Best Unsparing Poems

Innocent, juvenile, moppet
I am a child
Courageous, gallant, dauntless
I am a free spirit
Hearing, heeding, harking
I am a listener
Open, direct, frank
I am honest
Liberal, understanding, unsparing
I am generous
Trite, worn out, bathetic
I am tired
Divided, severed, separated
I am divorced
Forebearer, ascendant, parent
I am a mother
Contributor, benefactor, supporter
I am a friend
Devine, heavenly,...

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Faulkner's comment, I imagine him
tossing it off like Yogi Berra between games
of a doubleheader. The hero, the expert, the virtuoso
has no real control, is going to feel
unmitigated, unsparing forces, a mighty sun
swallowed by a black hole, coughed up into a big sky.
The past isn't dead....

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Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
 
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*

In homage - dedicated to the Chair Professor of Comparative Literature
.................at the prestigious pre-1968 Sorbonne University 

 
Barely a few speechless moments before...

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I grew up on a farm
that was often boring, despite its charm.
As a form of detox
I loved to go on walks,
ignoring my mom's talks
for I knew she was scared, I'd come to harm.

It's scary by yourself,
I felt I might meet the Devil himself.
But, that never...

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The Wedding.

The Pastor stood there waiting,all clothed in his atire
The Organist played the Wedding tune,so sweet,to be admired.
The Groomsman and his Best man,were waiting patiently
As the congregation,sat in seats,adorned so beautifully.
Then came the children,in the lead,with rings and petals baring
They were dressed so pretty ,and...

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Like a mystical wight,
Ain't in a trance,
Nor experiencing delusions and phantasmagoria.
I live. I fight,
Fighting
Because the decision to be free
Is that which I took freely,
Yet, criticized with unsparing vigor,
Cruel and baseless calumnies.

The past is gone,
The future is a dream,
All I got is now and only now,
Enormities...

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True add verse situation,
     whereat me mission
     trans send dint state didst ache
after yours truly nearly
     did nearly break
chassis 'pon took drastic
     over corrective measure,
    ...

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Trenches

By Nathan Hannen

I look at the moon, Unaffected by superiority of height
With another bang a mortar explodes nearby, Loss of sight
Now the rain begins drenching our fragile souls, Never right

The silence only separated by human cries and terrific pain
The machine guns volley their assaults, Again...

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She loved
broken things
like she loved
the petals
of withered roses,
that scattered
for their own funeral
like strewed confetti-
which a lover
may have dropped
unintentionally
or intentionally-
crushed
under branded shoes
and under the wheels
of the cars
driven 
by unsparing drivers
who aren’t troubled
by squeezing life
out of humans,
let alone a flower;
and she called it
‘modern art’....

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Along  with  their  desolate  fortune,
Old  parents  waiting  for  their  unsparing  children,
Who  leaved  them  in the  barren  garden,
For  the  sake  of  their  ambitions,
They  omit ...

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Life Abandoned 
David J Walker

What of the abandoned baby 
	Tears hidden 
Seismic cries choaked and cloaked
In an unsparing future 
	Whose voice speaks for you when
You are months away from birth
And moments away from death...

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“I am alone: the world is dead
And all its vigor has been bled.
May trees fill once again the plains
Where not a single soul remains!”

“The cities have been emptied out
Of all the men who roamed about
And whose unsparing, gruesome fight
Had pitted darkness against light.”

“They deemed their...

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Bloodthirsty,
Brain eating zombies,
In movies,
And on TV.


Is it a metaphor?
For how resentful people can be?
When they watch someone else succeed?
How we’re taught to pull each other down.
How we say, 
why not me?
A bad habit of helping each other drown,
In the waters of negativity,
Suppressing the air of...

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Mind is racing 
 
Limbs are aching 
 
I feel the end is nigh 
 
All alone in night unending 
 
Time a torturous lie. 
 
 
 
Brain fermenting 
 
Thoughts fragmenting 
 
Shatter in glass shards 
 
Fingers soon to dust returning 
...

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beyond earnest vows
and doting promises
our love will last
forever and a day
yet all avid promises
are one day shattered
in spite of best intentions

sometimes I hear its thunder 
it’s in the quiver of his voice
the shiver of his nightmares
the shudder in his fearful eyes 
the feeling of helplessness...

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