Best Unrest Poems

UNREST OF SPIRIT

I suffered an unrest of spirit
When informed by the local law
That I could be arrested for violation 
Of the restraining order I saw

I accepted it with heartbreak
But quickly changed it to prayer
The deputy was surprised by this
He expected to leave me in despair...

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She ran herself ragged working her fingers to the bone 
for she didn't want to think about him nor be left alone 
her feelings were a phantom mirror of her spectre self  
torn by grief, she had no choice but to face herself .......

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Unrest

Another panic attack
Brain’s dial stuck on whack
Search for the balance
There is no turning back

Cannot affect my whole day
All the ways I convey
How I get lost in perception 
Oh, how my thoughts stray

I seek inner harmony 
Thoughts with grounded symmetry
Once I lose the uneasiness in my...

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Footsteps where they should not be.
Is this, in fact, insanity?
Or might it be reality?

She to whom I gave my vow,
often spurned my bed with a scowl,
then to the taverns she would prowl.

I sought her out to make a stand,
but found her with another man.
I returned...

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a chastushka

Civil noncompliance like whiskey
ages slow with pressure until...
Laws that render conscience risky
should be labeled a reflux still....

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Unwary and unwise

                             Unfortunate abuse

            ...

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Bellicose banter
between brass and bent woodwind
in rival rhythm....

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Before I gave the judge my guilty plea
and turned a fable into honesty,
I thought of all I’d miss for ninety days
while patched in pumpkin orange and dwelling grays;

this I’ll confess: unrest confined my crime
and forced my will on unsuspecting time,
until my mother’s weekly visit came;
until...

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My soul cries deep within me
Will ever it find some peace
What is it that it longs for
Why can I just not sleep
The claws of eagles grab me
And take me to the sky
Their talons rip into me
Don’t hear my body cry
Dungeons and the blackness
Hang to me...

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Unrest makes you uneasy.
It makes you tired, depressed.
If that's all you think about,
It robs you of your rest.

It makes it so that you can't sleep,
Because you're filled with worry.
Your health begins to go downhill.
You get old in a hurry.

When you dwell on trouble,
On things that...

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Unrest of Spirit
Lead Laden Broken Heart

Hammered heart’s fragments, lead laden, 
falling deeply in abyss.
Down to the rock bottom, 
life completely … amiss.

Shaft of ‘incandescence’ light rays, 
filter into dark hole.
Fragments slowly begin to rise,
returned … completely whole.

Unrest of Spirit
Dec. 6, 2018
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When the poets fall silent Man will not only lose his voice but also the notion of Life. ~Suzette Richards

Steeped in the pain of his slain countryman, 
surrounded by the turmoil of real fears 
which lay exposed on the stone-cold tarmac, 
a poet dipped his...

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Let's do dinner tonight at the Covid 19, the hottest new restaurant in town.
We won't need a face mask, we'll sit with a crowd and dine on Pandemic Stew.
We'll start with a creamy White Supremacist Broth served with Storm Trooper 
Croutons
And then there's a cocktail...

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My palms are growing wet
Sweat has covered my trigger
Night and day in enemies nest
Operating like battalions of mere singers.

I fight 21st century with 20th century bullets
Blood on my face, wounds yielding deeper
In shattered body my brethren in uniform rest
Unjust funding makes our defence wall weaker.

Father,...

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I am refreshing as a cool summer breeze that blows down from the mountains. 
I am a great childhood memory as grandma's ice tea and buttered toast. 
I am good times_sunny days at the beach with the finest of friends; a fun day of running...

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