Short Unsee Poems

I simply did not understand 

It was completely out of my hand 

Looking in from the outside 

Eyes and mouth open wide 

Never will l unsee

Etched in my mind eternally 
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There are wounds that never heal,
so you unsee them, like stubborn soot in a chimney.
The harder you rub, the more you expose a new layer to set in,
so you pretend it never happened.


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In disbelief
Phosphenes shine
All I see
Is only mine
The trails
The ghosts
The U.F.O.s
The me I am
The highs and lows
Glimpses of truth,
Wasted youth
Implausible outcomes
Photo booths
Distorted views
Slanted trees
The little sights
I can’t unsee...

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She couldn't unsee what she saw.
 Frozen in shock, she dropped her jaw
           Quickly averting her eyes;
          Her blood pressure did rise!
  Protester took to the field in the raw.


Date written: 02/20/2023...

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That girl, a world away
Does she think of me?
That girl, a world away
How to make her stay?

That girl, a world away 
We would never be
That girl, a world away
Sleeps when I'm awake

That girl, a world away
I cannot unsee
That girl, a world away
Haunts me every day...

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Sometimes I can close my eyes
And other times I can't
What is the point I ask
When the world is filled with cries

Everyone is a stranger
Don't trust anyone
Those eyes so remote
It screams danger

Burn my eyes
Let me unsee
The unseeable
Because everything I love
Dies...

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Eyes open wide shut
Or closed fast unasleep
It does not matter
For we still unsee the lies
 
We hear the unscreams
Know the untruth
It does not matter
For we still compromise
 
Alone on my unbeaten path
Traveling inside this once
Looking for truths within
To be me it’s my last chance...

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If tolerance for violence be a sign of one's prime,
and indecency one can't unsee be viewed without crime.
If lewdness is excused as entertainment for adults
and cussing isn't obscene, just comical insults.
If vulgarity and barbarity be maturity's gauge, 
then though I'm over twenty three, I'm well underage.

3-20-2021...

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How can you unsee an etched wound ?
The name will tell the moon.
An empty sky now calls for
the rains.

What was it-
the ceremonial farewell ?
A dependable pain now starts
pulling out the sharpnels from the body. 

You may call it
meaningless. My poem now
moves between the stings. Somebody
was going for a merciless kill.


Satish Verma...

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What the fish saw
I cannot still unsee
Naked, stark naked
Sitting there was
Uncle sam and
The statue of liberty
Buck naked at
The playboy mansion
So much for old fashioned
I guess this has been going
On for some time
Our leaders our washingtons
Have hardly shaped a
Mountain side
United Free States of America (North and South)...

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you enter the lair again
dun – colored
shrapnel was  on your lips

to hear your truth I lay down
the book
and look beyond the acid rain
falling after the explosion

the yellow flames still lapping
against the crater walls
jasmines were alive

dented memories wer climbing
on hills before you can unsee
the moon bleeding to death


Satish Verma...

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There was a time when 
I worshipped at his feet
Not so long ago.
There was a time when
I cared and thought
He cared.
But it was all a lie,
A terrible mistake.
There was no love,
Just a facade
A mask he wore.
Well, thank God, no more.
He ripped off the false face
And I saw the monster 
He concealed beneath.
And now, when I look,
If I look
I cannot unsee
The monster beneath....

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That warm morning breeze
The white linen curtains danced
My eyes capture that moment
My minds in a hypnotic trance

I still feel that day
They say the mind remembers what it sees
My consciousness
It's part of all our humanity

Why that morning?
What about it stayed with me?
I'm confused
Yet, I can't unsee what I see

Those moments in life
That get forged in our mind
It makes me wonder
Why?...

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He should not have
But he did
He tried not to
But he had to
No one was looking
He thought he’d not get caught
He peeked
He looked
He saw
He wished he hadn’t
He wished he could undo
Take it back
And unsee what he saw
No one saw him
But he saw him
He knows
And now he can’t unsee
The thing he saw



Submitted on January 5, 2019 for contest SLAP THE MUSE AND TURN IT LOOSE sponsored by JOHN LAWLESS  -  RANKED 4TH...

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energy off the charts!
knees bobbing
hands shaking
eyes flying!
i cant hold still!
like the energizer bunny from hell!
like i got high
off an ADD pill!
feel like i could fly
no standing still!
only energy!
energy provided by my hunger!
when my stomach growls!
you better stand back!
cause ima pick up the slack!
and no one can keep up!
it may scare some
even scares me!
but those who dont flee,
are in for a sight!
the likes of which,
most wish,
that they could unsee!...

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My flaming tears cannot douse 
the tents aflame.
My burning eyes can never unsee
the corpse of a headless baby.
My beating heart yearns to
give life to those stilled.

And still the killing continues unabated…

My soul shudders in grief
at the horrors visited upon innocents.
My intellect feels stymied, perplexed
by the incredulity of support given to
a genocidal entity.

Can they still claim to be victims?
Stop. Stop. Stop!
Enough killing. 
Enough slaughter.
Enough…...

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