Short Refusal Poems
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The inability of Man to be enlightened is due to his refusal God's light to perceive!
(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
29 September 2016
Categories:
refusal, god, light, men,
Form:
Monoku
A cuddly Harp Seal, when just a bub,
Swam further south and slipped into a pub,
The barman gave a wink,
Have this whisky to drink?...
“No way known, it’s Canadian Club!”
Categories:
refusal, humor,
Form:
Limerick
“I don’t care” sat on her lips like an
unacknowledged tumor
metastasizing
I don’t care
said it all in its refusal to
acknowledge
the depths of its anguish
Categories:
refusal, angst,
Form:
Free verse
the green nymph in shallow water
knows no life but this
yet when Pan comes,
all dark-eyed & wanting
there is no refusal of nature
the world ends & begins anew
in the fingertips of mischief
Categories:
refusal, life, mystery, nature, passion,
Form:
Blank verse
My fickle faith foreboding still
I’m with you in the end
My powerless heart to spend
So many instances
Is this pain my heartless chest
I will not die
Complete refusal
Shadow still follows
As usual
Categories:
refusal, betrayal, cancer, death, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Unloved
beaten since birth
a prostitute mother
pimp's refusal to pay abort
estranged
***
Contest: Traditional Cinquain Contest
Sponsor: Catie Lindsey
Submitted by: Judy Konos
Categories:
refusal, life
Form:
Cinquain
Alone while together,
unringing the bell
The darkness enlightened,
new silence to quell
Permissions refusal,
denial admits
The fusion of oneness
—a hit and a miss
(The New Room: March, 2021)
Categories:
refusal, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
REFUSAL TO DUCK
Tucker sits on lawn chair sipping his pop.
Two bullet holes like flies land on backdrop.
A retired mechanism.
He’s done with tourism.
He’s a sitting duck in front of a shop.
8/16/2017
Categories:
refusal, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Cultures dissected …
structured refusal
Cloistered eruptions
dearth to accept
Rising triumphant
they steal from each other
Defining their existence
—by what they reject
(Septa R5: September, 2023)
Categories:
refusal, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
under his stench,
the world known,
her love drips viscous
to the glade.
his wanting quenched,
in a slight light shone
surface-reflected eyes
beholding dawn,
a son which the night
in its end
has made.
Categories:
refusal, death, imagination, life,
Form:
Blank verse
Your touch today felt safe for the first time
In what seemed to be a lifetime of numb refusal
Conscious forgiveness
Liberation from bitterness
Encapsulates and shelves the pain
Enabling intimacy
No longer naive but adapted
Categories:
refusal, forgiveness, growth, love hurts, pain, passion, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Bamboozled By Trump
After reading more notes and their perusal,
They all referred to Trump and his refusal;
Income information to release,
So we should call the police
Before he again all of us does bamboozle.
Jim Horn
Categories:
refusal, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
Dark Darker Darkest
Too dark is deceit, so is betrayal.
Darker goes malice, to swallow or digest.
Darkness in ingratitude : Ugliest.
Scene darkest, when love faces refusal.
Categories:
refusal, dark,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
dirty carpet.
plastic hearts,
the colour of fresh blood.
a lovers refusal.
a crickets harmony.
the chill of august before its pain is unleashed.
biting nails and tongues.
feeling pins and needles on a left hand.
on edge.
off topic.
Categories:
refusal, introspection, life, teen,
Form:
Free verse
It was just a break in the road
gaping, defying, sneering its
refusal to allow normal traffic;
smooth pavement ripped like
some old plastic seat covering
revealing wet stained stuffing.
No easy traverse in sight,
so I turned, and went back.
Categories:
refusal, travel,
Form:
Free verse
when i heard about her death
i ran out to buy her record
something about her death to me
made her music much much better
someone from this world was taken
far too soon than usual
they say they offered her some help
but all they got was her refusal
Categories:
refusal, death
Form:
Light Verse
A Refusal To Believe
After I read about it and further perusal,
Punishment may be cruel and unusual;
Did have disdain;
They were insane,
And to believe it my soul had a refusal.
James Serious Mysterious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
Bolivia, NC
Categories:
refusal, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
Fig Leaf
Thick Fig leaf deep green
Flowers of plant hardly seen.
Just as love hidden
inside your fake refusal.
Fruit of love at stalk of leaf.
04/18/22
This or That Vol. 11
Contest by Edward Ibeh
Categories:
refusal, love,
Form:
Tanka
Things That Are Constitutional
Am concerned about what is constitutional,
And followed by politicians exists a refusal;
Necessary for nutrition;
Intelligence exhibition;
For existence of democracy is essential.
Jim Horn
My Horn Political Poem Series
Categories:
refusal, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
It begins inside
with the refusal to be
a machine.
It begins inside
with the refusal to recognize
the beat you play.
It begins with a frown. And a shrug.
And a turning away
To a voice
kinder and sweeter
than the
rasping rattling, redolent
of your empty threats.
Categories:
refusal, peace, people,
Form:
Blank verse
An unpleasent dream
Tearing at my seams
Eyes wide open
The nightmares truely begins
Harassed by images of the past
You try to cling on to some form
of reality
But it fades for to fast
Salvation by way of redemption
But the was a refusal to
that inviation
Categories:
refusal, philosophy
Form:
I do not know?
Refusal
Stood on top my desk
rope over a beam
postman knocked three times
there is hope
a letter
a publisher has sent me a letter
I open it and laughed
it is another rejection
something about my spelling
lack of punctuation and commas
the publisher
used to be a teacher
Categories:
refusal, funny,
Form:
Burlesque
A child who learned
To speak in hushed voices.
A girl who yearned
To make her own choices.
Then a teen who learned
To only sob quietly;
A teen who feared
An exposed reason and history.
Two times, one life,
And only one reason—
Refusal of the world to see
What was really going on.
Categories:
refusal, discrimination, solitude,
Form:
Ballad
Critique I am and shall forever be
Timid deem in praise, but truthfulness ignore
Tis' not refusal of the artist's reasons or beauty
Yet perceptions to potentials fathom more
And pretense unto willingness, I play the heavy
To nudge said craftsmen into territories beyond their doors
Categories:
refusal, art,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
My Love
It's gaping maw insatiable,
Crawls trembling toward lurid
Sunlight.
It is a bottom feeder;
An aphorism for suppressed passion.
That amorphous wretch:
Refusal to cease equating
Suffering and nonsense,
To love and the masquerade-
I shiver at the thought.
"My Love"
Jenna-Nichole Conrad
Wordsmith
Categories:
refusal, allegory, angst, introspection, love, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse