Best Unsettled Poems

While whispers shush on sheltered shores, as soon the cockcrow quakes,
the seas descry a skittish sky, sense summer zephyrs wake  –
roused passions neath the...

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Welcome to my ----- life
A beautifully broken aura
             Unsettled flakes
   ...

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My mind is a puzzle of cryptic metaphors.
whilst searching for my sanity,
I've become my own worst enemy.
In this cauldron of despair,
time is like sand in...

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My prayers are not asking you to
 
save me from my enemy.
 
My children have turned their backs.
 
They praise dance with many
 
Adversaries-
 
When...

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Locked up, shackled, tied down and chained 
Feeling empty, exhausted, used up and drained
Your heart unsettled with its flickering flame
Probing for answers in life's little...

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On better days, On better nights

 before wide blue yonder

 turned into a black widow spider

Have we met , Have we painted a blank canvas

Have...

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O ever changing sky, blue-gray and maudlin
your mood and unsettled ways, meld with mine.
Clouds seem but blemishes upon horizons
as weary as the soot smudged cheeks...

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Not complaining, choosing  to flow with the breeze
Not complaining, finding true thanks on my knees
Not complaining, no one promised me easy
Not complaining, grooving on...

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laden in the semblance of the lifeless
i curled my mind, nesting in the umbrage
of memories that haunt more than touch
unable to soar within the wind's...

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i feel the fear
drip from worried brows
as i close my eyes
to dreams

memories haunt
like unsettled souls
trying to find their way
somewhere

beneath the shadows
of darkness
footsteps carry
down the sidewalks
with...

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Quiescence 2-6-24
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Quiescent

Snowfall resonates in unison’s octaves,
 In low tones of falling flakes’ pink vibrations,
Waterfalls of snowflakes in gentle billows
Pulse in halcyon – 
The resting heartbeat...

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Everything around me is still
The soft lights ward off the cold
My worried heart is unsettled
Every minute makes me old

Time seems to drag on and on
Not...

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 Half my soul shadows his reflection

leaving me with silent voices and vacant thoughts

But the other half , the other half lies hidden .Hidden...

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I've startled a frog, who leaps in flashes.
He and a grasshopper zig-zag away.
The lawn whispers mildly, in tune with the sun,
Yet something's amiss--the air is...

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As the sun awakens the forest,
   I ascend the faded trail.
   A doe and her fawn spring,
   startled by...

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