Short Unkept Poems

A tainted fountain
A useless, unkept landmark
Though waters made sweet...

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no tombstone no plaque
worn out frayed flowers hang
unkept weeds grow fierce...

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Words of the dead rise 
telling their tales in our ears 
winds unkept secrets...

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The Unkept room. 

That whiskey stain. 

That incomplete book. 

I'll leave them here....

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America 2020, yet another Hell on Earth
   Her premise sadly unkept
The world-at-large simply shrugged
   ~ Fools and Poets wept...

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When in December I make resolutions
    I fixate upon vows unkept

  Single-handed I topple the Theory of Evolution
    For every year I come up inept...

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Completley undecided in my
unkept home.
I've become,one side minded,
that I won't come home.
My attention becomes 
so undivided,
as your intentions 
are yours alone....

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With eyes that see and ears that hear,
but hearts that look away

Each child unkept—all life bereft,
to rue these mournful days

(Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia: March, 2020)...

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Loneliness

Tastes equivalent to a reoccurring nightmare
Sounds as though tomorrow will never arrive
Looks exactly like it's identical opposite
Feels equal to an unkept secret
Smells the same an unanswered prayer
It leaves me senseless...

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Washed away the tides pull the sands 
Small particles back from the shore
Eroded unkept footsteps tracks 
Of passers by are seen no more
The sun the moon bare witness
To this subliminal demise
A natural course followed daily
Ritualistically done over time...

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I told secrets,
Not to be revealed
To my grief, I felt a breeze
Around my world it wheeled
Like flaming fire in the forest
My secrets you never sealed
I heard what mouths spat,
That my injuries never healed
For salt to be rubbed upon,
For my weaknesses to be peeled!...

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Autumn's September or October
 what does it matter anymore?
Too quick this fast pace of time
 when unkept promises
 falling through time's door
 with minds decay
 the seasons
 never 
 stay.








for Autumn, September October contest
by Karen Krutsinger
8/21/19...

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EXPLULSION

Twisted portrayed
Lathered relayed
Unkept unpaid
Human unmade

Demon drawn
sunken within
Drenched in sin
Forbidden to live

Expelled expulsed
Repelled repulsed
Reviled exiled
Refired expired

purge the mighty soul
Rid the toxic mould

Beauty to behold...

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Soft Spring Winds whisper words
  no ladies' man likes to hear
glide 'cross his cheek, foam on a wave
  echoing promises made...

Forgotten midst summer Heat and 
  Fall's faded glory, these Winds return
in December, roaring words unkept and
  teardrops wept, promises unremembered...

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I think I’m going to move
As far away as possible
To another galaxy
Find my own asteroid B 613
Just like the little prince
To be the ruler of my universe
Where there's no crime
No unkept promises
No tragic stories
I think
That’s just exactly
What I’ll do



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on January 11, 2019...

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P eople hurt others with their unkept promises.
R ain of tears from the hurt.
O ver and over you say the same thing.
M e and you never again.
I have forgiven many times.
S ee it all starts again.
E nough is enough of unkept promises.
 

Date Written: 6/2/2020

3 Place  The Promise Contest Judged:6/6/2020 Sponsored by: Silent One...

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Life is a puzzle
Where pieces don't always fit
No box to keep order
With pictures on it
With some pieces missing
As life is unkept
But that you won't find
Till the bitter end
We continue to try
And fit the pieces right
Frayed at the edges
More loose than tight 
Working it out
As hard as we might
Building this puzzle
That we call life...

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The t.v. series,
A Little Princess,
reminds me
of my dad's gift
of a dark-haired
porcelain doll...

...I gave away
to compensate
for feeling spoiled
--that I begged
for her at all

Being a generous
gift-giver was one
of my dad's
main languages 
of love

I hope even though 
I've hardly kept 
any of his gifts
he still cares--
up above...

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When all the marbles leave the bag
Fret not, weekend wrangler,
For the beat of your heart 
Wobbles the very Earth

This your wounded year
With waves calling from pier to pier
Rise, rise your gutless cheer!

Fear not the flashing spheres
Running over shadow-patched cracks
Gleaming with the glory of unkept dreams
Sending shockwaves through Heartlands....

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A lighthouse essential unattended
Seems only yesterday unaffected 
Stood crucial organized significant
Now unkept completely inefficient.

Vines climbing assuming occupation
by onslaught internal saturation
A beacon important enlightening
Blind wanting forever agonizing.



Maurice Yvonne
09/21/2014
Contest: The Lighthouse
Sponsor: nette onclaud...

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I am tattered in misery
Dirty; unkept but harmless
Though drained mentally
Begging but forceless

untattered thou in hummer
Oiled and scenty but Abacharical 
Though unscrupulously richer
Neocolonizing thy own clan

Starving the represented
Looting and exploiting them
High blood pressure thy means
But thou call me mad

If that is madness
Heaven make me king of madness...

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Long ago far away you took my heart
A stranger day and night 
A star shining bright in the sky
Pitter patter with the light
Love struck a force so strong
Breaking me perilous flight
You unkept unknowing unjust
Swept into my wake in daylight
Lovely unjust unwelcome you thrust
Yet I gave to you without a fight 
Captured by your heArt held by your soul
I am yours wrong or right...

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Understanding within an instant
Purity of clarity
Holds humanity 
Secrets unkept
For truth was respect
Kneel to the Father
God love is our Author
Mankind reminds
To remain as one mind
Manipulation 
Within our nations
Justice prevails
Jesus lifted the sails
Present knowledge 
Removed the blockage
Spirtual sky
As known as the bible eye
Do thank the sun
Praise the son
For they are one...

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Sharp, the swell, swirling
And cold reluctance tumbles
down into the empty pitted stomach
Pale, my shaking hands, pulling at
the weighted mindfull of memories,
that will ! Rust and drip daily
hinges will strain on posts of belief
Again held up, by disbelief.
Overgrown, and unkept, twigs touch
Ohhh, long long blades of green,
Fruitfull and empty, with plenty i leave.
Only the last apples are mine !...

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I close my eyes
and my world is so beautiful
filled with happy, loving people 
full of jobs and security
no one ever goes hungry
I want to keep my eyes closed forever,
but instead I open them
to a trashy unkept America
filled with anger, hateful people
full of unemployment and laziness
some people go hungry, because
they can't afford food
and i just want to close
my eyes again
to envision "my world"...

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