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Disenchantment Poems

we are the God that we've been waiting for

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

Categories: disenchantment, 12th grade, america, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Disenchantment, a London Lecture in 1933

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

Categories: disenchantment, education, emotions, mental health,
Form: Rhyme

A Length of Time

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

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Categories: disenchantment, change,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Z

“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

Categories: disenchantment, analogy, drug,
Form: Free verse

Of Civilization and Disenchantment

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

Categories: disenchantment, bible, boat, boy, childhood,
Form: Free verse

Ecstasy V Disenchantment

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

Categories: disenchantment, earth, engagement, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse

Disenchantment

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

Categories: disenchantment, funny,
Form: Monorhyme

I Am Bored With Disenchantment

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

Categories: disenchantment, introspection, life, nature, romance,
Form: Blank verse

Art Disenchantment

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

Categories: disenchantment, allegory, love, love,
Form: Free verse