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Best Unforgiven Poems

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Premium Member Unforgiven
my best friend and I
believed one day we would be
golden girls cruising

all over nothing
I was cast in a role as
the unforgiven

despite my attempts
at reconciliation ....

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Categories: unforgiven, forgiveness, friend,
Form: Senryu



Unforgiven
Themes are overlapping
                      ...

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Categories: unforgiven, introspection, pain,
Form: Free verse
Unforgiven
He grew up in a family so big he wasn't even seen. 
He was the youngest of seven, and all he had to wear
Was his...

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Categories: unforgiven, absence, dad, pain,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Advice
Do not look to me with questioning eyes
For i do not possess the answers you seek 
i cannot taste the bitter sweetness on your tongue,
or...

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Categories: unforgiven, change, drink, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"




The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson 
Life spent in The Hard Sell

Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia 
mouth sucking a loaded gun

blue ribbonned...

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Categories: unforgiven, abuse, addiction, angel, depression,
Form: Free verse



Broken perspectives
There is so little space I could give in my skies, 
Every moon has left a whole cluster of clouds full of lies, 
I cannot...

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Categories: unforgiven, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Confessional
"Hail Mary full of grace"
These words you demand of me
as I sit here in this dark box
confessing 
crying
talking to your shadow
Eyes that never meet
I am...

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Categories: unforgiven, angst, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness
"Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness"



The blue lines ripple like waves
to the right side of the page
vacantly calm 

from the shallow depths 
of the ponderous...

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Categories: unforgiven, bullying, poets, symbolism, word
Form: Free verse
To My Sons
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
If you can bare to hear the truth twisted by fate 
to make a trap for...

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Categories: unforgiven, dedication, son,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member The Double Secret
"The Double Secret"




I am skin and bone
wrapped tightly around
an immaculate heart that’s hidden
but known to a fierce soul

Human daughter, sprinkled with holy water

Wherever there is...

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Categories: unforgiven, family, freedom, home, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Fallen
“The Fallen”



Remote,
he sees himself 
in the reflection of cold close 
yet distant shop windows, 
his final journey along the 
Hard Time Road
walking alone, 
unforgiven, no...

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Categories: unforgiven, family, freedom, friendship, god,
Form: Free verse
In the Dark
The darkness hides me,
 no one can see,
no one can hear my heart
and I feel safe because 
of my new-found invisibility;
I’m cold, alone and unforgiven.
All...

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Categories: unforgiven, absence, depression, solitude,
Form: Free verse
The Leavening
I read it so, the Bread of Life
without discourse, without contrive
did lighten, nourish, so arrive
that building up, to merit, live ~

That in my lines
I found...

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Categories: unforgiven, friendship, love, time, love,
Form: Monorhyme
Half Felt
I felt you that night
more clearly than any wound
the tears i bled
from the things we said
it made even the angels swoon

i felt inside something not...

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Categories: unforgiven, forgiveness, loss, love,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Once Precious Now Lost
To be or not to be that is the question "by William Shakespeare " 
Whether the death of love is gathered in
Or found its needs...

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Categories: unforgiven, lost love,
Form: Sonnet

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