Best Unconnected Poems

I’ve been guarded by a visceral veil, 
        a sea of debris is what’s left of me-
Under sapphire...

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She wrote, “Hey, Joe, how are you?
It has been a long, long while;
I remember all the fun we used to have;
I still remember your constant...

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Back in the fifties
America seemed much calmer
McCarthy's commie blacklists
Sputnik's shocking launch
Ike's wife Mamie so sedate
That pre-historic hairdo

World War Two over
We needed some time to heal
Alan...

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Lament

Brooding days,
     Vanquished in the unconnected gloom,
            Shower frost,
Standing watch...

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Small, beautiful face stares up at me
When did you become so exquisitely you (so entirely other than me)?
I've spent my life consumed in myself
You, the...

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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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Sun and traffic - day economy.
Six a.m. drive to plywood mill. Too tired
to be angry. Each day a step
toward death. What is being accomplished? The
small...

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Career in crisis
Starlets arrested
Stupidity attracts
Media attention.

I used to read the news
And watch TV
Now I skim the ads
And close my eyes
Because I know
Everyone is someone else’s...

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Silence’s Shout

My bones are poisoned by the thirsty soul
Darkness is added for the busy mind covered by the emptiness
Soak by choke to inhale the breath...

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from a challenge to use a random set
  of unconnected words in a poem)
   
The syncopated rhythms of my
   ...

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Bleak
Sky,
Dark gray,
Charcoal drab,
Like an old man's night,
New widower beside the grave.
Desolate, forlorn, now individual, unattached,
Free, at liberty, unconnected, disconnected to life but still alive, pained



Contest:Tons...

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The first time that we saw him
We were worried for his health.
He was sat upon a seat nearby
And talking to himself.

His fingernails were broken
Like his...

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I have a name
I toil at two jobs for my future
I hope one day to be a healer

I have a name
Should I marry him? Will...

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This time, I sing the praise of ecclesiatical love.
  Though not esoteric, thou  followers never allow
to think it beyond the sinister bodily move....

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from twisted metal singed and charred
an empire falls, with many scarred

time of uncertainty looms
life of austerity booms

left unconnected.

slain-ed on the banks of insanity,
 
uncertainty and...

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