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Disaffection Poems - Poems about Disaffection

Premium MemberEstranged

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Estranged by you, alienated 
I’m not the one I used to know
All what is me comes out outdated
As if I was there long ago
In previous times, when life seemed shorter
When I was living for one d...
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Categories: disaffection, age, allusion, love, love
Form: Rhyme

Great Poet

...The poet will be great when:
Knowing how to walk the razor's edge
taste the road dust
step on the scalding sand of the desert,
roam the solitude of the universe,
feel the heat of the volcano,
t...
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Categories: disaffection, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse



The Dividing Line Between Father and Son

...THE DIVIDING LINE OF FATHER AND SON

My son, my only son, my beautiful son

Where was that dividing line

that separated son from father, you from me?

And let an unwise imagination overwhelm...
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Categories: disaffection, father son,
Form: Free verse

Last Night of Love

...She wanted one last verse,
     one more night of love affection
      I did further than that, reverse
      and I showed her my disaffection...

         She looked at me sidelong
          a...
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Categories: disaffection, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberOsmosis

...Osmosis 
David J Walker

		the explanation 
drinking from 
a warm and loving
labyrinth of redemption

perception
		reflection
refraction 
		thought 
in action
		perfection
the cost
		l...
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Categories: disaffection, allegory,
Form: Rhyme



Silent Voices

...External conflict
(versus)
self-disaffection

The first a misdemeanor
(the second)
a higher crime

Inarticulate
powerful yearnings
trapped in between

Inarticulate
powerful yearnings
—o...
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Categories: disaffection, feelings,
Form: Free verse

De Odium

...ON HATRED

Acrimony is like a malignant tumour
Alienation confronts disaffection
Alienation takes the hand ill humour
Acrimony leads to separation.

Disloyalty commands anxiety
Love and animo...
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Categories: disaffection, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain

Bad Weather Thoughts

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Dismal, gloomy
is the Future forecast
Ominous beta waves
carry neural turbulence of
mood destruction
Nocturnal tempest creates 
a cyclonic flow
Cranial pressure release
a petulant do...
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Categories: disaffection, angst, emotions, feelings, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Beauty's Cache

...Therein lies your beauty
testify to me no longer
of dandelions and daffodils
of butterflies and bumblebees
do not chant as crows
beyond sight scatter
then gather
in frigid naked trees
disease...
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Categories: disaffection, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Pre-Election Jitters

...This country’s so divided
That I’m feeling really scared.
The rhetoric provided
Hints of violence prepared.

Until the last election
There were differences, of course,
But the state of disaffe...
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Categories: disaffection, america,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTwo Words

...Disquiet alarm
Sleepless unhappiness
Bored disaffection
Fearful agitation
Despondent hostility
Hysterical loneliness...
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Categories: disaffection, angst, anxiety, dark, emo,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Simplicity of Life

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I have a octopus on my roof, yes I have the photos, I have the proof
He is not quite your regular octopus; he is rather dignified and aloof

He is eating bananas by the dozen, sent by a cousin f...
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Categories: disaffection, animal, appreciation, cool, crazy,
Form: Couplet

2 Quarters

...I ride a dappled horse and I'm full of introspection
With centrifugal force I gaze with circumspection
This merry-go-round gives me a sense of connection
While conversely I feel immense disaffecti...
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Categories: disaffection, blessing, death, dream, earth,
Form: Rhyme

Ineluctable

...under this gray suburban sky
if my heart will be made of stone
I swear, it will be pumice stone
 it will float
over resentment and disaffection
over boredom and illusion
over anger and incompre...
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Categories: disaffection, allegory, analogy, blue, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberBlack Powder

...We celebrate Guy Fawkes although he did not quite make the grade

I know and understand rebellion threatens thus he met his fate

Could have been worse he could have blown of his incendiary hand
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Categories: disaffection, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

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