Short Unflinching Poems

fears of violence --
the unflinching spirit
emboldens others...

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The Raven
By: Aidan Gilbert

Look at the raven
So haunting, so beautiful
It stares. Unflinching...

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autumn oak tree stands tall just like Churchill's legacy,
unflinching England facing German autumn plane filled skies...

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the sweet of all hearts,
the teacher of my character, 
an ointment for my pains,
undaunted partner of my days of rain,
unflinching supporter of my aims, 
the friend of my needs, 
only the mother indeed...

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Love, the irrepressible
Unflinching, undeterred.
In a lost toned request for aid
What is manly answered.

Brunting iced gales, though blindly
Though dipping at the head
An old boat, steered but of one!
"Ahead!" screams on "ahead!"...

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He walked with the dignity of a 
kingdom as old as the written word.

The goodness and figure of a father,
he died under the sighs of the pharaohs.

The sacrificing Christ of his convictions,
unflinching, faced the lions of his legions....

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The flawless beat of a warrior's heart
Unflinching in a passioned breast.
Unfamed by drudge and dreary toil,
marching onward in a deathless quest.

Forged by iron in flaming truth,
each beat carved by an untouchable sword.
Unknown is a hero's sacred stance
upon the fabric of time's eternal Word....

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The final question 
When on the death row
Is fear in tow
Or tranquil elation

No evasiveness possible
When the hammer falls
We can no longer stall
The question inevitable 

Inner bliss current
Yet throbs in continuity
Inconsequential to serenity
Is life or death sentiment 

23-October-2020...

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Girded loins sway
in restive need of sterile quarry,
lithe star spangled limbs
span the velvet heavens,
silver huntress Diana
unbends slender crescent arms,
looses the gleaming arrow,
unknowing, unerring, the missile
flies to the mark,
unflinching, the prey falters
in fatal ecstasy,
finite pleasure 
alloyed with infinite pain....

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There was a butterfly that flew down
And rested on your chin fluttering ‘round
But you didn’t brush it away
As your gaze was straight ahead
Unflinching - for you were dead

But the world did not stop
For us called there we did the lot
Your life was ended then
But the butterfly did not comprehend
That you were now dead.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Eternity is unflinching
and on the day of his last entry
the day he died
in a small room
dark blue,
he had no thoughts of coming days.

young man,
you did your time
in a prison,
did your time in the grip of malignant delusions,
no escape from the voices in your head.

May your ashes of shame 
your final expression,
rest in peace for ever and ever....

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FAUVISTA examined

a poem
of
colour
   clashing
 bright &bold 
saturated
in
  simply 
subjective 
  perceptions

an
emotiona! 
  response  
 not faithfulness
    to reality
with
  unflinching
expressive 
lines

a
harmonious 
   visual tone
flat 
with
  urgency
    &incompleteness
heightened 
  characterisation
by
directional 
   brushwork

...

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land of lost shadows
and unweathered skies.

five urban colours
through unflinching eyes.

tall distant chimneys
and schoolyards at play.

smoke drifting sideways
in stillness each day.

sketches on packets
of stained cigarettes.

strange brooding faces
and marionettes.

people bent walking
with heads looking down

 - if lowry was living
he'd have painted my town....

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My current level is ceaseless worry
Unflinching doubt occupied state of mind
Wonders and what ifs whipped in a flurry
My current level

Features disheveled with nose to the grind
Nowhere to be in the biggest hurry
Just to get there and wish I could rewind

If my own view were a bit less blurry
If common kindness were a common kind
I'd dial back few notches from worry
My current level...

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I have a worthy goal
I pine to be a fossil
on permanent display
in some future museum

All it takes 
is the proper soil
in which to reside
for years and years
of unflinching patience

And then a bit of luck
when a doctoral student
stumbles across my remains
and finds the subject
for her dissertation

Scientist will argue
over what it all means
and I will live on in death
as a smiling toothy enigma...

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Today my tears refused
to be imprisoned
while watching a film
on Gandhi's life

His unflinching, Godly resolve
moments of exhilaration and
plummeting despair

Christ-like love for Humanity
an example the world has
yet to follow

O' Gandhiji 
Your sacrifice
and dedication will
never be forgotten

Like Jesus, Buddha and
all the great Mahatmas
you died with the name
of God on your lips...

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Parents do not give the gift of life,
the gift they give is death.
After the long day that drains us,
We long to be consumed by darkness.
The blackness is bred in our bones,
it lurks silently in our hearts.

That long silence after pain.
That release from life's clench
is what we live for, and die for.
The best deaths, and the most rare,
devour it with unflinching acceptance,
and look it dead in the face....

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O, to dream of mythic trails, velvet underfoot
    to float on whipped-cream waves of desire
  To feel your soft contours sigh in sync with mine
    mint vapors to inhale, on moonstruck wishes to dine 

  To saunter down sandy boardwalks and disappear
    sans white buds or jeweled baubles in ageless ears
  Missionaries unflinching, for unrepentant good
    ere sunrise flickers out 'neath ashes of widowhood...

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Sequestered from mundane oration
Until this spell from Earth’s rotation
Meanders from my frozen gaze.
Melting clouds in pastel plush,
Evanescent waning rays,
Recant my vision’s wanderlust.

Slivered shards of ruby hues,
Unflinching wisps of reddish blues,
Nuanced haze in wafting threads,
Supplanting twilight’s blushing gray.
Eventually dusk’s blanket spreads;
The trance is broke – I look away.

-28 Jun 2014-

(Rhyme aabcbc)...

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Be a good wife, and a loving mother;
Of your own troubles, don't give a bother.

Manage your family, make time for them;
Even when they snub you, be their best chum.

Give them unflinching support and respect;
The same in return, don't you dare expect.

In order to maintain family peace,
Just don't give your mind-voice, any release. 

Don't break down, whatever life throws at you -
Because that is what we are told to do....

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In the heat of the cold
I searched a hand to hold
I laid alone and lonely
With thoughts of my one and only

I felt your warmth from a distance
My face lit in an instant
Still alone as one
Cold and loneliness gone

I yearn daily for you
Like the morning the dew
We may be seven worlds apart
We are united at heart

With faith unwavering
And hope unflinching
We would turn back the hands of time
We would be together for all time...

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Time blows and turns over
the pages of mylife.
Sometime revealing the prologue
and sometime the epilogue.

Hands write and leave their imprints.
the blotch, the unflinching courage,
 dejection,the forlon hope, ..........
all remain embedded in my soul.

Seasons arrive and vanish
bestowing sometime a spring flower
 and  sometime dry autumnal foliage.

I'm  a  fossil 
caged in my  own world.
I only wait and behold as
time writes  my fate....

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In the dark cold reality,
Unflinching vision world totality
I quivered at the quaking,
Twitching uncontrolled heaves shaking,
God's leaving town

My heart wobbled just thinking
The absence of some believing,
To be lost in such frailty
Kneeling to give an unholy fealty,
Ground sinking down

Hell's fires surely are baking
Truth is all in the damned faking,
Kings crowned in vacant royalty
Shudder to think of the loyalty,
Shops shutting down

Close your shudders!...

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She is a citizen of many nations
With her love withdrawn from their progress
She has sown the seed of war
On a fertile land of bloodshed.

How she disturbs our peace with every blow
Claiming to do more as she wishes
Oh who is there to clip her wings
In which dwells her unflinching strength?

With her rope she binds her assumed enemies
Who gather to determine her downfall
This is the Spirit of Violence
Which puts to flight the nations' calm and tranquility....

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A simple life an ordinary life
Complicated by a fractured heart
Unfinished, barely begun
Waiting for the green light
Too late for forgiveness to start
Mistaken path for a lonely soul
Misdirection, the one way to become whole
Hot tears can't reclaim the space
Kneeling, unflinching, Face
Darkness that must be borne
Before revealing a countenance of grace
Voices echo from far away
Beseeching merciful hands
As life fades inside itself
Grasp a soul slipping under
Shifting sands....

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