Best Unremembered Poems

In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...

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Romantic Reflections

Gone now are those halcyon days,
Days we spent by sunny shore.
You are gone now and in my haze,
Reflections make me miss you more.

I hear...

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Past unconcerned hens that distractedly 
Scratch
Under frowning protestations from the
Sheltered Lee;
Into the cloaked shadows lain across the 
Cobbled courtyard,
Behind which squats the twisted form of
The...

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When you are here
All hopes, dreams and ambitions disappear;
Drowned in your eyes when I hold your hand,
Unremembered now that I understand.
For you perplex my mind...

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For One Moment

An aging actress
Standing on the stage
Her legs are withered and weak
Her looks have disappeared with age
She has played a thousand roles
Harlot, mother, daughter...

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"untitled"

my first poem - words unremembered - was for a boy I'll never forget

Oct. 3, 2020 for JCB Burl's How My First Poem Was Born...

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Easter 2

Easter Dresses Unremembered

I bought a new dress, no not for Easter,
Though it started my mind to wandering,
To Easters ago, ago.

Wandering like a pointer finding
Just...

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There is on a green hill, a winding road, 
Where September golden rods are blooming, 
Even the sandy path bears reflections 
A line of fence...

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There's an old red beach ball stuck in the rafters of the haunted hotel pool. It's been there for the 7 long years, I've been...

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Forgotten lie the graves of the forsaken, 
long unremembered, strangled 
by the grasses of neglect. 
Misbegotten, forever mute they fester, 
worm-mingled, mercy less, 
with no...

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Broken, Cold, Empty, Devoid of hope
These are the forgotten generation
These are the few who stood up
The young that fell for such a cause

Lost, scarred, unremembered,
These...

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It need not rhyme, it need not flow
It need no essence of truth
Just proliferate, exaggerate
And be sure to convolute
With flexous and circuitous jargon, fruiton soon...

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It is the awakening.
After long dreamless sleep, my time has come again.
Through endless cycles of  night and day, of heat and cold
I have lived...

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as fog comes creeping
a wind screams through the graveyard. . . 
the night frightened white

leaves on ground scatter
around unremembered graves. . . 
the shivering trees

high...

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There’s a story I heard of a famous lost chord,
although why it was lost and just who did the losing,
true or not, perhaps no one...

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