Short Baffled Poems

unexpected gift
I am baffled by the thought
someone thought of me...

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Blackened baffled jewel 
Your beauty shines as if ignited 
Oh diamond eyed leper....

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Angry in awe
Baffled abused
Children betrayed
Deceived conceived

Question tears that paralyze their quest....

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US born Phillip Guston
whose art you may have come upon
They surely make one scratch the head
they baffled him too,he once said...

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My pencil busy in..
Counting minutes that..
Slip a away from my hands.
....
My fingers baffled; 
How can I count your absence? !...

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I think it’s such an amusing insult.
Aye, it’s baffled me. Bullies call me Four
Eyes. I’m supposed to cry as a result?
Ay me. They’re vexed when I laugh from the floor....

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Confusion
Puzzled thinking
Bewilders rational reasoning.
Befuddled, bamboozled, baffled, bothered
Misinterpretation.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 22, 2010
Poetic form: Cinquain...

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The earth pulsates every 26 seconds
Discovered in the 1960’s by Jack Oliver
To this day scientists are baffled of why
My explanation would be
It’s The Earths Heart Pounding
Keeping us all alive...

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Those guys that lived centuries ago
More advanced than we thought, building chateaux
It has baffled our minds
Those were different times
Can't conceive of the feats in their portfolio...

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The flipped hourglass 
Sand is dropping fast
I’m baffled as I watch
My life coming to a closed
I think of all the things
That I wanted to do
As the time of the hourglass
Comes to an end. So, will I...

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Why is the universe so massive?
Only its creator knows for sure.
I am both baffled and anticipating.
Our creator has great eternal plans for us.

12152017 PS Contest, Unanswered Questions, Juli-Michelle...

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Listen to poem:

'Bloodhound',

Heartbroken eyes,

Wags furry empennage,

Raises hopeful household, perhaps,

Baffled.



*Traditional Cinquain
2-4-6-8-2 Syllables
First line - title, last line - connects title...

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A teardrop of joy
a teardrop of sorrow
Different in substance
different in kind
Flowing endemic
the scientist’s baffled
Their chemical compounds
— distinct and profound

(Rosemont College: June, 2024) 
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South Africa is inundated with a problem
Kidnapping, baffled with an emblem

Months passed and devastation still lasts
In the minds and bodies of the casts...

Prayers can help
All the time, we need not yelp...

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My understanding is baffled by your silent mystery.
And confusion, he screams, you are his greatest enemy.
So, if at some point, riddles and questions come into view.
Remember, the answers I seek, lies alone and only in you....

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Silent and puzzled, even when a little boy,
I remember the monsignor after every Sunday sermon
have us pray for peace,
as contending against war;
a peace that rarely came or lasted
prayers that were rarely answered....

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Drench me in the hues of ocean.
The sky in my bosom quivers
while the dark clouds shadow the birds. 
Lost in  eternal darkness
heart ripped off by this separation
Insanity mollifies  the baffled mind.
Devoured by bleakness
the soul rejoices in complacency....

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Prying eyes all around me 
Like I'm a sort of celebrity 
They want every piece of me 
They are baffled by my mystery 

For what I do is like ordinary 
But for them it is a big deal 
For the sway of bigotry 
Has clouded their minds for real

September 23, 2022...

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there, beyond
the gray realm
are those
who dare
to believe it or
those who
dare to
conceive it
are baffled and
confused because
this world
dwells behind
the black
silk veil
now its
time for us
to wear
the invisible ring
to be cloaked
into other worlds...

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The stars are striving to keep the moon afloat, 
The sound of silent darkness playing its game. 
The owls and bats are out on a hunting spree, 
the world covertly rendered light free. 
A flickering lantern striving to be the sun, 
Baffled how night has turned it into one!...

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Mother, Middle Aged.


Forlorn, she sinks into the abyss of a middle aged
mother,  her pupae no longer the apple of her eye.
Baffled, she sees her cocoon tear open and barge
hastily, fumbling in quest of sham grown ups’ pride.
A mother she remains, middle aged. Spiteful and void....

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pupa taps a
pulse
in humid mounds.

chaste cicada quivers in the ground.

sighed fermata
thrills
the earthen chambers.

bare cicada fancies in the strain.

lewd sonata
lulls
the velvet void.

sole cicada chafes his greenest feign.

baffled hall
replies
with no applause....

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While music holds memories of each second
And the devil weeps with each beat of her heart.
Unfit to steal, her essence will not depart.

He ciphers - baffled by this new development.
Designed by three simple chords - strummed with new contempt,
The madman crawls crooked - knowing she is exempt....

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I’m baffled why you brought me to this place
You seem to view my past with no concern
Your love bestowed, a thing I could not face
Now, deep within my soul, a passion burns
Unmerited, I am awash in grace

—————

(For the “Bite Size Poem no.37” Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier
Written 02/25/2022)
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Eyes of The Baffled;
His voice he muffled,
Feet no more shuffled;
He had felt ruffled.

A friend has been killed:
An Ending long willed,
For he had been billed 
And warned would be stilled,
If he would not say
When he would debts pay

‘Here Hell’ from Raffia:
A World-Wide Mafia;
One member Sophia
Cheating lovers fear!...

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