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Below are the all-time best Unmanned poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of unmanned poems written by PoetrySoup members


Soliloquy of Abandoned Lighthouse

O hear I chant clinging to a sullen northern shore,
tempestuous serene rocky beach that you so adore,
sultry soliloquy sturdy stifled structure sings,
a witness of forgotten...

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Categories: unmanned, hope, light, loneliness, ocean,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The View From Up Above
From high above the mighty eagles soar
and gaze with teary eyes upon the land;
a proud and peaceful nation thrived, before 
the bombs began to fall...

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Categories: unmanned, evil, horror, war,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
An Art of Breathing
What loathesome burden wears your weary heart
a trinket on a cold and hoary hand?
And in its dark tide drowns the cheery part
to keep you bound,...

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Categories: unmanned, introspection
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Lion Within
I've walked barefoot through boiling sand, you don't even know.
Tried many times to grasp your hand, you don't even know.

To letters written then burnt; signals...

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Categories: unmanned, anxiety, emotions, fear, feelings,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Buried In the Sand
A beggar clump adorns a dump, his pencil box in hand -
With sightless eyes upon the skies he’s lying there unmanned.

He’s fallen down in Shantytown,...

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Categories: unmanned, life, social,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Never Land Part 4
A sodden dreg with wooden leg is dancing for a dime,

to sacred psalms and other balms, all ticking with the time.

He’s 22, he’s almost through,...

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Categories: unmanned, fantasy, universe,
Form: Rhyme
The Deep Ocean of the Mind
THE DEEP OCEAN OF THE MIND


The warm pebbles touch  my foot,  my sole,
In the turbulent shallows of tide  and wave.
My waking ...

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Categories: unmanned, allegory,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 23
We are hours into the mountain riverway, the current unfriendly to us
paddling earlier had simply strained the men to burning exhaustion, 
those who have the...

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Categories: unmanned, adventure, love,
Form: Epic
Through the Valley
They have been hiking  for a lifetime  landing upon harsh rocks and dry land, 
ragged and torn battered and bruised they are not...

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Categories: unmanned, dream,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Tears of Youth
Tears of a child so wet and free
Sometimes sad others glee
Comforted by a Mothers' touch
A hug a kiss assured a hush
And when not a youth...

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Categories: unmanned, inspiration,
Form: Ballad
Dan of the Land
There's a man named Dan of the Land
His poems humorous, never bland
With a flick of his wrist
He writes prose with a twist
From a mind that...

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Categories: unmanned, funny, life, people,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Twentynet'60s-W
Venera one
Mission Venus
Yuri Gagarin on Vostok
First man in Space.
Mars One
First woman
Valentina Tereshkova.
In space.
Leonev’s ten-minute walk in space.
An unmanned Soviet Craft Luna Nine
Soft landing
On moon
The first...

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Categories: unmanned, science, science fiction,
Form: Verse
As the Crow Flies
As the crow flies

I died. No child under nipple. No child under bib.
I died. Without ever having loved or been in love.
I died as the...

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Categories: unmanned, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Puzzle
A piece of ocean next to trees and sand
Scattered across treated mahogany. 
Across a face, and a ship now unmanned,
And rolling waves, fingers trip sloppily.
Splitting...

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Categories: unmanned, beach, boat, games, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Silent Sentinal
How many ship wrecks have you seen
off our Irish shores?
How many fishermen sank to the bottom,
After pulling hard on oars?

When fierce tempests gather,
you send out...

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Categories: unmanned, death, fishing, storm,
Form: Rhyme

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