Short Unnerved Poems

When the system's down, why get unnerved or inveigh

   It's a chance to think outside -- of poetry's box for a day...

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Adamant yet
Quixotic always
Unnerved by
Allusions made
Reassured with
Insights found
Under these
Sapphire eyes....

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Afar, world's harmless attraction
Hazy; a dream upbourne on.
Getting too close; now involved in.
Unnerved of its vibration....

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engrams float carelessly
that day we met
crashing cars 
unnerved neurons
parade floats carry old
engrams from here to
there but save them always...

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His brother
  a stroke
at the airport
  Come quick

Unnerved, shaken
  arrived in a tick

Took one look
  turned aside
  ashen-faced, said ~

"God has just spoken
  to silence we are wed"...

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A cashier told me she was going to Disney World
Asked me to join her, she was cute with blonde curls
Became quite unnerved
And what was much worse
Inserted my debit card tween her abundant curves...

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Desires and hopes are strong
When plunging into a task headlong
always fear of  failure comes along
Restricting us ,for fulfillment we long. 




Fear is a slinking  cat Is find beneath the lilacs of my mind. 
Sophie tunnell...

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Conscience In Brain Nawed and Nawed

More Good Morning Joe comments.

Things by Trump daily are badly flawed;
Teeth of truth into  he has often sawed;
Were unnerved;
Guilty observed;
On our conscience he nawed and nawed.

Jim Horn...

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Always with love
I watched you take your first step
You slept many early days on my chest
Your warmth filled my heart
Your cry unnerved my will to help you
There isn't anything I wouldn't do
You are the best of me
You are my boy...

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Creature from the black lagoon or God juxtaposing
                      something wild just in time for me to cross its path

peacock’s crossed the line
tail feathers insouciant
on my side of road
replaced the turkey vultures
that previously unnerved
...

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I'll take his walks
But not his ways.
Rugged for each, rung through
Old woodsman's days.

I'll track what cries
For peace, hawk-climbed
In that soothing, stream-breathed
Mountainy thymed.

While bypassing
Unnerved by, mourned
Legends echo, in both felled
Branched grandeur; horned....

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It creeps 
It stalks the mind
A sludge of shaded emotion 
A recipe of apprehension and fear
A menu of worry and concern 
Ready to be served
Anxiety 

It sleeps
It takes its’ time 
A ship at rest on the ocean
A whistle away, always near
Engines always ready to churn
Keeping me unnerved 
Anxiety...

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UNNERVED

a fresh grave, gravelly dug,
collar gathered and put upon.

the doghouse, below the gloam,
godforsaken with a gaping hole.

guard of gray-glass, at midnight,
hardly hinders gathering ghosts.

unnerved fear grips my sleep,
gangly bedroom curtain grieves.


9/2/2017
Contest 335 Any Form Contest...

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Often accused of abusing the words,
  I stand guilty here as charged

Their purpose to serve my feelings unnerved,
  when into the darkness I bard

Used as a shield, my will not to yield
  their ink splattered blood stains aglow

No guilt do I bear for those letters unspared
  —as their corpses define what I know

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)...

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There is a tapping at my window.
At first, i think it to be
a ghostly vizard
commanding my attention
with long, crooked fingers waving,
greeting me as an old friend.

The more i stare, the more i am unnerved,
but as the wind eases,
the tapping eases too,
and the storm of my thoughts settles.
Provoked by the frightful breeze,
you are but a humble tree....

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Pax Americana,
The legend of the land.
Old opportunity
Is all that we demand.

Randomness observed.
It must have been for all.
Masses entrenched.
They did not change their stall.

Privileged people
Believed in their worth.
Natural consequences
Earned upon their birth.

Rarest humility,
Wealthy one unnerved.
Obvious conclusion,
Ease is undeserved....

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I broke something precious;
smashed Ming against the door;
trampled on shards of shattered vow;
unnerved, I ask to go.

Release me from your want,
from cloying, needful coils;
let me run against the current;
please, I ask to go.

This guilt will not contain me;
still your tears will stain my heart;
I loved you once for kindness;
killed with such, I ask to go....

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I feel numb
                        To believe you liked me was dumb
I can't complain
                         I got what I deserved
I feel so unnerved
                         It's like a bad dream
Someone wake me up 
                          Please
I'm lost, 
                         Help me
Who can I trust?
                         I have to realize that life just sucks...

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One golden eye glowers, proud Poseidon deigns lift
the scored shards of malice where mere mortals sift.
Becalm unnerved waters, cleanse steel gray to green
before sanity shatters with one glimpse of this scene.
Surge forth healing rivers, bathe stunned souls to heal
Sweep clean filthy flotsam, let no grim grime congeal.
Stout salt of forbearance, restore what had once been
Sure embrace, stalwart prince, lest it happen again....

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Seriously Superb
03/08/2018

Seriously I need of this ugly whirlybird,

Uncontrolled thoughts, seriously disturbed.

Round they go totally unperturbed,

Too many thoughts, too many words.

Detox, withdrawal, whatever you’ve heard,

Leaves you agitated, anxious, wholly unnerved.

I’ll fly off the handle and show you the Bird,

My thoughts are whack, jumbled and stirred.

Yet this insanity won’t last I’m assured,

And soon one day I’ll be feeling superb....

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