Short Mislaid Poems

Oak leaves lying
Like mislaid jigsaw pieces
Face down
On the faded carpet of winter...

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Wrong
Was I
To push love
So un-returned
At first though the love from you came later
I lost mine, rapt in imagination
So time forgot
Our passion
Mislaid
Sin...

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This rainbow,
Inside me, lay dormant,
Mislaid so deep within,
It was forgotten.
Then you kissed me!
I laughed and remembered,
Birds are supposed to sing!

C. Alvez...

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This rainbow,
Inside me, lay dormant,
Mislaid so deep within,
It was forgotten.
Then you kissed me!
I laughed and remembered,
Birds are supposed to sing!


Cyntha...

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I got into you
and you mislaid me...
You didn't enter into me,
but I safe you inside...
When one day you wish,
when you feel up
to be who you were, come
that I return you back to you...
As for me for now,
 i am lost yet... !...

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life holds us down
pressed into sheets not washed
and cobwebs hanging
like dirty strands of grief
stuck around and sticking me
into the muck of your mislaid dream
and my half-begun once-upon-a-time . . .

mortality clinging
clinging like a thief....

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My life is but a grain of sand through an infinite hourglass
Blink and you’ll miss me
As minute and inconceivable as a single star in a constellation to an ant
Blink and you’ll miss me
Like a single second in the history of time
Like a mislaid stitch in the most beautiful of tapestries
Like the reason for this poem...

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Listen to poem:

Redemption
David J Walker

The unrelenting quest
For the rest of
What was meant to be said
The best intentions 

	Mislaid 
Mislead conventions 
Discarded convictions 

Colors of lost horizons 
Least of the left last rites 

The Vespers 
	of whispers
The worshipers 
The shoplifters 
			all
	Seek redemption

Before the end of the end
Of the evening
		To come...

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Vacant Perdition


Reeling listless
Empty story
Gazing, endless
Mandatory
Purgatory
Muted motion
Thinking sorely
Null devotion

Sudden urges
Fleeting feelings
Will emerges
Sailing ceilings
Disused dealings
Mislaid purpose
Broken meanings
Without service

It’s insipid
Bouncing bluster
Wisdom wicked
Nothing mustered
Lacking luster
Sempiternal
Filibuster
Silence vernal...

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Why have you disappeared?
It's like all of my limbs have been sheared.
The world has now fallen away
And I let out a pitiful bay
The pain is like no other
And my mind threatens to smother

The world moves on without delay
As if you were not mislaid today
Many move on without a second thought
While I am fraught and distraught
I am nothing but a mourning dove
And I wish to be with you, my love...

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Your History (COUPLET)

Your History. Your 
Full Mystery. Your 

Slave Name. Your 
True Shame. Your 

Mixed Race. Your 
Mislaid Trace. Your 

Earth Fallen. Your 
Birth Stolen. Your 

New Voice. Your 
Bad Choice. Your 

Shame Rain. Your 
Rage Strain. Your 

Heart Torn. Your 
Pain Born. Your 

Awful Dream. Your 
Africa Scream. Your 

Ugly Night. Your 
Rising Bright Light 

June 07, 2005

By Mohlouoa Ntsasa...

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Now, you see your mislaid candy,
Still your very property and handy.

So, don’t words with your sister bandy 
Nor repeat that her hair is sandy: 
You might be saying she was The Thief,
Recklessly priming her for noisy grief;
For that’s what ‘Sandy’ supplies in brief
Whilst no daughter thief is fathered by a chief …

And-Alas!-you let candy your mind swirl
Whereas neither gender nor age makes you a girl....

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Now it is dark and I suddenly wake
I hold your hand praying to our Lord:
Leave his hand close, So I can take 
his soul to the place of our concord, 
Where his dreams are not mislaid, 
He is my husband, I am his maid. 

As he sleeps with a peaceful smile 
I touch his lips with my fingertips 
This is our kissing and for a while
His breath will die upon my lips,
Heaven was with me all the time
since his bliss and mine did rime....

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Snowflakes dance along the weary bough
The grey sky shows a clearing
The sand plays on the long beach now
Red Kites dive with daring

Sea grass is greener at this time
The light is so white it bites
A faraway bell begins to chime
The warmth of the village invites

Dreams can be lost in the dreaming
Lives are mislaid out of sight
The sea wraps itself into minds that sing
Sad hymns in the quiet of the night

12.01.19...

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My costume makes me look fat
And I lost my witches hat
I can’t find my broom
It’s not in the room
Now where’s my lucky black cat

An unfortunate man named Keith
Mislaid his set of false teeth
Tried apple bobbing 
His jaw was throbbing
Poor guy can’t get no relief

I love eating pumpkin pie
My tum is big its no lie
I pick up my spoon
Then I start to swoon
Feel sick and I want to die


Jan Allison
11th October 2014...

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That poem I wrote
so long ago
has now gone missing
and I've hoped
so long now
that I will discover it.

Perhaps it went into a drawer
so long ago
and has been taken out in error;
has now gone missing,
though I've hoped
so long now
that it will show up.

Have we not mislaid our stuff from
so long ago?
Is it stuff that may remain
gone for ever?
Though I've hoped
so long now
that we will see something we'll never see.


(Aug 2022)...

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Pray for the widows with dead roses in their hands.
Pray for the refugees; no blankets in the sands.
Pray for the dictator that dares to seize our land.
Pray for the missionary as she helps with heaps of grace.
Doctors without borders offering remedies at fast pace.
Pray for the children separated from their mums.
While their lives are at mercy mislaid with miseries of distress.
Pray to the God all mighty to fix this awful mess.
Bodies left dead from bombings never laid to rest....

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