Short Unguarded Poems

Never
Means that nothing
Calls back the Furies loosed
By an unguarded, untamed tongue
Once out....

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In the minute motion
of her passing
he lost his balance.



For Bite Size Poem
Contest #21
09/16/2021...

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my loves on the ground
drowning in the rain
freezing in the snow
blown around in the wind
stepped on by life...

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his reflection shows 
crow's feet and sad, worried eyes
the unguarded twin
he turns away in alarm
refusing to face this man...

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You see what you think
Molding unguarded notions,
They see what you feel;
A whole spectrum of choices,
What will you shapeshift into?...

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Chinese whispers
up and down
round and round
spins
effortlessly
into unguarded
hollows
deceived
beginnings
ends at
destined
trickery....

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Teachers 'know better than parents'
    because they're with the kids all day

  Yet parents in unguarded moments
    get to hear what the kids really say...

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About to open
The green and yellow window
Unguarded moment
Serves spontaneous drops of 
Blue and red water from sky 
__________________________
19/10/2016...

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When I was my grandkids' age
    I could throw my bike down
      in the morning
    outside the playground, unlocked, unguarded

  Then return for it near twilight
     ~ it was always there...

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Snippets of a discarded song breach my unguarded ears,     
Dive through a drowning of blue-soaked years, 
     depth-charge submerged memories, 
Send lost love pluming through the surface of my pacific mind....

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I have been happy, never overjoyed,
I have been sad, never grieved,
I have been angry, never furious,
I have been surprised, never unguarded,
I have felt fear, never dread,
And many have I liked, never loved....

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How I relish the unguarded movement

Of an hourglass shaping your graceful curves,

Framed on twilight's deserted backdrop.



Three Line PoetryContest
`` From  a man's perspective
3/16/2015...

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Unguarded, from out that pit
For heart's place, capacious
Burn on up, Desiring's brood.
Winged vipers, rapacious.

There's luxury's diamond-backed
Skinned regeneration.
And lust, more horrid looking.
With reddish streaks thereon....

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Busking for breakfast in Kabul
a puffed up dream idealology
haze delineating freedom
as mournful tunes offset tranquility

Crowds gather to gawk
sentimental shards of shrapnel
life left unguarded
wasted away 
another fateful scene screams...

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SENSITIVITY
a
 universe
of rhythms
encourage
urgency
to revelation
in
a sequence

a substitute
for
emotion
balanced
&self-contained
  versatility

action
without
  disruption
meditation
shaped
  by
   phrasing
modest
utility
 unguarded
& fruitful...

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Unguarded by the living now,
The castle stood.
Drawbridge dangling.
Tongued mouth reaching outward.
Crenulations gnawing, 
The stark gray sky.
Rime-covered battlements
Coated with gangrenous moss moan.
With a banshee’s howl through apertures
Where archers once stood....

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The salted sea,
capricious,
Captures dreams unguarded,
to roar in glee   and toss toss,
to crash against   his hardened sands.

Dreams be fragile.
Best to guard   and   gentle nourish,
protect against   the cynic salts,
the doubting hearts 
and the deep and salty sea....

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the moment, i kissed her,
there a tenderness
and a hunger,
a passion we could not dispute,

her, taking me in,
gifting, trading, pulses racing,
unguarded delightful chorus
as i received each gift from her,

and again,i saved each moment,
each thought to myself
over and over....

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You are not mine to keep, but I still pray,
For you enchant my thoughts every single day.
In the depths of my soul, a flame flickers bright,
A love unguarded, a longing I cannot fight.
Though destiny keeps us apart, I’ll forever yearn,
For in my prayers, my love will always return.
...

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The tattered gown lay fixated
She let her steady gaze tail
The people in the electric box
East to west
West to east
Each way they went her eyes 
Were sure to go
From dawn to dust
And dust to dawn
All day long

It has come to stay
And be lord over men
Whose unguarded gaze
Defies intellect....

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in the valley of the moon...it drifts
light and white, a dense fog
waiting for closed eyes and unguarded thought
images impale cerebral hemispheres
whimsically it dallies, a shadow on dark walls
flashes of color play on the backdrop of dreams
while softly it whispers a lullaby 

a sweet dream comes...

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I venture forth in this wood unknown
Trembling inside this greenery overgrown
I trustingly advance each step foreward
Inching towards my fate unguarded
Lowering my gaze somewhat subdued
I spy my rainbow my future I view
Longing future wisdom spiralling notions
My lusty prelude to imagination enthrown!...

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thru
       the keyhole
of domestic
         virtue
a woman
               sits
                    questioning
                       concerned
a focussed
      intimacy
of
the
          eternal
              nature
unguarded
   moments

 generational
  &  contemporary

through the
                  ages...

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You follow me to life
Along unbeaten paths
Up a mountain of dreams
Into a river of hope
Far into the sky
Where the sun heats the heart
But will you follow me to death?
Through murky mires
And unguarded fields
Down a hill of antipathy
With bleeding knees and broken spirits
Flying uncontrollably to an unpleasant demise...

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Discouragement besieges my certainty like
clear blue skies swallowing up the noonday sun.

Anxiety trespasses with spears aimed to unguarded 
thoughts like water rising on deck from an unruly blue sea.

My syncopated language scat of failure
like a night of blustering blues.

Pillaging my ears and ravaging my mindset's goals and dreams....

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