Short Baffling Poems

As the days go by
A baffling mystery
What is it all for?...

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Life is a charade 
baffling the minds of all 
leaving us in awe...

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Unexplained puzzle 
baffling the minds of all 
this is a charade...

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self inflicted
irreversible damage
~ a baffling waste



posted on November 8, 2018...

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blind snake runs to sound
the frog call rain in the pond
splash! snake finds nothing



-Thursday, June 13, 2019 Chattogram...

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mysterious
baffling
so many questions

grandeur
splendor

beyond all
comprehension



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on November 18, 2018...

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Alcohol, cunning baffling powerful

Anticipation for that next drink, such a pull

Even though the negative consequences are dire

More alcohol is poured on, fueling the fire...

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The way I live.
The way I stay.
No hope of reasoning.
No plan to ever end.
Baffling all my senses.
Breaking all the rules.
That's the way my life is going.
I am so confused....

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skirting issues
in roundabout ways
mysterious and baffling
deliberately foggy



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on May 28, 2020 to contest BRIAN'S CHOICE Z sponsored by BRIAN STRAND...

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Hung on a string by a tree
Some pumpkins laughing
Bats that fly all about them
An aura baffling
Full moon is rising
Lights up the whole scene unique
Fear is surprising

Russell Sivey

Form Seguidilla...

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His mindfulness led me
Through a labyrinthine maze
Rambling sinuous thoughts
Planted in thorny tangles
A wandering elegance
Baffling in its simplicity
Mazelike in its meanderings
A wise and twisting serpent
Entangled in the complexities
Of its naivety...

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My very own Lil me,
You are indeed my Shorty.

Growing up so quick and fast,
Your childhood days didn’t last.

What you are becoming,
Is only baffling and cunning.

A child from my very soul,
My daughter’s growing old.

I love you Angela, Lil me
You fill my world so beautifully....

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vibrant primroses
in countless arresting shades
bring back the glad smiles

sunshine symphonies
in fields, beds and flowerpots
rhapsodic summer

fragrance from a dream
dreamt in the heart of winter
under the pearl moon

teeming colors mass
for a doomed beauty contest
baffling all judges...

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Like an innocent ringlet
the corkscrew opened up
her world of tedium
to a heaven, to an intensity
of the stars she had not seen
before.

She clung madly to bliss,
devoured her bottleful
with so baffling a love,
the woman was swallowed
into fractured pieces
of fume

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
December 5, 2012...

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It happened yesterday morning I was home alone,
I suddenly remembered I had to use the telephone,
I picked up the receiver and I put it to my ear,
What I heard caused me mortal fear,
I heard silence, silence in my ear,
This was really baffling it took me by surprise,
What could have caused my telephones demise?...

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Love is a mystery 
Entwined in threads of sorcery 
Like a beautiful scenery 
Laced in baffling embroidery; 
Only a heart of mastery 
Can tame the course of its misery 
For the lure of its debauchery 
Can bind a soul to slavery. 

October 4, 2022 

A Brian Strand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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The sun is playing peek-a-boo;
It’s hiding ‘neath a cloud,
While waiting raindrops gather
All together in a crowd.

Uncertain weather’s baffling
For who knows what to wear?
But rain or shine, humidity
Is hanging in the air.

I’m heading out not knowing
If the sun will show its face,
But I’m old enough to carry
My umbrella – just in case!...

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May the beauty of Nature in Spring,
Fill you with wonder, joy and peace,
Through this unsettling era so baffling,
Supporting you til our confinements cease.

Isolated of necessity this holiday season,
Yet thankful for animals in our lives,
who buoy and console, our mutual love easing,
Strains we'll soften with safe hugs to survive!

mrt/4-10-20...

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I am 
A curious seahorse
Of copper and evergreen
Skittering past
Gaping jaws
Of a killer whale

An angry crawdad
Clicking my 
Castanet claws
At sandaled toes 
Gliding by

A scrambled message
On a cellular phone
With whirs and clicks
Baffling the receiver
But concealing an SOS

To look into my 
Stained glass eyes
Is to see the quiver
Of an empty heart....

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Lugubrious forest where resides
Dead in live middle age woman
Hovering between the shadows 
Searching for the robbed peace

White dove rests in her hand 
Symbol of the beloved who fled 
In a long voyage with no return
Baffling the strange lady mind 

Somber clouds loom in the sky
Unleasing supernatural forces
When reality and fantasies mix
In a tormentous nightmare



2-24-2017...

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Like a meter I count the lyrics-
That journey about my heart.
From battles they all converge
For truce they settle minds with ease

The strings! Rhythmical in nature-
Are caressed but pressured by sticks.
The wind! From the east you sing
To the west my heart dance

Loving the rhyme as trees swish
Quick my mind follows the song
That fashions the treaty of love
To sing, end of my baffling thoughts...

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This all begun
for no reason,
and it seems
baffling.

Out of the blue, 
I glanced at
the moon,
and I fall.

So, my head 
turns down; 
glancing at
my foot.

Asking myself, 
could it be you?
But, no one
responds to me.

No one...

Until someone's
whispering in my ear,
I closed my eyes

While the rhythms 
of my heart quivered
faster than before. 

My eyes opened... 

Dreadful!...

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Iridescent bubbles, in my sleep, I see
a mishmash of things: some dear to me, 
some odd - mind's subtle hues gleam, 
a hodgepodge they seem;
Aw! in my
dream
I see sky
with two suns and stream -
baffling scenes, mismatch, I deem;
Still, I love my mind's craftwork, I glee, 
iridescent bubbles, in my sleep, I see

Date: 01/22/2023
Writing Challenge - Andaree Form - Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Constance La France...

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I've been struggling
The world is all so new to me
I'm growing up and it's often baffling
I love you can't you see
I'm just a kid yet often lines are crossed and blurred
You shout labels I listen to your every word
I often don't feel loved or heard
Little by little my confidence is crumbling



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on June 9, 2019 for contest WRITING CHALLENGE, JUNE 2019 CRUMBLING RHYME sponsored by DEAR HEART  -  RANKED 3RD...

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Melrose, 
     a colorful flower of motley verse;
  Eccentric baffling moody contradiction; 
               Coffee, Ocean, Music 
               Euphoric excitement  
               Solitude and calm
            Freedom and adventures       
            Shadows and emptiness 
     Ireland, Seattle, and the pyramids; 
        Dreaming in the Florida panhandle; 
          Do not try to analyze a poet,
revel in the words that so briefly let you feel....

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