Short Misanthrope Poems

The Dik-Dik is an antelope
Who longs to be a misanthrope

But since he “pronks”, instead of lopes,
He doesn’t really have a hope …





* “Pronk” is the name of the dik-dik’s jaunty little bounce when he runs.
 It is an Afrikaans description....

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A Misanthrope
The shape I am
Whom you reflect upon me
And where we actually belong

In times of prejudice
In times of conflict
You exacerbate the lives we live
In demolition, you retrograde all
And in conclusion

You eradicate many.
You.
Eradicate.
Many.

Naively
You made me a Misanthrope
And everybody else
Where we hate
And distrust mankind
Of our own humanity

Sad, isn't it?...

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08-03-2008  1:36 A.M.

from a blank black canvas
to a bursting empty mind
expressions liberation
is keeping me confined
but my thoughts are nothing more
than a whisper in the wind
and every word there EVER was
was nothing but a trend

everything's a cycle
all the seasons birth and death
the future can only relate
by sharing your last breath
but there is one timeless word
existence  breeds on HOPE
ensuring the extinction
of the loving misanthrope...

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the confidence of my heart is going blind
since you crept away from my existence
the advancing state of my loneliness leaves my sanity in a bind
i am feeling blue all over with no hint of resistance

the smell of your sweet scent drives the last calm elements in a rage
now that all feelings that i once felt has no sense of meaning
i might as well be a moping misanthrope locked up infinitely in a cage
i am now driven to childlike mannerisms with an odd obsession for weaning...

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