Confusion Poems | Examples

Premium Member A Night’s Consumption

Most bypass the shadow throat,
That world of swallowed measures,
Illusion of a distance — 
The ceiling just as close as heaven. 

Cogito ergo sum — 
All else does cease to be,
My breath the last life whisper,
My memories the library.

In bowels of night’s leviathan,
The sun forgets she ever was,
Disciples sleep to spurn the moon,
Ruling by Medieval laws.

Discerning shadows lost — 
Of space and logic gone — 
Until returns the bursting dawn,
And christens hay fields, harvest gold.
Form: Rhyme

another universe

some loves bout lost come go almost all sorts
motives  remain true pure until find not 
list least cain hope fewer no good reports
still life like love moves backing forth cold hot 
back outing again own each such sigh wish
loss lasts long gone fast run use eye oui next
stuff split rough two there one bright here blue dish
but still be same unself self sans pretext
wait patient fourth floor first ready confess
one day then now was dreamed real life unfold
four most seven great death comes not success
some would telling  kisses end life untold
try may believe yes if not near reverse
mind conceives lives another universe
Form: Sonnet


We are the same, just made different

There is paint painted on me
It is a kind of paint that whose pigment can dust
And cause a different kind of stain on you
If and when; 
You glide on me,
You lean on me,
And colide with me.

I keep myself away because of that difference
So as to avoid such kind of confusion
"You treasure what's yours but again confuse it"
Eager to prove me wrong but will you believe me?
Give ears to listen to the different kind of story!
The story that makes my paint that way.

Will you distinguish and help me see
If there's that I don't see that I should
Yet you shouldn't always expect that
"There must be something you see that do not"
The truth is You never know whether I looked further
Further than your eyes made there sight

"We are the same" but, "just made different"
Though even so
How much can you make up from those two statements
"We are the same" but, "just made different"
Or is it that I am the foolish one and,
Don't deserve to sit amongst you
Just because I have a different opinion.

Premium Member Strangers in the Night

Surely, we walked together...
But just like shadows,
Some cheap ghost climbs in nightly,
Pondering the same.

Were all our lives rich folktales?
Panic knots tighter,
As I must have lost your face—
The one that was mine.
Form: Other

Premium Member Flicker Of Hope

Tonight the dark feels darker 
As if the light is trying to hide
Even the sounds of the night 
Have been silenced or died

There's no moon softly glowing 
Or any stars illuminating the sky
There's only this vast emptiness 
I'm able to grasp with my eye 

The darkness consumes my being 
An eerie feeling begins to arise
I observe my surroundings in fright
Only desolation fills up my eyes 

Lost in this darkness that is life
Im looking and hoping for a light
That little flicker of distant hope
That will assure me I'll be all right
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Strange Rhyme

If quantum mechanics were understood,  
     and black hole singularities, space-time,
and gravity's well swallowed in a flood, 
     would bend to genius effort of this rhyme,

instead, might solve a wicked delusion:
     that I am Center of the Universe.
If the Bell Curve, for IQ, ends confusion,
     then my so-called “godhood” status, a curse,

permits the information paradox,
     a test, to irradiate my manic strain,
turning Schrödinger's Cat into a fox,
     collapsing my wave-function to Planck domain.

What now remains, is for me to theorize:
will this strange rhyme win me a Nobel Prize?
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member A Poem is an Artform

  
     A poem is an artform – 
       well, not always

    A poem is an idea –
       hmm, not necessarily

    A poem is all rhythm and rhyme
       Ha! What about ‘free verse’

    A poem is a thing of beauty
       --though some are pretty ugly

    A poem is a window to the writer’s soul
        --though not to Shakespeare’s, whoever he was… 

    O, A poem is what’s just been written 
        Whoever thinks he can explain one 
           ~ that person’s got to be kiddin’

Death wears blue

Death wears blue
Hollowed eyes
Sleepy grin
Twisted mouth
Smiled at me
As her voice
In my dreams
Between his rattle
And her breath
Silently screams
You're killing me

Puzzle of the Heart

Though fate appears a riddle yet unsolved,
Its edges blurred, its pieces hid from view,
By Nature’s grace my worldly needs resolved,
Her gifts like morning rain, both rich and true.

Yet in my heart love’s branches twist and break,
A garden bright but strangely bare of bloom;
Misread affections, words we can’t remake,
Bring shadows creeping through my inner room.

Some pattern weaves itself, unseen, unkind,
A cycle spun of silence, doubt, and fear;
And though my cup is full, it leaves behind
An echo where love’s music should appear.

If heaven grants me every other part,
Why must a puzzle still divide my heart?
Form: Sonnet

Silence

When all is said  and done !!
Listen the voice of silence ??

As the truth turns into an illusion 
And our life a bittersweet lie 
Our emotions a distorted smile
Of nothing but wasted year 
That have been washed away
 by the sands of time
 
Listen to the voice of silence 
As Humanity embraces its inner beast 
Stick and stone my broke my bones 
But words kill 

You see the devil will give you so much 
Love he will infect you With so much affection that you would want to spend 
The last  day in hell
 In a world were purpose is forgotten
We're a man seeks Fame , rather than a good name 
We're the is no shame in the process
As long as you get the proceed the end justifies the needs
We have been trained in the art of deceit
We nolonger know how to stand for the truth

Even in death we never speak the truth 
I think that's the reason on the grave it's written here He/she liars 

We leave in a world were our dreams will find you sleeping planting the hopes our tomorrow
In death beds 

Life seems like a prison

Premium Member AI

If a parliamentarian votes yes,
Does he say A or Aye?
Can we trust that politician.
If instead he says AI?
Is he speaking tongue in cheek?
Is he confused, merging A and Aye
Or using a new form of double speak?
Might he be a historian
Lost in thoughts of Israel’s Ai?
When asked mother may I
Write my essay with AI
Whatever comes of AI
To a data dump say Aye
But an AI tome please deny
May it never meet the Eye!

Twin Curse

Crossing the addictions
of body and soul
Delirium tremens
is taking its toll

Like Nitro and Glycerin
waiting to strike
Their coupling disastrous
all day into night

My spirit when willing
the flesh all too weak
Those few days I’m able
my willpower bleak

The detox not working
no cure comes my way
All food tastes like poison
these shakes here to stay

A bomb ticks within me
its fuse ever burns
Tomorrow a concept
long stolen unlearned 

With nerve endings fraught
and my body destroyed
These nightmare’s the worst
— when in daylight deployed

(Radnor Pennsylvania: September, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

Kindred Spirits

*Kindred Spirits*

 I am often labeled as possessing "special" needs, and while there lies a kernel of truth within that phrase, the needs which burn brightest in my core are no different than yours, dear friend. Just as you crave acceptance, I ache for it too; a longing that colors every sunrise and sunset I witness in this grand tapestry called life.
Like you, I dream of companionship forged through laughter and shared confidences, bonds that render the weight of solitude obsolete. And just as knowledge illuminates the path ahead for anyone brave enough to pursue it, I yearn for chances to learn and grow, to fill the wellspring of my mind with wisdom gained through experience and discovery.
In classrooms filled with desks of various sizes, I sit, eager to absorb lessons tailored to nurture my unique potential. Though some tasks prove elusive, my spirit remains undeterred, for I understand that progress is not measured solely by speed, but by the indelible steps we take towards becoming the best versions of ourselves.

one before dawn

awake usual thoughts 
failures made imposed 
turn others sleep 
those like may also awake 
guilt not helping light 
rest night fears conflicts 
wars doubts known not 
all prepositioned 
keep hope peace joy love 
isolated chambered atomized 
quarked vanquished 
Lord Jesus maybe will  
many claim dead still 
resurrection appendage 
little  importance since 
not fit soteriology  
identity not body 
only survives death
timeless eternity  reincarnated heaven 
space sans time spent looking edge 
those not yet arrived 
waiting again undiscovering 
one another simultaneously 
except frozen eternity 
Lord be raised embodied ongoing
time continued timely together 
see those sleep those cannot 
night pray 
now three two hours 
now one before dawn

Premium Member Getting a Grasp on Our Thoughts

When trying to grasp thoughts through our mind’s haze,
It’s like trying to escape a thought maze.
As the bits and pieces accumulate,
How will they connect, how will they relate?

We try to relate them to things we know.
Each thought should be placed right where it should go.
So many topics to assimilate,
We constantly add and have to update.

Without clear focus they may lose their flow,
By first burning to bright then losing their glow.
Without definition, they will not last,
Some good ideas will drift to the past. 

Give each thought it’s time, make sure it’s defined,
It will be its best when finely refined.
Form: Sonnet

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