Short Unpicked Poems

june sweet
rose scent drifts
over the wall -
beyond, the unpicked dreams
slumber

4/3/2017
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The Invisible unpicked the stitches
holding the broken pieces together
like loud music Love spilled like poetry 
from the ordinary heart 






Candide Diderot. ‘24 ...

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My heart ‘s slowly dissolving in the puddle of my tears
My self worth disintegrating in the acid of your tongue
My life falls apart as you pull those loose ends
You watch me slowly unravel...

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at a patio table
sat a pangolin and penguin
    pondering

and there they pursued
under a parasol
    perusing

diving with questions
delving for answers

they had a universe
in front of them
    unpicked
    undone

suited and solved
by the pangolin and penguin




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Two lovers stand in shadow,
amidst as yet uncrushed glade
and pink ripened unpicked blooms.
Erect purple poplar trees,
to viewer, half disguise their form,
but stand as witness to intent.
A path yet beaten lay ahead;
the path behind full overgrown;
as arm in arm, amidst springs blooms,
two lovers stand in shadow....

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Joy tree form
Hint scented mint
Lies forbidden myth
Waking nightmare youthful grin
Echoes of fate not found
Questing toward towers
Safe escape 
Remote fear of flying
Waking removed from earth
Zoo of fruit unpicked
Light breaking the limits 
Tracing freedom inside a cage
Joyful trees give form to my grin
Grace a phantom of lost terror
Waves eclipse the moons shadow...

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O let us meet again to make it right
Bridge me your love to cross
The river flows a torrent tonight
We must restore what time has lost.

O let me try again to know your ways
Graft me upon your soul as light
Forgotten fruits unpicked decays
And blind bats suckle them with delight.

O let us sit together and share a day
The golden hours fade from sight
Words cannot like sawllows ever play
O let us meet again to make it right....

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The Shift

The shape that simple. 
Not sewn to disguise
the inner person... 
Wise in its design, 
the unmissable adress
complements the mind, 
laid out, informal. 
Desire embroider sight
with hidden shape
and curves not known well... 
Seamless the shift
from closet mind
to knowing it all-
shifts the childlike heart
from unreal to real. 
Rarely left unpicked, 
the cotton - on cloth
of an unshapely mind. 


Aqua Marine:02/12/2024



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Hindsight Is Twenty-Twenty
Written: by Miracle Man
4/5/2020

Today i explore the pages of dreams that escaped me,
Those that lie within my maze of long spent years.
Not understanding the requirements it took for a harvest,
I’ve left fields full of flowers unpicked.
Today I’m emersed in thoughts about what I should have done,
not on things that came to fruition
And this exercise in futility changes nothing,
because i can’t undo a done.
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If I...

If I, upon waking, remember you not...
If the torrents of lost love grow cold where once hot
And ooze from this ebbing flow of life...
Trickling...trickling...trickling into the night
Where wanton souls are forgot:

Where will I be? And, what is my lot?
Abandoned as unpicked fruit left to rot
On a spiraling trellis---the ravenous in sight---
Hammering...hammering...hammering in thrustful plight
I aimlessly wander the same spot.

©deborah burch
2005...

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I am the dawning man                        
The waking limb                                    
An unbowed willow                      

You are the dusken girl
The tangled sheet     
A dewed down meadow

We are sown seeds
Folded into the earth
Whose roots weave
And cannot be unpicked

We are green leaves
Laced with silk
In whose curl
Transformation sleeps

We are a chrysalis!

Love seen in a Rorschach!

A dog eared page of poetry
That is sealed with glue...

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