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Disabuse Poems - Poems about Disabuse

Issue, Iridescence
...Issue, O Iridescence! Luminesce on the sly. Pore over, phosphorescence? Oh yes, and here is why! Students of the nebula! Empire has its cost! Best to keep it regular? That or deal of Faust! ......

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Categories: disabuse, animal, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tri and Tri Again TRI
...The phrases lurch unkempt and trite. The meter’s wrong, iambs lack grace. One rarely ever gets it right, and just like that, it falls in place. The meter’s wrong, iambs lack grace like two lef......

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Categories: disabuse, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Forced Nature
...The redamancy flowed from within, jumping down the line, the nacarat sun; blinding the ones alive, listen to the canorous sounds; blowing in the wind, even though they are flagitious, ......

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Categories: disabuse, confusion, corruption, dream, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Extra Mile
... and when she saw that vagrant man the gears all clicked; she had a plan to share his footsteps for a span and then as was her style thinking this life was his to choose not being one......

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Categories: disabuse, journey, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Tuna Fish Can
...Mike and his father went grocery shopping. Mike, age 4, chooses a tuna meal fish can. Since his hands were full as he was swapping. Mike opts to put the tuna in his pocket as a man. ......

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Categories: disabuse, analogy, appreciation, inspirational, teenage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Go On, Redouble
...Go on, redouble, and write a great Rondeau; Get out your best pen and call on your muse. Let your light shine like Deliverance banjo; The Lord gave you gifts He wants you to use. Sure it’s a ch......

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Categories: disabuse, poems,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Alpha and Omega
...The first few years of life is little different than death or dreamless sleep There is nothing we can recall as if we didn’t exist at all events failing to stick like an omelet sliding perfe......

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Categories: disabuse, angst, baby, birth, childhood,
Form: Free verse
On Looking At Schiller's Skull Translation Goethe
...ON LOOKING AT SCHILLER’S SKULL by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Here in this charnel-house full of bleaching bones, like yesteryear’s fading s......

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Categories: disabuse, best friend, body, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dangerous Liaisons - Now With Notes
...Is it ‘friendship’ you proffer (to strangers who ask) If you’re ‘sap for sad stories,’ deny other’s truth, If you’ve something to barter, a ‘twit’ for ‘****’ thought, (1) Good advice you call ‘cur......

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Categories: disabuse, journey, life, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Should I Ever Leave You
...If I have to leave you, it won't be my choice, But a desperate move by a man with no voice In the judgments 'you' make on 'dark' friends I hold dear, Don't just fear they're around, but demand dis......

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Categories: disabuse, friendship, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 2018 - No News Is Good News
...Today, when I'm in search of news, seems no honest place to choose No matter where my surfing lands, my wits are placed in biased hands Facts and lies chewed in a blender, serve......

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Categories: disabuse, change, corruption, humanity, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Iv, U
...I am powerless, The drug I can't disabuse ... Addicted ... to YOU.......

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Categories: disabuse, love, lust, passion,
Form: Senryu
Inner Child
...Inner child, forever confused? Puzzled by alcohol misused. His angry dad when so infused, Did with hand, belt and bat abused. Inner child, cruelly accused, With arms and hips then deeply bruis......

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Categories: disabuse, abuse, child abuse, forgiveness,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member For the Rest of Their Lives
...Those that belong to God go to a much better place For such as these - there’s always plenty of space. Those that depart from us do not have regret For such as these are blessed - lest we forget......

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Categories: disabuse, absence, bereavement, death, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Inner Monster
...My inner monster lurks around. Amid my anxieties, it can be found. What I believed is hard to face, Is where trauma finds a hiding place. It could evade, disguise, and get loose. This is the tim......

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Categories: disabuse, anxiety, fear,
Form: Rhyme

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