Best Unsettle Poems

The mist fell over the lake like a grey blanket.
Only the sound similar to a ranket*
The water still and lifeless, not a ripple to be seen.
The air not foetid but fresh and clean.

And I felt a chill from the loss forever of my Bill.

Sitting in...

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Tell me, my friend,  
does infinity not unsettle your reason,  
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?  

Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—  
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you imagine.  
This is the marrow of things,  
...

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Banks o' Doon
by Robert Burns
modern English translation by Michael R. Burch

Oh, banks and hills of lovely Doon,
How can you bloom so fresh and fair;
How can you chant, ecstatic birds,
When I'm so weary, full of care!
You'll break my heart, small warblers,
Flittering through the flowering thorn:
Reminding me...

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The dust hovering just above their souls
A journey lay dormant awaiting to recoil
Through their dead skin these footprints dwell
Is my rhythm a curse from some ancient spell?

I lived as a blind bat in pockets of dark air
Between sunrise and sunset, in a vacuum of fear
The...

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anguish overflows


pouring thoughts 
into a legitimacy

I had been told 

best left not to unsettle
what has been imposed


but that corrosive tolerance
will slow drip life if left seeded 


a door that had guarded 
a frail lock 
began to creak open


I ran fingers of my mother 
through my...

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Someday, maybe
I will be unshakeable
unmovable
steadfast-

I tell myself.

So secure in
myself and the
present moment and
all the little minuscule things
that I control

That nothing and no one
will ever shake me up
unsettle or disturb me
ever again...

Like a monk
breathing out, breathing in
sheltered in stillness
empty of self and
full of wholesome mantras
tranquility and
peace-

I...

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Underground rivers unsettle thoughts,
feelings on stable ground.

Real estate doesn't sound as real
with thoughts of hyporheic flow
beneath our feet,
out of sight and sound.

Rivers are meant to have light on top,
transparency.
Underground flow must look more like a furtive capillary
than an upfront tributary,
bringing salvific moisture
down into and across...

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In the twilight, it seems to be so lonely, depressing and emotional. Thoughts seem to be forgotten and unsettle. My canton doesn't feel the same anymore. I arise with pain threw my entire bag of bones. The house , so clammed up. It doesn't utter...

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The past got a wet way of coming back
to unsettle the present
	with haunting future dreams
Who moistened the bed
with such troublesome memories?
There are dark terrors in the night
for the children 
of those whose fathers ignited the fright
Colonialism terrorism days
are washing back on the European shores
Time has...

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Advance and dance towards destiny
Galumph
Defy the lie and cry of scrutiny
Triumph 

Over hurdles seen and unseen
Drive and dive to arrive
At the intersection where a queen
Awaits your appearance as you strive

To breach odds stacked against success
Meant to land in caloused hands
That have toiled and moiled to...

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He has a caring heart, he has the passion 
He came to his own, his own accepted him 
He came to render selfless service to his people 
The burden is upon his solder, he's ready to bear it 

He set the vision and he is...

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After the spooky night 
there was the 
morphean balm.

You pull out the meat 
from the bones.
A genteel confession-

keeps tumbling out.
The haunted house
sends forth the tiny ghosts.

It was moon time.
You will drop a torpedo-
to unsettle the stray thoughts.

The geometry
falters. Lines are drawn
to remove the dots.

The skin...

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The evenings cool became tempered.
 The dreams made light of the day
 There in shadows were fearful things
 Yet the light shone brightly in the room

What is it I asked that things are unbalanced
 A journey into thoughts, I heard echoing
 The day had been...

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I came to you with open arms
fell in love with all your charms
before they turned a witch's brew
with open arms, I came to 

passion can hide the truth of things
an evil heart and what it brings
when hearts of light and dark collide
the truth of things...

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To a Louse
by Robert Burns
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hey! Where're you going, you crawling hair-fly?
Your impudence protects you, barely;
I can only say that you swagger rarely
Over gauze and lace.
Though faith! I fear you dine but sparely
In such a place.

You ugly, creeping, blasted wonder,
Detested, shunned by...

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