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Long Unpick Poems

Long Unpick Poems. Below are the most popular long Unpick by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Unpick poems by poem length and keyword.


Reflections
Silence, not a sound, air still, dusk falls
And then it begins, thoughts, memories
Come unbidden, sometimes a few, or a torrent
I unpick them, hold them, turn them
Exploring from each angle, layers of an onion
Each depicting a...

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Categories: unpick, how i feel, self,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member There isn't time for all this thinking
I'm full to the top
do you let off steam then?
shed unnecessary weight
     to remain afloat
              or in the...

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Categories: unpick, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Hindsight
What is hindsight for?
Is it a learning tool?
Or is it just to have a laugh,
And say you were a fool?
What is hindsight for?
Perhaps it’s to review?
To rip apart the thing you’ve done,
And have a go...

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Categories: unpick, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Then and Now
Gone now the storm, we foundered on the shoreline
Two broken souls never met in a before time
Similar though distant we had spent our lives apart
You, in your beautiful, solitary world and me in unhappy mine
What...

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Categories: unpick, bereavement, wife,
Form: Prose Poetry
Welcome to Social Work
Marcia makes an early start,
to try and find a space to park,
she leaves behind her playlist tunes,
for manic Monday’s duty room,
where ceremony doesn’t stand,
and days don’t turn out quite as planned,
no point wishing she’d stopped...

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Categories: unpick, morning, work,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member If and When, It Depends
Knit one purl one, knit two together.
Drop a stitch, it runs.
Unpick, pick-up the loops one by one, 
align them, precisely, nicely right,
on your knitting needle.
Get back to counting sheep to sleep
where you left off.
Knit one,...

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Categories: unpick, how i feel, people,
Form: Free verse
Insignificance
Is there something so unique about us
It must be studied
Rats in a maze
Trapped between testing success and error
Predictable responses to critical impetus
The same trickery carefully edited
For the next information gathering phase
Caught between a fortune and...

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Categories: unpick, society,
Form: Free verse