Best Unsurprising Poems

three rhymed sestets written as a cento (see below) 	

PC       I muse, while the heaving waves of life are rising,
SO      earth’s rampant tides drag one deeper.  Unsurprising
CR      memories...

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[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
  a coat of cosmos covering
  over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
  a quantum cellar creating
  the very big banging cosmos and much faster-than-light travelling
  a probable theatre...

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Seems like good humor grows positive, 
healthy
resonant
confluent
sometimes co-invested
passionate consciousness

And bad humor grows negative,
unhealthy,
dissonant
contentious
dispassionate unconsciousness

So, maybe compassionate consciousness grows 
global intelligence.

And, perhaps shared intelligence could grow 
universally cooperative 
sacred unitarian integrity,
co-passionate joy
commingling health and beauty,
co-invested peace,
wise therapeutic humor,
amusing comprehension.

Wouldn't it be unsurprising if love's omnipotent comprehension
feeds...

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Gone
Like I meant nothing
two years of nothing
unsurprising really
I always knew I loved more

Heart breaking
I keep it together
allowing only private tears
so family and friends 
remain unconcerned

They never knew 
exactly how much 
I loved you
We loved our way
away from them

Another break
we’d had several
and always fixed it 
but...

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As luck would have it
I chanced upon the secret
of finding things not looked for,
to enlist serendipity on cue.

The more you look the less you see.
Stop looking for, and start looking about.
Expectation kills spontaneity.
So, stop planning itineraries.

If you take a planned tour
on a planned route to...

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and then buzzing starts below skin
shocks shoot along veins

I hold my arm 
a different pain today

it buckles the knee 
grinds the shoulder
it burns the elbow
gnaws the hip

I rub my back
a deep breath and sigh 
ricochets ribcage-aches like children 
playing at pinball machines

another new pain today
another...

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A whale in a pail is far more active in a gale or in copious amounts of hail. Putting money into sharks is a shifty act involving the shuffling of coats in cloakrooms. And clown costumes placed in the bowls of women's frames are reserved...

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Silver threads amongst the gold
They have  a story to be told

Of balmy nights and satin sheets
Of hands a touching and kissing feet

Lying in a bed of flowers
Steamy fun under the shower

Legs entwined tongues on fire
Nerve ends found more explosions sired

Hormones racing,  bodies writhing
Exploding together thats unsurprising

Lying close...

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Into the sunset we’ll ride 
And we’ll see how much you’ve grown 
By the last words you choose to leave behind 

We can pretend that heaven denied you 
because you found your own path 
We can pretend that we all don’t know what’s really going...

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I’ve lost all my faith

Meeting people who were double-faced

Who caring nothing, except their money

Even if I’m simple and naive

Love leads me to believe

That everyone will find the land of milk and honey


I’m 22 years old

Seems that I’m already big girl

But I’m so far from realizing

If...

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To fulminate against the hands of fate
To vent our anger on  beloved friends
Will not repair our ills and our mistakes
But may bring friendships to  a bitter end.

For who are we to know what is the best?
Who are we to choose when loved ones...

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I am a right-brain prominent writer
which must not be confused with
a prominent left-brain writer,
which I am almost decidedly not
nor would I aspire
toward such all or nothing thinking
and not at all both/and feeling.

Like most writers,
I feel more like the muses of rhetoric
and storytelling
and poetry
chose me,
more than...

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I know I shouldn’t have used unreal money,
When I went to do my shopping at the store,
I didn’t even know it was a forgery,
But I will not be doing it no more.
Four cops to apprehend me seemed excessive,
I had no weapon and did not resist,
Before...

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Shoot! Nothing like killing spree to bookend August 2019!

The latest homicide,
where gunman(men) slew
dirty deed done dirt cheap
half dozen innocent people drew
minimal horrific gasps, now a new
month (September two 
thousand nineteen)

where goldenrods yellow
with morning dew
encompassing human zoo
welcomes unsuspecting killer(s) true
to form - predictably
will undertake to fire...

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Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations

Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass killings
rip across fabric of society
buzzfeeding, jump/kickstarting, 
paradigm of mortality.

Since January first
two thousand and twenty three
countless innocent people lost lives
deliberately, yet randomly...

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