Kafkaesque Poems - Poems about Kafkaesque

...Every once in a while, especially on holidays, I find myself wandering through my memory museum - rattling doors and fishing through those virtual hallways. That’s where I found ‘Father Lucas,’ last ......Read the rest...

...DO NOT MISS THE MOON, WHILE COUNTING THE STARS Do not be carried away by the deceit, Of an oozing chant of a back palm’s stew; For the meat that source and house it, Will slip and off it will dri......Read the rest...

...You said, ‘move on’ As it is a new season This sounds like a Kafkaesque novelty This is an ungodly form of hypocrisy Suffused with a boisterous rudeness Ingratitude can only brings sadness You ......Read the rest...

...There’s a charge against you Though we can’t say what it is In time, your list of crimes will be released Pardon our procedures – We consider grievances We’ll clear your good name after you’r......Read the rest...

..."You are welcomed to your room at night, everything is in the same familiar place. It's been long day. Climbing in to your comfy bed. Switching off the light. Nothing bad can happen"...Read the rest...

...I slowly come to as light creeps across the floor and dissolves what I thought had fallen through the torn sides of a dream. Nothing is there but the scuff marks left by fleeing ghosts. U......Read the rest...

...I ponder whose hands concertina time. Sometimes my brain wakes up 40 years younger for a few moments I am vital, perfectly formed and a smile for every eye. Other times though, I arrive in the wo......Read the rest...

...“I need you and dream of you while I try to drink you away” I almost wrote a poem that began like this (many years ago) to express my unrequited infatuation for a certain begui......Read the rest...

...In Sandy on a Sund’y Can’t even buy a pie The High Street is a ghost town From some Kafkaesque sci-fi. Not a single caf is open No point in asking ‘Why?’ So I’ll just go down To the Rose and C......Read the rest...

...Tinnitus tinnitus, innocuous by name, invisible tasteless, sounds pretty lame, Ears hissing, snakes inside my head, Growing louder, causing turmoil in bed, Room’s spinning, feel like getting sic......Read the rest...

...I never knew that Stonehenge refers to hanging gallows While solstice gives solace as the sun dial moves forth Many years of mysteries immortalized for sacred worship Blue Stones transpor......Read the rest...

...Oh, now and then I lose my way, could this be true for you as well? Though dreams suggest a brand-new day, there's something left to tell, It's not that I put blinders on, forgot old debts or new, ......Read the rest...

...Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy, approximately 800 redundant pages of Kafkaesque scoffing at relentless banalities of economic and political elitists. Rather like transcribing often inebriated co......Read the rest...

...As dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane, a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside, revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground, insane, immersed in scenes......Read the rest...

...Hunger Artist - A Kafkaesque Moment By: Earl Schumacker (influenced by “A Hunger Artist”- short story by: Franz Kafka) Food is foreign and mysterious to me n......Read the rest...