Best Unexplained Poems
It doesn’t matter how old I grow or how much wisdom I attain…
In life there will always be some things I do not understand…
some things that cannot be explained.
I clean our bookstore early every Sunday morning…because I’ve found
I enjoy the time all by myself….with no one else around.
I like it when there’s no one in the store…alone…all by myself…
and our playful ghost decides to push a Harry Potter book off of the shelf.
She or he is not a scary ghost…for I have never been in fear…
and this has been the extent of our relationship for the last five years.
That is until this Sunday morning…when I stopped in to clean the store…
and I saw the words, ‘how are you?…on my phone…
words that were not there before….
How are you? Made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
and if I had any hairs on my head I’m sure they would have stood up too…
So I quickly typed onto my phone…’I’m fine…and how are you?’
Of course being a playful ghost she did not answer…
never even gave a reason why….
so I continued to clean the the store
and as I locked up I turned back to our ghost, waved and said…goodbye.
Books that fly off our shelf…the words ‘how are you? on my phone…
make me smile…and I maintain…
these wonderful little mysteries of life…need never be explained.
Yes, for our little bookstore ghost…I’m happy just letting her be…
and I can’t wait until next Sunday to see…what she might have in store for me.
The darkness on the ground
A shadow covers all
It's cause cannot be found
What goes on in the shade
Without knowing what is there
No mind can continue it's thought
Without knowledge there is a fear
The mind cannot think of anything but
The two unknowns that can't be seen
What is there and why is it too dark to see?
Where did this shadow come from?
There is nothing there
Why is this darkness here?
Frustrated looking all around
In the sky there is a ring of light
Immediately looking away
The sight of the ring caused pain
Soon the light would return
The shadow is lifted
everything can be seen
But not to eyes that saw the ring
annotated art
birds, butterflies and haiku —
no wings in sight
2/1/2021
Christmas dreams are of happy occasion,
of bells and colours, Santa and presents,
but floods, deluge I saw in my vision,
of floating buses and drifting corpses,
in panic people scattered for cover,
water swirled around ready to drown them,
trashing cars, collapsing city tower,
afloat I saw baskets, carts, dirt and scum,
I awoke in fear, I do not deny,
but what it all meant, I had not a clue!
Next day with family I shared my dream,
On boxing day, dream was reality,
I had foreseen the asian tsunami 2004!
stranger still are many languages I heard,
from all the regions the flood waters hit!
The Unexplained poetry contest
2nd placement
Carolyn Devonshire
Written 01/10/2020
15 lines
10 syllables each
free verse
On the Outback Downs of Queensland
There is the strangest light
I have seen it first hand
And it sure gave me a fright
I was camped out while Lamb Marking
On the Downs out Corfield way
Hot days with sheep dogs barking
We sure did earn our pay
On one eve when days work done
We sat around a fire
Telling yarns, let our tongues run
Leant back against the wire
As I looked out in the distance
The night was black as pitch
A light with some insistence
Gave my interest an itch
I knew that there was nothing there
Only us for miles around
What was this light, gave us a scare
Some six feet from the ground
I got up, had another look
I called for volunteers
Let's go take a butchers hook
But all I got was jeers
I walked away out to the side
Until it disappeared
We still see it here they cried
Now that was pretty weird
So make your own mind up about
That Queensland Min Min light
I can say there is no doubt
Was on the Downs that night
Written February 6, 2011
I seem to stare glazed at unexplained existence
As your eyes traverse an unexplored horizon
Of what I've always known
Wastelands of past recovered memories
Dance in your mind of an unrelenting distance
That you've made no effort to close
Once near futures become far too distant memories
To watch the focus turn away from the sun
And all I do is bite my tongue
Revolve around just like a carousel that's wandering
I'm far from being done with all these enemies I'm finding
Closer than what comfort's found
Take me down away from all these feelings
Feel like walls are closing in around me
And yet I make no sound
The candle's rekindled one too many times
The flame would shout
That the sun has just burnt out
As I traverse the unforgiving frozen tundra
These thoughts I just can't help repeating
Oh why did I bite my tongue?
A sudden
sonoluminescence
manifested
in a river of eyes,
a sigh drawing
vision
The spray of their rays
issued into a void
barren of illumination,
its essence devoured
with the absence
of brilliance
Broken skies
illuminated with scars,
fragmented earth
felt the first radiance,
one burst
bequeathed life
Startled orbs
can now perceive
with no sight,
folded forms
can now move
like untied kites
A desolate darkness
was extinguished,
with an inexplicable
sound wave of light
There are many things we understand…
things we are confident we know…
that through science and creativity
we have ascertained…
But today we send a little blessing out
to all the things in life that cannot be explained.
Love doesn't mean just staying together,
Love means in the same way feel for each other.
Love means a passion in heart which can't be explained,
Love means a purity and sanctity which can never be failed.
Love means true feelings without any ploy,
Love means divinity within the heart to enjoy.
Love means a philosophy with no give and take,
Love means true belief without being fake.
Love means something more than a faith,
Love means living for each other even after death.
Love means even in absence feeling one's presence,
Love means a thinking with a true essence.
Love is something which can go beyond this earth,
Love means a treasure which can never get dearth.
Change unexplained
change unexplained
rearrange the letters
left by petty thieves pillaging the wastelands
spaces left between court cases
masses leaving the soot
roots untamed from airplane cranial
fat leave it
to the hero
tournament of champions
adorned by the haters
mad with holes in the craters
who the greater
fait leaves the way
more centuries
old pastures
rapture from the scriptures
captured with structure
abandoned from your wives daughter
left dazed in Calcutta
sands of time sublime
raise and found
from calypsos
and devouring intros from the past
harness
flipmode
code of the unspoken
lyrical nimbaces of Nero
hero ridden
spiral underground
hero free from decipher
the pact riddles of capture
list the fury
now let me tell you a story
Sean Joseph McMahon written on 19/03/06 sun
Let us find a space amongst the trees and sunset...
In an undisclosed area absent from the busy ways of the world.
A space filled with days where the rain falls with patients and the winds blow with relaxed intentions
Where our surroundings will exceed our imaginations and our eyes exposed to an existing truth
An existing truth, when once witnessed, could never be explained.
In the year 1900 a Texas judge
Went exploring on horseback all alone
Deep in the West Texas sand dunes he rode
Searching for ancient artifacts and bone
Near buried in sand stood forty wagons
No bodies - no tools -no hint of treasure
Perhaps a hundred souls made up this train
Formed in a "V" for defensive measure
A massacre seems clear but who is unknown
No reports of missing trains have been found
No hint of searches for loved ones exists
No clue on whether East or Westward bound
Often at night solutions I ponder
Did the souls find a home or still wander
10-01-20
Contest: Unexplained
Sponsor: Carolyn Devonshire
Shoes and clothes all on the floor;
Video game cartridges piled high from the ceiling to the door;
Music blaring no one's listening;
Cuz too old to hear the old the age you are open doors;
Won't you come open doors
Walk the line stand by me
You'll be fine
I'll show you life as it should be I'll liberate you come walk the line
Won't you come to open doors
Walk the line stand by me
You'll be fine
I'll show you life as it should be a liberate you and then walk the line
Polished china in the kitchen cabinet
Walking came in the corner no not having it
Got up late dentures in the jar
Scared hoping I won't I will not fall
Got to go downstairs to get in the car
All the rules you yet to find you complain about them all
No one listens to you you're fighting you crawl
The world too can be the other centurion
We too are discriminated walk with me talk with me
I'll tell you about your history
You and I can cry together while we both embrace our misery
Open doors won't you come walk the line stand by me
You'll be fine I'll show you life as it should be
I liberate you and then I'm free
Unexplained Monopoly
6/13/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
ancient aliens built the pyramids
it’s their gift to you and me
obvious as can be
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
I can't begin to describe
The way I feel
When he walks into the room
A smile bigger than any other
Spreading across my face
As my stomach begins to twist
And the butterflies start to flutter
I wait for the sound of his voice
Wanting to feel his touch
I reach out for him
Wanting to pull him close
Beginning to realize the truth
Everyday I like him more
How this came to be
I will never know
It's something left unexplained
But I wouldn't trade it for anything