Long Disquietude Poems

Written 12 December 2023         
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker

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I’m taking control of this physical presence of mine, this breaking ship;
pulling it down forcefully to the bottom of this god forsaken sea,
allowing it to be destroyed by nature once and for all.
I’m restoring it,
piece...

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My sad, deplorable glory is a nightmare for another
This knowing is sickening to the bone
The need for anothers' pain is like a virus
Slitting the veins of truth and delirious want of false
Watching the bile flow...

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Inside a boisterous tavern,
a-light with drunken gaiety
of spilled ribald laughter,
he quietly sits alone ...
gently cradling his mead darkly
Brooding thoughts of past paid coverings
buzzes inside his head
Talking flies having the faces of the dead
“Have mercy, please”
This...

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my gaze upon my sweet love is amorousness and awe
I find everything about this man of mine erotic
his eyes are full of hunger and yearning
and my thirst for him is pure lust and desire

when we...

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The eager rapt fervidness of my intense determination to meet my 
love in this beautiful meadow meets me with utterly charming silence.
He will be along shortly, I tell myself. He is sometimes late.

With sheer reverence...

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Love isn’t amorousness,
Nor is it hunger nor thirst,
With vehemence, I insist:  Love is a perpetual motion machine
O!  Break!  Break!  Break!  My Hardened Heart!
Be shattered by Love,
And let all your disquietude...

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my gaze upon my sweet love is amorousness and awe
I find everything about this man of mine erotic
his eyes are full of hunger and yearning
and my thirst for him is pure lust and desire

when we...

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It is Valentine's day and I find myself brooding 
 as I sift through thoughts both perpetual and 
 disquieting; 
 I watch the crowds as they piously enter the card 
 shop for that...

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The sky was dark and dreary
as I trudged along the path,
with vision dim and bleary,
under thunderclouds of wrath,

one foot before another,
plodding onward through despair,
yet knowing of no other
road to lead me anywhere.

With blackness fast descending,
though...

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Born in darkness, where senses deceive,
We dance with phantoms, a life we perceive.
Flickering shadows cast on the cold, stone wall,
A tapestry woven, an illusory sprawl.

But whispers arise, a disquietude deep,
A yearning for knowledge, asleep yet...

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A storm is brewing...

If you listen closely
Hold your breath
Close your eyes
Cock your head
And…really listen,
You’ll hear it –
You’ll hear 
the deafening sound of silence!
There’s a reign of hush
all over the landscape
engulfed in deep shadows,
And your heart...

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Enthralled with heavenly love
I’m nestling in the Almighty's divine amorousness
Satiating my heart’s hunger for genuine peace
From oppressive sin-inflicting guilt 
Quenching my soul’s thirst for freedom's contentment
Against affliction-pangs of bitterness and greed 
While calming the vehemence...

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Quite dispersions.
Peaceful allegorical dispensations.
Certain tactful dispositions.
A spectrum of disquietude.

Allegorical gravity.
The solitary wishful descents of freefall.
Long awaited acclamations of flight.

On and on, this merciful rainbow in concerts’ dawn.
A gentle dream quietly placed.
Double-fisted handfuls of sand so...

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Awakening Perpetually
by Odin Roark

Awakening perpetually knows well
Perfection’s tuning fork disquietude,
Its awareness that any off-key meandering
Can cloud over a caressing sunshine rising,
Sour a dawning’s gardenia fragrance.

One reaches skyward with morning’s extension,
The opening of shuddered windows,
Inviting breezes...

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Silent mundane tranquil life takes a sudden lurch. 
In fervidness of Big Bang, fiery whirlwind takes birth. 
Like an untamed wild deer, two souls are set on fire
In cold callous chaotic world, love tips over,...

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Sometimes when my darling has had to be away from me,
night’s shadows encase me and I’m assailed by disquietude.
Closing my eyes, I conjure up the vision of my love,
and I put myself with him inside...

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The sun has taken a day off, 
sleeping in blankets of silver 
while the Earth dances a slow pirouette, 
like the venerable ballerina she is, on her axis. 

I ponder the grayness 
while thinking of...

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Through the desert of forlorn life I travelled
carrying the burning hunger in my void heart
and the unsatiated thirst in desiccated mind.
Surrendering to the vehemence of its lure I chased
a mirage in the searing middle of...

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Staying by the sea, now at sunset
With the light slowly fading into greyness
And the waters lying quiet
A peace fills me as never before

Dismal fears barred entry into the soul
Mind freed of all disquietude.
Through the soft...

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Each night I overshadow my loneliness
With amorousness of your looks on me
And then in a moment
Changes the scenario behind my closed eyes
I then know what it is
Hunger of night waiting to hug the moon
And thirst...

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When new memories surge as wild tides,
in this spot love always abides,
my gaze goes even further,
where falling stars shatter. 


Any awful feeling that existed inside
shouldn't remain, but escape and glide
as lazy clouds do on a...

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Back then diamonds died.
And the darkness cried.
All because they faced love,dear obsidian.
Hatred has no face and it was soon erased.
The amorousness filtered out the silence in the air.
And vehemence was what it left.
Perpetual was the...

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Miasma  Ripening
                by Odin Roark

The chaff of greed
Feeds the consumer-compost,
While urban disquietude
Marches in lockstep.

Decomposition rages…

Choked roads of sunbaked gridlock,
Spider...

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Like so,  our fingers gently entwine
We are in Capistrano again
Gazing at young swallows perched on boughs...
The perpetual murmur of reeds finds me
Entranced by  gerberas as they
Unwrap yellow petals along San Juan;
And  destined...

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