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Confusion. Poems - Poems about Confusion.

EMOTIONAL CONFUSION
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I'M ON A SHORT CLIFF ABOUT TO FALL OVER. NO WORDS COME OUT OF MY MOUTH, SO I LET MY TEARS DO ALL THE TALKING. THE TEARS ROLLING DOWN MY FACE SAY A THOUSAND WORDS, AND MY EMOTIONS TAKE OVER ME. THEY EXPLODE AND SPEW OUT OF ME LIKE A VULCANIC ERUPTION. I STILL...

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Categories: confusion., depression,
Form: Free verse
Compassion's Rage
Your name leaves a bruise on my lips, like a ghost that lingers, life to strip, with eyes that threaten as they smile and a voice that cuts, low and vile. My heart cries out in silence dark, which you incinerate with careless spark. Your compassion's rage rules my life, twisting love into chains, sharpening strife. I speak my truth and ask for...

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Categories: confusion., abuse, anger, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Thyroid Storms
She started crying in the middle of rages— not the soft kind, but sharp, like she’d cut herself on something I couldn’t see. She slammed drawers. Shouted at a spoon. Broke a plate and sobbed as if the world had cracked with it. Before she left, my mother filled the kitchen with notes written on paper towels— taped to the cupboards, the countertops, the fridge. I couldn’t read, but...

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Categories: confusion., childhood, confusion, family, mental
Form: Free verse
Good enough for you
I'm too quiet I talk too much I'm too involved I'm way too out of touch I'm too messy I care too much about things being clean I'm too kind I'm way too f*ckin mean I'm too close I'm too far away I went to bed too early I stayed up too late I'm too skinny...

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Categories: confusion., abuse, angst, confusion, love
Form: Rhyme
Fade
Fade into the void, pale and unseen, a whisper of silence, dim murmured echo. Unheard and unremarked, an absent fragment, of drifting haze, that lingers unseen. Fragile, easily shattered, weightless and distant, an obscure hollow, of faint gray dust. Blurred empty thought, foggy and fractured, like an unfelt sigh, flickering invisible in the murk. O veiled shadow of former self, ashen phantom of better days, am I but a fleeting shade, doomed by fate to wilt and...

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Categories: confusion., absence, anxiety, confusion, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Halloween
It’s Christmas But it feels like Halloween What’s found and what’s lost And what’s in between It’s Christmas But it feels like Halloween “A love lost?! But you’re only eighteen!” It’s Christmas But it feels like Halloween I’m not allowed to feel loss Because I am a teen… It’s Christmas But it feels like Halloween I’m wearing a mask So not to be seen It’s Christmas But it feels like Halloween The...

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Categories: confusion., christmas, conflict, confusion, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Know You're A Man But
I know you're a man but Can you cultivate some humility? I know you're a man but Be a man of very good deeds I know you're a man but Do you really have to play with me? I know you're a man but I can't be who you want me to be I know you're a man but Its not fair you play...

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Categories: confusion., confusion, emotions, gender, how
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Road To Rock Bottom
Rock bottom is a dark lonely place One people will pray to never see It's overflowing with the lowest lows Reminding you of a life full of misery The select few who are exiled there Forced to travel God's forsaken road alone With potholes of pain and lanes of loneliness This road is where desperation is...

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Categories: confusion., confusion, courage, grief, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Enough For Now, Enough Forever
Enough, he said with voice pitched low Enough for now, he whispered slow And curled in upon himself Having nothing left to show Knowing no one and nonself Enough, he cried though no one heeded Enough for now, as he retreated And left another piece behind Having no faith to be intreated Perceiving his own broken mind Enough, he proclaimed with a tremor Enough for...

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Categories: confusion., angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Until Tomorrow
Before I say goodnight  I wanna say thank you Thank you for unsealing your heart  Leaving enough room for a few scriptures  On my life  A blanket of affirmations Burnt holes through the fabric  Concealing sins only you can bear  Sweating out lies from satan  You hear the laughter.  You hear the cries  From day one through day 365 Cleaning up the puke of broken promises  Tears of...

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Categories: confusion., bible, confusion, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Horse to Water
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink You can present a man with evidence, but you can't make him think. You can push a rock up a too steep slope You keep sliding back, and you're at the end of your rope It's not that they're stupid, they might have a degree. Is just...

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Categories: confusion., analogy, confusion, history, metaphor,
Form: Lyric
My Turbulent Calm
I see the wind And hear the sun And when it hurts I have such fun I know not when But the where is sure The reasons are clear Though fully obscure Thoughts I suffer The long night through Bring such comfort How is this true Confusion reigns Within thoughts clear And peace so far And yet so near I can feel it Though I’m completely numb My mind subtracts To find the...

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Categories: confusion., absence, angst, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
The Poet
Once upon a dreary time A boy set out to note a rhyme Pen in hand with paper lined Prepared he was to share his mind But thoughts lay barren and confined Without sense, reason, or rhyme Suffered he did this weary time Both his soul and cheerless mind His eyes grew dark, his face grew lined And tho he sought to redesign Something, anything...

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Categories: confusion., angst, confusion, heartbreak, language,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cryptic Cipher in the Crypt
(Begin: There is no beginning.) (O' my--not again--you should not have started.) The quill burrows. No--splinters. No--fractures. No--was never here. Ink spills--no--veins spill--no--veins collapse--no--veins rewrite. The vowels--black-lipped--no--the ink coagulates--the ink tightens--the ink breathes- acrid, metallic, it stings the tongue. Teeth in the--grain. Teeth in the letters. Teeth in me--no--teeth in you--no--teeth in the mirror- splinters in the gum's raw edge. (First...

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Categories: confusion., confusion, dark, meaningful, mystery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Legerdemain
The magician wore my mother’s perfume and conjured family from thin air— a brother renamed uncle, a wife recast as mother, a daughter vanishing behind a tale of bees. Each sleight of hand was tender— a hush, a smile, a bowl of soup cooling on the Formica while the truth was sawed in half and tucked beneath the linoleum. No one told me why my “uncle”...

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Categories: confusion., confusion, family, growing up,
Form: Free verse

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