Tragicomic Poems | Examples


Premium Member A tragicomic tale

On a roller coaster, we smiled as we fell,
being aware ascent would follow descent
but in real life, we perhaps cannot tell
and most certainly heart contractions resent,
so we dwell in darkness, drawn to desire’s smell,
fearing to grant embrace of love our consent.
Piquant is our dilemma, free and yet bound,
our soul in illusions conjured by mind drowned.

Premium Member A Tragicomic Tale

equating dreams
as thought forms
by heart conjured
we pause the cause
of such movement 
getting to the roots
body identification 
also termed as ego

negating nothing
we examine desire
that so manifests
deluded cravings
again and again
needing fulfilment 
in this life or the next
until thirst is quelled

surreptitious ego
offers specious logic
that we may accept
validity of illusions
of unawakened soul
and thereby stagnate
in our thought spirals
dreams within dreams

our soul is hypnotised 
by illusions self-created
and so we live in trance
unaware of our true Self
resident in toroidal heart
being eternal living light
the very essence of God
albeit veiled from sight

Plato’s allegory of cave
defines our predicament 
we acknowledge not light
nor align with sublime love
refusing to enter silence
preferring to be a captive 
of our conditioned belief
a tragicomic tale indeed

Movies

The tragedy is known
the comedy of the non-smile,
and the tragicomic flavor
from the laughter of others...

the comedy exorcises
nerds and frills:
intracutaneous demons
that to the unfortunate
abounds...

the children's movie
raise the ba-a-ba
at the level of a scholarly chair,
and the child's laughter
stiffens muscles
and loose attitudes,
with strong sweetness
and virile tenderness...


Premium Member Conjuring Magic

Conjuring magic, each moment
As of our heart’s desire
Pure of heart heighten bliss quotient 
Whilst desirous souls tire

Freezing the wheel of time
Suffused by love sublime
Our life a flowing rhyme 

Thoughts tragicomic 
Conjuring magic

28-February-2022
Quietus

Premium Member To Wisps of Straw

To wisps of straw, we cling in hope
A tragicomic tale
We are free, yet needlessly grope
Chasing illusions stale

There’s no need to be meek
Know we are strong, not weak
We are That, who we seek

Why bend in awe
To wisps of straw

09-December-2021
Quietus

Premium Member It Begins-Ends With a Red Star

((.))
/*******\
Bloated red star
a rising womb of light
beautiful

A tragicomic dream
a world of carnage
horrifying

((((((((((((Expanding red giant)))))))))))
engulfs the inner planets
[---------final--------]


Premium Member Say It Like It Is

The searcher searching, moves away from love
The all that is, is within, not above
Employing mind, to go beyond the mind
A tragicomic tale, how desires bind

All moments of joy are devoid of thought
Free from identity, that ego brought
As day shifts to night and night to the morn
With each breath intake, are we not reborn

Stagnation the only earth life peril 
Flow of stillness, reveals Gods miracles
All that we need to do, is to allow
In childlike trust, wondrous soft heart mellow

Know that we are not feeble mind body
Exit oh hermit, narrow thoughts shoddy

10-March-2021

Premium Member Wasted Life

Ego agenda
Narrow and futile
Yet in delusion
We are bound therein
Tragicomic life

The wheel of time
Slowly rotates
Joy and sorrow
Cyclically

As a leaf
Blown away
Until death

This life
Wasted 

Gone 

08-October-2020

Premium Member The Real Dream World

Eternal all knowing and bliss luminous
Immersed in dream of delusion & darkness
As a game of hide & seek for fun & frolic
Engaging in cycles of pain & joy tragicomic 

Having so chosen
Our own poison 
Why complain
Being unstained

15-September-2020

Parting With a Lover

Parting with a Lover

Parting with a Lover,
Is a very sweet sorrow
Indeed love is a poor player
That kicks mud and rubbish
In the face of once sweet-heart
And all is a heap of bull dung
Licked by a pair of fools,
Liars playing hide and seek
Holding each other amorously
In the bed of rosy sorrows
As they play tragicomic games
Full of conjecture
Pretense
And darkness

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