An effort to try my hand at poetry.

I berate myself for inadequacies

I cannot possibly eliminate

Sense of worth i decimate

Plunging the dagger of inspiration

Hoping my conscious to placate

Or at least force this guilt to vacate

The place inside

Where truth once was born

Lost in fear so desperate

Demons and i will mediate

A treaty to appease the theophany

(is this really any way to be?)

Divine belief leads to shattered faith

A journey that we all will take

A roller coaster through the soul

A journey fraught  with lost hope

Answers figments in our mind’s sky

We see ourselves (what a brilliant lie!)

Fragments of our disposition

Lead to grandeurous disillusion

Finding answers in misguided trust

Don’t look now, we’re one of us!

Varying flavors of who i may be

For all the mes to finally see

The compilation of all the I’s

Reconciled in my own falling skies

No resolution, no solution found

Better my fragments lie disseminated for now

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  • Isabella Wulf on Jul 7, 2009

    “Lead to grandeurous disillusion”

    Life’s story in four words.
    this was beautiful Mnof, for someone claiming ill to poetry. :)

  • Sheila M on Jul 7, 2009

    wow, you disturb me. That was most certainly not beautiful.

    (but I will give you very well written)

  • cafftee on Jul 8, 2009

    You should try your hand at poetry more often. Some really excellent passages, my favourite being ‘A journey fraught with lost hope/Answers figments in our mind’s sky/We see ourselves (what a brilliant lie!)’

  • gringoperry on Jul 8, 2009

    Brilliant MN! Thats the first time I have ever seen the word figment used in context too!

  • Inna Tysoe on Jul 8, 2009

    That’s quite good.

    Inna

  • Marie Milton on Jul 10, 2009

    Well Done Mnof…
    Marie

  • cheops on Jul 10, 2009

    This is really your first poem? If so, I am in awe.

  • BullwinkleMuse on Jul 25, 2009

    Introspection can be an ugly business sometimes. Yet with all we see, both good and bad, we come to a place where we can be, if not at peace with ourselves, then at least an uneasy truce.

  • Marie Milton on Jul 25, 2009

    Here’s another comment for your file Mnof. You put the effort into making the anthology…you deserve all the ‘likes’ and comments one can get….: ))) You’re the best!!!!!

  • BradONeill on Jul 25, 2009

    Finding answers in misguided trust

    Don’t look now, we’re one of us!

    Great lines there. Not ever really knowing is the basis of faith. What a terrible thing to hang all of our hopes on, Yet in the end it is the only thing we have. I like the perspective and I am sure when your fragments do finally come together it will be a glorious day.

  • Alina Beck on Jul 25, 2009

    Pull your fragments together Mnof – if nothing else, you are at least an excellent wordsmith! :)

  • ken bultman on Jul 25, 2009

    Thought provoking. I’m not sure I want to be one of me.

  • maranatha on Jul 26, 2009

    Indeed thought-provoking! How sad that you are so disillusioned. But you are right, we all come to this place, then learn to build. So build on, sir, on the foundation of truth and reality this time! May all your me’s adhere to the me you build.

    God bless.

  • goodselfme on Jul 26, 2009

    Well penned piece, you have certainly “tried ” this before.

  • shelly barclay on Jul 27, 2009

    The title of this poem shoud be what it is like to be a writer. lol Great job.

  • WriteEditSeek on Jul 27, 2009

    Wow, powerful. I’m happy to have some company in the abyss.

  • Stephen J. Ardent on Dec 16, 2009

    Strong. Yet I find it hard to identify with. Perhaps thankfully.

  • lillyrose on Dec 16, 2009

    My head is a little shell shocked from the battering of the well present but some what uneasy poem!

  • Littlekid137 on Dec 16, 2009

    This is very powerful. The diction is what really made this poem powerful

  • Mark Gordon Brown on Dec 16, 2009

    the mes, Is, and wes liked this. I had to take the apostrophies out to get this to post so it will probably not make sense.

  • Lee Ness on Dec 16, 2009

    Very good poem. Very powerful too. Somewhat made feel uneasy at times but that is what poems can invoke in us as we read them.
    Lee Ness

  • serowa on Dec 16, 2009

    You held me captive as I walked with you through your journey of life. very nice.

  • Sheila M on Dec 16, 2009

    * see comment above *

    and write something new!

  • miraj on Dec 17, 2009

    Wow Mn,

    you would make an excellent poet.not only the lines are well thought,but they also make excellent rhymes,you should try your hand your poetry more often.The theme of the poem is close to my heart.

  • maranatha on Dec 17, 2009

    Read this for the third or fourth time, now. This piece is so well penned, and leaves one yearning to reach out to you.

  • Nicholas Peterson on Dec 18, 2009

    so. you wrote a poem about me in highschool. I would say you were quite accurate…

  • spiritwalker on Dec 18, 2009

    I think we do have to fall apart in order to correctly find where the peices \’should\’ have gone in the first place.

  • hfj on Dec 18, 2009

    Stick with sports. haha. Just kidding dude, that was a good read and excellent attempt at something (poetry) that you don’t care that much for. Good use of words and flow to the poem. Well done

  • A.L.Smith on Dec 18, 2009

    Beautiful, powerful. Well done, If this was your first try I cannot wait to see you try again. Poetry lives within you, like it or not.

  • Northernlight on Dec 18, 2009

    Hmmm….definitely a thinker. Like the line “Demons and I will mediate”.

    Thanks

  • Theresa Johnson on Dec 21, 2009

    You may have just tried your hand at poetry when you first wrote this, but I will say you need to continue trying poetry. I thought this poem was excellent and want to read more poetry from you.

  • Cebah on Dec 22, 2009

    Very deep and thought provoking. Well written too.

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