Best Unlatch Poems
Dying Star
...
The stars will fade again this morning
They died a million years ago
As if to give a little warning...
you've lost your way back home
You left me here without a fire
as if desire has tur......
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Categories:
unlatch, lost love, sad love,
Form:
Lyric
Poet Can You See
...Look at the stars, look at how they shine for you and everything you do - Coldplay - Yellow
Do you ever realize how powerful your words are
what feelings you bring forth
and, the sum o......
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Categories:
unlatch, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Mama's Kodak
...I hold in my hand Mama's old fold-up Kodak
In its steel-blue case shut with a tiny curved silver latch.
I carefully unlatch it, watch the worn-out flaky bellows
Extend like an unwelcome, nonfuncti......
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Categories:
unlatch, kid, memory, mother,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Mother Nature's Way
...
In ancient mythology the Apple is one of the most sacred trees. Symbolizing good health and future happiness. Since ancient times it has also been known as the 'Tree of Love' asso......
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Categories:
unlatch, appreciation, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
The Well
...Falling deeper in the well
No rope long enough to catch me
No key strong enough to unlatch me
No light to help me see
Breathing slower as I swallow
Too much water pulls me under
Too much ligh......
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Categories:
unlatch, lonely, loss, solitude, truth,
Form:
Lyric
Parents and Child Reunion As Adults
...Fledging child grows to unlatch
to turn back on parents, to find own way.
Child's hand uncupped, snapped away, rebellious.
But in time, parents and child reunite
as adults with a differen......
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Categories:
unlatch, children, parents, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Otherside of the Door
...Do Not Open the Door-
Merely because someone or something is on the other side.
There is no—Back to the Future...
NO redo’s’—cannot always simply just close the door.......
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Categories:
unlatch, america, care, change, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Masked Marauder
...The raccoon is a burglar …
There’s no door he can’t unlatch.
Baby hand-prints in the butter?
You can bet Raccoon’s found that!......
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Categories:
unlatch, animals, children, funny
Form:
Epigram
My Secret Garden
...My Secret Garden
I unlatch the gate to my secret garden
Take a step on the emerald green grass beneath my bare feet
As I breathe in the early morning scents
I watch the orange rays rise over ......
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Categories:
unlatch, anxiety, bird, change, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Unlatch
...I love by latching on too tightly; I thought I could hold you in the palm of my hand for awhile, the way I used to catch the wind, or tried to, when I was small. Hands hungry and determined, I placed......
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Categories:
unlatch, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Portrayal of My Grandmaa and Her Room
...I see a beam of light coming from the little hole of the broken window
I sit alongside the window & stretch my hand to unlatch it
It creaks when I struggle to open it
It is my grand maa’s partially ......
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Categories:
unlatch, age, family, grandparents, mountains,
Form:
Free verse
A Hovel In the Woods
...I stumbled on a hovel in the woods
Dug in a foothill roofed with mossy shakes.
Inside, its furthest wall was made of stones
Piled high to make a chimney and a hearth.
Two stovepipes served as dra......
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Categories:
unlatch, analogy, loneliness,
Form:
Blank verse
Paranoid
...Guarded and closed off, that's what he knows best
It just takes a noise to peak his interest
Don't bother to knock, 'cause he won't letcha in
Caution encloses the world he lives in
Four c......
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Categories:
unlatch, dark, fear, trust,
Form:
Ballad
Labyrinths of Baggage
...Baggage within
trappings of illusions,
love packed away
in neat little compartments
gathering cobwebs at
makeshift improvisations,
dusting intermittently
if by chance a li......
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Categories:
unlatch, conflict, heartbreak, hope, hyperbole,
Form:
Light Verse
A Winters Tale
...The bones of winter cracked the ice black, coal black night.
A hoary wind spits frost crystals that dazzle and blur the sight.
Boney fingers of bare deciduous wood, scratch against the eaves
as th......
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Categories:
unlatch, christmas, december, humanity, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme