Best Unfinished Business Poems

He rose
She watched
He paused
She gazed
He twitched
She sighed
He packed
She froze
He waited
She turned
He glanced
She shivered
He moved
She whispered
He paced
She sobbed
He freaked
She called
He frowned
She pleaded
He kissed
She wept
He turned
She knew
He left...

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
©Alfreda Williamson
July 2, 2004




Outside town boundaries,
bustling, noisy din,
Deeply in the serenity of peace, calm,
the country County,
Around a curve, sharp, blind.

There it leaped out at me.
Suddenly, unexpectedly
Catching me off guard,
Not foresightedly, not scary
Just by way of wonderment
. . . why this unfinished business?
The house without...

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It’s Unfinished Business

Knowing so well that you have the answer, 
To church, Christian theology and beliefs, 
That’s it’s just a mental illness majestic, 
That they’re really only sanity thieves. 

Shut up by the Youth Fellowship leader, 
Who used disability and loneliness techniques, 
Under the shelf...

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Well one of these days I know I'm gonna be
But please God don't let it be tomorrow
I've still got way too many things to do to
Make all my dreams come true, so much
UNFINISHED BUSINESS I've just got to
Finish...
Still way too many songs to write and
Bring...

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Did you think you were cool?
to call in a threat?
You Columbine copy-cat,
you coward, you fool?

Teachers hear the “code,”
Teachers who’ve been trained to
hope for the best
prepare for the worst, 
the worst that could possibly happen
at this 
	or any
school

Students thought it strange,
didn’t get the news,
saw my fast...

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At peace


When i'm gone
Bury me in the forrest
Where i can feel the Earth
Where i can feel myself

Plant a tree as my tombstone
So i can grow to touch the sky
Let the leaves blanket me
For the long winter night...

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The woke demand that we devenerate,
revise old statues, plaques and history
of leaders who were once considered great,
as truth confronts a lasting bigotry.

To laud and honor what they represent
supports and propagates a curse and weight,
creating new and growing discontent,
to abrogate old hails to racial hate.

Blind scales...

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I remember how much pain you gave to me
It was five years ago but wounds are still with me
You never said goodbye, it was never resolved
It was more than an angst tormenting my sorrow

But things changed as time goes by
Trying to move on but I...

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finally tying up
loose ends
signing the artwork



posted on September 30, 2018...

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In this maddening heat 
      of the prizefight
where ferocity reigns and 
      might is right,
the shrewder one may yet 
      triumph tonight.


For even the best can be 
  ...

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A man with an unbearable need
looked for a urinal with greatest of speed.
And what a display of repeated foul words
when he found one but his pants were on backwards!

...

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So many things I'd like to say 
I'll save them for some other day 
You know the way I think towards you 
It hasn't changed, the bird's still blue 
And though not mentioned anymore 
The shelves are stocked inside my store
Provisions for the heart await
They...

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Unfinished Business


Feel like giving up.
Think I have had enough.
Impossible to finish a book.
Keep on getting stuck.


All begins with good intentions.
It all ends with procrastination.
Thought it time for me to mention,
I never reach the end…


Keep it real or never said.
We are all a long time dead,
So...

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No matter who we are
how well we've prepared
it seems there's always some unfinished business
when it's time to go.

And when we go we leave our physical remains,
body and stuff all accumulated in a lifetime,
but we leave deeper traces too,
our face or sayings or gestures
burned into the...

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unspoken words linger
unfinished conversations whisper
soft gray clouds
veil sullen skies
a day of calm
anticipates a storm

Bite Size Poem #31 Poetry Contest...

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