Best Unreasoned Poems

and reason fell to bed
as the yellow moon
climbed the Eastern bare-branch
trees.

and tendrils from a long-forgot fire
reached upward, skyward, starward
for what they could not grasp.

what they...

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The Discipline of Failure
By John Herlihy

There is a discipline to failure that no one can deny;
We are set up to fail miserably, by others on...

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You've heard it said... "follow your heart"
For relentless desire bleeds for craven want
Yet when indecision weighs on life's many parts
Those opposed abandon not incessant haunt...

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My first wife wanted more than I could give her, 
My work she told me robbed her of attention, 
All my energy focused on ‘provider,...

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The life of mature minds
is aid to all silly clowns
adorn life and silently binds
and blooms each face and efface each frown.

The bluster of emotions, floods...

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The church of the eyes
By Fatmir Terziu

Those just out of the egg,
The confused yellowings
Open their wings, take an unreasoned stance,
Only their mothers understand them. 

They...

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A stairway that leads to the white borders,
Of edges pointed where condensation forms.
Untainted transparency reflects the glaring Sun,
At the side cushions of white and brown
-...

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Your piercing blue eyes delightfully unman me.
Like red pomegranates are your lips unaffected 
By mine, yet O how I desire to be caressed
By them, and...

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Pushed up from stomach's abyssmal pit
Choked off cries, constraint deformed
Packed with panic's punches
Right here where words are formed
Throat cords tightly gripped
Resistance rules my holding back
While...

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Poetry to me is a very beautiful thing, 
It’s about your identity and community, 
About friends, family and kind feeling, 
And it’s about how you...

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Salivation of intent
mouth watering, ne'er extent
I must envision
in practice risk content!

Salvation must be real
or I am only spent
to chew away the corners
unreasoned with resent!

What is...

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To find solitude in a helpless mind
A silent new world from its judgment found
To ponder this curse unreasoned and blind
Anger is pressed when arguments abound
To...

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Your song resists the lyrics mine proclaims
by measured whispers begging Autumn’s reign

not drown this season with unreasoned pain
nor hobble Winter leaving April lame.

Just as the...

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Ok, I'm not paid to think (like the TV shouting heads), I have no real voice (vote), and certainly no credentials—but I'm as invested in...

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LITERARY FORM
the suspense
sealed
unexpected
   then unmasked
imitative
 with exploited variations

 influential concepts
innocence
  templated
remains
chronicled &experimental
intermittent
 yet ultimate
but
  seemingly discovered

an aspect unreasoned
yet
 pure
relevant &equivalent
ingenuous
daring&
yet defying
  cryptic interpretation

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter)...

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