Best Unmixed Poems

I read it so, the Bread of Life
without discourse, without contrive
did lighten, nourish, so arrive
that building up, to merit, live ~

That in my lines
I found your strife
did so surround with beauties hive
that honey of discourse revive!

This leavening of love's requiet,
that injured particle, that pride,
that unaccomplished...

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Written: January 23, 2024
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Behold tinsel atop snow-capped mountains, 
Where towering walls of gathered ice rise high. 
Celestial waves flow into boiling fountains, 
And flying, thawing spice...

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In a strange way, this love cannot be named or understood.
It’s sacred yet resisting of all rational reasoning and integrity.
A love that is so pure with an intense spiritual connection of my soul with your soul.
A love of minds from opposite sex, yet free and...

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By your red scars you crucified the moving stars
By your thorns you crucified the entire world
By your dolour you crucified the world-ruler

Jesus cried loudly “Why have you forsaken me”

Through your bloodiness you destroyed our drunkenness
Through your painfulness you restored all the fullness
Through your blood drainage...

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I love my balloon
My big balloon
My blue balloon
My ball balloon.

How playful it is
Without it something I miss
The joy, the gaiety
The buoyancy and elasticity.

The spur of celebration
The moment of glorification
Of excitement and passion
Relieved me from the tensions

My burlesque balloon
My bright balloon
My brisk balloon
My brilliant balloon

The balloon...

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When but a child the world seems set in stone.
Too soon this cozy surety fades and dies;  
And verities, like passing clouds, are flown, 
Confusing right with wrong and truth with lies:

The ground’s no longer firm beneath our feet. 
What once was bedrock now...

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ON  PREDICTIONS
        ( by  S.Jagathsimhan  Nair)
What  paths and brambled brooks I passed to halt
In this corny beat, to question my salt
What transcends this sum and what spills over
This reminder as scowling recompense
What more in...

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There is a vast domain,
Grounded on a golden land;
There the immortals remain,
And those who in holiness stand.

Once I reminisce on the pure realm
Beyond the shadows peep
Where beings in white apparel swiftly touch
My sovereign bids me to natter
Of how mortal there must occupy
In eternal bliss
Where the...

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Dubem, without a doubt in me

Understanding the feminine

Because - there's no other me

Emotions, climbs-heart on nine

Must those dreams kill you?.

Ojukwu, you can feel desires

Juxtapose, oh! Our dear hearts

Unmixed feelings or ires 

Kwanzas for you,from my arts

Would love to catch your crazies

Uptights within, crucifies frenzies....

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I broke the dozen eggs 
I bought a few weeks ago. 
Only two of them are badly reddish. 
My eyes are fixed on the good ones. 
I forget to turn the stove on 
As Eileen's face appeared 
From the back side of my brain. 
I...

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To this point, I have been; my present being grows out of my yesterday; and I am in a constant state of ever becoming, ever realizing that I am not the master of my fate, but indeed, I have a Master who Masters me.

My parents...

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To MOM; March 11,1979
This is the story of an animal trainer,
Whose mettle and courage, couldn't be plainer. 
A search'd reveal if you'd care to explore, 
None greater exists than El Eleanor.
She's faced the very meanest big game
And transformed them all , smiling and tame.
There's Big...

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How splendorous is your arrival, dear autumn!
How bright like the very gold and diamond mixed! 
What, exactly, is in your little heart's bottom?
The physique and psyche of the summer are fixed...!

As a groom escorted by his boys and girls adorned,
As the interiors of a shrine...

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Raw 
Intelligence…
Like dry 
Cement
Sitting unmixed
Never used
To make 
Anything 
Real

Raw 
Intelligence…
A flashing
Neon light
To its own 
Potential
Bulbs
Burning out
One at a time

Raw
Intelligence…
Its shadows
Forever littered
Along a
Lost and 
Forgotten
Past tense
Alleyway

Raw
Intelligence…
Like shards of
Glass
In the maelstrom
Reflecting a story
Of what 
Might
Have been

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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Flowers are wheat 
Flour is draught 
Unmixed it flies 
Mixed it builds up 
Bread for its eaters 
Two hands divide 
Unity in diversity 

© John Chinaka Onyeche...

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