Disabuse Poems - Poems about Disabuse

Allocation, Ally

...Allocation, O ally?
Resources put where?
In the heads of those who fly?
Worry, hast thou care?

O ye spirits, I collect!
End Times, be my Muse!
Golden gods to genuflect?
Dare to 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!
...

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...

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,
...

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...

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.

...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Iv, U

...I am powerless,
The drug I can't disabuse ...
Addicted ... to YOU....

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...

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...

• Short Disabuse Poems
• Famous Disabuse Poems
• Best Disabuse Poems
• Read Disabuse Poems
• Long Disabuse Poems
• Disabuse Quotes