Best Unhealing Poems


Premium Member What Is Love -2

My Heart is just an organ no memory does it have
The blood it pumps through my viens, is an unhealing salve
I often wonder, what is LOVE; a strange concept to me
Will I ever know of LOVE, as Soupers feel and see
 
One day I thought, I had found LOVE; but soon that LOVE was gone
Forgotten was the moment, when I thought LOVE broke my Heart
I don't know why I cried, from colourful Sunset 'til early morning Dawn
I can not remember how this LOVE even got its start
 
It never did return to me, a feeling of LOVE for Eternity
As time went by, as I grew old, of LOVE I had no Memory
Late at night, a nightmare comes, a nightmare named Lenore
The only words this spectre Whispers is,"Now and Evermore"

                              To be Cont.

Premium Member Wake Asia Wake - Part Two - 2

(Continued from Part Two - 1)

Nothing of the foisoning ageold homegrownwine
       strained through Ol’ Kayyam’s ever draining ruba’iyat bowl
    keeps vigil in their scelerosed veins    

                          I will slap this officious reason
         In the face with wine in hand

Who so bold to slap sense into the buttressed elus
But those drunk with common insolence sense

Darius the First built a confining wall
     around the Greco-Roman Empire’s eastern front
                              a first wall of self-will
Gengiz Khan tore it down with his sabersharp teeth
        after climbing deftly through the David Copperfield hole
   in the Great Wall

See how Mao stemmed the tide with his Long March
Only to wall in his Zhong Guo
                                                      An Asia within an Asia
      The Central Asian Crown
                to be propped up again either by vassal states
or by tribute offering nations in return for health-giving largesse 
      
while tough little Viets struggled without wailing on bare feet
  to sling the Twentieth Century’s Goldorak down to an ignominious fall
 
      while those that weep after twenty lost centuries at their Wailing Wall
wall their brethren in a closely policed jail
       wailing at every television reprisal performance
    their insecure un-Godly fate in the dead sea of faiths
                    at the bare hands of suicidal wall breakers
      hemmed in around their waists

            like those fencesitters
  the Greater East Asia 
                                       Prosperity builders    who
     let MacArthur gird them behind an Ocean Wall
silent superior-thinking men and women
        unable to wish their neighbours bonjour
    even after the unhealed unhealing wounds inflicted 
                                                  by kamikaze samurais
              walled in behind obsequious bending backs
          and mechanical smiling faces

What brews in quiet   what festers in stealth
                                                                Asia’s white master race
                           a Botha-deemed non-apartheid equal

ONE of the seven rulers of this world 


(Continued in Part Two -3)
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.

16 Days

Why give up 16days 
To places and faces love forgot 
To the prescriptions of sorrows choas begot
To the floods of humiliations inspired by turbulent times 
To anxiety dangling on a ledge tormented by the exhaustions of fears 
To the falling screams draped in tears 
To the insulting insults 
To the threatening threats
To the vicious mind exploding beyond the persuasions of descriptive descriptions 
Describing reasonable reasons 
To the scattered seeds of rage that sprouted and endured flowers of discrimination 
To the 16seconds wisdom could not find 
Cause morals were pireced by shouting fences concertined by boundaries of intimidation. 
To the 16mintues of conceived deceptions that latched on to throats 
And swelled fists into bitter knots 
To the 16months of excuses and unhealing apologies silenced by mass graves of secretive secrets concealed in the terrors of abusive tombs. 
To the grieving mind 
16years later on 
Still littered with fractured memories
That remain removed from the cools of 16 being the sweet age that compels penetrating dialogues of Social maturity and justice 
16 longs to be social aware 
16 craves for responsibility 
16days will 
usher in 16nights
To find what can never be lost  
To Remember what can not be forgotten, 
To Speak what has never being spoken,
To be reborn and love what was never loved
To Reveal 
what needs to heal 
Cause brutally and violence are obligated to intervene 
Were thinking is virtually too frail to convene
© Wes Mbanje  Create an image from this poem.


Ever Wailing Child

Who will cry for the little boy,

Whose wails are heard resounding inside the man.

The man whose ever unhealing wounds are clothed in pride,

These mortal scars he wears beneath his flesh

To him are medals of honour

testimonies to his character

Though his visage is a prominent countenance of pride

He is ailed by a phantom of a little whelp

a wailing boy who stands at the threshold of time

ever hurling his lamentations to the man

with accusatory tones in little grievous voices 

accursed day the mother's nipple he purged 

with tiny bites and little nibbles his mute protests understood

and from his suckling lips his nourishment rid of with haste,

& left after the mother's guttural wails, a glutinous white trail of sweet aliment.

in persuit of new tastes, urged to crawl away from those who knew him

needing to quench his dry life with spirits and to lick his wounds in solitude

the boy's mistake his haste attitude to become a man 

Ever and forever more so, suckling from a bottle's tip the said spirits, the malignant acids,

remedies to calm his demons, heart hardened and his will to live humbled, now with each sip he impugns his need to exist, sipping these pernicious aliments to tenderly nourish his grave and coax his days shorter.

bear not amiss the abhorant, dreaded days ere 

when harsh lines marked the path he progressed,

in the keeping of a world with vile intentions this lone boy

with no loving hand to stroke a tender flame on his fragile emotions

accursed day when ignorancy ailed one such as he, to hate blindly

pride and arrogance his eventual downfall ever stirring him to ignorancy. 

hate he suckled as nourishment from the nipples of a mother whose bosom coursed with old hate. 

robbed of her maidenhood, violated absent care, then the spawn to disdain and loathe unfurl out of the desecrated womb, a gift from nemesis

woe ye the day he bid his own counsil unworthy to heed

ignorant of benevolence his creeping demise unfurl

heart unchanging ever frozen in the frame of the babe

Premium Member No One Can Replace You

You left us John, yet life goes on
                        
                            You left too soon, unhealing wound

                                         My brother, 
                      
                                      Though cousin;
    
                                       Closest to me

                                 In our childhood home,

                                    Torn from our tree

                                 Could you have known

                                The heartache you'd sown

                              No one can replace you John

                            In the eight years that you've 

                                           Been gone

                             Remembering you, and hearing

                                             A song

                                      The world spins, 

                                     Time moves along

                             Poet, deep heart, brother mine

                                  We breathe, we live 

                                   No, we're not fine

                           Your pain was deep and traceable

                           You knew you were Irreplaceable

                       Now your widows picked up the pieces

                       Her shattered heart loves again, though

                                Her pain never ceases

                         How we've longed to see your face

                         Your gone:       cannot be replaced

                         The world spins, and life goes on

                        But you are SO missed brother John

Premium Member Threadbare

thin moon hangs in the blurring light
when the red tape of work ends 
day's end
before darkness darts onto idling pillows

a too slight shine to navigate the strain of living
wounds unstitched
like a heart unhealing from over-crowded transgressions
a feel that's too familiar 
nestled in the treads of tired
where we can't always control the skidding

crescent moon
dangling, unsettled in the sky
                                  shrunk in a sparseness of graying
pinched edges from a light threadbare
unable to lift toil from labor's bones
haggling for some salvation


Pierced, Bruised, Shattered

I was pierced!
My heart that first time fell in love to a woman of my dream
beyond all doubts, took no shame of any humiliations
But I, who accepted her, felt the unbearable pain of sharpest sword of lie.

I was bruised!
My heart that once promised honesty, loyalty and pure love
Amidst all hope, still vindicated and tainted by sadness.
I, who did everything to make her happy asked nothing but paid by unhealing wounds. 

I was shattered!
A guy who thought of an unending bliss all turned into ashes.
And now, faking and fooling myself of how I mistakenly cross the wrong bridge.
Who dream fantasy but now dwelling in my darkest abyss of first heartbreak.

Life

Life...
On the wake of a new morning...
With countless hopes ascending...
And endless dreams ever knocking...
In excitement of a new beginning...
By persuasions smoothly rolling...
Sometimes with courage unrelenting...
Other times terrible and despairing...
Into desertions of lights dimming...
Yet in irresistable stages unfolding...
Each at a time taking a leading...
Few a reality; many a daydreaming... 
The others in hibernation, waiting...
Often with promises unbecoming...
When beaten to wounds unhealing...
Which by taunts of smiles disappearing...
Suddenly flashes like some lightning...
Such a one so terrific and blinding...
Quick at frightening anyone smiling...
But despite many threats rolling...
Some a tough folks keep on moving...
To the rhythm of victory-in-the-making...
As long as they live remembering...
That all that started has an ending...
For all is but living and adventuring...
Life.

A Lovers Sacrifice

He says he loves me, but I caught him cheating.
So why keep lying, my angers not reseading.
How long has it been going on for?
What number am I, I feel so torn.

Two?
Five?
Seven?

I have to let you go, I know.
I can't let my pain show.
Getting past you is my obstical.
Even though it seems impossible.

People say love is an amazing feeling.
All I feel is my heart breaking, unhealing.
You can live life without me here, I know you can.
Because love is a sacrifice, and a sacrifice is all I am.

Premium Member Mind Museum

Sad the heart 
sick the mind
from world 
of commotion
retiring
its past reliving
motionless drifting
to skeletons 
of mind museum
odorless images
soundless captions
spirit of senses
still pricking
its heart 
joy seeking
switching from 
dreaming
to present of gadgets 
unhealing
blowing away walls  
breathing out
relics
dropping its shoes 
of backward 
living
raising its heels
that present
kept hidden
running barefoot
to the forest 
for healing
where weeds 
grow seeds
untouched by mower
flowers 
pure fragrance
perspiring
petals unfold 
true colors
unseen
like love 
that's pure
because hidden
brooks flow gently
accompanying songs
of birds like treasure
in green hidden
each moment 
the forest 
renews itself 
perpetuating life
by giving 
with rains
and sun milk
its body
God feeding
its spirit by seeding 
continuing
dependence
with patience
togetherness
teaching
God's
unifying love
revealing.

First Place Winner as "Memory Museum" Brian Strand- All Yours- 6/5/21

Memories Back Then

When i used to cry 
she says,

Why crying?

Is it because you are not a man enough,

Is it because you are too docile to be bold

In her slaping words,
I learn to smile when i cry,
To laugh even if it hurts

I hate my tears,
They makes me weak, but with this unhealing lesion 
Can you allow mr just for a moment 
Or i should burst in pain

Temperate Tongues.

Temperate tongues mingle and press,
And i cant lick without tasting sweet,
My tongue glides up your leg but not past your dress.
The power of unhealing emptiness needing to be stuffed seems to cross your feet.
Endurance is where my tongue doesn't get tired of tasting,
And like good wear I'm Everlasting,
Kegels will not help you with this problem your facing.
I'm consuming your every drop and my lips aren't the only ones that's smacking.
The flavor is so light not pungent yet full,
Yet I'm tonguing like I'm digging,
In the crevices of your vessel forms a pool.
And slippery when wet is an understatement when I'm giving.

Early snacks are always followed,
And while you accidentally play with your food i stare,
Desert topped so delicately with cream gets swallowed.
And as you lay panting, gentle gestures with my fingers in your hair.

Silent Cry

There is a part of me,
That I keep locked up and have no key,

At least, I say, one can not be found,
yet, here it comes flowing forth, like water from the ground,

Tears I feel weeping, like sap from my heart,
I don't know whether to scream or pull my self apart,

Feeling dizzy, 
Feeling sick,
Hoping I can find my balance quick,

Set in motion, 
These forces as strong as an ocean,
Out pours all my pent up emotion,

Spewing forth under no remorse of agony or rage,
Setting everything around me ablaze,

Its' destructive nature leaves an unhealing wound,
feeling as if my life was meant for such gloom,

I can't escape my memories, I can't escape their pain,
I plead for help yet my cries are only done in vain,

No on can hear my sorrow, my loss, my tortured soul,
Not even the pen from which my words flow.

Body Script

Does it stir you,
a body bag ?
Journey of million years
stops here,
decoding the numbers.

A  humming bird 
inflight catches a dilemma
before the sun sets on the
whirring wings.
The moon will never be the same.

Hanging by a thread
a suicide bomber memorializes
the unhealing land.
Who will cry
when he is gone ?



Satish Verma

Passion Is a Hurricane

Ending of the thought
does not bring a lull.
It is a sequel beyond 
my reach. An old extrication,
I dig for my roots. 
The forgotten names, 
the unhealing wounds of a doctrine,
a tiny memory of pulsating embryo,
not yet born !

Fear generates a kill. Ferocious movement 
inside the cells slowly,
you become zero without a center.
The tangent skips 
on your surface. Claustrophobia. 
You start breaking the walls.
Fighting anxiety & shame 
a timeless timber without a foliage.

My ignition point is hurt in
the new culture of game.
How we approach the road, 
which smells the death, 
blood or smoke? 
The passion is a hurricane. 
Uproots all the bones, 
shatters all the roots. 
A glory reckons after a while, 
for the election of sorrow.



SATISH VERMA

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