Short Unmoving Poems

STILLED LIFE

unmoving-
allegory
in gravitas...

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She sits unmoving
Birds flutter, just out of reach
Undaunted, she waits...

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What tortured soul lies,
Dead and unmoving towards life,
But my dieing soul....

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Frozen, unmoving:
You are staring up at me,
In the winter cold.


August 14, 2018...

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The old dog waited
By the front door, unmoving
Refusing death's call..

...

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your long hair flying
as we danced very fast
then so slow and close
time unmoving in London
as we danced time away...

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Faint flickerings from the darkness
through a glittering gloom a sunset
peeks from unmoving clouds.
I stand and look into tomorrow's face...

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Sad unmoving air
Humidity wilts flowers
Animals search for water
Sauna-like setting
Barren ground is parched, dry, cracked
Miserable hot summer...

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Dusk
Ripples all gone
Silence broken
Crickets frozen songs
Darkness above
As below
Now
Where I am in repose
Quite quite dead
An unmoving
Story...

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stale, stagnant, unmoving
going nowhere,
forgetting to live
stuck in the muck of nothingness
dried out, dried up,
closing inward
forgetting to care...

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pretty daisy
crisp, clean, perky,
she outshines the sun
on this overcast day
her petals are unmoving windmills
her seeds sit up expectantly
I have a granddaughter named after her...

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Not moving at all
Just being stationary
Caught
In a constant unmoving
Wave
Left without
Desire
Having no
Motivation
Just going to have to except
My situation
For I am
Submerged
In this deep
Ocean...

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Apathy
             empty, numb
  unfeeling, unknowing, unmoving
     dead, heartless, desire, fire
consuming, demanding, conquering
          strong, relentless
                 Passion

      Eileen Manassian Ghali...

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Unmoving, sweltering, its evening falls,
Unrolling slowly a knotty unbleached cotton pall,
Turns unceremoniously and exits - 
      the day ending eight years,
Eliott's[1] sends a breeze, a silent scene ends call.


[1] Eliott’'s beach...

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A gravestone.
It says Sheila Ryan, died aged 59
A devoted mother

Here clinging to the hillside
Striving, for the solemn white cross at the top

Standing
quiet, 
unmoving, 
unsympathetic.

As soil creep carries the believer down the hill....

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Once upon a time
there was a little Cup Cake,
just there unmoving
and cold from the wintery
room temperature.
The icing was deep purple,
just a circle of sugar.
Suddenly it was picked up
and passed over from
one hand to another...
Halloween was here!...

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The formation stood just over five feet tall
It stayed unmoving in a frosty sleep
Bright sun appeared, dismay to all
The formation could not keep
Buttons started to slide
To Alyssa's dread
Snowman cried
Melted

March 21, 2018
Melting Snowball contest...

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a frozen aria
an angry sparrow
barking at winter


a frozen farewell
a snowflake coating
on fallen feathers


the snow drifts
an unmoving breaker
patiently poised


an icicle threatens
the dallying drips
that give it life


a snowshoe rabbit
eyes the carrot
dark eyes watch
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Lying upon the couch 
Listlessly unmoving 
Lethargic and sluggish
Like a sun-drugged lizard
Lacking the will to budge
Light hurts his heavy eyes
Liqueur played tricks on him. 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
Contest: Pleiades “L”
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Placed 3rd
© 15th April 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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Brilliant the Moon shone this night

A watching owl, unmoving, sits.

The world bathed in silver light

As owl and prey battle wits,

Which one or t'other will manage it.











Entry for
Writing Challenge 3, 
August 2019- Five Lines- Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Dear Heart.
28/8/2019. Placed=2nd....

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Lulled into a drugged dreamless sleep, 
She slips into shadowy sighs, 
Lost beyond her reach, somewhere deep, 
Unmoving, like a log, she lies. 
When she wakes, weariness remains, 
Is there a way out of these chains? 


1st June 2023


Bite Size No. 65 poetry contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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He ran over a cat,
the car killed it -

sees it,
unmoving
through his rear-view mirror.

He wants to apologies,
but to whom?

Finding an empty box in his mind,
he screams “sorry” into that,
yet knowing for certain,
that when night prowls,

a car locked in a dark garage,
will still hear that scream,
as he dreams.
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Three snails are together,
On the barren sidewalk.
One is oozing a blackish goo,
Unmoving, seemingly injured.
The other two nudge and prod it,
Trying to get it to move.
But, it will not,
It cannot.
Still the other two try,
To help the wounded snail.
If creatures such as these,
Can seemingly show concern for each other,
Why can’t we?...

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Darkness, creeping along the ground;
Wind rustling, seeds of doubt abound. 
A poisonous villain, seeking its victim. 
Light fading, composure escaping; 
Nowhere to hide. The game running, tripping. 
A pounce. A scuffle; commotion ensues.
A bite, with invisible toxin, subdues. 
Frozen, unmoving, breathing decayed. 
Fear, the predator. Hope, the prey....

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