Short Disillusionment Poems

A lovely laugh 
Sadly passed
Left, but
Time goes on....

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crushed hopes

bitter defeat

flattened ant

disillusionment

all is lost...

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narcissus, the pond
across the surface ripples
disillusionment
dead in the water, floating
not so koi now, bloated carp

by gail...

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RSVP of 
disillusionment
created a 
response 
seemly 
void of 
precautions
over how the 
words spoken
would affect 
the other...

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When we think we know, sure we are to fall
And trip and flip and drop the ball
Our knowledge nature writes off as a myth
And ado over what’s at best small....

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Disillusionment
is no doubt a mirage
and to wake up one morning
with dawn’s recollection
as to be like, a slumber like any other,
just to realize,
your destiny suddenly has changed.
It’s unfathomable....

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I awoke
Alone 
In a crowded field
Budding potential
Growing amidst
Disillusionment.
Tossed into the air
Stung by the edges
Of chaffs collusion
Separated
From all connection
To whatever was
Set adrift
On what is

©5/3/2023...

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Solitude... 
Like an old sad song...
Loneliness....
Just a day prolonged...
Desolation...
Like an empty sky...
Dejection...
Like a bold-faced lie...
Despondency...
All your hopes dashed...
Disillusionment...
Alone...
And unabashed......

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A flower blossoms in the wild
A blooming flower indeed
Glory amid drying leaves

Flowers that zenith
In expanse of disillusionment
Where motivation sprouts and blossoms
Into lonely desert flowers
Standing together alone
In long wait for love.>...

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All of its nonsense does end here.
World's. Its furthest blown point.
Murky but deathly stilled water's
Of tranquil acceptance.
Even so, which glory, gold leafed
By what hangs and spooks round
Spreads, for ghosts of disillusionment
Cursed sounds. In abundance!...

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Once upon the dark
walking in the fields
Mark my words
The blind confusion of life
Peaceful walking
Paying your last respects
One by one they pass me by
When I consider my disillusionment
When your time is close at hand
light causes strange illusions
Just remember be strong...

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Frayed Bell Ropes

Time

did not

disfigure   her

nor    disillusionment

disarm the strike of clapper’s tears

shed in the agony of renewed peace.

fraying bell ropes forgotten joy
calling
home


6/4/2017

submitted to – New Form – The BELL – Poetry Contest...

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Peace love and hope
Said brother, kick the dope
I might have relapsed a time or two
But never thought I’d kick the booze
Was love so misguided that I
Sought peace in a semi-permanent
Disillusionment and drunken haze
And hope that there was still
An aspirin on the floor
And beer left for a hangover cure...

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I can feel your heart beating
faster, faster
 
I close my mind
and fall
down 
down
down
 
suddenly 
I'm lost in the sound
 
My world becomes
the blood
pumping through your veins
 
My world becomes
the sound of your voice
muffled in my hair
 
I lose myself
sink, melt
in the warmth
and comfort
of 

disillusionment...

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Prufrock’s Symbolic World
 
Metaphors-Extraordinaire
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Metaphysical consciousness
Aura of aging and decay.

Streams of consciousness forever
Proto-disillusionment
The mermaids singing each to each
The mermaids will not sing today.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved, 
(January 14, 2015) (Double Dactyl)...

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Manual labor, sweating, straining, backs sore
Obnoxious and stubborn behaviors, family upset
Violent screaming, threats, tears, 
Irritability, tiredness, insomnia
Nasty moods and attitudes
Grumping, griping, grunting, gripping,
Disappointment, disillusionment, despair, 
Anger that we left our family and our real home
Yearning to believe things will be better here...

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Pugnacious crystals deflect penetrating light
Eyelashes dance along cheekbones come night.
Dirt-faced dignities transfix as delusions
Desolve dainty dandelions with nuclear fusion.

Sweat gathers in sleeping crevices along slacken skin
When deserved disillusionment wields unlikely fins
So set for disharmonization and discourse
Towards the mist of bogs and perverse intercourse....

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Before the spill there was
soaring. And then anti-g.
I readied myself
for the ultimate fall.

This was the poetry of submission
sharing the pain of disillusionment.
Who was pretending of liberation
in a see-through heart ?

This was the time when
you run amok
under pheromones of dead clones:
the drowned dreams.

Pelting stones at moon
we were made for each other.



Satish Verma...

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They paused neath a tortured moon

whence delusions met ocean tides,

eliciting a volatile hurricane's vortex

masking intentions in the sand,

whilst escaping horizons surrender

under disillusionment of passion

in posthaste of sunlit warnings

hidden amidst clandestine shadows,

wherein night no longer shaded love 


CONTEST 247 any form - Brian Strand...

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Where to now?
What can be done
to change
a life
so dependent
on hurt
rejection
and disillusionment -  
to make it yearn
and laugh,
sharing all - 
gaining soul?
 
Which path to follow?
What road do I take
to fulfill
all I ever wanted - 
to love whom, I choose
and be just me?
 
Tell me
for I need to know - 
a whispered answer
is all I need...
 
Copyright Deon J.H. Burger 2014...

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Ha! Worthless you say I am,
but I still remain calm.

You tweet and facebook
friends you hook
up with, telling them I dress
as though I am lost in a fashion time-lapse,
dressing in sixties’, seventies’ and eighties’
in a ‘‘more dynamic” world.

On your part,
you have made fashion to be your religion,
making your pockets empty, and your mind
full of fashion concoction and disillusionment……...

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My concept of existence,
Was like scenes from a distance;
Green, lush, many floral-filled,
By which anyone gets thrilled...!  

When twigs and dry trunks appeared,
When turns and twists made me feared,
When skin and flesh, like clothes, smeared, 
I knew life, often, is geared...!

I aim at something, but hunt,
Everything that I confront;
Strife ends like a filmy stunt,
Sadly, I bear every brunt...!


12 January 2023...

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Bury my heart 
Where I can no longer find it, 
Where it may lie unscathed 
By you, or love or pain. 
I can no longer stand 
To suffer with the cycle 
Of hurt and disillusionment 
If they seek me out again.

When ultimately sunk 
In a deep grave for protection 
And covered up with dirt 
And left alone for sure; 
Then please, you must forget 
Of where you thought to put it 
And let it rest in peace 
And look for it no more...

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sitting alone inside your box..

where all your pain and disillusionment rots

breaking free of the intense emotions

gasping..

choking..

deep inside this ocean

struggling. .

fighting..

becoming a desperate soul. . .

eyes now dark as coal..

So very empty and cold..

complacent in life..

revelling in everyday strife..

your pain,I'll devour..

evil, twisted, haunting...

soured..

forever in this wasteland 

we call life.........

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Prove the antagonisms,
      dare to cede to impulses
      be perplexed by chasms,
      not living before pulses ...

      Not having out of love,
      warmth, shelter and rest
      be slaughtered, with a glow
      be simple but proud must

      Taking hemlock for wine,
       disdain profit and ruin
       but delight that sans whine

       Offer body, soul and fate
       and wait in disillusionment,
       this is love, without mistake ...!...

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