Disenchanting Poems

Her Grace

...It was something about the way she looked at me.
Just a deep look in her eyes that seemed to call me by my name.
A feeling of empty connection, and the longing for more.
I want to give her what sh...
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Categories: disenchanting, 10th grade, crush, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIf It Wasn't For Poetry

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Where would my reason come from?
My purpose for rising at dawn – for risking my heart,
For giving a part of my smile, a part of my light…

Where would I go when I want to show?
My thoughts o...
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Categories: disenchanting, appreciation, blessing, poetry, word
Form: Free verse


Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor

...Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?

Ah... methinks legal tender 
could be a boon to help me bolster 
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire...
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Categories: disenchanting, 8th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse

Repressed Desire

...An errant breeze blew hair across my cheek
and suddenly my tears flowed as I recalled
how we once loved. A love which I still seek.
Is it my heart or my vanity that is appalled?

How I've strugg...
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Categories: disenchanting, desire, lost love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Way

...MY WAY

I see reflections of my life, how I arrived
at this stage of my telling life, the phase I thrive.

Was a curious child with too many questions
that I kept to myself from my keen attenti...
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Categories: disenchanting, environment, family, life, perspective,
Form: Couplet


Premium MemberMisconception

...How disheartening to realize our illusions
Were but naïve misconceptions about aging

People don’t necessarily become wiser with age
Many become bitterly selfish petty and vindictive

Blessed a...
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Categories: disenchanting, age, character, growing up,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Neighbor's Wife

...He's been struggling with depression,
She said, so then have I.

It's our bad news
that competing depressions
breed more contagiously
than our cooperation feeds happiness.

Yet our good news ...
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Categories: disenchanting, anti bullying, caregiving, destiny,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberHorrific Climate Trends

...Any difference between feeling horrified, on one hand,
and disenchanted terrifying thoughts, on the other,
seem connected to punishing error and folly in others
unlike our self-righteous ego ident...
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Categories: disenchanting, community, conflict, confusion, health,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberNurturing Efficiencies

...Ecological relationships
evolved from effective theological inspirations,
maybe tree-logical aspirations,
and, eventually,
evolved away from defective theological lack of inspirations,
climate i...
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Categories: disenchanting, creation, god, health, history,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberLead With a Follower

...Most effective teachers
are perpetually curious students.

Most accomplished chefs
have voracious appetites
for nutritional taste
and nurturing fragrance.

Most resilient lovers of here and n...
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Categories: disenchanting, caregiving, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberWhat's the Problem

...What's the problem with homelessness,
other than the violence from which it comes
and toward which it further travels?

Why not ignore 
and grow tolerance
for the inevitability of caravans
of ...
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Categories: disenchanting, health, imagination, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberPaternal Storms

...To Husserl's phenomena,
enchanting and disenchanting
healthy and pathological
and all colors in-between,
We might remedially add relationships,
cooperative and competitive
and all hues and crie...
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Categories: disenchanting, birth, history, integrity, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberPoverty of Health

...Poverty: 
Unusually limited access
to health,
nutritional poetry,
liturgical dance,
and positive-restorative energy resources--

The four WealthFaces of liberal love.

Poverty of Health deri...
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Categories: disenchanting, earth, health, integrity, language,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberOpposites Connect

...The opposite
of egocentric perpetrator
is ecofeminist victim

The opposite
of conservative perpetrators of Win/Lose retribution
are liberating wounds of WinWin absorption
enchanting green rest...
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Categories: disenchanting, community, destiny, education, environment,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberEnchanting Mother Fish

...To find enchanting integrity,
She transparently confronts her disenchantments
with present and past toxic flow,
disempowering absences of synergetic experience,
like rape and enslavement and aggr...
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Categories: disenchanting, emotions, engagement, fish, health,
Form: Prose Poetry

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