Short Unnerve Poems

   deeper, deeper plunge
   in darkening woods
   branches fallen
   cross your way
   as you fall
   where once you stood

   sunlight gone
   sounds unnerve
   skin crawling
   while fancies swerve
   like fairy tales
   enthralling
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unspoken,unsaid
swirl,whirl
ripple,ruffle
tease,torture
delve,funnel
foreboding burrows,
in narrow tunnels;

Fazed,crazed
imagined fancies,
unnerve,unsettle
weigh down
upset perturb;
abound and tease 
with imagined dis-ease.

Inspired by John's latest contest...

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All hail the village mortician
  his bearing, proper patrician

Sterling the gent's reputation
  throughout his chosen vocation

A man of dignity and reserve
  whose stare can a ghost unnerve

Frankly, he makes me quite nervous
  though one day I'll be needing his service...

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the silence of this place
used to unnerve me
now I can taste 
the quiet serenity

to truly hear the sound
we need to hush
too much noise around
and it's lost in the rush

the highest breeze 
cannot be heard
without the poplar trees
to whisper it's word

simple silence brings peace
calming my riled soul
it helps to release
the sadness before it grows
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Space, immobile as the wind that never stirs
unless some pivotal calm inherits, serves,
I love you there, the being not unnerve!

Where silence walked beside, between embalm
of yesterday, our joy, our moment's psalm,
I love thee there, not in conventions alms.

I love thee, giving praise
when all else harms,
a necessary space, the self's alarm!

I love thee though alone
God's promised balm!...

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As the clouds fold into the earth,
I fold without you, meaningless in worth.
As so the sun controls reserve
of dewdrops, so in truth my heart conserves!

The edge of time is but a moments serve
to all who beckon me ~ while thee, unnerve.
I pray to listen more thy heart's relate
the loss between us find ~ do underrate!

So ne'er again, the earth, nor sky doth mate ~
It is within thy eye ~ I fold my fate!...

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Too oft interpreting my nerve
can miss the chance to know reserve,
not diabolical but serve
to know a hope in thee, unswerve.

Is constant as the day takes curve
and waits upon but not unnerve.
Is waiting, as the day holds urge
do wait on holding thee in verve!

From thy own restless heart's conserve
holds prayer to open thy observe.
Where fear treads not, and God defers
our struggle in each other's,  near ~

To His affirm in Glories cheer!...

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For a time I witnessed
    Power and its abuse.
Police all throughout the land,
    Creating fear with no excuse.

People whose creed once claimed,
    To 'protect and serve'.
Seemed to evolve, unchecked,
    To intimidate and unnerve.

This conduct is intolerable,
    Its roots need torn apart.
Stains, left on every officer's badge,
    Just inches from their heart.

How then to control
    This power given those?
Maybe all doors should be opened,
    With none left to close....

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