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Discomfiture Poems - Poems about Discomfiture

The Pretty Boy Paradox
...Vexation seeps through sighs As the pen finds comfort Sharing the same story Nonsensical pretty boys With smoke cloud habits And bloodshot ponderings Vaunting on their Newsworthy deli......

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Categories: discomfiture, break up, emo, growth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Communique From Gethsemene
...The pretext of my residency here seems to have exhausted itself. I now find myself in need of offering an explanation for the immediacy of my departure. No doubt certain obvious reasons will come unp......

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Categories: discomfiture, allegory, dark, solitude,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



The Last 4 Years and the Coming Decade 3
...Conceited clericalism is encroaching scientific study and educational exploration, obdurate obscurantism engulfing people's normal mentality and judgment, ramrod racism routing ethnic equality and me......

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Categories: discomfiture, america, international, introspection, political,
Form: Prose
Mink's Manifesto 2
...How can human deal with all the other animals with a sense of indisputable superiority? What makes them keep mollycoddling the mean motive of extracting from other animals as much as possible while p......

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Categories: discomfiture, animal, anti bullying, cry,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Who Am I
...WHO AM I I am a woman of abundance, not of material possessions; but more of my gifts or talents, ......

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Categories: discomfiture, character, i am, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lost In Consciousness
...I skitter cross time's restless bones in search of sleep's access, Discomfiture not fate or man but "restless legs" (1) confess. An accidental drug (2) does treat if I do not forget, It calms legs......

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Categories: discomfiture, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Podium of Casanova's Odium
...Tell me, Casanova, how long you’ll pine On sodden sleeves your heart you’ve worn Reputation on the line in decline Sterile standing in society shorn Of its aura of charm and calm Reduced to ta......

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Categories: discomfiture, poems,
Form: Free verse
Cupid Clinkers and Blinkers
...Love in its majesty and spendour Visits hearts kind and unkind Waxing her odour and ardour To help the love-lost to find Little spaces, loving faces Enamoured enough To rise from surfaces Wh......

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Categories: discomfiture, poems,
Form: Free verse
Clarion Call Sounded On My Wailing Wall
...Narrow escapes- thrice threatening Came and went Despite succor abstaining My soul under no circumstances meant Harm to my person Stolid as I sometimes dreamt to claim Not heeding, not learni......

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Categories: discomfiture, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anxiety
...The many faces scattered here- the sense of misery had swollen, not unexpectedly. Sound “louder,” suddenly at the end, dreadful movements then till the end. The clear red-hot, mass of fire ......

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Categories: discomfiture, anxiety, music,
Form: Free verse
Sundown
...After the rain, the Sun will rise again we have been in darkness since they arrived in their caravan of dreams with empty promises of change, and constructive untruths, with which they tricked ......

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Categories: discomfiture, africa,
Form: Free verse
Why Is Life That Way
...© Ben Burton 6/18/2016 It's difficult to feel good When you see A long lost loved one The meeting predicated On the death of another You both loved But, at least one of you Barely saw at al......

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Categories: discomfiture, death, feelings, remember,
Form: Free verse
Wind the Musical Element of Life
...Wind is that wonderful element replenished at each breath, Interrupting this rhythm even for a moment results in a discomfiture. Wild wind rustling through the leaves of the tree, Carrying with it......

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Categories: discomfiture, life,
Form: Rhyme
Depressions
...Waking up with the demon digging your bowels Imagining other marvels, your mind on a different level Hit the streets with a system in discomfiture Nose in the air as to flatter any future Peopl......

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Categories: discomfiture, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Stung By Love
...It was no longer a vague errand, She was determined to accost him She had overcome at last the dread Of having to face her painful dilemma With a vigorous jerk of her head She shook off many a g......

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Categories: discomfiture, first love,
Form: Free verse

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