Short Unfelt Poems

Raindrops tell dry soil
Why the clouds melt
Tears drown the heart's pain unfelt....

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Dismiss, Distort, Defend, Reverse.
The demise of my universe.
Unheard, unfelt, alone, confined;
frustrated, angered, hurt, maligned....

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Truth lies beyond computation,
  perception aware of itself

Its ability beyond the last measure
  —of all theory and data unfelt

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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i am invisible
less seen than the wind
unfelt and unheard
I wait to be recognized
but you do not see me
i do not struggle
i do not make whining sounds
i ease myself away
sadly...

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demonstrative tree shows her feminine wiles
a prowess unseen and unfelt by other trees prances forth
wind and sea swirl around her, trying for attention
she bestows attention on all...

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The portal to my heart
  sealed ever-so-tight
Iron casements held fast
  'gainst tempest's stormy night

How did it happen
  Did the wind blow her in
Joy for ages unfelt, unseen
  True love, where have you been...

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Serenity appears for all to behold 
mountainous lake unfelt by cold
your body sinks in waters deep
time and misery to now unfold

      

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Sponsor: John Freeman
Contest: Rubaiyat Form...

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I lived to find silence,
chasing hither and yon
till morning turned inward
reaching deeply beyond

Now firmly embedded
inside of myself
my eyes turned away
—from what’s spoken unfelt

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)...

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This empty space 
Left by you 
Gone 
So far away unseen 
This hole burns 
My soul yearns 
For your touch unfelt; 
Laughter unheard 
Come quickly, speed 
Your return 
And fill the space 
The hole 
You left behind...

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Discretions infinity,
  its number unknown

One window sufficient
  for its light to be shown

An exploding dynamic
  tumbling over itself

A singular beauty
  —in the distance unfelt

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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my hazel orbs are silent
he barely glances my way
but I catch his meaning
communication is swift

others continue their banter
not seeing or feeling 
what we feel and know
husband wife communication
unfelt or discerned by others...

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swimming in a sea of unfelt 
reality, i happen to chance upon
your ship and down it goes, lost
on my tides, left without direction
in this unforgiving time of not-
yet-free, not-yet-sane, but fully
aware and alive are we as we
sink once more...

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Prince of piers, reader of seers
Feelings unscorced unfelt
Not a part of keen believers
Akin to a hand harshly dealt
No more sorrow within
 into fire mercury melt
Drowned in unknown sin
Into gold we all shall turn
Never again to force nor burn...

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I think of you often.
In the morning, late at night,
but those thoughts go unvoiced,
the mortal touch goes unfelt.

It’s easier to keep to myself,
to avert my gaze deliberately.
it’s safer to keep ravenous.
It’s simpler to bamboozle with silence....

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Is there truth without belief,
 facts left on their own

Disconnected from themselves,
answers poorly shown

Can dogma live in vacuums,
when empty of itself

Will formulaic reasoned minds
—conscript what goes unfelt

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2020)...

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I often sit here waiting,
for truant words to come

To chase the thoughts now fleeting,
messages on the run

These days I sit impatient,
as I wonder to myself

Are time and memory draining
—precious moments left unfelt

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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Beyond all critical thinking,
above what’s right or wrong

There’s a different understanding,
where words turn into song

With a deeper sense of freedom,
light shines upon itself

All reasoned dialectic,
left abandoned, lost—unfelt

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: June, 2019)...

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The finer you draw your measurements,
the further away you fall

Each number squared and time compared,
deafens out the call

Your techno-dialectic,
data piled upon itself

A trash heap at the deadest end
—where folly stacks unfelt

(Haverford Pennsylvania: July, 2019)...

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Asymptomatic love, a silent thief in the night
Unseen and unfelt, but oh, what a painful sight

But love, a stubborn force, will not be denied
And through the pain, it will always abide

In the end, successful, despite the bitter cost
Two hearts now one, forevermore embossed...

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I often sit here waiting,
  on days when words won’t come

To chase the thoughts now fleeting,
  their messages on the run

These days I sit impatient,
   as I wonder to myself

Are time and memory draining,
 —precious moments left unfelt

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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Misshapen flimsy mass
Rubbage under foot
Wet with spittle and DNA
Morphing into a Dali
Time melting away
Family needs more
Rubbage on the floor
Unmoving joints staring eyes
Hollow unfelt emotions
Sweep over like a helium balloon
Surrealism opens the chest of me
Deflated spirit; deflated balloon...

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These stone eyes devour
chiselled by the empty rain
buffed by the dust of histories remnants
Touching life with crackled fingertips
The portent unformed smile
that labours at the stone hearts
that drift forever by
Punished wings that mock
at feet unmoved
Pass me with your time
Unfelt this obelisk heart of mine...

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My mind insane,
From the taste of bare sin
Yet my mouth is that of a sheath,
Lying Underneath, My words hidden as the sharp sword.
Cutting away at the sane mind’s,
Known sin, for a pain/wound not felt,
Cannot be healed or understood by a skin unfelt by its touch.
For 
One cannot dream,
If the world never sleeps....

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Deep beneath the upright mind,
far deeper than the unconscious,
unseen, unfelt, unknown, yet...
rare, very rarely its intimations
will sudden-like float through 
your veins, then your brain,
and thrilled beyond reason
you will wonder for such a
small moment what waved
your soul to come alive....

[written and posted 9/2019]...

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Pale, unloved, unheard,
a voice so pure,
though crowded,
I have much to say.

Hear me out,
I will play bravery.
If you listen,
I will give you knowledge.

I have seen the world,
through eyes of sordid brass.
Cleverly stolen tidbits
release my inner self.

Treason! I am betrayed.
Acknowledgment of sin,
an ironic pain indeed.
Maybe best unfelt?...

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