Best Unsettling Poems

      The Earl of Sandwich

        etiquette … revolution…

          finger-lickin’ good
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The sight of this bourgeois, career politician/businessman

(A so-called liberal, no less)

Seated high on the dais at the all candidates meeting,

Looking down on his constituents.


Trying to look as human as possible,

He's wearing his best crocodile smile tonight.

And no matter how hard he tries to look harmless,

He...

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I just can’t get over this unsettling feeling
 That has my spirit reeling
I just cannot get over this unsettling feeling
That keeps me yearning
If someone had hit me with a stone
Then I would have taken the blow and groan
If someone had hit me with a piece...

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Oddly unsettling,
how The UnHolonic Spirit compels conservative,
defensive feelings
of autonomous ego-righteousness
when we see our physically healthy robust selves
elitely privileged,
maybe even aristocratically WinLose kleptocratic
as short-term necessary
for ego's Business As Usual convenience.

The Yang-expedient violent communicator,
Creator of WinLose GetReal natural systems,
privileged predator success
over non-elite prey,
failing myth-tellers,
perpetual provokers,
defenders of privileged...

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~ Welcome to 2022 ~

A time of conventional and possibly nuclear war
  where no one can be sure what each side stands for

A time of global power struggles and shifting alliances
  in which the old world order cannot be relied on

A time of...

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The sky is unsettling tonight...
we need rain
I know this--
but why so much thunder
and lightning?
 
I understand searing science--
yet somewhere deep inside my primitive
the spirit and myth
make more sense.......

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Spent an hour on ****
Deep inside, I am torn
I feel mind-controlled again
Wondering where you been...

Reality is so unsettling...dispelling 
Fantasy is where I'm truly dwelling
My conscience is empty
No one cares apparently 

Sex with you was something I didn't want
The voices in my head, they seem to...

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Women look at us with unsettling eyes, undulating like the sea in a summer storm,
Hiding within their depths a universe of dreams, entwined with longing and starry glimmers,
We wonder, what do we desire, to be travelers, lost on paths of love,
Where the soul leaves its...

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Unsettling premonition kickstarts fiendish abomination

Consider the following 
dogmatic, enigmatic, fantastic, 
idiotic, jargonistic, kimetic, linguistic,  
narcissistic, opportunistic,
poetic, quixotic, rhapsodistic, 
scholastic, transformistic, 
universalistic agglomeration
as an abbreviation
overactive imagination
wrought demonic manifestation

unaware reading dictionary
could engender garrison housing
Century 21 ghostly conjuration
paranormal shenanigans this
Lake Wobegon resident
grudgingly attests perturbation
disembodied spirit betook
(analogous to...

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In the wake of the atmospheric river's retreat,
A world clothed in an unusual pale orange hue,
Unsettled I felt, discomfort laced within my heart's beat,
As the sky darkened, the air grew stagnant, still and askew.

Two owls echoed their hoots from either side,
Their haunting calls, the only...

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She said his grin was as charming
 as a Shoebill Stock.
Warning others of his lack of
beauty and handsomeness.
His presence caused others
to feel spooked and haunted
creating a situation hard to ignore
and forget.
Nearing 3;45 the clouds
overtook the sunlight
a chilling darkness
took it's place. Glooming the 
edges of daytime
a...

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raven of the marsh sounded the alarm
mystic named Marilee listened carefully
first the bull frogs, then the spiders, now this
three signs in three days; mischief was afoot
spirit was in the air, Marilee strived to identify it
A chill pierced her soul; she felt threatened
this was not a...

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"Cured" by the medication, my mind goes numb
Is feeling nothing better than feeling it all?
Screaming in my head becomes a constant drum
Do people really love me or can I not recall?

They say to me that I act okay, like I'm totally fine
But behind closed doors...

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Bad people don't hide very well, they can't keep themselves from coming out to say hello. Eventually, they are caught. So, they make plans, let's call it a game. The 1-foot game.

What is the 1-foot game? Well, it can mean many things. You can be...

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