Short Unsayable Poems

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The word not said

And unsayable:

Nothing 

Beloved

Everything

This

Not 2

And so on.. 

Placeholders without

A place to hold......

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images of self
                    portraits of people
the unsayable
                         said-
tracing the why's
                      and wherefors
from the most
                   to the least
the eye in motion
                       released...

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The mind masked civil
Spins strands of black words
The voice can’t weave the phrase
Lest the veil lifts from the tarnished face.
If you say what you hide in the dark
I’ll turn it into black rose.
Do you hate me?

November 23. 2017.
Contest : Unsayable....

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They scream a soundless soliloquy,
skeletal sentinels contorted,
once proud standards displaying jubilant banners.
The tidal push rushes in, out, in, out
about ashen bones,
marking where moorings anchored
before life swept away to sea.

Copyright, November 25, 2017
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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a strange world after life in the womb
eager to  grow , curious to see,  running on energy
the bell tolls as the pages turn 

battered by weather and wrinkled
broken teeth, broken heart, deaf ears,
soul all unrecognizable


Growing old broken!



11/23/2017...

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A sad hole of darkness

my constant companion since childhood

walks with empty hands of why

on its lonely road, where my soul cries

this sparrow sits and bends its head down

in quiet disbelief, to face unwelcomed rain

as the days rush by in a shadowed black




contest Unsayable
11/22/17 sponsor nette...

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Unsayable Things:
I still keep my hands 
full with great hopes & 
Best Wishes 
for me always 
it has always been 
my greatest sin.
On a balmy afternoon,
In the whisper of tall grass,
And faint sigh of breeze-stirred trees;
I feel Your presence.
My Pure Heart & Pure soul always said that 
The only thing I really need in my real life now, is  only you....

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Turned over to a sexual revolution,
evolved to hijacked rainbows.
Graceless hearts deprave the mind,
a diseased façade of freedom,
to redefine every right and wrong.
Prophesied last days ushering
the Bride of Christ persecuted.

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Contest: Unsayable
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Written: 11.22.17...

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When summer falls away,

I find myself beneath a bending willow tree.

Inside myself, I'm weeping along with it

as its supple limbs tremble in September's wind.



A harvest moon appears as if to mock the sun,

a sun which not so long ago had shone profoundly.

The willow's branches sweep the shadows of fleeting days.

I shiver in the gloaming.


Nov. 24, 2017...

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Unsayable Irresponsibility

Inside the festive bar, drinks free flowed
To swaying music, hips and lost inhibitions.
Beer and spirits rivered down the mountain,
Splitting carefree trees in need of shaking,
With  queue of law hanging on their branches, 
Cues, of the wrath of drinking and driving.

Some heed, most drive to someone's goat.

11/23/17

UNSAYABLE - Poetry Contest...

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How proud and unmoving this winter oak
which stands erect, alone,  glorifying itself-- 
those flaked leaves mocking autumn's request.
I observe such chilled indifference, arrogant like me

who cannot twirl like a  warm bamboo and display
tender intimacies in any human relation. Aloof,
I cannot find kindness to share my own shade.


Nette Onclaud Contest--Unsayable 
24 Nov 2017...

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We feast on Camembert and red wine
observing the pageantry of  incandescent stars
reflected through halo’s fervid laughter and love.

I drink merrily as thud of  whipped delirium
hammers excruciating pain  off  on, from my brain;
Veiling the limited instances of life’s ungodly time
That I cradle within--- this mute, unsaid goodbye.


Unsayable Contest hosted by Nette Onclaud
23 Nov  2017...

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If I bow to the word 
And you keep to the light,
If I live in split halves, 
And you draw inner circles 
On the skin of another,
If you daunt me nosily
And I daunt back the world,
If I live the questions 
That curl around my vaunted solitude
And you thrive on quick, solid responses
Down the unsayable lanes of the mind,
Let us find freedom in the third choices,
In the nonbelonging of the day....

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Unknown Unsayable


As I sleep with shuttered eyes, closed;
Bed time my teeth enclosed in a jar;
I can't speak, asleep can't speak no teeth;
Got something to say, Can't speak, dangers around me;
Eye closed encase in darkness, lips and mouth lock;
Got something to say,So frighten still can't talk, can't open mouth;
Unknown terrible thrill, can't see or speak, UNSAYABLE


11/25/17
FOR CONTEST:  'UNSAYABLE'
Sponsor name:  nette onclaud...

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Sometimes it seems like a distant dream, 
and I half-wonder if she was a wild figment of my imagination,
but faded photographs, now the only reminder,
prove to me that the relationship was real, that she was real.
Yet, we went from pure passion to stony silence;
and, again, I question if things were ever that good between us,
or if my memory is playing tricks, as Proust would probably argue?

written 25 November for Nette's Unsayable contest...

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words of anger and bitterness
fester yet do not surface
emotions boiling over
through it all
she maintains her poker face
in the stench of his glare
and ugliness of his heart

the abuse and violation 
it’s all too much to bear
it’s all he spews
his days are numbered
the reign of transgression
soon to crumble
she dreams she prays



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted for contest UNSAYABLE sponsored by NETTE ONCLAUD - November 23, 2017...

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Emotional instability remains a character defect.
            In all moments, I stand alone in remorse, 
giving nothing the reasons of why I am alone- 
                   I fear all things that bring obscure thoughts. 
     When the night falls to the shadows of dusk, 
when the darkness flows through my veins, 
                       I shan’t see what is right in front of me…my happiness. 



Unsayable Contest
Nette Onclaud
November 25, 2017...

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