Disenchantment Poems - Poems about Disenchantment

In August when the days are hot, nights are cool, men are shot; fooling with another's wife too many men cut with knife. Walk a street some evening time is late and no one's there even moonlight stays away even stars no longer stare no one sees what happens then when night is finally here darkness is, to good, no friend. it brings us instant fear something...

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Jung lectured of dogma its strangling of the symbol the Medieval melted with magma doubt was born, its smile twinkled As monks wrote songs of Poliphile Seeking soul from the external in the Enlightened world, nothing seems to be real For eons our ancestors were certain of the eternal Is the light worth its weight? Pain now lifted by pharmaceuticals A flock who just can't walk straight Now...

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combing my unkempt hair unraveling years of not caring my freedom knotted with reckless abandon untangling each strand of dissatisfaction cutting as curls fall away each length a strand of injured time January 30, 2023 Bite Size Contest #60 Sponsored by Line Gauthier...

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“he astringed a vein in the loquacious tongue - triggered plunger syringe needle and zaz...- now see how this psychedelia is fleeting and the silent world that in rainbows dissolves” when and if you wanted to hide the stings or dreams were like this [this being one of other inapparent ways to inoculate narcotics] (people actually don't know the paths of a map if...

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Of Civilization and Disenchantment by Michael R. Burch Suddenly uncomfortable to stay at my grandfather's house ? actually his third new wife's, in her daughter's bedroom ? one interminable summer with nothing to do, all the meals served cold, even beans and peas... Lacking the words to describe ah! , those pearl-luminous estuaries ? strange omens, incoherent nights. Seeing the flares of the river barges illuminating Memphis, city of bluffs...

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Do you sense a difference between ecstasy and enchantment? Ecstasy draws me out of my ego, my body my mind my autonomous autumnal consciousness, winter isolated awareness. And enchantment? Enchantment draws me in. More of a seduction, maybe even curious invitation. Ecstasy sounds louder, bolder, short-term climatic and requires loss of ego-centered monopoly games While enchantment may include promise of all that bluster and outsidedness yet adds the longer sunlight summer before and after relationship of seduced...

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Young Willie wooed his girl at night And wed her in soft candlelight. Next morning when the sun was bright, Young Willie contemplated flight. By; Joyce Johnson For: By Candlelight contest...

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Deep, deep, deep like the old closed cold cold grave Down in a dark chamber of loneliness Resides this horrible and constant boredom Never is there a slight filling this need Romance disappeared like misty morn fog It was clinging wrapped like very wet tee-shirts But slowly dried and left me wondering What in the world has really happened here Was not...

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I'd swear it was as if I've seen an authentic Picasso By the way I can't turn my eyes away From yours that is. I love it. I think, that wordplay will come a long way, I keep falling for those things. We look, To find out those hidden meanings. How your lines seem to mean business But are betrayed by those curves...

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