Short Unburdened Poems

Laughter's pure embrace,
Unburdened hearts in bloom,
Innocence's dance....

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A massager's relax
Unburdened on the table
Hands plead and mellow
You slip into breath
As all tissues unfissure...

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flowery poem
overflowing sentiment
unburdened and old-fashioned
Victorian art
Queen Anne’s lace and pink roses
she wasn’t that kind of girl...

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Grappling with problems.
The hands in being now
Occupied with this
Unburdened somehow.
Digging up the weed
Dead heading flower.
Cares of the housewife
Composted this hour....

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unshackled
           unburdened

  A NEW DAY IS DAWNING!

           shame-free
           blame-free

  LEAVE THE PAST BEHIND!

          morality-free
             yippee!...

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If Plan A fails, remember you have 25 letters left
Don't weep or lose sleep, your brain needs a rest
Have courage
Get unburdened
Like me when I get stuck, my clothes I divest...

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Freedom's song, first amendment's grace,
A symphony of rights we all embrace.
Speech unchained, beliefs untamed,
Press unburdened, grievances proclaimed.
In liberty's embrace, democracy inflames....

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“Peace on earth, goodwill to [wo]men,”
When I was a child unburdened by worry
Takes me a long way back to a time when,
With not a care in the world, why hurry?
Everything was simpler, less chaotic then.

written December 20, 2021...

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She carried her hurts like a bag full of rocks
and named it her hard knocks box..
It grew heavier and heavier as she traveled
to and fro so one sunny day, she  let them all go...
Now she ambles lightly,  at a much easier pace,
without her rocks, there's room for grace...

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My weary eyes have yet to see

The threshold of eternity

But with the moon and stars around

My heart and mind and spirit bound

Then on my headstone there will be

A glimpse of my humanity

And when they lay me in the ground

Unburdened by all sight and sound...

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Watching the clouds travel by,
fast moving, each one a soul
I name.  There's work to be done
up there, sweeping the sky clear
of sorrow, leaving unblemished
blue to lighten the load we carry.
They have been unburdened 
from theirs, still care for the 
absolution of the earthly....

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The truth in translation
knowledge distraught …
He swept through the cosmos
a truant uncaught
His wings never clipped
his sails never trimmed
He flew through tomorrow
a new Seraphim
Those who were watching
their eyes disbelieve
Unburdened by dogma
—transcendence achieved

(The New Room: March, 2023)...

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Chocolate Sass-Mouth
Spacklefudge grinny
Sloppin’ down my chinny
In it to winny!

Chocolate Sass-Mouth
Butternut cream
Smeary goo team
Gurgly dream

Chocolate Sass-Mouth
Spittin’ out sass
Unburdened by class
Dirty hall pass

Chocolate Sass-Mouth
Twisted face covered
Misty-place lover
Never recovered

More chocky please...

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Life springs unplanned
Her child 3 months resting
A glow in her eye, she reveals
The hidden destiny

What of love?
The birth is a problem
Doesn't fit this year's projections
Uneasy boyfriend shuffle and exchange
Rearrange, displace, and fret
What to do now?

Life continues unburdened 
Accidents all the same...

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The leaves are falling,
birds in song

Memory lingers,
tomorrow gone

A promise spoken,
solemn vow

The present honored,
faith avowed

Years enlighten,
age sets in

Youth remembered,
deep within

Gates now beckon,
pearl’s endear

Hearts unburdened
—time is near

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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You pushed through your grief
We never wanted to leave
No evidence of sound
You searched from the ground
You found the truth
We left you clues
You reached further down
We now offer you our crown 
Unburdened our roots deployed
Summoning a new level of joy
Healing wounds upon this new moon
We shall speak to you soon...

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With myrtle and listenability
I undertake the words of the prophets
Memories relapse in an unhealthy fashion
Man the forgetful
this rectangular mouth
compromises loftily
The Moons harsh splendour
boasts its specious context
as marigold and beam
sway across my October windowsill
like salt peter cleansing the pelt
truth is unburdened...

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In the eyes of the young child
life lacked black or shades of grey.
He travelled light. Unburdened
was his mind except for dreams,
till one day torrential rain
washed away the bright colours
and his soggy paper boats. 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  
Contest Finish Line in Seven
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Placed 3rd
© 16th May, 2020...

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All the natural heart within me sings
Of a season's journeying flower, 
For what the sun's talent on petals brings

Though the storm on pane riddles and breaks,
The bloom's a song gently fine—
To my will, satiate.

Unburdened night
Another's eyes' find
Nigh

All the natural heart within me sings—
The bloom's a song gently fine,
Nigh.
...

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Sweet butterfly with wings of gauze
Give this tired heart a moment's  pause
Unburdened by the human cloak
Freedom's spirit your flights invoke
Dreaming times in cloudy spheres
Raining droplets made of  tears
With not a whisper you fly away
I would not bid you here to stay
Beside your path goes just a bit of me
For one moment my soul flies free...

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SHANGRI-LA
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS




I longed for Elysium, in an unending search
I longed to join the chorus in Eden’s church
To bath in the warmth of an idyllic pool
To jump with joy like an unburdened fool
Combing the seas n heavens to no avail
Shangri-la was elusive, yet I refused to fail
Looking outward I could not reach my goal
Shangri-la resides in every mans soul...

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From the mind to the hand 
To the pen and the ink,
We write down on paper
These things that we think.

Feelings and emotions
Our fears and our hopes,
Our yearnings and losses
And about how we cope.

A written catharsis
Unburdened in script,
Of love and affection
Or a heart being ripped.

The beauty of nature
The power of a storm,
Our world as we see it,
In poetic form....

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The leaves have fallen,
  the birds did sing

Memory lingers,
  tomorrow brings

A promise spoken,
  a solemn vow

The present honored,
 —all faith avowed

The years enlighten,
  as age sets in

While youth remembered,
   still burns within

The gates now beckon,
  their pearl’s endear

My heart unburdened,
 —the time is near

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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Unburdened by mass,
star born 
photons
hurtle
through vacuum voids.

They reach a planet
where green continents swim 
in blue oceans.
It is night. A woman
looks up at the sky.

The photons travel
through the gelatinous matter
of her eye and die
on her retina,
sparking electric pulses 
that race 
along the optic nerve,
and her miraculous brain
translates:
I see a star....

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at first,

     she seemed unsure 
     as she faced the bonfire tonight
     with her back to him;

     the written vow
     in her hand she tossed, 
     piece by torn piece, to the flames,

     unburdened, 
     she sighed at the smoke,
     smiled at him reassuringly;

     they watched 
     the pieces bend, burn and blossom 
     like black roses dying out,

at last....

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