Incomprehension Poems

To Those That Don't Understand - continued part 2

...(continued from Part 1)


..To those that don't comprehend

No accident or by default
- WHY the world is; 
or has become insane, 
Inevitably of course 
we see that, 
There IS a Group to Bla...
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Categories: incomprehension, art,
Form: Political Verse

Premium Memberivory flakes

...
elephant tusks
harvested for ivory towers
truncate the wisdom of time

blizzards hail snow flakes
weather a storm or two
before they melt into memories

Babylon refutes Jericho
an eye for ...
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Categories: incomprehension, conflict,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberLove unveils us from borrowed faces

...Love unveils us from borrowed faces,
It tears them away, fear and longing, from the depths of our defeated chests.
I call it here "love," not just an anchor between shores of intertwined pulses,
B...
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Categories: incomprehension, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn the heart of the country, a veil of mystery and melancholy floats

...In the heart of the country, a veil of mystery and melancholy floats,
And threading along the leaf of life, these methods seem a sinister symphony.
Open borders, and immigration comes like an under...
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Categories: incomprehension, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLife is a Song

...In the same town, in the same house,
two brothers were born
in a nice and calm countryside
where roses had no thorns.

In the same place, this morn,
two twins received this fife
to whistle ad-...
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Categories: incomprehension, inspirational,
Form: Ballad


The Parsley Sage

...heavy-footed
he tramps his
wisdom on her
renaissance carpet
			she gives him
			thick coffee and
			sits him in a chair
			far too small
he stares about
the room & talks
about nothing in
p...
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Categories: incomprehension, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Descartes' Rule of Signs

...I. Noise in an empty hallway:
My old leather shoes protest as I hurry down the linoleum tiles
Like I'm wearing a little piece of history older than I am.

II. Headlights on a dark road:
Speeding...
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Categories: incomprehension, god, humanity, life, math,
Form: Free verse

Time Please

...Shipwrecks crowd the pub taproom
a hot breath of defeat curdles the air.

There's a coal fire;
there are black tables, small and round
just enough for two pint glasses.

One cloth cap asks ano...
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Categories: incomprehension, poetry,
Form: Free verse

It's So Hard To Say Goodbye

...Holding on to the memories
that never fades away.
On that dreadful day,
It never crossed
my mind that this
would be our last
conversation and
the ending of yours.

So many unanswered
questi...
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Categories: incomprehension, absence, anger, change, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPequot River Land Trust

...Once,
or twice, 
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal

A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted 
sometimes hysterically clu...
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Categories: incomprehension, blue, culture, environment, green,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberConsciousness

...CONSCIOUSNESS
the tendency
to
assertion
in
 an alienated
 retreat
of
reasoned
 understanding

 fundamental
incomprehension
 strange
&
inaccessible
impervious
to
oneness
of
the
 i...
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Categories: incomprehension, poetry,
Form: Other

Broken Clay

...As a poet solves puzzles of life .
My ink draws lines of "symmetry", to align the brokenness of my uncalculated moves.
I'm no poet but a broken Clay pot with unheard words.
Broken to pieces, I ble...
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Categories: incomprehension, art,
Form: Prose Poetry

Numbers

...The stars both numb and inspire,
awe either enraptures or terrifies.
The word ‘infinite’ becomes a conjectural sum
to be defined by pundits in bow ties
and star-crazed, white coated messiahs.

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Categories: incomprehension, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPleasantries and Pleasure

...Watch people go about their day
  What pleasant things they say: 
Mutter, grumble, moan and gripe
  Curse and condemn, carp and snipe

Something to prove, on the run, in the groove
  Going nowh...
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Categories: incomprehension, confusion, satire, spoken word,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberConscience of a God

...Looking back on life, as I go forward
tripping over, what’s missing, 

Not love or loss, a divine exclusive experience,
Contentment mere blissful contentment 
baby suckling at mother’s teats,

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Categories: incomprehension, allegory, allusion, creation, god,
Form: Free verse

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