Best Untimely Poems

*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been edited many times over the years. I consider it to be among my best. The meter and rhyme structure are...

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There once was a man in tight blue jeans.
Whose woman was covered in sunscreens.
     She rested her slipper	
     on top of his zipper.
Which caused a quick swelling of man veins!!

05/26/14...

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Wearing a baseball cap I strolled
into town beneath a summer's sky.
She looked this way - that brunette,
now I'm wearing a smile as well.
The leaves of the oak were faded green
while near the roots tiny flowers bloomed.
In her hand was one such flower.
Yellow? Red? I couldn't...

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My Neighbors Untimely Demise

Upon a late and dismal night, I sat to drinking, full of spite, my glass by me was drained, the jack and coke now pre ordained by me to empty whilst it poured outside, that frigid autumn sky.
A problem, seemingly absurd yet...

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Most folks I loved
died when I was in my thirties.
Not just people,
but our San Francisco bohemian mecca lifestyle,
our 365 days and nights celebration
turned into an epidemic of waiting
and watching
and mourning our losses,
wondering about possibilities of survival.

What could remain for us,
for me,
for this place?
What could become...

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It came to me that night to take me to its home
But indeed it appeared just a little too late
For when it showed up, I had already packed and gone
And I had previously arrived at its place...

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Tormented soul speaks;
Truth in darkness lies buried.
Clouds weep bitter tears....

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There is a cluster of figs
One is good size not far from getting ripe
But this time of year on this hillside
Next to the creek soon frost could come
Ole' Jack Frost bringing that white

Devoring tender shoots and figs
Figs that are late out of season 
So as...

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You've been gone for a decade, plus two
Remission you were already in when met
Recently learned the truth
Why did you decide to not inform me?
Did you think I would just walk away?

I would've never forsaken you
My love would never allow me to
I refuse to accept that...

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A man who lived every bit of thirty 
Professed his love for me 
And I a girl not more than seventeen
Believed his words to be 

He claimed to be what he was not 
And wasted my youthful years 
My trust I gave a mighty lot
So...

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I gaped my silence to take a look
And I caught the world reading me like a book
I tested my reality in a mere luck”
Allowing my emotions run a muck
I rendered my beliefs to those anecdotal season
For happiness had no reason
It was rather a feeling.
My heart...

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Intense and absurd is the ecstatic sorrow of Fall,
Could it be ephemeral craze or the rust within my mind?
Easeful summers and beatific springs placate my angst… 
Balmy feral winters palliate my soul and my sense, yet
Eylul remains the ufindable season of my earthly craze. ...

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A Sweet Child's Untimely Death

Windswept leaves blown upon abandoned house doorstep 
there rests in peace, as if morning mail. 
Driveway empty aside from one old red broken tricycle, remnants left behind by the last family living there after the death of their child.
Alas, Fate created...

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Today the heavens are filled with souls untimely reaped by ignorance and hate!*








© Demetrios Trifiatis
    03 October 2017

*God bless the souls of Las Vegas slaughter !...

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Someday when my land is more fertile 
And my gardener is ready to toil
I shall welcome you my precious flower 
And nurture you in my soil

Faced with responsibility and emotion
Humbled by the reality of obligation 
I am compelled to be a coward 
Too afraid to...

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