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Unobtainable Love
There is a beauty that covers with clouds.
But even cries of help don't reach its careful sound.
Entreat and persist and it'll have you blocked.
Money and...

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Categories: unobtainable, beauty, emotions, life, men,
Form: Limerick



Her Heart Is Unobtainable
Her heart is unobtainable
She haunts me in my sleep
My will is not sustainable
There's nothing left to keep

I've seen Her in my better dreams
But, they're too...

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Categories: unobtainable, anxiety, desire, feelings, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love's Intention
Love's Intention

Intention leads us to 
     spiritual revelations,
Serene contemplation 
     of becoming one 
with the colors of...

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Categories: unobtainable, inspirational love, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Free verse
She Clarifies Bacon Grease
she clarifies bacon grease 
to make the popcorn
once it is in the bowl 
add seasoning with butter
a tad of garlic, sea salt, sugar
the layers of...

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Categories: unobtainable, devotion, i love you,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Immolation
"Immolation"



I move into you 
like a roaring Queensland Summer
You’re overtaken by heat, yet think I’m unobtainable

I’m too far away

A grown-arsed man 
owns the footsteps he...

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Categories: unobtainable, life, love, muse,
Form: Free verse



Linger
Why should one linger on futile desires  
That simply manifests to despondence  
Prospects markedly dire by fate's decree  
Sans prudence, this foolhardy...

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© Jay Ojano  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unobtainable, loneliness,
Form: Sonnet
The Cigarette Smoking
The cigarette Smoking
When I lived in Britain that place where refugees in Calais 
try to hide in a lorry for the crossing to the promised...

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Categories: unobtainable, abuse, blessing, celebration, depression,
Form: Sonnet
One Day
One day - a beauty, a blessing, a boon.
One day - a promise, a prospect, a pledge.
At times a faint hope of the unobtainable,
at times...

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Categories: unobtainable, day, desire, future, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Kickball
In your spectacles, 
Should I try them on. 

I see more than I 
Want, what I need
Is your labido. 

Caressing my 
Insides are you 
Family...

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Categories: unobtainable, angst, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Tis Rap
Intro: ×4

I've got something in my head
  (In my head) 

Rap:

feeling you're winning is a feeling you're losing
and winning is the feeling losing is...

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Categories: unobtainable, rap,
Form: Sonnet
Roses & Thorns
im all alone and thats the way it should be
because no one was good enough to try and tame me
so sit back and relax and...

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Categories: unobtainable, hope, life, loss, love,
Form: Lyric
Phoenix Immortal
Mass of red and gold plumage
blood of supreme incessant immortality flows within
Only I alone can reign stronger
a fortiori
than the army of any man or beast
Symbolic...

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Categories: unobtainable, adventure, animals, death, education,
Form: Free verse
My Black Skinned Knees
My black Skinned knees 
I woke up to this misty gloomy morning 
with a scene setting unobtainable dream
a dream of impregnable God given justice
shared in...

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Categories: unobtainable, abuse, business, celebrity, international,
Form: Bio
Luck
Luck is a sham
Created by those
Who hope against hope
That our dreams will come true
But accomplishing is created by doing
And wishes and wants
Are unobtainable if made...

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Categories: unobtainable, angel, anger, baptism, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Time
Time crawls by as your living one event
And time won’t speed up for it to go by
Then once it has past and  you look...

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Categories: unobtainable, deep, emotions, time,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs