Best Unhearing Poems

Oh, unfeeling God
Am I ever permitted to know
why the one who was still so much needed
was the one who was chosen to go?
With all my...

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I watch the sun fall from the sky
tumbling soundlessly, the horrid quiet deafening.
As I see it touch the horizon, the world burns
and clouds, like kindling,...

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My house bound kitty sits beside
the tightly closed back door.
I cannot let him out for fear
he may come home no more.

Bold coyotes watch our country...

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crows feeding loudly in maiden hay field
in the noon sun
such a dark sound these creatures
such a ancient place they call to in the heart
'no good...

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Now there are special classes for those like me--
                ...

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Are you the one that blocked the sun?
That fired the bullet from the gun
That laughed aloud at what you’d done
To this fair land that cash...

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Hearts beat in shallow chests as brains tick in empty heads
Unseen eyes glitter as to small hands pull to big triggers
Money wouldn’t let go as...

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I'm drowning right here as I stand on dry land.I need you to hear me and then understand.
With each passing day I wither and fade,...

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Athenian Epitaphs II

These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...

Now his voice is prisoned in the silent...

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Easy to be cruel
against sublime unitarian longings
stewed in outdoor green/blue sunshine
reproducing universal solitude belonging

Within this multiculturally hued
resilient solidarity
I likely feel compassion's warm 
win/win communication 
in/on...

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Huge bronze bells peel muffled engulfed by sea 
above unhearing in depths deaf to thee

drowned the dead the lost tsunami friends
not figuring quick and sharp...

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Ever wonder why a willow would want to weep
While dreams haunt you as you sleep
Somedays blur by
You try ,
But in doing what is  right,...

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As my legs grow into trunks and my arms into branches, the leaves of my leavings fall and sprout seeds among the grasses. 
Spreading my...

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Let me be a light
A beacon
A hope
For the sightless

Let me be a shelter
A home
A refuge
For the homeless

Let me be music
A song
A melody
For the unhearing

Let me...

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Write it on the window,
in big bold letters.

Write it on the wall, 
in wet black ink.

Spray it on the overpass,
in bright green graffiti.

Write it with...

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