Best Unplumbed Poems

The garden of love
Hearts that grow from nothing
Is it possible ?
Silver light has woven my dreams

At the sight of beauty
Life is power and breath
Laughin’, spinnin’, swingin’ all day

Chasing butterflies and bees
Oh, I love the silence that so many want to break
Unplumbed and infinity gently to...

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The velvet sky was strangely quiet...
    The Earth still and hushed beneath my feet.
No mountains groaned, no crumbling stone
    Giving voice to my defeat.
The lake... calm and placid like mirrored glass...
    Not a ripple to be...

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The azure ocean, home to the embedded enormous incomprehensible riches of mysteries and riddles,
More than the Mars, lies unfathomed, underneath the conundrum of oceanic colossal rhythms. 

From the The Milky Sea Phenomenon, a sight captured as bioluminescence illusion,
The Purple Orb of the ocean floor of...

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Written: September 12, 2023
Ocean Poetry Contest                               Sponsored by: Ink Empress
“The sea is an underwater museum...

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Birth of A Poem

What can be done with these pedestrian morsels?
I have tasted unformed clay before.

Phrases plead to be thrown into
the redeeming realm of manifestation.

Pushing to be metaphoric,
they will arise and come to me.

From some unplumbed soliloquy.
 

Kathryn Collins
February 25, 2014...

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"The Call of the Grimoire" 


when Exalibur was retrieved 

from the rock, then foolishly 
and irretrievably lost 
in that dreadful battle most worthless

the imps encouraged 
the once good Poesie folk 
to jeer and throw pebbles

the Raven looked 
on with the eyes of a wolf 
black...

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Spectrums, Tints and Shades

Like the painter’s palette awash with hues and tones – white to tint and black to shade, greys scattered in between: 

What risks we run:
Shaving a little too close that we get the hair as well as the scalp; 
Shoving the pot...

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Raven

He riffled through his thoughts erecting a wall;
black eyes from unplumbed depth of shifting sea.
Gray as gray, as the raven mocks and pin
with a withering look a prostrate pawn.
Impotent to think of anything at all
other than him on this ghostly bleak night.

His breath a combustion...

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They’ve hauled me into the parlour,
secure in terracotta packed with soil,
to sit awhile before my ritual humiliation.
Soon I will be baubled,
showy, gaudy, tinselled –
the court jester who will keep them
smiling through their feast –
and burdened with things that dangle,
like a tart’s cheap earrings,
and those little...

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To only achieve one’s aim is surely
A deficient definition
Success is a simple word 
With unplumbed depths
It raises unanswered questions
Of what and why and how
Is this a noble quest at all?
Why fret about success?
I’m left wandering in the wilderness
Wondering about motive
Maybe if I allow love to...

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I love to read Charles Bukowski
My Brother, Bill could have written like him
Sitting at a rust-leg old table in that fractured rectangle
     above a liquor store
               ...

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Beautiful words uttered softly to me 
Equal the elegant cerulean sea 
In loveliness and tranquility 

The point of turning sees the tide flow back in time 
To places of the heart, yet, unexplored 
And depths unplumbed, desires ignored 

When cold as deepest sea, frozen as...

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Today, just we, just you and me

no others on this earth to see 

did feel and breathe and taste and know 

each here and there of each of us
 
and so

we did become that simplest most unplumbed of sums.

One 

plus one 

makes one.

And though,

our unity's...

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He towers as tall as the tallest tree,
wide as the lateral branches extend,
black eyes from unplumbed depth of shifting sea. 
His breath, fire behind clouds strength to suspend 
or expel like a dragon's reservoir.
He has saved from centuries in his heart
the sounds, smells, and sights...

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A sweet broad smile, a million tears behind,
Aching heart invisible, so is the distressed mind,
Disgust and repulsion, the soul is shuddered, 
Repose follows a burst out, tears on the wind !

Priceless pearls rolled down rosy cheeks,
Lost in unplumbed depths of the seas,
Sobbing heart, any ocean...

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