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Poems about disillusion.

Poems about losing one’s way and no longer being able to see the point of following the beaten path.

What if someone you love leaves you, and even for no apparent reason? Or maybe you just watch the rest of the world move on while you yourself feel stuck. Maybe you’re a poet in an age where nobody has the mental capacity for poetry since they are constantly distracted?

Maybe you had beliefs that were shattered and are now struggling to re-assemble your opinions from scratch.

What do you do? How do you cope with such circumstances? There must be a solution, but what can it be?

Tag: Disillusion

  • 30 after thoughts
15 Mar, 202113

New Poem: “i would dance if i could”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

i would dance if i could and the earth never shook and the future never failed and became the past – i would dance, but i can’t since tomorrow’s unsure, and today won’t really begin – i would dance if […]

  • 30 after thoughts
01 Mar, 202113

New Poem: “my brain’s full of worms -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

my brain’s full of worms – thoughts strung together – they eat up anything left of worth and leave a trail of filth for me to delve in – nothing left to discover

  • 30 after thoughts
26 Feb, 202113

New Poem: waves of unrepentant eyes

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

sailing through the changing timeson waves of unrepentant eyes –whereto? a distant futureout of mind, yet always right at hand – twisting thoughts and features toointo dreams alive on screens –moving ever closer to the placethat marks humanity’s demise – […]

  • 30 after thoughts
02 Feb, 202113

New Poem: “the sun found me”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

the sun found meas i lay in hidingbeneath mounds of sleep –it gently shookremains of dreams off me –this way awakei stumble through the lightto what awaits me – the day: embodied crueltykilling dreams daily –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
20 Dec, 201803

New Poem: “THE END”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The sum of life: we lie, we die

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
11 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “acerbic”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

bitterness – every thought of you acerbic on my tongue – memories of all you’ve done sting like poison – smarting every thought of betterment –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
10 Dec, 201811

New Poem: “feelings defy description”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

feelings defy description yet must be put in words in order to be heard – family defy words, their actions wound, their words hurt – thinking makes everything worse but the mind wanders all the same – that’s the game […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
24 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “thank you? -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

world – self-worth stolen – where find? – mind my own business? – thank you? – silence tears apart what would bind – words not heard – dreams stolen – future gone – just carry on? – thank you? –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
23 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “thoughts that fester”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

thoughts that fester – feelings linger – human weakness, human pain – thinky-feely patterns pending sense revision – host insane –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
16 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “silence cause”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

silence now will cause silence to reign soon when our course ends with it – ends in it – results in it – end it –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
14 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “scathing sunlight scorching parched earth -“

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

scathing sunlight scorching parched earth – scathing humans robbing humans of self-worth – earth spins panting, looking on in its despair – our every action makes it wish we weren’t here –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
12 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “portrait 12”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

MARCH: I’m tired of my IT job – I’m going to make it big! – so I’m co-founding this start-up with branded coffee cups and an idea that’ll stick! No boss to push me around – no schedule to follow! […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
10 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “portrait 10”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

we could go to this fastfood place if you’re hungry (or anyway)! look – cheap burgers! – oh, I see the sign, walk 1 mile that way to get a tiny piece of unidentifiable meat, paper-like cheese and soggy bread […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
05 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “portrait 5”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

so, you said you have a company? – I am a social media influencer, yes! – what does that consist of? – updating profiles, testing products that I get and explaining their usage – so, basically getting free stuff and […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
03 Nov, 201811

New Poem: “portrait 3”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

she has no money – she said so – frowning with carefully plucked and dyed eyebrows and carefully shaded eyelids – re-arranging a fold in the sleeve of a designer jacket – it’s so tough to find the “right” job […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
26 Oct, 201812

New Poem: “modern life floundering”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

motivation flounders gone with brain that pounds the hours down – a blood that boils in veins of ash beneath a face – silence lurks without a trace in crevices that time create, existence foiled – no trace of happiness […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
19 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “labelled”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

healthy separation of form and function, feelings, thoughts – you were a friend until i turned you inside out and examined you – which i should have done before – now you stand bared in your humanity with no better […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
14 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “i am a pile of garbage”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

i am a pile of garbage through which some poems show – one day the pile dissolves leaving words alone behind to grow –

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
13 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “hammer head on wall unwittingly”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

hammer head on wall unwittingly learning from mistakes by making more – thinking thoughts unbidden shedding light on many more – climbing cliffs unthinkingly preparing for the fall once more – staying on the ground hidden is not an option […]

  • divisive / dismissive / missive
09 Oct, 201811

New Poem: “garbage emotions”

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

garbage emotions open thoughts and soil all – putrid, pungent smell of human waste in haste, in search of worth – wake up, world, night soiled your dreams again – how re-begin?

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