Long Unanswerable Poems

Understanding Suicide Understanding Me

Awhile back I had a dear friend contact me to ask if I heard about the young mans suicide at a nearby towns school. I had not. After asking one time on...

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24 years between 22 yards, 
Records being made like palace of cards, 
He is one who breathes cricket, 
A player, whom no opponent can hate.
He plays cricket only, thinks everyone...
But playing with nos. Is his...

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On a bitter cold snowy, snowy day
She entered the world her own way
My sweet courageous daughter 'Shelly
Beautiful blue eyes and a Fire in her belly

Bubble gum stuck in her curly blonde hair
With a heart full...

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24 years between 22 yards,
Records being made like palace of cards,
He is one who breathes cricket,
A player,whom no opponent can hate.
He plays cricket only,thinks everyone...
But playing with nos. Is his real fun..
His achievements are his...

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These are the words that were said:—;—:
Mentions of solitude and authority:
Debates on whether you were the ruler,
Or God. 
Or perhaps I was the ruler, as you are fiction,
And I am your creator—God. But who
Created me?...

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my life isn't over as far as i know
there's no enemy chasing me
or disease that have shown
as far as i know i have another fifty years
to march through life and many more tears
i have a...

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Grieving?
 
 
What do you do when you lose someone for who you feel you cannot mourn?
Gone from your life and world, but still alive as the day they were born.
 
Well I sadly lost...

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She cries, 
there in the car next to me, 
moved so by how big the world is, 
how unimaginable others’ trials and tribulations are, 
how disconnected we all are. 
She remembers where she was; 
I...

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I've been taught my whole life that God is good;
and He loves me!
If that is true, why don't I feel loved, and why is there suffering?
Which God should I pray to? There are so many...

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What is the meaning of life?
A question that seems unanswerable,
and yet I exist and seek an answer!
Intelligence helps to distinguish fact from fiction;
but what of the human soul, that intangible, ethereal link
to the impossible?
I feel...

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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 unanswerable waves
Swimming tidal
To the inexorable
Yet
The implacable distance
Confounds me

Longing vent me no more
In twists and...

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No negro no shame no more
African American name calling 
We by the other game you know
My pain!  Damn scam I scan the
Rain you see the vein the 
proof in the pouring
We seek the fame...

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Not long ago our destinies aligned 
and of all the people it had to be you 
your fragrance in the wind is left behind 
as you walked by as i held the door for you...

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I held you in my blood
Long before my womb was home
I endured the sentence of "barren"
Among blessed mothers...alone

When proof was in place
I rejoiced with those who jeered
Finally, when you arrived
I endured entitled cheers

As you grew...

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The one before me who once held my heart has changed.
He has transformed into a neglectful and uncaring stranger.
Kind words and soft looks do not come from this being.
Security and trust are not felt.
To look...

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At the start it's all light
Until night comes 
As we grow we alternate
Light and dark
Dark and light
In the end it could be dark
But then again it could be light
At the end, I suppose
I won't care...

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You are many things to within
A quarter of capacity.
Eyes drawn back to show
a sea of emeralds. Cut like a hexagon
Imitating diamonds.

The skin of your nose, crinkled
With disapproval. Worn velvet, Patched
To imitate strength. Stretched further than
Full...

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The Great Beauty
                   by Odin Roark

How short lived
This laughter made for releasing
Buried in the tragedian 
Locked in...

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he stood …

atop another world
another …
promethean creation
ineffable beauty and innovation spread at his
feet like a glorious carpet of progress
a macrocosm of concept and imagination
that surprised even HIM
he had, again, exceeded his own
undefinable ingenuity and prospect
and...

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Oh Amazonian tea
A demonic stigma precedes you
Your evil is in your wonderous healing
You adept unmasker
Ceremonious enlightener
Purging our torso to allow cleansing of our souls
Unbarring portals we've kept forcibly sealed
Transporting us to a realm where our...

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In the event that I forget
what this poem is about
I refer you now to the birds
outside my window.
They are silent – it is a sound-proof window,
but I want to speak of windows more.
I should have...

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She said we don’t sit together in the car anymore
Remember when we first met and how we grooved
I said too bad but I’m still here behind the wheel
So can you answer this, guess who moved?
I...

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People come inside me to worship their lord
With different kinds of request from their lord
For what they asked is unanswerable
Because they are asking for the downfall of his truthful
Fellow, they come inside me to worship...

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She settles into her depression
achieves her perfect form 
in flat still camouflage

The dim farmer cannot know
how she surveys his labours
behind beaded spider webs

The fox and the hawk care not
that she has taken the earth
as her...

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Widely stretched landscapes are her asset.
            Gurgling streams and rivers are her bulged vessels.
The pristine form is losing charisma and in acute threat.
The rocky...

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