Short Misdirected Poems

Find myself disconnected

From the web

Which underlies my life


Is it humanity misdirected?

Or am I?

This underlies my strife
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The eyes.
spoke.
more to.
me.
once.
the fire died.
down||

Falling.
Falling.
away from misdirected.
anger.
and.
into.
                 grace||...

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An Indifferent Card

Things do become difficult and so hard, 
When being played like indifferent card;
Not ever affected;
Even misdirected;
Both down and dirty, torn and scared.

Jim Horn...

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Wanting blindly, even good 
Seldom have few understood 
Is ineffective 
If one's doing's misdirected 

Be the gentle heart well-guided 
Not with eyes that are short-sighted 
But mindful and wide 
Else be intention misapplied...

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Hands dangle in sacrificial gesture
Head lowered 
A betrayal of my heart
Seeking to conceal hostility with gracious words
Yet shards of glass spill from my mouth
Words of misdirected fury
Sharp and poignant 
Falling towards a stagnant life...

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ALONE IN WORDS

I cower from the rumbling squall of loneliness 
and shrink from the shards of misdirected words.
The mantle of hope escapes my ambitions, forever silencing my courage.
I am drowning in discontent.


From Brainstorm 10/16/2018
For Divisa 4 Poetry Contest
02/25/2021...

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Oh, Father forgive us for our ignorance,
we're just misdirected children
searching for significance.
Blindly stumbling, tryna grasp our purpose
but our hands are too bloody and calloused.
We'll sell our dignity tryna catch these dreams,
only to realize we got cheated. Cuz characters
worth more than cash and even harder to gain back....

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If you 2
Like me
Are lead astray by your ever so lively Cock and Ball's 
You 2 may find yourself in the dock 
If you didn't shout duck
And an errant Cock
Or playful Ball
Strikes you playing partner right in the face
Brace yourself 
Those things burn and sting like Duck
And you 2 may be sitting in the Dock
For assault by means of a playful Badminton Shuttlecock 
Or misdirected squash ball
If it was indeed...

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Howard University Medical College
A red brick building, standing, old.
Summoning some prior knowledge?
Touching a familiar chord in my soul.

A heart of longing elapsed,
for my misdirected choices.
“Come back in another life perhaps?”
Spoke spiritual voices.

And as we rode by, in the D.C. sun
I answered this “another life” stuff.
“No, no, no. You say from infancy come?”
This time is good and quite enough.


...

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Many bridge's I have crossed
Nightmare's seething I have tossed

I've walked this pathway countless time's
Trap's and setback's, now recognized

So often wondered,have I been here before?
as I approach my darkened cave's open door

Reliving previous indiscretion's
may have then been misdirected

Now I see me in my past
the ocean of self appearing vast

Refuse I must,predestined fate
as I walk through hell to heaven's gate..........

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Memories

 I cower, night after night, a one-man audience
          In the vast auditorium of my life
        There is no applause, no curtain call
                          Only tears
     For one misdirected scene after another

 Dreams, images of Life's unhappy memories
               Life's harshest lessons
         Come back to dance relentlessly
         On the hidden stage of my mind
         There to prance, taunt and tease
               Remember, remember.......

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