Short Unarmed Poems

The birth of the dragon
Unarmed
Innocence
My last defense...

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Awful screams, silenced
Ghosts rise from the unarmed
Morbid and macabre...

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Life today a silent game of Russian Roullette
Masked, gloved, unarmed a trip to a public 
Place a sneeze, a cough, a bit of smegma
And Covid19 silently end all to Life....

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jangling nerves... tense, taut...
  darting to and fro… caught... trapped
     whimpering feebly...

The brave gunman licks his lips...
  duck soup... easy prey... unarmed...

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dark letters in
the book of secrets
revealed ostensibly
rain of fears on 
the field of unarmed
masses disturbingly
the last train leaves to
the white of the dawn
we are strangers here...

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Gladiator games
Fuel flames excitement fame
Amour amour passions flare

My love games compete
Up high in poor seats watching
Soft spot unarmed slowly dies

Sponsor: Amy Green
Contest: Choka for a Chokehold...

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In Ivory Coast
You don’t walk 
Outside unarmed
Without your hands up
May be 
You will not be shot that way
By a sniper
But snipers have their own way of thinking
About your life
Not everyone has a right
To a long happy life...

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When we were young
futures unborn
eyes held starry nights hostage until morn
Love had yet broke
truth came unarmed
and hope was unneeded
I dangle my feet from the edge i once leapt from
and dreams are all but done
When we were young...

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i cannot touch your silence.
you are in a darkness
only you can know.
for there are battles
only you can fight,
unarmed,
unarmored.

i can only watch by the battleside
mutedly helpless,
hoping i can cheer in triumph
as your banner floats
victoriously by.

(17 july 1980)...

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medieval soil
never forgotten 
by the hikers upon the mountain
there is a chance to hear a voice 
coming from the back of your head

footsteps left on the muddy ground
imprinted by each stone of your flesh

harsh words 
like a summer light
turned into unarmed reflections
naked like you...

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I never thought
that it could be:
a mark by hand
of such perfect symmetry.

I stared in awe;
my jaw dropped open.
My eyes turned off;
my brain was broken.

On paths of gold
she trod, unharmed.
Straight paths of gold.
I trod unarmed

toward gray-green grounds
of jealousy.
I lust forever
after symmetry....

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Husband, brother, son, 
lover, friend - 
Will we see you again?
Will you be a headline on the news?
Unarmed and unashamed.
We stand fearful and furious
in tear soaked silent pleas.
Something must change.
His skin won't warrant death,
and our hearts won't continue to pay 
the inexcusable cost
of love in America....

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Unarmed


If you keep a man unarmed
He will be pretty unharmed!
Precautions or measures
Work but increase seizures.
When mankind was unwrapped
Humankind was not raped;
When nudity filled the kingdom
There was no peeping Tom!
Should you lock an empty box
Inside, find some burglar fox!


JM

28th January 2014...

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They cut down the olive trees
and shoot the farmers, unarmed, in the belly, 
in plain view of IDF soldiers, relishing the moment.
How sweet it is to die under the shade of their olive trees,
that bind them to their tortured history.
And the wind that blows the branches dancing
oblivious to their terror, beating their conspiracy.
...

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Uncharted

You trickled your way into the fold of my heart 
and every day went deeper since
toeing through uncharted waters
nosing to my core.
You’ve brought light to the darkest part of me
the sun have never seen,
with no more than an unarmed smile
you explore my tempestuous waters
unabashed;
uncovering a little piece of me
each time more....

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Once the strong, confident woman
She now struggles to remember the battles 
Battles fought and won
The triumphant joy

How foolish 
Believing
Hoping

Now afraid, weak and lonely 
Beyond emptiness 
Complete and utter starvation

Sad, unforgiving, unkind
Filled with betrayal
Unarmed for battle
Alone

Share the wisdom of her pain
Don’t waste it...

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You can behead an unarmed man
You can rape a defenseless woman
You can blow up an innocent child

You can burn a book, or 1000's
Attempt to erase history
Spit on the culture of mankind

Here is what you will never do
You will never catch Charlie Brown
Or behead Allah the almighty

You are an army
Of no hearts
Of no heads

The army of the evil living dead...

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Some choose to wear a soldier’s camouflage
And take their country’s coin
all to defend a Politian’s ideology
While ordinary civilians die
Sisters without brothers
Mothers without sons 
Children sent to foster homes
If the bombs have left them homes unarmed
Your deity will not help or take the pain away
His mortal representative will just stand over your grave and pray 
...

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Fame?
how can you claim?
when you lack an aim!
no aim means no name.

As streets without names,
indescribable to a damsel,
so your work becomes endless,
when at work you're aimless.
 
Even a lame with an aim,
quickly came and earned a name,
while many were maimed,
for daring life unarmed!

They thought of claiming fame,
but life got them tamed,
for not living with an aim,
in their struggle for fame!...

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Neither here nor there 

The mind stuck in time 

Floating through 

Drifting 

Reaching 

Stretching to touch 

Unarmed 

Vulnerable 

Exposed 

Yet I am the only one that can see and feel 

Flashes of a glimpse 

Trapped in a vision 

A million or more of emotions 

Feelings rush to change

But I don’t want to.


As I Dream Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Mystic Rose Rose
Date: 08/06/2022...

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“What is there to say? They are my friends. I would do it again, over and over — for I hate cruelty and intolerance.”    Oskar Schlinder

LOST IN A SEA OF WAR

daringly intrepid,
dazzlingly, dizzily
protecting the poor,
the unarmed, the kids,
those lost in a sea
of war — Schindler
and his musical score,
outscoring the hate
that seemingly won’t abate
but for God steps into
the shoes of man

Kim Rodrigues © 2019...

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The knife was in my hand, I know,
I felt the blade against my thigh. 
I thought the steel would cut you off,
I thought that I was being kind.

The knife was in my hand, I thought,
I thought that I should sever ties.
But strong and steel and should got lost,
When all that I could do was cry.

The knife was in my hand no more,
I found the blade inside my mouth.
I felt it stealing to yours,
And now we're both unarmed, without....

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I can’t breathe
Don't you hear the pleas?
I cant breath
We still aren't free,
I can’t breathe
society judged by skin pigmentation.
I can’t breathe
What’s wrong with our nation?
I can’t breathe
Don't you hear his pleas?
I cant breathe 
Hatred and discrimination is what we see.
I can’t breathe 
We are not equal, we are not free.
I can’t breathe
Unarmed black men and boys being shot down.
I can’t breathe
Injustice in America, injustice all around....

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the art of softness
a way of yielding
my face wears a
cunning samurai smile
after we make love
and I press tight 
with my thighs
around your waist
my ankles locked
I lie under your chest
with the illusion
I have yielded to 
your attack of love
and now I have you
with my jujitsu legs
grappling your heart
and I challenge you
with my eyes
to elude my hold
you offer no fight
only an obliging grin
and a docile glance
and I realize
completely unarmed 
you just won 
the match...

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