Best Unnameable Poems
If I Knew, Then I'D Know
...Promises are made to be kept, though they are wrapped in a cocoon of razor wire.
The words that fall out of your mouth turn into insects, and are instantly
consumed by the reptiles. Everything co......
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Categories:
unnameable, change,
Form:
Concrete
Poets, Keeping the World Awake
..."My passion is to see poets' souls, brilliantly on fire!"... .P. Romios.
" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world!" Percy Bysshe Shelley, romantic poet
Without us being phony p......
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Categories:
unnameable, courage, encouraging, inspiration, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Open the Floodgates
...What strange cascades course down my spine -
invisible, unnameable, and as of yet, undiagnosed.
I only can liken them to rain or wind.
Sometimes they are as a shower -
pitter-pattering lightly do......
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Categories:
unnameable, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
The Streets of Childhood
...The streets I trod
As an innocent and naive child
Appeared as gold-paved and rosy-hued
And the brilliant light of optimism
Shone on all and everything,
Banishing worrisome dark shadows.
Only no......
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Categories:
unnameable, childhood, feelings, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
The Garden of the Heart
...Unnameable the moment when it starts
The sun goes turns black and flowers die on the stalk
The agony in the garden of the heart
Unnatural rhythms subvert accountants’ charts
Poor nestling......
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Categories:
unnameable, emotions, grief,
Form:
Villanelle
Virgo
...There is no dictionary large enough
to contain the words I need
to write this down. Virgo, child of doubt,
server of scars. My perfection is
a cracked pot that knows only questions
and voices hu......
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Categories:
unnameable, character, desire, growth, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Aura
...My face flushes and tingles as I near your presence, encountering that
unnameable feeling, giving off a palpable buzz of joy, an almost electric field that causes the hairs on my arms to stiffen lik......
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Categories:
unnameable, desire, love, lust, passion,
Form:
Verse
Scared To Death Of
...These things are passing
temporary in their afflictions of
to be dealt with in problematical
or carried a brick of sacks
slung this weight upon the back
to weigh a feathers heart
against soluti......
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Categories:
unnameable, death, life,
Form:
Free verse
Wilderness
...May i have your undivided wilderness?
Please. Some place where ‘me’ might lose
its self without forgetting what I am.
I know it exists because you exist,
& all those unnameable things that hide
......
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Categories:
unnameable, absence, growth, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Brain Injury Save Her From Further Suffering
...Karuna, a beautiful nurse with a mother’s heart
Used to take minute care of patients in her ward
In a Mumbai hospital
Her services to the patients befitting her name
Were full of compassion: ......
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Categories:
unnameable, pain, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
Unnameable Gate
...Looking around her at all of the strangers
doesn’t know where she is
doesn’t know the faces around her
and as their smiles turn into a horror
it’s in the currency of children
to the perversions ......
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Categories:
unnameable, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form:
Free verse
The Spell of the Outcast
...last I checked I wasn't one of you
I was ultimately and overarchingly one of me
apparently fortune had brought him to this instant
to the point of questioning fate hard
when the child is smarter ......
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Categories:
unnameable, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
An Unnameable Feeling In Two Parts
...I. Your ears, your eyes
Impact
My hands and the door knob
Still intact
No lightning
Just trying
To be or not to be
Frightening
I ask
Please don't worry
It’s writing
And nothing more
......
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Categories:
unnameable, anxiety, confusion, emotions, fear,
Form:
Free verse
Acquiescence Begets Hegemony
...Acquiescence begets hegemony...
Think Putin whose forename
Vladimir translates as great power,
whose singular minded aim
after lobbing bombs into
second-largest country
by area in Europe afte......
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Categories:
unnameable, abuse, anger, beautiful, city,
Form:
Rhyme
The Shadowbox
...In a box full of Shadows...
Dwell objects of Cryptic Imagery...
Through ancient Frosted glass...
Fractured like spider webs.
Creep items of the unknown or the forgotten.
From rusted gears of bro......
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Categories:
unnameable, allegory, corruption, death, dream,
Form:
Free verse