Best Unless Poems

Because I needed to find out
 ~ not just feel it.
So I took a dive into the depth of my being,
  there I found her ~ my soul.
Alone, floating in a dim bottomless space 
with her head bends down low, 
but upon sensing my...

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Life without purpose is barren indeed.
There can’t be a harvest unless you plant the seed.
There can’t be attainment unless there’s a goal.
Ask Jesus to forgive you for your trespasses so He can cleanse your soul.
If we send no ships out, no ships will come in,...

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Tempting it is to end it all
Overwhelming depression, Nothing but a normal day
Will I ever be able to put it down
The blade that has become my passage
To not a home nor place at all
But a moment trapped in time to relive
Clinging to life like a...

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It wouldn't be Christmas unless there's lots of snow,
Nor would it be Christmas without sprigs of mistletoe!
What would Christmas be without jolly old Saint Nick,
And Ralphie's "A Christmas Story", that all-time classic flick!

What would Christmas be without a tree with shining lights,
And carolers singing "Silent...

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Never let your sheep go out, unless he's with a friend
For many sheep who walk alone come to a sticky end
Because a woolly bleat for help won't reach the police
Who are not resourced anyway to save a woolly fleece.

What happens to them? Who can tell?...

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Unless…
        by Odin Roark

Seems just yesterday the sun arced
Over precarious ice
The street’s one elm
Leaned its naked branches with the wind Bringing winter’s announcement

A Coney Island cat crouched puzzled
Gradual crusting snow layering
The boardwalk a ribbon of white awaiting the...

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Unless the Lord Builds the House…

Think about what’s happening in churches today.
It seems like many just want to “socialize and play.”

Many are encouraged to come just as they are.
Whether they come from nearby, or from a far.

Many are weighed down with sinful addictions.
And are often...

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Christmas do not arrive unless we allow our hearts to be flooded by love for others!







(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
     30 November 2016...

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My finger throbbed, sliding red water splashing upon the slick topography, it was almost impossible to hide the laceration from these half-breed hybrids. Horns and ties, flesh costumes and ash shoes these monsters shifted between frames of realm breathers and daemonic vampirism. Cold cropped stares...

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What will be will be, can't change the inevitable
Things progress as they should, remaining stable
Unless of course
You're a horse
Because to think rationally, you're not able...

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Hope is not hopeless unless it's gone
Lost is not lost unless it's found
Where is the lightening 
And there's no energy fire

I am deaf yet hear the sounds

Hope is not hopeless unless it's gone

Love is not love if you just say it
Hearts will not beat...

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Would it matter if he knows you
better than you know yourself?
That when you go flying off the edge
He’s there pulling you up in a harnessed-ledge

Would it matter if he majors your life’s history?
That even if he could write a book, 
He chooses to pursue a...

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the timing's always wrong
so i press the mute button
and keep the silence to myself
believing nobody's interested
convinced nobody cares

what's deep within the well
will stay there for eternity
unless of course... i write my poetry
and cast it to the winds



AP: 3rd place 2022

Posted on June 14, 2022...

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In response to Rudyard Kipling's poem, IF.


Unless I see the future of what is to become of me,
Unless I forget the past and think of the future;
I can make allowance for the life I am living now;
Unless I see the difference between life and death,
I...

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No lentil beans before bedtime unless...
(alternately titled: unrelenting flatulence)

Ya wanna count bajillion sheep,
but tween gluteus maximus powerful
natural gas explosions during sleep
(ass suspected source) – courtesy missus
she served me lentil beans piled outsize heap

sinister been off fish shunt ploy
spouse I may no longer keep,
cuz dream house...

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