Best Unbend Poems

Chicago's been dubbed the windy town,
but Great Falls has that tag nailed down.
If you're facing Montana's fierce wind,
you're moving where you didn't intend.

Prairie grass rolls like ocean waves,
tumbleweed mounds resemble graves.
Aspen leaves' fluttery swirls abound,
scarcely settling their golden mound.

Longhorns stay bunched within a draw,
hoping the...

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Only certain people possess the strength to be great
Each and everyday you have to unbend what they tried
to break. You have to be very aware of what
is at stake so you fake your way through because 
you can't let a hint of the pain escape....

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There once was a young man from Tashkent 
whose job was very hard and it bent 
him double.  "No trouble; 
I believe a pub'll 
unbend me," he said, and so he went....

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I gulp a flame of desire
At the sight of your ecclesiastical attire
Being proxy for a pacifier
That elicits a comfort for my quagmire

Your smile, your smile 
A sun in a darkened profile
A moon that illuminates the eventide. 
Oh lily of the while
You let your movement twist...

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With first breath, the wakeful light of dawn sings 
an adoration of morning prayer
nature's eternal temperate sweet air, 
charmed ensemble of fluttering bird's wings.

Pink, yellow, blue buds up-staring unbend
Dance under breaking clouds that saunter by 
Lacing sunlight. Good-bye! Good-bye, so shy
Blue dragonfly, ascend to heaven,...

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Theme: chance meeting
8/4/14



I never really knew you,
You were just another friend,
But when I got to know you,
I let my heart unbend,

I couldn't help past memories,
That would only make me cry,
I had to forget my first love,
And give love another try,

So I've fallen in love with...

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He stared me frozen;
stiff as a board.
A long hard stare; 
a gawk, as frigid as hoarfrost.
A cold stare, as cruel as words.

Eyes know my father’s smile, 
as broad as imagination.
That stare, that I alone know, is an omen; 
a hunch to unbend my crooked ways.
What...

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Dog Star

The clarity with which youthful vision perceives the world
Is increasingly fogged by the successive days of life.
Simple magnanimity is replaced by complex reservation.
Knowledge is replaced by uncertainty.
Hope is replaced by the leaden awareness of the cold laws of chance, and of time’s passage,
By the...

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You are my constant, my breath, my comma
I understand my world through you
The slightest look and you unbend me
I cannot sleep without your hands

You have this stillness with which you save me
Your quiet shadow - my symphony
Your tears and laughter course through my body
My refugee...

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Birds chirp by jarfuls
in twilight dawn.

The sun could stand correction
in the hesitation of fulfillment.

The planets & stars roll off
the table of sky, plop
in the puddle of lakes serene
as maniacs in straight jackets.

The wind mumbles
it isn’t so.  The unbend poplars
don’t care,
and children
aren’t children anymore....

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He wears his depression
like a tarnished, tattered,
scratched and dented halo,

scavenged at some demented
yard sale,
bought and sold on the cheap

(But, oh! The price he pays -
priceless!)

His pants hang
dejectedly, sadly,
drooping and dragging,
two sizes too large

His shoulders, dripping
with no self-confidence at all,
have given up
even trying to unbend, unstoop,

down-trodden,...

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I never really knew you,
you were just another friend
but when I got to know you,
I let my heat unbend
I couldn't help past memories
that would only make me cry
I had to forget my first love
and give love another try
so I've fallen in love with you
and I'll...

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Lost in stealth's memories evading time's awareness and penetrations from the speed of silence
Where hollow grounds open diverge
To the beginning of the subconscious rebirth
Where moments of monuments cherished will ever collide, rebind
Thoughts crescend, emotions diminuend
Performance of originality in motion while watching the speed of diffractions
Density...

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I wish for my true love and dearest friend
Of such I find myself most undeserved
To have thee more, what grace did condescend
My life made full thy favor has preserved

I gladly then each day with thee to spend
And all thy yesteryears seem only then
As wings the...

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Silence in their congregation
Wisdom without translation
Turmoil inhabits infestation
Confounded in fascination
Our unspoken conversation
Immerses such a revelation
Unfold the transformation
As I vanish in imagination

Submerging into the forest I descend
Aspirations freeze and suspend
Oh the glorious woods defend
As the converse energies impend
Without atonement they attend
All fortification shall unbend
Granting psyche virtue...

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