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Best Unspent Poems

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Premium Member To a Life Unspent
On the precipice it stands,
loose-limbed with a sinewy grace,
body taut with an implied swagger,
face, grinning, a sun-dappled gold. 
Unclouded by the cataract of cynicism, 
its...

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Categories: unspent, angel, corruption, growing up,
Form: Epic



Inconvenient Rhyme Times
I’ve lost more prose				Driving in my car,
than I’ve written				navigating traffic,
for they often come unbidden		poems form like magic.
not minding where.				I can’t release the wheel
They haven’t the...

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Categories: unspent, giggle, inspiration, memory, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Existentialist Asks---What Is Life
What is life?

Euphonies, cacophonies and chromosomal anomalies
intertangled destinies and illusive methodologies 

Occurring in obscure dimensionless time
Millenniums fertilized to create the sublime

Perceived by ideations so pure...

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Categories: unspent, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Which Image Should We Cling-Whispers of Regret
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Ah, it's my clinging to the image of who I might have been that distracts and torments me!” Fernando Pessoa

Regret, a silent symphony, plays within...

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Categories: unspent, inspirational, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 18
I studied him, just as he studied me
I in disgust, confusion, and he in angry fantasy
His eyes, black, and yet still blackening
He embraced me with...

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Categories: unspent, adventure, angst, growth, hurt,
Form: Epic



Sleepwalker
Sleepwalker


And in the darkest sweeping wings is held all probable
The night of dreamings; wished embraces of gossamer senses ponder miracles 
And leave their mark; ever...

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Categories: unspent, love, mysteryprayer, senses,
Form: Free verse
A Doorless Mystery
Hitchhiking through the wormhole,
  all time was left behind

Distance collapsing upon itself
  reflections other side

Waste material of a life unspent
  flowing back...

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Categories: unspent, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Entrepreneur
In a sense everything is a seed of it's successor
The universe is change, life is judgement
Those aren't my words, they're a famous author
The rest of...

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Categories: unspent, books, change, culture, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fallen Roses
	God Bottles Those Tears
	Shed For
	 Fallen Roses
	In Memory Of a Friend
	Written: By Tom Wright
	5-17-00 
	
	Sleep,
	Lay heavy o'er the room.
	Fading fast, a single Rose,
	That once you...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unspent, death of a friend,
Form: Lyric
The Protestant Reformation In Verse
Challengèd courts, Christendom held in palm,
Tyranny, oppression, falsehoods contrived
On which hingèd stability and calm,
Uprooted by man’s theses ninety- five
On door are tackèd for eyes all...

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Categories: unspent, faith, history, religion, faith,
Form: Sonnet
Fog
vision seems dim
quiet damp and cool outside
poets thoughts clear

vision, light dim
Energy flows into digits
Pen dry 

damp drizzle
dry flat expressionless face
sadness unspent

visibility
none passed the end of...

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Categories: unspent, angst, anxiety, conflict, emotions,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Sad Journeyman of Death
Sad Journeyman of Death

Sad journeyman of life’s unending tests
bides time in loathsome sojourn cross each dawn
respecting naught but future’s numbered breaths
a-weep upon the touch of...

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Categories: unspent, death, family, war,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
13 Years
13 Years    
  
Rolling wheels,
Through fields of heather,
Browns and purples,
Steel blue of cold,
Regimented act of military manoeuvre,
It's perpetrators oblivious of its...

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Categories: unspent, absence, angel, bereavement, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Why Thomas K Thomas Left a Suicide Note
WHY THOMAS K THOMAS LEFT A SUICIDE NOTE

Nothing left aside,
He lay on his back
Eyes fixed at ceiling fan.
Reminiscence of Predicament
Of travels in shade
Sojournment in places...

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Categories: unspent, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Kwashiorkor
distended bellies
on limp legs
eyes round like zeroes
of unspent billions
of the world's richest...

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Categories: unspent, poverty, sick,
Form: Tanka

Book: Shattered Sighs