Best Unaccomplished Poems

You offended my shape
I don’t know if you meant it
After a couple of days 
You smiled to me 
I looked away 
Your smile was so...

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Thump, thump...thump, thump
Your heart beats with internal impediment
Making each breath a struggle.
I see your pain,  I feel your anguish,
I dearly love your determination to...

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We slept together
We dreamt together
We saw a dream of nurturing our emotions
We saw a dream of growing our love
We saw a dream of integrating our...

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I read it so, the Bread of Life
without discourse, without contrive
did lighten, nourish, so arrive
that building up, to merit, live ~

That in my lines
I found...

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Old Dreams

In the evening when the moonlight;
Gently falls on land and sea.
Old dreams come like wolves at midnight;
Come to howl and torment me.

Dreams of youth...

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"I Woke Up One Morning."

I woke up one morning as if from a dream, 
I had lived from being a child, to an old age....

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-Thinking of Iraq Ware Veterans on Veterans Day-

The day after the terrorists attacked our country, I joined the military and was deployed to Iraq. I...

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Dear Self,

I'm oh so sorry I let you down, so many uncountable times
Sorry I ignored your cries and pretended I didn't hear them, though they...

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If you ask me to look in a mirror
To stand in front of it naked before the world
What do you think I'd see?
An accomplished teenager...

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Good boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood

The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted,...

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When Passion overwhelms



Passion my weakness that tends to overpower,
as if I am living only to nurture love and hover?
Logical thoughts beating and buzzing in head,
my...

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Casting a glance past my shoulder as Chopin’s Berceuse opens into the air
            light...

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I pray to God that it will be a brighter day; 
I want his warmth to clothe me day after day 
Someday, the sun will...

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She received her ribald advice 
From the raucous old woman
Whose demurred ramble
Erased memories of yesterday

Her stained chastity
Perplexed by trivialities
Signified condoned fury
And anguished conviction

Those dancing assistants
Animated...

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Days like today remind me that you make me feel special.
Because when I'm not talking with you, I feel unaccomplished.
I become jealous of other peoples'...

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