Short Unbending Poems

Poise
under
peer pressure
proves this precept:
"An unbending spine bends unwilling minds."...

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Unbending position
Unyielding opinion
Detached indecision
Inflexible unchanging 
Emotional distance...

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An unbridled affection for writing,
an unfettered attempt at the truth

An unbending rebut of excuses
—a Sage lost in the promise of youth

(Dreamsleep: March, 2017)...

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Lukewarm emotionless
Unsympathetic reception
To requests made by my
Heart to yours 
Hardened reaction 
Blinded by past hurts
Deaf to my Cry's 
Unbending resentment
Has overthrow love...

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time was bending and unbending
against the day.
my music rang out

like a church bell,
steady and true.
my body a metaphor

as it moved to the thump, thump
as if my heart
was a metronome....

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The cerulean river
veers its imperfect bights
through unbending 
rigidity of fixed earth.
My life's goal
as a square flower
of florid constancy
is still to thrive
in porcelain conformity
of a round garden....

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Play
compassionate, passionate
inviting, invigorating, entertaining
thespian,  star, contract, lawyer
 demanding, irritating, inciting, 
unreasonable, unbending
Work

09~11~2014
Sponsor: Regina Riddle
Contest Name: Diamante Poem ...

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Terror unending 
Bliss unendured 
Iron will unbending 
Love unsecured 
If God be willing 
Truth will be found 
In some bird's bright trilling 
In some bell-like sound 
And if walls should crumble 
And towers should fall 
My heart will be found 
Buried under it all...

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Bubbling up the tendrils of the inflamable cups

Filled to the brim with the dense brown odour

Of the maddeningly reddening valentine tulips

Surrender your sonnet to the unbending burglar



Romantic Charm in four lines - Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by: Silent One...

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My sister my friend, 
Forever to be, 
My friend, my sister, 
For eternity.

No loss or distance, 
Can sever our hearts, 
For two joining souls, 
Can never part.

With undying love, 
And unbending trust, 
God saw to it, 
That this was a must.

To be together, 
Forever you see,
My sister my friend, 
For eternity....

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Places to go things to see
It's all about the newness
Spring brings
City to City 
State to State 
Buds blooming 
Events taste
Lauhgter abounding 
The best from the children
Summer vacations 
Calander unbending
Learning pass downs
Called family tree tunes
Pictures to keep for all seasons
Shaking the spirit 
In breez

Spare Moment (VLB)...

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Peaceful slumber might it be
Without a dream do I see
No need for memories now
Or ghostly thoughts to take a bow

No thought of true endings
Or of attitudes unbending
For sleep leaves one alone
Without a friend found or known

So adventurous I am
Where it may not go to plan
Whether or not may it be
Lost to me now so easily.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Twilight , stay with me
in hours between wrong and right;
when confessions are  murmured
upon this life half done,

that past mid-life, I ask for reprieve
to settle unsolved  desires
those which enable  my fears
a choking of seasons’  absence—

Northwinds  may be  cold , cruel 
but now I hold  eventide’s  fire
with passion unbending.




26th Apr 2018...

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RECAPITULATIONS
dynamics
 in flux
highlights
apparent
  in silent
expression
frozen
perceptions
  evocative
allusive

sightlines
  in
      suspended
animation
perspective
  foreshortened
boundary
close off
in
parallel

energy
  absorbed
concentration
thoughtful
  unbending

motif
  in movement
unconcerned
  unresponsivd
unyielding
quiet
&
  static...

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sometimes when my spirit is casting shades of blue
thoughts of you transform those shadowy hues...

misty rain on my face evaporate
into steamy sunshine

warming my soul 
unbending my mind...

I started to say...
I’m lucky to have you in my life— 
but God’s blessings out measures luck by far

mere words can-not elucidate the treasured gift you have been—
and still are......

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A starburst of birds
splashing the sky (like a Jackson Pollock lullaby).
Colorful words making love to the eye...
So many birds...
Where do their bones rest after they die?
Do they sink softly into the sand.
Sashay with sea glass.
Do they glide into the hands of the old when they sleep?
(those thick unbending hands of time).
So many birds
where do their bones rest after they die?...

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A man's armor
unbending,mighty

Only broken by the touch of a woman
the soft, sweet temptation of love and affection

A man's armor
almighty, unbreaking 

A man turns fearless, but dangerous
A man turns unstoppable, but emotionless
We trade our imagination in for reality

A man's armor 
As strong as carbide, as cold as ice

We become both dead and alive
More animal than man...

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Awake............Open...............Alert..............Brave
Meek...............Not weak.......Good............Old
Elemental......Generous......Adamant ....Newborn
Right...............Unbending....Iron-willed...Dauntless
Invincible........Armed............Natural.........Armored
Challenged....Ready............Steely...........Great
Able.................Dauntless.....True..............Eternal...

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Eager bubbling, dreams, fantasies, feelings of all sought,
Stubborn, unbending, mind fixated at one thought!
Never-ending, eternal love for just the”one”,
The wit, that sharp tongue, those soft curls; i was won!
Cuddled in the warmth of strong arms, away from the shifty world,
Love grew, warmth spread, pacing time twirled!
To remain in the forever embrace, till peeps a wrinkled face!

21/6/2018...

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Potpourri
By: Tom Wright
7/16/03


God gave me Passion of Heart when discovering first love,
A prayer for Love and Peace as symbolized by His Dove.
I have the Confidence of an Oak, deep rooted and unbending,
I glimpsed the Joy of a Dragonfly ere midsummer's day ending.
I've the Enthusiasm of a Butterfly, as it nectars a flower,
and the Patience to accept Life, hour by hour.
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My mother filled so many roles,
In helping seven meet their goals.
She reared us by her fine-tuned tools
Of simple but unbending rules.
She was teacher, preacher, censor,
Most of all a love dispenser,
A mentor, doctor, nurse and cook,
Skills not yet found in any book,
Seamstress, laundress and home-maker,
Maid and cake and cookie baker,
All the time filling Daddy's life
With happiness as his loved wife....

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Wild and free, oh how I’d love to be
Away from this life that’s boring me
Day after day no end in sight
How I envy the birds in their beautiful flight
Gracefully they glide swoop and soar
Among the clouds twixt shore to shore
Free to fly free to sing
And the glorious dawn their chorus brings
When beams of light cause shadows fade
And sparkling dew in Fairy glades
A magical world now lost to dreams
Replaced by life’s unbending themes...

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He was still paying the price
for ultimate unbending.
Before the black icon locked the waves
to start tremors for an apolitical murder.

He took the call and stood straight,
stopped the melodrama of drinking the venom
and became larger than death.
This is the story of a common man,

who remained silent, went on looking
for the invisible marks on the ornamental sword
carved after every farewell to the severed
head of another clan.


SATISH VERMA...

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Why don't you ever want to try,
try to help me understand why?
Dying dreams fuel constant crying,
crying, for my dreams are dying.
You promised me your love was true,
true; is all that I ask of you.

Youth can't accept unbending truth,
truth is more flexible to youth.
Love cannot be built upon lies,
lies can't support the weight of love.
There was a time you swore to care,
care enough, to truly be there.



(Mirror Sestet)



7/14/2015...

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What should I write about?

Truth, that is all!

But there is mine,
yours...

and then His of course:

compassion
unbending--
forgiving
unending--

though we are inclined
to weakly compromise;
change only when 
uncomfortably pressed;
(having tilted, after being lavishly blessed)
wipe the slate clean
reluctantly, for forced
by self-created 
negative circumstance
to heavily lean--

His love is faithful
regardless our fault,

Divine Witness
the crucified Christ....

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