Short Undelivered Poems

Undelivered thoughts
Stuck in a postal limbo
Like lost love letters
With the only proof they were,
Random shouts in solitude...

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In his closet Mort had a skeleton
  Draped o'er an undelivered Peleton
    A bag of bones himself
    Mort was a Christmas elf
  Dined on doughnut holes atop gelatin...

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There is an undelivered letter 
Called democracy 
Because freedom is limited 
Law is passed 
To keep man knowing how to behave
To prevent man from running wild and loose 
And to prevent man from fleeing to the boundary of wilderness...

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I need someone to give me
LOVE, wrapped and all
with the correct address and not like the last one
undelivered.
Love that would warm my home now that
the fireplace is out, that promises to lower
my heat bill in cold wintery season
of my soul....

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The semen of tomorrow’s rage
burning undelivered 
waiting for perdition's womb
vengeance baptized—christened tears

The seed that carries darkness on
planted in the shadows
hiding what we most despise
hatred pregnant—birthing fear

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)...

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The curtain rose on a cloudless night
Once More! the crowd clamored

A lone table across the room, a candle
Flickered

Shooting stars lit the sky like confetti

Bowing to the maestro in the pit
Impossible had no meaning

Fireflies sparked in anticipation
Bus service was cancelled
The daily mail, undelivered

At that moment
That precise moment
The telephone rang

Gently, I lifted the phone off the
Cradle

And heard the words I had waited
So long to hear

 
04/13/13
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