Best Unavailing Poems

BROWNED-CENTS

One of the true ways 
to remain in captivity is to keep silent to avoid your captor’s 
hostility and confusion

A penny for my 
thoughts has...

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My acquaintance with poetry in general and the simplistic literary brilliance of Robert Frost in particular, came at a relatively early age. My mother would...

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Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 1


The first mate, dour and sparse of words
Claimed few things were his pleasure
And too much beer had...

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( "There is no other in the world-  Mine was the only one..."  - Emily Dickinson )






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Dark into its den submissively shrinking
Twinkle came in triumphantly invading
Long waited glister the world tendering 
There comes at last the blissful morning

The big tree just...

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With macabre-like fear, I fret as Death glides near,
     all too near! And in my ears, buried deep,
ticks a ghostly tick-tock—it's...

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Wandering in the woods,I had an epiphany.
My life right now is an opera without a symphony.
The plans I made turned futile,
now my body is ...

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FORLORN 

Gone but here, 
Atop my brooding heart
Far yet near
My thoughts brings her forth 

I miss my dear
And the halcyon days we had
Doughty visage shroud...

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Dust
                        ...

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Its several years now since that great spoil 
By the never-desired, heartless caller. 
Though you lie deep beneath the loamy soil
My love line does reach...

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One white flower in a wan worn field,
The frailest of butterflies failing,
The brown-leafed grief of an old year's yield,
The last ray of sun unavailing;

I lay...

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Great thoughts once kissed my lobes
Before blank despair her flags raised;
And brimless hope reigned as globes
Of full-shining stars in glowing cased. 

Now see what dismal...

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The little girl said "mama come and sit in here with me. " Then mama said "what do you want?"
she said "I am lonely." ...

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Does your heart ever ache?
When,

you realise unavailing efforts make you drain.
you see how helpless you are in pain.

you think there is no escape but death...

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Countless desires breed in my heart,
Countless aspirations take wing
from the soul of my mind;

Each aspiration has a spirit of its own
Each aspiration rides on
the wings...

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