eventually lead to a dead end,
So;
There are no take backs for what’s been said.
The...
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Categories:
absence, angst, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Halloween
One day at a haunted house....
You'll never guess what I saw!!!
Well, it was a great big ghost...
Coming out of the wall!
The ghost just stared at me...
So I stared at it too..
And I thought..."This just couldn't be?!!"
Until that ghost yelled BOO!!
After it yelled BOO! at me!
I ran all the way up the stairs!
And guess what else...."I...
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Categories:
confusion, cry, halloween, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
GrossbeckContinents collide against one another
The tatonic plates are now emerged
Pesisides manipulate earth
but still we breath the air
vlcanoes erupt and sobdue us
the langlaeers are the Mcabees only fear
Genocide is a brainless way to indulge in a fight
so i end racism like all my friends
Lakes are made by men
so what can we not do
the energy...
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Categories:
confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Unintentional InnuendoNOT FOR CONTEST
He took me to breakfast then suggested a movie -
he had a roomy, would watching at my place suit me?
Our first date, I wasn't feeling him, but then, okay,
maybe we'd become friends and good company.
When we arrived, I set the movie, he sat the couch.
I said, 'be right back, need the little girl's...
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Categories:
clothes, confusion, desire, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Tempestdistempered winds rise
our bodies of water swell
overcoming land
children shriek dolefully
as gunfire rain rings out...
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Categories:
allegory, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
STRANGER LOVE MEMORYHow can I love her
When she doen't know me
She doesn't know me
How can I love her, when she don't know me
who am I now a strange memory
...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, analogy, confusion,
Form: Free verse
The tempest of our nightmares
tempers flare in high winds
the sea roars in anger
heavy rains pelt down
waves rise to the occasion
after much ado and
with visible reluctance
the sky begins to clear
stars bestow their calmness
while the weary moon looks on
...
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Categories:
anger, conflict, confusion, moon,
Form: Free verse
MoonCandle glow at midnight
The hatch is locked
A scrambling splutter
As I reach for the key of circles and bolts and lines
But just as before
The circle ends
Four corners behind
And I'm scrambling again for another key
I plead the glow as I–
Well, do I cherish my existence once more?
Foot taps to the humming
Blood rushing under my skin
I'm thrown to...
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Categories:
anxiety, confusion, feelings, love,
Form: Lyric
Race Track Thinking or My Mind's RacewayRace Track Thinking
16… little did I know the initiation began. 16 is hard enough navigating adolescence. Hormone dumping, the anguishing struggle to fit in any way—- relinquishing my individuality, and being true to myself. Unbeknownst, this was at my expense.
I didn't choose these ADHD and BPAD diagnoses, and the other Alphabet Soup “ingredients.” They...
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Categories:
betrayal, conflict, confusion, introspection,
Form: Narrative
My mercurial mindNever at rest, ever restive
like shifting sands of the desert,
my mind is
a labyrinth of quagmires and booby traps,
you step on it
and you’ll either be sucked in
or blown to smithereens…
Going in is a child’s play
Coming out—
A gauntlet run!
...
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Categories:
confusion,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Confusion Poems
Definition | What is Confusion in Poetry?
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