Best Unwilling Poems

unwilling to toss
purple petals

though naturally
they drop

i don’t want to say goodbye
they’ve held me captivated 
for a fortnight

from buds with sanguine leaves
proud with praise
to blossoming royal roses

though watered
autumn comes
like it does
for all terrestrials

winter tucks it into freeze frame
in the inner recesses of the mind
meaningful, yet
it dwarfs...

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I have a heart, I am still a person I paved the way for you.  I was young and agile once, tender and fresh faced too. I used to have young blissfull love that shone from within, now all the memories that I have...

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UNWILLING SUNDOWN

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Over here in an Emotional plebiscite;
Knowing it's do or die
Sparked by emotional suicide 
These feelings linger like a pesticide,
While I'm trying to go overdrive.
Finally asking myself why!?

Why? 
Why does this feel like emphatic repetition,
Being manipulated by my perceptive premonitions,... 
Is this fate.. 
Or is it...

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"We the unwilling 
Led by the unqualified 
To kill the unfortunate
Die for the ungrateful"

A motto of the troops
Who served in Vietnam
And wrote it on the back
Of a chrome Zippo lighter.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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WHITHER dost thou farther, my child,
Of mindless ardor conceiv'd, my poor child;
For his moral poverty thou makest allowance,
And his social sanity thou losest thy chance.
A pity, a shame, alas! A careless passion!
Fractured as it seems; seemingly fractured gift,
A tragedy, an unborn name, alas! A careful...

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I am an unwilling participant.
But it is inescapable.
An earthly evil.
Death would be preferable,
but no, it is taxes…....

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Alone and unwilling to find happiness
Stuck in depression and unwilling to come out
Never felt true love and unwilling to search for it
Empty and unwilling to be fulfilled
Why be unwilling?
Afraid to end up back in unwillingness...

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Unwilling Participant
Out of the sky from a far away planet. Coming closer to home, near us. A piece of space dust belonging to an alien. An alien called Kevin with a bad attitude. He never wanted to be an alien nor go into space. Or...

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Willingly ignorant 
Willfully ignorant 
Unwillfully inignorant
Unwillfully informed
Not willingly informed
Not willingly inignorant

I grew up too fast...

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You're broken and 
your mom don't get it and
your dad don't want to and 
your family don't see
that you lost your voice 
someone took your choice

Your brother calls you a freak
he thinks you're too weak
he thinks there's something
you could have done but
there's only fight, flee...

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My response is diverse, because no two reasons are the same.
Some come from a king, and some from a dame.
Some are allergic, asthmatic, or worse.
I do not live in their body, do not carry their purse.

Their reasons live in apartments above their brain shelf.
They are...

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A soldier fighting in the war.
A place and time long before.
He could recall why.
He was willing to kill.
Before he would die.
Before he was able to sit still.

Watching before him.
Lives shattered.
Writing a useless requiem.
On a piece of paper only tattered.
A soldier that will never be the...

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For want of full virtuous zeal oligarchs thrive 
Against deserving clamor for brighter ideals;
And perennially trampled commoners groan
Under weight no inured villain distantly feels. 

Bereft of real fighting energy better humans
Give in to the more determined aims to slay
Life's fairer side and reward villainy's titans;...

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Her soul feelings for him are all balled up inside
She cannot get out the words 
She does not run
Yet she can hide

Here he comes again
The man she thought she had fantasized
Yet here he is in the flesh, the man of her dreams
That man

His soul feelings...

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