Misperception Poems

Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD FOR LOVING US

...November 4 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on John 3-4

Key Verse – John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not p...
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Categories: misperception, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration

I feel in fuhrer rated and envious

...I feel in führer rated and envious...

entrapped within webbed wide world
weft as a rump pulled stilts skein
at warp speed exhibiting
my heroic trumpian wiles
cuz he (johnny come lately) a then...
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Categories: misperception, adventure, america, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse


Tit For Tat

..."Tit for that is a fair game",they say;
A tooth for another,an eye for another;
One grave to a grave; blood washes away blood!
Darkness inspires night; tears dried with tears!
It is a slap for a ...
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Categories: misperception, pain,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLitany

...what sin lies within seeking to learn the nature of our existence?

the wisdom of the ages is meaningless if humanity is gone

is afterlife more important than continuing humanity?

our very co...
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Categories: misperception, future, people, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Monoku

Premium MemberAt a Party

...I spoke with two people at the party Saturday.
A young police officer, short-haired, fit,
chiseled face who had two young children.
He felt constrained by the law, without discretion
to question ...
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Categories: misperception, brother, children, courage, death,
Form: Free verse


Apart

...So we’re apart,
And our talks will never be the same again.
I guess I was the cause
But didn’t realize it until then;
Having never thought of befriending you
I ended up messing up everything.
I...
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Categories: misperception, break up,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberStaking the Truth Collaboration

...the reader of the stars devours the past and redresses the future

sees in crystal balls the flames at stake kindled by misperception


as slumber is kind for once I encounter the woman of my dr...
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Categories: misperception, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHer Name Was Rose

...he looked at the gun double barreled and lean

but it was an old water pistol from his childhood


the rope around his neck had become a bunjee

and he bounced between floor boards and ceiling...
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Categories: misperception, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTime To Go

...Godot had been waiting for a penultimate eternity

he had been sitting on a gossamer of misperception

like the epitome of Rodin’s thinker falling into sleep


he had to admit that the Gordian...
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Categories: misperception, celebrity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHippocampus

...Hippocampus

What a memory trickling down my limbic system
Pure deep emotion released from a firing brain

	Neurons transmitted untainted joy 

A night dive at Stackpole Quay in Pembrokeshire
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Categories: misperception, life,
Form: Free verse

The Truth Shall Set Us Free

...One day, one day the truth shall set us free
Those cunningly told lies will be revealed
Men’s scarred characters shall be unveiled
It will be brought to the surface for all to hear and see.

On ...
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Categories: misperception, change, encouraging, hope, patriotic,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Think Know Am

...Bubbles of air
Can’t you see
Straight faced
Documented memories 

Lies sprinkled on truths
The misperception of dreams 
Nightmares haunting 
Sweaty screams

Stare away 
I cannot change 
W...
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Categories: misperception, absence, anger,
Form: Bio

The Root of Human Suffering

...The root of human suffering is this
we punish ourselves
according to the evil that we see
when we have suffered enough
we say, i have suffered enough
now i can be happy
or now i will allow myse...
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Categories: misperception, future, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNoneastern Family Politics

...I began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find...
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Categories: misperception, culture, health, power, ,
Form: Political Verse

Too Late

...Everything gone, and lost
Images, Memories, misperception 
You should do better,
Echoes, jingles, cries, agony
Flashbacks!
Extreme anxiety swallows you up,
You make a choice, 
Pangs of guilt, ...
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Categories: misperception, confusion, grief, heartbreak, judgement,
Form: Prose

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