Short Unpacking Poems

The Devil comes in the form of an organization. 

A group of people bent on harvesting my defiance. 

So that they may go home and feast at night. 

I had not even finished unpacking. 

In this rancid new home....

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I am unpacking each meow.

Because each of your meows was unique. 

And now I am passionate about translating you.

When you were boisterous. 

And now I am honoring your last mews. 

When you sounded like a kitten again....

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My heart lies open unpacking it's words
It looses its cries but no sounds are heard

 Like wings on the beach lying silent and still

With words spoken softly
It reigns in its cries
Then like wings on the beach
There my heart lies...

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Seemingly endless car rides.
Screams for my sisters,
Shouts from my brothers,
And threats from my parents.
Finally arriving just to spend my entire day unpacking.
Dragged to the beach and forced to burn in the sun.
I hate vacation because of the feeling of being away from home....

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My life seems fine, nothing is wrong. 
 If u look behind my eyes its totally different.  
Place to place I have to move 
packing and unpacking. 

 My life seem strange 
because nobody listen to me and what I have to say. 
 My closeses friends don't even no how I am
 so freak it, I wish this crap will end....

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Unpacking the sweater I was wearing
on the beach, under that veiled sky
bathing me in the late summer’s heat, 

I can hear the surf, the daring waves
surging up like greenish snakes and
approaching sideways, hear the white 

noise hissing at the tops, I can see 
them washed ashore rolling toward me,  
watering the hot sands of my memory....

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We’ve moved
my wife and I from home 
to the last place

we’ll ever live and she 
wants to know why 
I’m sitting around

not helping to unpack.
So I tell her the problem
which is her problem too

but she keeps unpacking.
I’m not at home, I tell her,
but I’m not here either.

Not to worry, I say.
I’ll let both of us in 
when we arrive.


Donal Mahoney...

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If I was well, I wouldn’t be here. 

If there were no walls- I would wander away to be near-

My family who decided my behavior was unnatural. 

So here I am unpacking, my hopes of leaving are supernatural. 

The sounds are shifting again. 

And the lights are morphing in this pen. 

Please be seated, they all command. 

Your disobedience, we will not stand....

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Puzzle Box

Emotions, memories 
Kept in a box
Pieces of puzzles
Thoughts we have thought

Unpacking words 
Fractured pictures 
This one looks good
This one fits better

Write a short story 
In so many words
Don’t use a thousand 
When 50 will serve

Make a big picture 
Show what you see
With plenty of feeling
And life’s memories 

Bill MacEachern August 15,2023...

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When you go shopping, do you browse
And stroll up all the aisles,
Searching for surprising “Wows!”
That might elicit smiles?

Or do you clutch your list in hand
And check off every item
That’s always purchased as you planned
Each time, ad infinitum?

No matter how you shop, at least
When you’re back home, unpacking,
You’ll know that chances have increased
For some impromptu snacking....

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I try unpacking her baggage
Why does she have to be so mean
You would think she was royalty
Sitting in her chair like a Queen

I pick up all her dishes
The woman has not a care
It seems that perspiration
will destroy her perfect hair

When it comes to making love
Me oh my how my hands shake
That woman is uncommon
She points out every mistake!



A fictional account "Thank God"!

For Carolyn Devonshire's "Gems for Baggage Contest"...

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