Best Unchained Poems

How many suns have I seen?
I hope I see thousands more.

But I don't want to lie awake,
begging for sleep, for puzzle-piece dreams,
crossed wires beneath my skin.
They spark and spasm down my side.
The tingling hurts, the cold converts
the numbness into pain.

I need more time to write,...

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Lord Byron—Genius Unchained
 
Primus-Supremus-Romanticus
George Gordon Noel Byron
Destiny in Missolonghi at 36 
A soldier’s death.

Legendary immortality
Mega-accomplishment
For him the best
And now he’s at rest.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
May 6, 2015 (Double Dactyl)...

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Unchained,
free of commitment
Explained,
in her persistence

Heartache, trust issues,
her skeletons run a muck.
Physical and mental abuse,
she finally left that schmuck

Charming,
her benevolent smile
Enchanting,
and extremely versatile

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Self-contained,
committed to money
Unrestrained,
when he tells his stories

Lone wolf in a den of solace,
independence from captivity.
Free from emotional malice,
let go with a sense of chivalry.

Contingency,
alone...

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A gentle murmur from receding waves
the tender sound
of your voice
rippling 
words.
Sand
trickles
through my toes
as time goes by
I think of you and hunger for your touch.


*Words in italics from "Unchained Melody"
as sung by The Righteous Brothers
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pottery wheel spun
clay covered her face and hands –
     his passion aroused

Righteous Brothers hit 
Unchained Melody playing –
     spell of passion cast

true love never chained
romance fills the silver screen --
      setting hearts...

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There once was a time
And a place 
With a different name
And a different face 

Bound by the shackles
And Kept out of sight
The fire it crackles
At the dawn of first light

Remnants of love 
Shattered about
They fit like a glove 
This, there is no doubt 

Left for...

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Evergreen # 2 Unchained Melody
Now
the night has fallen
The sounds of guns
engage and rage in my sight
I confess, my love
the fear that all men know
their life could end
I hear your prayer
I…I need your prayer
Godspeed your prayer to me.

Duty calls a man
many times, many days
Duty calls a...

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Rainy days gone and summer too
Since long my heart was kept
In chain on eiderdown bed
Feared of getting wet or 
sunburn.
I let it fly now.
Like a parrot uncaged
I eject my heart.
This autumn,I unchained my 
heart.

Embellished with the colors of
Blue sky and white clouds ;
Embossed with the...

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Hours to days came and passed
weeks to months and even years
a decade to almost two
within me a poet was gravely dying to be unchained
seeking freedom of expression
seeking freedom of speech
 
So restless he was 
pounding inside me like a palpitating heart
dying to be unchained
to be...

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A melody unchained in my mind 
a movement uncloaked 
and I'm undone 
missing of musings esteemed 

write for me a song so sweet 
a soliloquy of love 
painted in a mid-day dream 
where two hearts come and breathe 

where yesterday's meet tomorrow 
and today is forever...

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A heart there is, whose love your heart contained
A time there was, and in that time I changed
Oh glorious day! When ears first heard your name,
a song of brilliant iridescent flame.

A day there was, and for that day I praise
the sight of your sweet graceful...

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He stares into the lighthouse fire
an ant in the hole
Against his throat rests the wire
a life that his beloved stole
When suddenly the sparks' igniter
is pieces of a whole
Far from his ancestral shire
he digests the mole
Betrayal for something shining brighter
he takes time to patch his soul
She...

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The picture of elephant's feet in chains
Raises the psychological wonder
Maybe the ethical question
Maybe the professional edification

There is the animal
The elephant
There is the wild
For the animal
The elephant

There are the chains
Which wouldn't be there
If the animal was at its natural habitat
The wild
To run wild
Chainless
Unchained
...

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Misspent by inclination,
treed by ambition,
I fled the woods thirsting for the desert,
only to drown in a deep water ecstasy,
later to awaken in the vineyard,
free of fright, bound by the new day's light.

The unchained man bowed his head,
sincerity apparent, no deception transparent.
But the rock in my...

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Shackles of sadness
Chains of despair
Prison of depression
A dungeon of darkness.

Sunlight shines through the bars
Its rays shining on my face
The warmth and love it brings
Gives me hope to survive.

Shadows lurking in the darkness
Taunt my existence and well-being
"You'll never make dreams come true",
"You'll never make it".

Every direction...

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