Short Unprovoked Poems

Can you think a thought unprovoked?
                        ~  Now that's totally thought-provoking!...

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My eldest and youngest sons surprised me today
Unprovoked, both sons made an unexpected survey
In unison, they agreed
Their Christmas' did exceed 
Their wildest dreams, heart-warming to hear to this day...

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Paranoia

     Words… said behind my back
     Fear… that he’ll never return my love
     Anger… there’s no comfort in tears
     Attacks… seem to come unprovoked
     People… we don’t even know
     Tension… always bestowed
     Insanity… too many voices in my head
     


*Written May 10, 2014...

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words

not quite seen
not quite heard
freely floating
drifting aimlessly
beyond a misty screen
directionless unmotivated
in collective solitude

       until

an unprovoked spark
undirected unknowingly
seeks  grasps
their trailing tendrils
orders and thrusts them
conjoined in breathless
wonder into something

         more...

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Tonight’s Dinner Menu

Tonight’s dinner menu is:
one bowl of 
in the manner of, 
half a bowl of 
in spite of 
everything sprinkled with
spite of 
small efforts and 
small expectations, a plate of 
another’s and 
on the other hands, and
a tall glass of
the outcome of 
a situation thought of 
collectively as 
morning unprovoked attacks.
...

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When day becomes night
And night becomes day
The cycle continues 
With less on display 
For chapters reopen 
And life unrehearsed 
The card that you played
Was never dealt first

The life that you want
Is merely in reach 
And wanting is lacking 
While lacking is need
You've spoken much softer 
Than many will know 
But feeble the child 
When he comes unprovoked...

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Untie knots of hate with...
       Unconditional love.
     Upsurge of violence,
      Unreal! Asian folks
 Under assault these days;
 Unprovoked, outrageous!
     Unity, what we need!


Submitted for...
Pleiades U Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kim Merryman
Syllables checked at www.howmanysyllables.com
Date written: 04/30/2021...

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It attacked my life like a swarm of predatory wasps
Anger, regret, pain, confusion, to ruin me at all costs
unprovoked, vicious stings to my soul, many a tear
made me hollow inside, without joy, living in fear

Unable to run or hide for their venom is already within
To snipe at my belief, questions to drive reflection of sin
Should I seek reasons, or find solace needed in a friend
My friends helped win battles, and the war inside did end...

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Grace once took me by the throat 
And squeezed until I gave up Pride,
But Pride remained still unprovoked 
As will began to slowly die

So faith stepped up and begged for hope 
But hope preferred unstable waters,
Which brought despair on noose and rope
And silenced all I had that mattered

Yet faith prevailed, though by a smidge
As small and simple took the win,
For little triumphs made me rich
And progress I did find therein...

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Oh dreaded parasitic predator,
I yield to your flitting whim
and unannounced intrusion.

Innocently productive,
you carry on your quest,
unprovoked and unassuming.

But for your merited renown,
I take preemptive action
testifying to my regard.

The sport of a cautious hunt
prompts instinct and evasion,
no match for a well-aimed swat.

And with your final writhing twitch
I find a kind of sovereign triumph
in my gleeful, gloating grin....

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