Short Unchain Poems

Solve the impossible 
Love chaos, peace lives 
Unchain through restraint...

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When dirty at the center of your heart
Wash your mistakes away in the harsh rain
as your deep guilt starts to unchain
a gem you'll soon become like a work of art...

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crossing 
threshold 
stepping 
beyond 
closed 
door 
sneaked
through
the small 
creak that
exists 
pushed way 
back inside 
pushed way 
back into the 
room were the 
memories of 
the past reside
in order to unchain
the love from it's 
imprisonment...

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With prose…
I saw only with my eyes,
as the words left my hand  

With poetry…
my eyes were abandoned,
leaving only my heart  

But in the distance played a lyric,
freeing what my words
could never unchain  

And hearing its melody,
my heart forever carried away
  —in song  

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)...

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In his tenderness oh angel,
I would like to dwell.
In the heights of His presence,
He will test my faith.


Heal the mansions of my heart,
Purge out my evil seeds;
Grant me strength and peace,
Unchain my love and fear. 


Let Him hear my plead!
I am grateful to be His;
Let Him watch my soul!
Thou art ever present to all....

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With prose,
I saw only with two eyes
and wrote with either hand

With poetry,
my eyes and hands were abandoned
leaving only my heart

While in the distance played a lyric,
freeing what my written words
could never unchain

And in that instant
when I first heard its melody
my heart was carried away,

—in song

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)...

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I say, 
let me forgive you

Unlock me, unchain me 

Set me free at last, 
from you,
from this prison of resentment

Set me free

I want to forgive you, 
I need to forgive you

I must forgive you,
so that I can move on, 
be free, be alive
 
But, 
you won't let me forgive you
for if I do, 
I might forget you

You say, 
that would be unforgiveable...

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Wipe away acrid tears of yesterday,
unchain the unforgiving guilt inside.
Listen, for a moment, to what I say.
You must, to yourself, open your heart wide.
Allow His lasting love to be your guide,
flounder not in the sea of broken souls.
Rise above.  Feel His love.  Heal, become whole.


Paula Swanson

For the contest:  Rhyme Royal
Sponsored by Dr. Ram...

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"where I'm going"

I've been places high and low
I've been within light and darkness
my mission is to seek the high
my mission is to forever follow light

what is richness what is illumination
fullness that fill hearts and souls
existing in persons places beyond things
freedom to unchain burdens to let us soar

where I've been I wish darkness to fly away
where I'm going I wish light to divinely stay

SkyWatcher
12-20-22...

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Tame it contain it relax it down
Why do you deny your God given crown?
                               Unleash it unchain it wear it with pride
                               Let it represent who you are inside.
Celebrate the beauty given to you 
Deny all of those who don’t share this view.
                                Your crown it represents Your ancestry 
                                Your lineage, Your people, Your history....

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A selfish yes
An unkind no
Blind eye to pain
Deaf to insane.

Pray how 
does one retrace
for to find    that forgotten face 
to touch   that trembling hand
the soft unheard   to hear
the blank unseen   to see.

Pray how 
does one unchain
a lifetime of links   serpentine...
    I hooked to me
    me addicted to I
I for me
and me for me.

All the ways and all the days
all   of the all   of everything
that always be
just for me....

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My head confirms what my heart denies

I'm a prisoner of all your lies

And though it may put me in my grave

I'll stand forever your dying slave

Of this Siren's call there's no defense

Against all logic and common sense

But until the end my heart you'll keep

And bury it in the briny deep

No matter how many tears I cried

A hopeless fool on the day I died

And on my gravestone the caption read

He followed his heart instead of head

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Unchaining the chained
Is my ultimate gain
Life we live is of chain
Full of manacles and shackles

Let we unchain the chained
Legs and hands under siege
Even our head and mouth
Cannot be free of doom
Can we ever leave above the gloom?
In chain we desire freedom
For our land is full of boom.


Alayande Stephen. T
9.20am 
Sat,July 29, 2006


In the morning when I was about leaving
Aunty Rose’s house in Iba,it was 
An Environmental day in Lagos....

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My ponderous struck core anticipated the revival of my rebirth
Despair is a driven motive for the things I can not reach and a thought that often occurred
Strung by the strings my raw emotion unveiled in a deep tone of red a melody so sweet 
It makes your heart want to unchain its center and reveal the perilous sincerity of isolated defeat
The rhythm softens like the last sound from my heartbeat 
At the last moment, my hands move to create a subtle calligraphy...

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The night has befallen me
Rescue me, unchain me
Sacred Lorelei
Bleeding a passion of royalty
Forever I'll follow your Argentine cloak
with the most deadly pacts
beautiful Witch 
Sacred Lorelei

Tell me did the ravens Hear my cry
My misery's plea
Sacred Lorelei
Was this all just upon a dream
Lucidity becoming reality
of my Sacred Lorelei

A fiat of darkly desire
from a most beautiful witch
unchaining the burden of my misery
All for my
Sacred Lorelei ...

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Fearful of everything long ago
I was strangled by the bonds that held me
You were but a shadow unformed
Come to untangle me from the long twisting ropes. 
Terrified of life yet unlived
Knowing not what trials lay ahead
And then you were there, my savior from within
Holding out your hands, with so much there to give
Am I to hope to dream of the unspoken promise
Or am I delusory to the extreme
Help me free from my bondage
Make me come undone, unchain me with a kiss....

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It is a sad diagnosis
I assure you
That you are choosing to keep
your poems locked up 
inside yourself
They have been chained up
since you were a child 
They are dying to be 
set free
They want the world to
view their parts
To feel their words
Perhaps to let them
recognize feelings of their own
To let them spill onto
paper
To unchain all of their thoughts
and feelings, positive or negative
Do not kill them
before
They have a chance...to live...

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