Long Unfriended Poems

Last Trains at the End of an Echo
by Sy Roth

The Conestoga wagons littered the wasteland with their spiny bones
            in search of the comfort...

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Sending the tending to an unfriended ending,
 yet somehow suspending from rending a newly offending recommending.
Logotype monotype linotype,
overripe stereotype,
 teletyped an unripe heliotype. 
Guttersnipe snipe,
 stipe snipe ripe,
 a wipe type a tripe, 
unleash a...

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There was a man who did a deed,
though not of hate, or even greed
'twas innocent, or so he thought
'til everyone was overwrought

They crossed their arms 
and stomped their feet,
one sent out an angry tweet
another just...

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Its an old building of spires and dirty stucco 
 on Wednesdays filled with men 
 some in worn and dirty clothes that have not seen
 a washing machine for weeks or more,
 others keep...

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I climbed the peak and you pulled me down
You could have helped me stay rooted but instead you frowned
Frowned at my success, frowned at my pace, frowned at my place
You wished I had drowned
And so,...

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A closet hangs with ideas from Facebook posts past.
Tags still hang from pretty purchases, 
nobody tagged in posts never made.
I sigh as I struggle in arms and poke through my big head.
The hourglass that has...

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All along
were you just a pretend friend
a beginning leading to a dead end
the polite one 
not wanting to offend
I've gone over and over
the things in my mind
searching 
hoping I might find
Some clues in conversations
When we...

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STRANGE FRIEND 

I had a friend both on Facebook and meeting him in person
he often sent me words of wisdom said by a famous person,
about loyalty and honesty, I often find these saying rather
banal and...

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When I was twelve 
I had a pen pal.
Letters came back and forth months at a time.
I waited a long time for words from my Peep.
Not anymore. Now I have Facebook Pen Pals.
Their words come...

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I wonder if God had a Facebook account
what sort of things that he might post,
some selfies, maybe of him and his son,
and his other old friend, Holy Ghost.
His favourite music he'd put there to share
such...

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I was shy at twenty, afraid to look in mirrors,
Scared of what I saw.
I remember the first time I looked in one and saw that I was pretty.
I gasped, and it frightened me. 
I felt...

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Now You've Gone and Done It
By Franklin Price
10/22/2017

Now you've gone and done it
Thought it could never be
That another one's opinion
Could have this effect on me

To be attacked by someone
One I don't even know
Has hit me...

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I’m dry; the muse has packed her bags,
unfriended me and left.
No rhymes have come to mind at all.
Of words I am bereft.

In need of verse, my followers
await the poet's best.
And so a letter to the...

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I Can’t Believe He Unfriended Me

By Elton Camp

Suzy signed on to Facebook, and got a shock
One that, to its core, her virtual world did rock
There was a man she told all of her secrets to
And...

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She unfriended them
No one really knows why
Wanting nothing more to do
With members of the family
It’s quite a mystery how
She cut off her roots
Clean in one fell swoop
Without a hint of hesitation
Looking back I missed out
Hundreds...

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Warped tree, kinked man 

Today, I will not argue with Walter on Facebook or Twitter.
I was reading poems from my last collection and was surprised
to find an internal rhythm.
To my horror, I find Walter has...

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I thought that I had a good friend 
A best friend like everyone should have
my good friend, my best friend unfriended me
I felt a deep cutting with a knife, a poke, and a stab

Why did...

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Fragile Memories

I unfriended you
On facebook today
Drawing two lines 
Under something that
Ended eight years ago
I haven’t been suffering
All those years
Simply didn’t bother
To cut the final cord
Until today
The first couple of years
I found my lessons
Culled the story...

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Who can say they have felt the fire
Go to a special place when alone
Who motions true potions Ive got a Love that's true
I've been banned and deleted, unfriended and bid adieu
But I don't think of...

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Forget, forget, forget how to forget me not,
my tenderness, my minty breathing, my sweet nothings
and bitter anything but love that almost caught
my desolation by surprise. Forget! So far things
are going pretty well: you ripped up...

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It was meant to be a good idea,
It was meant to make things right.
It was meant to fix everything up,
And not become a fight.

You see, I’d unfriended, blocked, walked away,
From a history that’d caused me...

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Social media
A fast way to lose friends
Lifelong friends.
One crazy rant, and 
You get bumped or dumped
One mean sentence, and you get unfriended

People’s feelings get hurt by words not intended for them
Not directed at them in...

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If I spoke my true mind or spoke my truth
Would you be real kind or knock out my tooth
Could you be open to other thought or is your mind just closed
Would you consider what I...

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To my unfriended friend.
 I Miss You
 I miss you when day breaks and the sun in glory does shine
 I miss you when the moon whispers her thoughts divine
 I miss you when viewing...

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