Best Unsold Poems

I've been listening to your eyes 
for what feels like eons,
noticing how the rain cries
unto your purposeful lips,
excited also, by the sounds of your
beautiful breaths in the smooth sunlight,

Tapping the pool of love blood,
rippling rose restless
to the edge of a frozen bloom
where the youth of...

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December sun that hangs so low
To crawl across dim Winter cloud .
You were our friend six months ago
And wrapped me in your Summer shroud
Of coloured gardens , full of bloom 
That scented life
In my living room .

The long cold shadows that you cast ,
Like the...

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Another sleepless night
 
A went back in time litany of failures
What I wanted to do I never did
My happiest time was when living alone
In the interior of Algarve
I walked with my dogs in the woods had
Learned conversation with an oak
While the dog chased rabbits.
Six happy...

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The failed writer
For twenty years he has written down 
what came to his mind, in the end, many books
with his name on a bookshelf.
There they reminded unsold, unloved collecting
the dust of time.
He tried to sell his books on Amazon and in shops
when that failed he...

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LIFE 
incessant STREAM 
HOT or COLD 
SOLD or UNSOLD 
in-NAME or de-FAME 
side by side or beyond 
a mysterious GAME!


-28/10/19 CTG, BD...

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The sun is up, heat unbearable,
He stands there rejected and miserable,
Slowly hope he loses,
as every potential buyer refuses.
His goods remain unsold,
His misery untold.
Swiftly the night approaches,
And his hunger encroaches.
He packs up and leaves,
Despite everything, he calmly sleeps......

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Order by offer
Ingredients do matter
Stuck in first trouble

Boiling some flavors
Pudding missed in sweet manner
Moulding successfully failed

Yet we feel give up
Deserve for a second chance
Re-mould done! Relieved...

Sit tight in a fridge
Naughty pudding had a plan
Mission to seduce

Tempted by its look
My husband eat for a slice
Mother-in-law scold

Naughty...

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“The heaventree of stars” (in Ulysses as said Joyce)
“hung with humid nightblue fruit” (ah that Bloomian voice)
could evoke a masterpiece the world has come to know,
The Starry Night, so treasured now, by Vincent van Gogh…

In Vincent’s time that painting left even him bemused,
since a ‘failure’...

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Today wasn’t a good morning at all for Hassan,
a victual merchant in Baghdad
Thirty four customers got killed by a suicide bomb
A jihadist Arab wearing an explosive vest,
proclaiming to be fighting against the west,
ended up only murdering his own people
The sun rising on the eastern horizon
cast...

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That nothing in life comes 
without a cost
not a price tag
but, something more at depth

To truly live 
u must have been close to death
at a time in your life
because in a blink of an eye 
everything u know 
u could forget

That money and possessions
don't mean...

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Pretenders in the mouth like lemons.
Hamartia.

Is wishing
Denying?
Do I
Deny You?

A dirge by the pier
is the darkness I hear
when You are not here,
when I tell myself
I will always fear.

Yet You visit, still,
my lightless room
and the Breath of Life
permeates perfectly...

You're a monarch when it rains,
yet I cannot believe
that...

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Once you were a plundered people,
your ancient culture an excuse
for vainglorious swords to take by force
Yellow gold, Aztec Blue,
that rightfully belonged to you.
Your faces are now sometimes light,
sometimes sombre-
sombre as those hidden tombs
within which glittered eternal wealth,
and memories of doom.

Yes, your skin has the colour...

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Many churches today 
have a food pantry that never
had a pantry before.

I attend a church like that.
Some folks are well-fixed, 
others poor, most betwixt.

Some had money before
but not enough now to pay 
the mortgage and then buy food

so the pantry helps them
the same way it...

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Beauty smiles
Truth keeps watch;
Joy murmurs

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Jacuzzi trip
Clear water massage;
Aqueous healing

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Midtown moments
Sunny side up;
Poignant flavours

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Walkway charades
Morning fiesta;
Umbrella cacophony

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Old Mister Lee
Two years gone;
Tembusu memoir

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Such silly antics
Blindside politics;
Monkey business

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Glimpses of home
Michelin Star meals;
Vivid prosperity

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Dark skyline 
Thunder and lightning;
Rainy dawn hurls

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Morning outline
Lake shore rainbow;
Sun and rain

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Cat nap
Purrs dreams;
Feline fancy

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Brown squirrel
Zigzag...

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I told the man, I'd write a poem, right now,
about the wind, but the strong warm breeze,
blew my words away over the hills;

and he smiled; a language understood, as if
to say;

" there go your words, blown away by the strong, 
warm breeze, across the dusty...

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