Best Unboxed Poems

A call from a nephew here
A text from children, not near
It takes so little, these days
Be grateful always, He says

Another day on planet earth
Forget the...

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Unboxed
I held her tight
Her weight in my lap
boxed
to let her go gently
Water & wind ready to embrace her 

The sun falling halfway 
Our metal casket...

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Factory Recall

I looked beyond The Open Door 
into a mystical Soul Factory
There amidst  the unboxed souls
was Invisible Jim and The Ghost.
The ghost’s skin was...

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Ominous fear, hate of formless things,
squirms unbidden
to the surface of an unboxed grave
worming its way upward.

Fear not
are worms not of God?
Give shape the formless fears.
Disperse...

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TO SEXUAL AND SENSUAL COUPLES

Kiss me.
Tinge me.
Make me mourn.
Take me to heights unknown.

Empower me with dynamism.
Make my woman glow from making love.
Hold me close in...

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Mind games,
They make us think,
The norm is not the norm,
Our thought patterns are being changed,
Unboxed....

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When you’re shaken and stirred by your love for another
And the song of the heart sends the head to the nether
When you clean all the...

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for my Mother


After the failed attempt to kill herself,
She gaveled up a parliament of owls,
Repurposing every cabinet and shelf
To house her blinkless treasury of fowls.

What...

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It's easy to be in kind
    cruelling self to denial.
Harder to step up, unboxed.
But why must you beg, aplogise
   for...

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Sense altering fertility:
                   a stoic female falters

Seven...

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My imagination ran shamelessly amok last night
While I slumbered in beaded sweat, askance that I would
Be peddling ornate coffins to the absurdly rich, then
Second handing...

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  A gentle kiss, sent love to her forehead,
unmatched to the unboxed dozen of roses. 

Silence, comforted by re-assuring smiles,
they danced together, to their...

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My imagination ran shamelessly amok last night
While I slumbered in beaded sweat, askance that I would
Be peddling ornate coffins to the absurdly rich, then
Second handing...

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Written: May 18, 2024, For Unseeking Seeker Contest

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Suzette was Auntie Dolly’s favorite porcelain wonder.
None of us liked her, yet, we could not give her away
Maybe because we loved Auntie Dolly so much.
And...

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