Short Disbelieving Poems

Sreaming internally battles surprising
Vision blurring knees shaking
Confusing disbelieving
Lying losing
I cry...

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fear
angst, anguish
doubting, distrusting, disbelieving
apprehension, anxiety, bravery, bold
advancing, asserting, attacking
vigor, valor 
courage...

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Dashed devastated betrayed
Annihilated crucified smeared
Smashed dribbled drowned
Discouraged disbelieving debilitated
Life holds less meaning now
Unbelievable sadness...

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That photo must be photoshopped said quite a few in a snippy way.
But I knew better, for I had observed the Big Dipper myself that day.
It is what I saw in the sky myself, I told the doubting misbelievers.
They still did not believe it, that’s why I call them beavers....

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believe
loyal, truly 
trusting, reassuring, promising
expect, imagine, hesitate, suspicion
suspecting, questioning, disbelieving
wary, cynical
doubt





Dazzling Dizzy Diamante Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Caren Krutsinger
August 8, 2022
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If the moon rose in the morning
      and the sun in the evening
    without the least warning
      What would folks be perceiving
  
    Would they be disbelieving
      even some of them grieving
    Or would (it) they be receiving
      somewhere down in their being...

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 believers
                      devout, fervent
         accepting, aiming, progressing
worshippers, devotees, persistent, cynics
     disbelieving, bearing, confounding
                   agnostic, cautious
                          skeptics...

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Black sheep, white sheep,
Unflappable sheep, 
They graze the high grass,
And appease all my demons.

Black sheep, white sheep,
Countless sheep, 
They graze the grass divinely
And appease all my WORRIES.

Black sheep, white sheep
Disbelieving sheep,
They eat the grass, magically,
Ease all my anxiety....

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History, today’s memories
Highlights, of a former life
Deteriorate
Into an oblivion

Nothing sees forever
The heart’s joy severed
From loss
Which brings forth exhaustion

The burden
Of thriving in ignorance
Disbelieving
That all must come to conclusion

The moment is so strong
It builds,
it binds
Only to be released...

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This morning, my fingers curled around my cup,
I went to the window, musing about the coming day..
By the step, glistening with dew, a newly spun web.
It shown like jewels strung with abandon.
Its fragile beauty left me almost disbelieving..
Can the spider know the beauty before him?
Perhaps it's his reward for his magnificent weaving...

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The Spider and the Dew 


This morning, my fingers curled around my cup,
I went to the window, musing about the coming day..
By the step, glistening with dew, a newly spun web.
It shown like jewels strung with abandon.
Its fragile beauty left me almost disbelieving..
Can the spider know the beauty before him?
Perhaps it's his reward for his magnificent weaving....

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The lemon hit my nose at full force,
the second the lid was off.
I ran into the kitchen, disbelieving
For I had already devoured two this month,
and my husband was not speaking to me
due to my nasty disposition.
I fell into his arms, 
leaning over him
with a butter knife,
slicing a tiny piece
of lemon pound cake,
gloating that he thought it was
all about him...

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The heart of the inspired can do magic things
Grow angelic wings or make the voiceless sing
The heart of the inspired can inspire its own
Elaborate a nation and work all alone
The heart of the inspired can change a corrupt mind
Bring truth to lies and reality to disbelieving eyes
The heart of the inspired is inspired to express
Whether you’re expressing old feelings or starting fresh...

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tripping
stumbling
forgetting how to fall
head up
back straight
staring at your
feet
disbelieving
the image staining your eye
lids

this is con
fusing
tumbling not striking
pavement
hardwood
concrete
the
bottom

hovering
just above the conclusion
knowing what the result
should
be
but the inevitable
is not 
inevitable
the perception
blurred 
by the trauma of the
fall...

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LET IT BURN

Let my love light the way
through all your darkened journeys.
Think of me
and the flame will always and forever
be there, shining,
like Polaris to guide you.
Luminous.
Let it burn on like a candle
in holy refuges,
burn on.
No disbelieving wind will extinguish
this pure love flame.
Burn on.
Let it burn from year to year,
from star to ever-shining star
through the eons.
Burn on....

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Crossing the divine, 
I ask the marigolds 
to return to the dust.

The gods were angry, 
and dead would not speak 
and the living were dead.

I am now heading towards? 
the mute bells, disbelieving? 
the great enlightment.

Rebuilding what was not true. 
A dream will start telling 
the price of the inflicted wounds.

I am not sure: 
who were at fault.
The letters ?
or the words ?


Satish Verma...

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If you can ignore the hen, the date will be fine.
She was not sure what this cryptic message meant.
He arrived with a hen on his head, ready to dine.
Like others, her heart immediately turned to cement.

She made an excuse and left quickly enough.
Like all the others, he told his disbelieving brother.
He never tired of talking about eggs, chicks and stuff.
Do you think it’s the hen? He asked his wise mother....

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No more looking deep inside 
No more thoughts of solitude 
No more lies to hold you up 
No more memories as food. 

No more testing the waters edge 
No more wondering if 
No more disbelieving 
No more waiting at the cliff. 

No more breaking promises 
No more worthless platitudes 
No more rejected smiles
No more lazy attitudes. 

No more looking away 
No more closing doors 
No more breathing anger 
No more, no more, no mores...

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Knowledge of the future
memories of the past
Caught within a final vacuum
dissipating fast 

Wanton disbelieving
 eyes are liars still
Perception changed then rearranged
sensation thrice distilled 

The philosophy of physics
 logicians burn and melt
Time but smirks as gravity flirts
 judgment prior dealt 

Memories of the future
knowledge of the past
Once you slow the ebb and flow
— the moment is recast 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)
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IN THE HANDS AND THE ARMS OF THE LORD

the bottom of my heart hurts
feels like I'm having a stroke
but I'm so much better now
cause I am in the Lord's hands
I'm, I'm in the Lord's arms
my back aches, my feet shakes
running down those streets of regrets
shoes holy, untied feet are bleeding
people still wandering disbelieving
but I'm so much better now
cause I am in the Lord's hands
I'm, I'm in the Lord's arms

3/26/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr. ©...

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I am not kidding. They look twelve, I say.
My friend laughs, she is retired from teaching.
Seriously, I tell her. I am serious!
She shakes her head, disbelieving me.

I am telling her about the youngsters that teach with me.
I have a picture of two of them, I tell her.
I flip back to May and show here these two.
They couldn’t ALL be this young! She says.

They are, I reply.
These are your TEACHERS?
I nod.
Good grief! She says. How old is the principal?
Sixteen maybe....

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My Love
Deep into that darkness, kissing
As I open mine eyes it was missing
My Love
It should have been there
Seems though it didn't matter you don't care
Back into my memories treasuring
My mind always strays to storms
My Love
The lonely lover leaving
It was thieving, disbelieving, heaving!
Still is cleaving, still is cleaving
That moment my soul grew romance
I crave the silent, sweet sweep
Alas my sweetness Sleep, sleep, sleep!


4/23/19...

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Why did you tell me
You loved me so much?
Why did you lie,
Then burn me with your touch?

They tell me to forget,
To just let you go.
I try, so hard,
But the tears still flow.

Why did you hurt me
Cutting me deep?
Why did you turn away,
Letting my wounds seep.

I heard the scorn in your voice,
Saw the hate in your eyes,
And stood, shocked, disbelieving
That our times were lies.

Why did you leave me
With a heart of stone?
Why did you laugh
And leave me here all alone?...

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