Best Unproven Poems

Huddled in Burton's doorway, head down,
the windblown rain at almost forty five degrees
soaking me from the knees downwards.
Reflecting on the paving, the red, amber and...

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I find it curious that people will debate the nature of God, with one side saying it is irrelevant as He doesn't exist and the...

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These chains of deceit that bind me to this hardwood seat. 
I bend and break the bars that confine, but they remain, like the haughty,...

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Intellectual peer pressure

The faces change from smiles to sneers
from effusive praises to contemptible jeers.
A man whose wisdom has been seen for years
now forced to face...

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I kiss your lips
I taste your soul
I feel the real you inside my soul
our spirits remix
you paint my lips with your taste, your breath, your...

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Kisses of symbiosis fuse, merge
and
condense
by luminous conjugation
of the unproven soul meiosis ...............

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The Queen's henchmen penetrate professionally the porous perimeter,
as a Phyrric victory I pacified your Lady's legion,
for both in the open,like charriots missing riders,decentralized command,the measure,
I,...

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His old hands were calloused from all the many years of work and toil.
   His life seemed to be his work and the...

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The mounting manifestation of your mistrust
Has been the source of the confusion that separates us

 
The asinine allegations that you hurl at me
Are only to...

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Just when life was getting back to normal. 
We get smacked with another load of bull. 
It dragged us in with strong magnetic pull. 
Removing...

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THE AMERICAN DILEMMA 
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



There was a time when the town crier spread the news
Terse, straight, unfiltered, unbiased with no personal views
Alas, those times...

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I don’t deserve
This kind of punch to my pride
You used your best left hook, uppercut and jab to my ego
Here desperately griping the corner of...

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I knew my ancestry and my dad was a joiner,
But verged on disowning my mum for labour,
Not married in history yet throbbing with spark, 
Love,...

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I talked with some children a while ago 
and asked what they were learning in school.
They were in the second grade or so.
I was surprised...

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Even after all the 
misogyny,
  That crap with
Monica Lewinski.

 Homophobia and 
No abortion.
  Congress and 
Political extortion.

  Too much racism,
And white-supremacy.
 ...

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