Short Unfinished Business Poems

finally tying up
loose ends
signing the artwork



posted on September 30, 2018...

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unspoken words linger
unfinished conversations whisper
soft gray clouds
veil sullen skies
a day of calm
anticipates a storm

Bite Size Poem #31 Poetry Contest...

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A man with an unbearable need
looked for a urinal with greatest of speed.
And what a display of repeated foul words
when he found one but his pants were on backwards!

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Whirlwind terror
Away to face the eternal.
Loved by family and friends but
Lost to us now.
Always remembered, taken too quick.
Clever fox left unfinished business
Ending life's journey too soon....

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What if the sun was to not rise
What if the world would not turn
What if today was our last
Would you have regrets
Would you have unfinished business
What if you had one day left
How would you finish...

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At peace


When i'm gone
Bury me in the forrest
Where i can feel the Earth
Where i can feel myself

Plant a tree as my tombstone
So i can grow to touch the sky
Let the leaves blanket me
For the long winter night...

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PATIENTLY

there is unfinished business in my dreams
there is much longing without sleep
i'm always late
but still you wait
there is unfinished business in my dreams
and this is the ecstasy of a poem unwritten...

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Every Autumn you come to  me

Like a haunting ghost

The vision is surreal

But the deep scar is bleeding

The deeper the cut opens

The pain radiates through my breath

You will forever be my unfinished business.

-Heather Boardman...

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He rose
She watched
He paused
She gazed
He twitched
She sighed
He packed
She froze
He waited
She turned
He glanced
She shivered
He moved
She whispered
He paced
She sobbed
He freaked
She called
He frowned
She pleaded
He kissed
She wept
He turned
She knew
He left...

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So many things I'd like to say 
I'll save them for some other day 
You know the way I think towards you 
It hasn't changed, the bird's still blue 
And though not mentioned anymore 
The shelves are stocked inside my store
Provisions for the heart await
They have no expiration date...

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Thump, thump, thump.
Beware the beating of the drums,
Soon after, death is sure to come.
The Reaper is on his way,
This is not your lucky day.
There is no where to run,
The Reaper leaves no where to hide.
Unfinished business is no concern of his.
Count your blessing, lay all your sins aside.
Beware the beating of the drums,
Because that's when the Reaper comes.
Thump, thump, thump.......

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Choices Between Life Or Death
Lost in between death and life,
Swirling blackness,
I can’t feel anything,
I can’t decide,
On whether to die or live,
I have a choice,
But where should I go,
So much unfinished business,
So much undone,
So much spoken,
Yet nothing has been said,
I don’t know if I should save myself,
Or let them all rejoice,
I’m stuck between life and death,
And I have to make a hard choice....

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after painting the town,
there is an odor in the air
untouched and reeking of
uh oh

unfinished business can 
always break through 
the smokescreen 
substitute

when the spike is thrown
back in the air, where it 
lands is where life left 
its bullhorn

the peaceful dream excursion
is over, and the acidic bookmark
is tossed back in the solution
for another time when an escape
from the norm is needfully needed...

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Limbo Cake

When you die before your time you go to Limbo
A place for unborn and innocent souls
A happy zone where the unknown play and wait
Unfinished business and Birth Days are postponed
There is no paper
Golden pens are in supply
To write messages on your heart
Of a life not lived and stories of what could have been
One day God will come again and take you
Until that time
You continue waiting
For your Birth Day cake...

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I’m not an angel 
Or a demon 
Just a ghost from your past 
I’m not leaving 
We have unfinished business
That I just can’t put to rest 
I still say, “I love you” 
But it’s only a whisper in the wind 
That you can only hear if you really listen 
But we both know you’re not good at that 
So I walk through walls to get to you 
You just can’t see I’m there 
Or at least you pretend not to 
You have your reasons 
Though those reasons may not be clear...

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I was going to swap my brain for another
but then i changed my mind
thought i seen a bus
but that was just unfinished business
U  something  S has come between
Feel that    your skin
-----------------under
If crows 
killed in a group
would that be a murderous murder of crows
i've always liked the sheen atop the black oil
are you comfortable sat in
cottoned on yet
polly was taken esterday
vas can swap
i will gently crepe on by
hidden by da mask...

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Now, why would Connor commit suicide:
Life's unfinished business wave aside?
Crude deaths had never stopped time and tide;
One would have to Grave gone, no pride...

Connor was only a bit curious,
After what he had heard from Julius,
To find out if it was injurious:
If men's claims weren't, after all, spurious?

Now, should that make comrades furious:
The whole saga take much serious?
Oh! where had he read all about it:
"Safe ways to Naked wires visit"?...

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Stepladder up to the ceilings

Held with high reasons and feelings

The bookcase


Volumes of joy and pure leisure

State their case as printed pleasure

A bookworm


Shape a life into linked chapters

Mind and soul as truth extractors

His bookmarks


Many things he can’t quite discern

Unfinished business much to learn

To bookends


Legends fiction subconscious streams

Myths fantasy and vivid dreams

Of booklore 



01st May 2020...

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I am not angry over growing old , lost in the sea of grass,
what started off as a new bubbling spring has carved it's line's on my face.
It's not the trauma I have endured that has robbed me of my
childhood memories or the friends we all had growing up.

Worried that I have unfinished business here, forced as a ghost
to wander across Stormy seas.
Money is grace on a smooth face every one sees on t.v.
If forced into the chair in the courtroom, I cannot remember why....

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In this maddening heat 
      of the prizefight
where ferocity reigns and 
      might is right,
the shrewder one may yet 
      triumph tonight.


For even the best can be 
      at his worst
and the last can still 
      outlast the first,
but either way it goes, 
      egos burn and burst.


Victor and vanquished 
     will stay remorseless;
they'll fight again till 
     they'll be both lifeless;
for to fight and win is an 
     unfinished business !...

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