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Short Unbuilt Poems

Short Unbuilt Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Unbuilt by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Unbuilt by length and keyword.


Salvaging the Past
Many nights there were no new dreams,
so I borrowed from the old

Resurrecting the scaffolding
of what lay unbuilt—untold

(Dreamsleep: November, 2020)...

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Categories: unbuilt, silence,
Form: Rhyme



Transfusion's Masquerade
How can you teach Poetry,
  or breathe for someone else

Sharing what your soul has freed,
  deep within yourself

Can you cross a bridge unbuilt,
  its toll not yours to pay
  
Squeezing blood from wounds long healed,
 —transfusion’s masquerade

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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Categories: unbuilt, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Too Proud To Smile Or Weep
You were proud who would not weep,
And I, too proud to smile.
Our words unspoken
The box of sweet perfume
Left  unopened
Are things stolen from us that
Never shall return.

Beneath a bridge unbuilt
A once calm stream
A now wild restless sea
Where phantom ships
In ageless quest sail on
To find no home,
To reach no haven's rest....

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Categories: unbuilt, lost love, pride, voyage,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Hero
Can I be your hero of tomorrow?
I know that I have not been
Your hero of before or today,
But give me a chance to stay
By your side next time,
I know I have unbuilt
Your empires before,
Myself slipping aside
As new problems come ashore,
While my talent seems to be
Removing people's pleasure,
Please let me be your hero
Of tomorrow, a day I might change....

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Categories: unbuilt, caregiving, dedication, forgiveness, hope, metaphor, hero, me,
Form: Free verse
Monday Morning
Three strikes on the snooze button
Then unwilling, still dark within,
I step out to stretch my stiff back
and you tell me - time to wake up.

This day I might return to bed;
Other days I will trudge to work.
But the self is the task today:
Verse, rest, reflection, dreaming on

These shards that dwell within my mind,
The unbuilt felt magnificence,
Looming over the central square
Announcing their will to be built....

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Categories: unbuilt, imagination, on writing and words
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Dance - Denouement
Sifting through shadows of lost innocence heaviness weighs chill eroding hope's gilt skeletons wrought of protracted suspense whisper pierce dissonant symphony's lilt lifting vague reminders of dreams unbuilt on shores of sanity. Love lesson learns over broad spans tumultuous yearning burns deep rumbling blunt warns solemnly heeded quite sensibly calm maturity earns tender strength soul protection when needed.
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Categories: unbuilt, life, romance, thank you,
Form: Dizain

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