Best Unpolished Poems


Premium Member UNPOLISHED THINGS

Contentment isn’t something found  
in distant hills or future days.  
It lives in small, unpolished things  
the warmth of tea, a breath of wind,  
the grace of choosing this is enough.

The Unpolished Gem

Many men today will walk away 
from a plain rock that they may come across 
but unlike most men, I know that there's beauty within 
and will keep it while they suffer a loss. 
A diamond to most is reason to brag and to boast 
because it glitters and is lovely to see 
but I'll tell you what, a diamond uncut 
would be passed by most easily. 
A woman to me, is like a diamond you see 
men go for those that other men would like to meet 
but many a guy will pass right by 
a plain woman that is just as lovely and sweet. 
I've found that a plain woman can truly love a man 
so can an obese woman or what ever the case 
if men were truly smart, they'd search a woman's heart 
and not just look for a beautiful face. 
The beauty that men see could lead to treachery 
if true love is not involved 
to find a good women men must look for love not lust 
and truly love her, then their problems would be solved. 
A plain woman you see has inner beauty 
like a diamond that's trapped in a stone 
however, many men hunt a shine or nice body design 
wich is why many men are always alone. 
Let's just face the facts, unless this is how she acts 
there is no such thing as an ugly woman to me 
men, we should not judge in haste we all have different taste 
besides, ugliness is in the heart, not in what we see. 
All that glitters is not gold so I've been told 
therefore, I never judge a book by it's cover 
a woman with no shine could still be made mine 
and I wouldn't care how she looks to another. 
Women likewise, pass up on good guys 
for the handsomer men that they long to hold 
but they should look twice for there are men just as nice 
they are just harder to see, like burried gold. 
All men and women out there should take heed and take care 
of your love ones whether they are pretty to you or not 
for there's plenty of others who'll see the beauty in your lovers 
and will steal what you don't know you've got. 
So when out on a date or seeking a mate 
don't pass up the plain her or plain him 
look well before you leap, for that rock you don't keep 
could indeed be an unpolished gem. 
by 
Benjamin Macieo Davis 
ThePrinceofPoetry

Unpolished Art In the Middle of the Night

She runs with her sorrows and cools her forehead against a love that wont ever last.  Her high-chilled windows are stained with lies she'll tell just to have her way.  She pretends the hum of her engine is what makes her shake.   The people in her life keep moving and she's left wonderin' how people manage to keep existing when she herself is so still. 

There's no self preservation with her, it's cowardice and she'll convince herself it's not, but it's cowardice.   She'll never ignore those sexual advances towards her from men who sit beside her. 

Biting her nails with quickness, counting her dignity that she loss in her reflection, looking for herself in a face she doesn't recognize, and the men who sit across from her, she'll worry he'll hear her thoughts. 

Tells herself, I'm waiting, but she isn't good with promises she's made and whispered words are just pressed into her palms that are open.  I don't think she'll listen for me.  She forgot, I'm the clanging sound of the wheels on the track, the screech of the breaks as she pulls into another man's station.   She'll never listen for me because, well, I'm the hurricane that's bout to destroy her world.   I'm the voices that fill her car with those vanilla noises with a missing filling. 

She'll never listen for me.   Tells herself constantly, I'm waiting, but does she know I've stopped waiting for her at the end of the line?   I've stopped waiting for her train to pull into my station because when she's known in the dark, why wait for a train that never comes an wont ever stop when I'm not man?


Premium Member Unpolished Diamond

Inner beauty is
An unpolished diamond 
Sculpted by the vivencies 
Molding a new you
Passing the tests life presents
Like fire forged metal












10-13-2015

Unpolished Skies

if my tomorrow were to come
with unpolished skies
still my day would shine 
amidst thoughts of you

in this breadth 
of night's chill
i am wrapped
in the depths
of dreams
as they awaken
beneath the veils
of darkness

Premium Member Unpolished 7x7

I like you all unpolished 
the words around three a.m.
the rawest version of you 
when your words are pounding hard 
all chipped with rough broken phrases  
the fortress crumbled slowly 
softly your pain pricked my eyes.


Premium Member A Pile of Unpolished Words

High up, in her downy nest beside her, the drying eggshell rest,
Far away the warblers seek the worms. Far away looms the summer storms,
Like letters send news the newly born. The soldier happy midst nettle thorn,
Reads the letter from peaceful ways. Far from the clatter and din, close affray—
The thickets smeared in a brothers blood sworn to survive the war aflood;
Yet life renews in the quiet wood where sings a sparrow 'neath a leafy hood.
Where rain rivulets dripped from pouring skies, raining down like meteors upon the dragon flies,
The overlapping ringlets atop the welling mere, lessen as the skies grow ever clear,
Letting verging parents search for food, 'neath the fallen leaves and bramble-wood:
Will their eyes delight as home they alight? The stars shudder o’er war as envelopes night,
Silent the moon drifts upon the waving tide. Streaking silver light that truth divide.
What cause can make right the drear of war. The chick, her beak agape, wanting more—
The sparrow regurgitates from some endless core. The dying soldier promises his love evermore;
He clasp the letter, wishes things were better. Rolls peals of thunder from inclement weather—
The grove hides away father, mother, and child. The slake of war wanders forth ever wild.
Nature howls with thunder when she cries. War sees not her tearing eyes—

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