Short Unexamined Poems

You wanted
a knight in shining armor
that I could never be
but you were too shortsighted
to realize that I knew the path
to your liberation

and you turned a blind eye
when I tried
to point out the road home
ignored my every whisper
as the clues 
went blindly unexamined...

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chrysalis tears
   meconium oozes
soft wings cling

butterfly’s
  pupal fluid
red like blood

caterpillar and chrysalis
   combine to change
ugly duckling to swan

first flight
   like a falling forest tree
without sound

without witnesses
  beauty unexamined
unmounted
...

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If it is that there is luck,
fortune, flower and boom,
tell how,
for then would be peace of mind,
if not the sense is just,
an adventure of vile,
the same thing last year seeken love,
ere case still is a calamity,
ere from a different angle,
the worst are such waves and night
mare sighs,
perhaps, it cannot be so unexamined....

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An ancient Greek named Socrates
Once said, "The unexamined life
Is not a life worth living."
He might also have gone on to say
That the unexamined heart
Is not a heart worth giving.
Old Soc was right, of course, I guess,
But he forgot to mention
That you can only examine
Small chunks at a time,
Because life, as a whole,
Never gets anyone's full attention.
...

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Beings in Imagination 
By Mark Miller 
Brazen colors dance suspended, 
Over time's delay of existence. 
Frozen stills by photographs gravitate 
By a grounded descent in cognitive dissonance. 
Emotions explored yet unexamined. 
Sentry ghost crawls through holes silent facticity 
Thrown down the relative subjective 
As our pendulum stands over the meek blue of blind devotion....

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