Best Unwarranted Poems
8 Little Egypts
...Something strange
and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast,
some say, perhaps,
it has already arrived,
it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us
we go a......
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Categories:
unwarranted, easter, humanity, words,
Form:
Narrative
Roses of Agony
...I am being told to let go
By almost everyone I know
Release, let it out, let it be
Plunge into passivity
While I cling to bitter beauty
My bruises bloom a thorny tree
Guarding roses of agony......
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Categories:
unwarranted, anger, grief, pain, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Wild, Far From My Home
...Ain't it wild the things that have passed?
The things we thought would change,
the things we thought weren't gonna last?
(remember picnics on the park grass?
that was awesome)
Movies with fr......
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Categories:
unwarranted, absence, change, endurance, imagination,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Inexorable Want
...Inexorable Want
How do I find
These sentences
Written as they are
In ephemeral ink
Indelible lines
Inscribed in my being
Spectral yearnings
It crashes me
To rocks
In unanswerabl......
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Categories:
unwarranted, loveme, me,
Form:
Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You Play
...Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly m......
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Categories:
unwarranted, aubade, beauty, dog, for
Form:
Free verse
And Yet They Judge
...There are those who have fallen
in the eyes of this world,
one’s “sins” more damaging than the next.
“Skeletons from closets”
so ruthlessly hurled
and so many people are left vexed.
Now I do not con......
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Categories:
unwarranted, judgement, life, people,
Form:
Rhyme
My Pain Is Mine
...I am being told to let go
By almost everyone I know
Release, let it out, let it be
Plunge into passivity
While I howl to bitter beauty
My bruises bloom a thorny tree
Guarding roses of agony
......
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Categories:
unwarranted, anger, loss, pain, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Up Soup Creek Without a Paddle
...[Every good story needs a sub plot, so…]
He watched from his vantage point on the bank’s roof
And looked out for folk that he knew were uncouth
His years on the run had made him aloof
But soon ......
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Categories:
unwarranted, western,
Form:
Narrative
What Is White
...Are times really getting better with race and nationality?
Is there ignorance in color with unwarranted rationality?
My hope is that yes, we have tried to come to understand,
just b......
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Categories:
unwarranted, race,
Form:
Couplet
Those Slithering Serpents of World's Hidden Abyss
...Those Slithering Serpents Of World's Hidden Abyss
Through pleasant meadows they slither and soft hiss
pushing down nubile flowers as they go
they of dark, giver of serpentine kiss,
sowers of bl......
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Categories:
unwarranted, art, conflict, emotions, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Shell Shocked and Choked
...‘Turn swords into ploughshares and nightmares to dreams’
I have not one plough and no shares in the market
Insomnia has taken over my nights the rest is illusion
Ambiti......
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Categories:
unwarranted, courage, depression, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Colors of Grief
...
Arising in softest sapphire,
Shimmery as the night,
Inviting silence to release her,
Tears flowing, thick and sincere,
Breaking through melancholy,
Trembling with dark dread,
Er......
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Categories:
unwarranted, appreciation, christian, death, funeral,
Form:
Free verse
Sgt Pepper Mama Africa
...This is my Sgt Pepper Song
The 1 that never got on
Because this was not a Pop Song
More a delve into the truth a mirror of reality
Take a Drive with Me
And in less than an hour
This i......
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Categories:
unwarranted, africa,
Form:
Free verse
The Golden Chord
...
"The Golden Chord"
I have stories
caterwauling
to be told,
I will caste them out there
no matter how bold.
They will not drown,
they’ll survive
soaked to the bone,
transfigured ......
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Categories:
unwarranted, absence, faith, home, love,
Form:
Free verse
Love Slays
...
"Love Slays"
Love slays Mother Dragon
Dragon Mother slays Love
there in the middle 2
unbreakable meet
as 1 conquering unwarranted defeat
Love trains Dragon Mother
Mother ......
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Categories:
unwarranted, muse,
Form:
Free verse