Distrustful Poems | Examples

Love, version 2

Wounded
Distrustful 
Inured
Enthralled 
Fooled
Estranged 
Paralysed
Exposed
Resolved 
Consumed 
Scholar
Slave
Compelled
Searching 
Hopeful

Love, version 1: reflections on personal experiences of love, inspired by reading bell hooks

Wounded by its lack
Distrustful of it 
Inured to its absence 
In thrall to its allure
Fooled by its simulacrum
Estranged from it 
Paralysed by fear of losing it
Inexorably exposed to it 
Resolved against it 
Consumed by longing for it
A scholar to its foreign texts 
A slave to its compulsions 
Compelled to search for it
Forever 
Hopeful

Love Isn't Love Anymore

Promises are embraced
but vows forsaken,
Beauty is highly adored
but the heart mistaken.
When a problem does arise,
there is consolation
Followed by an unfair trade
for a lover's adoration.

Often there is competition
for the manly power.
Mine is mine and yours is yours,
hardly “us” and “ours”.
Flattery is showering
her with many flowers,
This kindly favor for the neighbor
when such love grows sour.

Then are shared the hurtful words,
distrustful criticism,
Sarcasm for the birds
and one-sided decisions.
When you claim to love someone,
these actions you envision?
There's no wonder after all
such love feels like a prison!

It is the love of this world,
which isn't love anymore.

Chanté Walker

De Malibus

ON EVIL

There are those people who enjoy seeing others in pain, 
they go about inflicting it on them. 

One should never underestimate, 
evil, 
the amount of evil caused by people, 
thinking they were doing the right thing is unbelievable. 

One has to realise….. 
…..that far more harm has been affected by optimistic people……
…..rather than by distrustful offenders.

On the other hand, those -
- who puts power into the hands of an oppressor;
must not be surprised if it turned against them.

Known to everyone is that power tends to corrupt power, 
while absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Jaundiced Spiritual Heart and Mind-

jaundiced spiritual heart and mind-


"Bitter am I
Resentful of your lit voice thoughts
Cynical “sigh” is this all you got
My rage is my tumors, enraged is my stupor
Soured my lips poison distorted
As forth in my ignorant I am bile
Running from my here and now
Disenchanted romancing the thought of you getting more than me
Disillusioned that we are the same
Disappointed because you hold the reign
Pessimistic at opt I’m all you got
Skeptical intermission unfaithful decision
Distrustful suspicious misanthropic
Jealous because what you got and don’t got
Envious of your wares, do you even care
Narrow-minded my hatred cause your skin is______?
Bigoted prejudiced what I got left
My spirit, 
My mind
My heart and soul
My lips and tongue
May we one day unshackle our consciousness from bondage, 
To our deep rooted narrowness surprise?
Guess what we’re just jaundiced"
-jaundiced spiritual heart and mind



7/1/21
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Distracted

Feeling that pain 
in my mind 
In my heart 
Hurting so bad 
I’m falling apart 
I gave it my all
put in a 100% 
Can’t hate me a little 
Can’t hate me a bit 
Leave it alone 
you’ve torn out my heart 
scorched it to a crisp 
Now where do I start 
I saw it all before 
With others I’ve known 
Happiness to nightmares 
Abated hearts torn
Right in front of my eyes
A disquieting loss known
A future irreconcilable 
Discording with lies untold 
Not sure what to say
Not sure what to do it 
Can’t even describe 
My hatred toward you 
Watching you leave 
I’m gonna explode 
My dreams now gone 
No more happy home 
It doesn’t even matter 
Everything we’ve built 
Now it’s all shattered 
Lost down this road 
Gotta let off some steam 
With life upside down
It’s time for me to move on 
Thanks for the smiles 
Thanks for the lies 
Distance from your presence is what I need 
Watching you leave 
HARD DIFFICULT 
TORCHED EMOTIONS 
DISTRUSTFUL TEMPTATION 
LASTING 
MEMORIES
Gone

Human Nature

We're all seduced by beauty,
perennially tempted by greed.
Ashamed to be seen naked
literally and metaphorically speaking.
We're uncomfortable being closely 
watched and studied.

Much like electricity, we choose 
the path of least resistance 
when presented with a daunting challenge.
We're all-disposed to change.
We worry more than we should 
when we're concerned.

We avoid anything we fear;
reluctant to veer out of our comfort zones
We have a tendency to procrastinate 
tasks we detest performing.
We cry when we feel emotional pain.
We fuss when things don't go our away.

We question things we don't understand;
recoil at things that horrify us.
Our brain is wired to take steps back 
from danger, to be distrustful of strangers
We'll never stop craving more and more money
Why? It's quite simple. Human nature.


Date written: 06/08/2020

Laments of Love

Lamenting love rest upon my humble heart,
May thy candle burn quickly before thy night…
Loves lament lies lingering from far apart,

For the slings and arrows deploy and depart,
Solitary stars sacrificed amidst dying light…
Lamenting love rest upon my humble heart,

A broken hearts graveyard a calamitous compart,
Release my soul this warmless winters white…
Loves lament lies lingering from far apart,

Your love has harpooned a distrustful dart,
Like a raging rioting roar with a bitter bite…
Lamenting love rest upon my humble heart,

Lost in love, arrested & abandoned by black art,
Your voiceless words are daggers that ignite…
Loves lament lies lingering from far apart,

For you, my love has become an infamous impart,
Where tedious tears testify tenderly in twilight…
Lamenting love rest upon my humble heart,
Loves lament lies lingering from far apart.




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Gentle On My Mind

Gentle on My Mind

You play along the edges, 
of every memory worth having. 
You have been there since, 
I care to look back. 
I was stupid, 
fearful, 
distrustful, 
and dangerous. 

You… ever were patient, 
kind, and slow to anger, 
walking a measured gait. 

Cowboy, 
You speak in a voice, 
that melts my heart. 
but your real words, 
more often are unvoiced,
but always felt, 
tangibly… changing
the fixed temperament 
left behind, 
in the wake of users, 
defilers of dreams. 

You make me look up at the stars. 
You make me find new paths…
You are a cold drink, 
to my parched journey.  
Now I no longer…
walk alone.

Mind Demons

Monsters stare out the windows to my soul. 
They stare out at everyone and everything 
They use my body, the parasitic creatures 
They start whispering to my brain
Seeds of corruption and shadows cloud my mind as they take hold. 
They try to do so to my heart but I close myself off. 
I try to protect those I love
They only get hurt and become distrustful and wary towards me. 
I try to fix what my demons damaged 
but how can you fix what is already beyond broken? 
How do you fix a compromised relationship?
Bullet holes and band-aids 
Doubt and fear. 
How do I fix what I've done?

A Killer Among Us

It is a thorny impossible situation. No one is talking, eyes are red, feelings are not being shared. No one knows who to trust.  Whoever did this is either a friend or an enemy, and no one except the killer knows
which.  We are moving around each other with distrustful glances, suspecting our best friends, our cousins, our coworkers.  Hoping we are wrong. It is a trying time, and it does not dissipate for months. Death is bad, but murder is somehow worse.  We are on autopilot, jumping at loud sounds, never fully the same.  

Paralyzed by fear
Never fully fixable,
We suspect our friends

Written for Mick Talbot's Haibun Contest
on June 25, 2018

Miserable Form Letters

Miserable Form Letters

What we will need is a completely INDEPENDENT 
9/11 LIKE COMMISSION CONVENED HELL BENT
TO INVESTIGATE DONALD TRUMP AND HIS 
CAMPAIGN ASSOCIATES AND NONE MISS.  

THIS COMMITTEE SHOULD BE NONPARTISAN 
DEVOID OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND NEXT OF KIN.
THE COUNTRY IS DEEPLY DEVIDED AND DISTRUSTFUL 
OF PARTISAN POLITICS NOT FITTING THE BILL.

This is the only way to get a truthful resolution 
To the antics of Trump administration and munition;
DO NOT SEND ME A FORM LETTER RESPONSE;
Shall destroy completely after on it I do ponce.

Will cut to quick and then avoid the suspense, 
THERE VERY PRESENCE INSULTS MY INTELLIGENCE;
Condescending responses only people anger,
And to this seems like we are no stranger.

We gladly want to become directly involved;
To do this reinforces what we have resolved;
We are educated adults who homework do,
Not idiots and bumpkins like you we view.

Jim Horn

Sent from my iPhone

What Makes Our Friends True

Can a complete stranger, a random person you've barely met
Become your close and very trusted friend? You bet!
You see, I know a guy. He's kind, attentive and nice,
And just that was enough to melt my heart's distrustful ice.

He's not the happiest person I've met, since his life was quite sad,
But I do all I can to help him. And he makes me see not everyone's bad.
Though we haven't spent much time being together as of yet,
I can already say that this guy is one of the best people I've ever met.

I hope that when you stop and think a bit about a friend,
It's not the time you spent together that matters to you in the end.
What does matter is who they are and what did they do.
What you like them for. That's what makes our friends true!

Paradise Was Found

.. and these distrustful thighs 
From this heart that shan't lie 
Lips that shan't diss
Eyes that shan't blink 
Hands that succumb will

Lord save me

From those things that tangle
Ones that dazzle
Like the moon it tussles
I do nothing but muffle
Make my body rumble

No choice but cuddle
For 30 shekels of silver
Or 100 agarot to ease her
Lord save me
Since you've made me
I was ok with my ribs getting aged

Lord save me

From this slippery hair,
On a sleepy head
which illuminates not
But we slumber thus
.. in cleavage that torments

She that ensnare 
this apple that we ate 
From that which was forbade
that I can't evade
Man is greed
This paradox he found

Lord save me

Paradise i lost, she I found
Where will I be hence?
Her tanks won't let me rest 
Like paradise it tents
Now 'me awaits my comeuppance'

What is next..?
Banished to hell
Or what do you call earth?
Another chance they said 
More sins or less?

Summertide

The dulcet rays of summertide extend
Their wings below the wavy crowns of trees,
Where slabs of stone adorn a path and blend
Their way across a kingdom owned by bees. 

Across the waterfall, a house of stone
Stands quiet by the ivied moorland, where
The human footstep often strides alone,
Though crescent moon beams always visit there. 

I’m like a raven on a branch of life, 
Distrustful of my fate and of my ways,
Yet knowing that more clever is the knife
Of time, than any fox who sings my praise. 

Alone with my own thoughts, protected by the heights 
Of oak and elm trees, where I lie in sleep,
I feel unknown: untouched by all the lights
Spread out by stars from their celestial keep. 

Across the fallows and the firths I fly
On ample whiffs of wistful stupor quelled
By the recess of chaos when I try
To tame fierce words whose ore was never welled. 

As rain and winds might shred tall peaks to dust, 
So does the world grow old and rise anew
Though, by sheer mutability, it must 
Reveal its secrets to a chosen few. 

Find my poems and published poetry volumes at www.eton-langford.com

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