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, uns......

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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 f......

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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 Compar......

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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 scar......

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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 co......

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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 ......

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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, Ne......

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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 intention......

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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 glas......

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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 ......

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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  them  b......

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...Beneath the cold glare of the desolate night,
And from a thousand miles away,

I heard her cries and felt the fathomless depths of suffering
Tearing her wounded soul and bruised emotions apart.
......

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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 roam......

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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.......

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