Short Unsettling Poems

potential for hail
unsettling quiet - 
birdsong interlude...

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freshly fallen snow
the meadow a sea of white
unsettling silence

written December 21, 2021...

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Turning away from peace

Seems to bring

Unsettling truth to the mind.

Nervous we stand

At attention while the

Mounting war toll

Inundates our mind....

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Take a solitary walk by the lake,
An appreciation for nature it will awake.
Even unsettling thoughts do not intrude.
Your own company can put you in a good mood....

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rhythmic ocean swells

deep sea blue... unsettling cold

reconnects our core


May 4, 2018



haiku, Ocean/Sea 5-7-5 Contest by Mick Talbot
First Place...

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stark
ingrained 
       statues 
prosaic 
inexplicable 
simplicity 
         unsettling
perspectives ..
confusion ...
the
metaphysical ...
    made
      known...

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Indifference
Appears in nature..
Indifference to
Seemingly
Separate and different
Measures of importance..
Indifference
Appears as
Difference..
Perhaps an
Unsettling peace......

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under 
   unsettling
      dark 
planetary orbit 

tall 
   gray shadows 
      devoid 
   from motion  

in church courtyard

where 
   dead 
      yet shall live

1/10/2022...

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The visions of you are flooding my mind
The tell-tale signs of love undefined 
The birds must know something,
 I’m scared to admit
They are chirping away
In a very unsettling way…...

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It's unsettling when a friend stops posting
With no advance notice or explantation of closing
The thought of passing
Is immediately distressing
Tis human to think negative a natural emotion...

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Office 
              crazy, demented 
          maddening, unsettling 
 pranksters, buffoons, mimes, fools 
           provoking, disturbing  
                 wild, insane 
                      Circus....

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It's unsettling when a friend stops posting
With no advance notice or explantation of closing
The thought of passing
Is immediately distressing
'Tis human to think negative a natural emotion...

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It's unsettling when a friend stops posting
With no advance notice or explantation of closing
The thought of their passing
Is immediately distressing
Tis human to think negative a natural emotion...

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VERTIGO
imbalance, dizzy 
wobbling, swirling, unsettling
headache, ear bones, legs, kneecaps
balancing, steadying, walking
firmly, upright
STABILITY...

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The sky is unsettling tonight...
we need rain
I know this--
but why so much thunder
and lightning?
 
I understand searing science--
yet somewhere deep inside my primitive
the spirit and myth
make more sense.......

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Pedaling Meddling Home

Was perturbed when we found Trump pedaling;
Many illegal things which in had been meddling,
He  horribly  joked;
We were pervoked;
When  combined all of  this became unsettling.

Jim Horn...

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                  Unknown 
               chaotic, kooky 
  exciting, unsettling, grounding 
 Books, Articles, Origin, Universe 
 invigorating, unnerving, cultivating 
           beneficial, plausible 
                 Knowledge....

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                    Smirk
             sweet, humorous           
  unsettling, fun-loving, revealing
Punk-rockers, Saints, Sharks, Jesters 
  enticing, manipulating, masking 
             salty, vexatious 
                    Smile...

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In came the cool fretting wind 
Unwrapping the gathering waves 
Unsettling a once scenery mind
Into a fist full of doubt
We stretched to view
The troubling distance
Unrevealing a present danger
Splashing and slashing
Every foothold on reality...

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In came the cool fretting wind
Unwrapping the gathering waves 
Unsettling a once scenery mind
Into a fist full of doubt
We stretched to view
The troubling distance
Unrevealing a present danger
Splashing and slashing
Every foot hold on reality...

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In the quiet still moment there is balance,
A true nothingness equidistant from fear and elation,
To perch in this place can be unsettling,
As I have been trained to accept the effort of wanting something else,
I must grow comfortable accepting what is....

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MODERNITY
 place
 & moment
a timeless
anguish
in
a
 supposed
 gathering

fascinating
reality
to enthrall
rendered
 irrelevant

the
 equivalent
 evolves
saturates
with
insipid
unsettling
potency
perpetuates
 as
a
fascinating
messenger...

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I’ve seen faces pictured 
half in shadow and half in light,
mysterious,
ominous, 
unsettling,

though not half as menacing as
certain faces I see in real life, 
warm, 
smiling, 
inviting,
but on which, in the full light of day, 
you can’t see 
the mind....

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My heart fell for you, a long
time ago
So deep was My love like
the fallen snow
Unsettling in the way that
the wind does blow
Remaining unearthed as a
candle, all aglow
With each passing day, that
continues to grow
When it'll all end, I don't Right-
fully know...

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Time not only seems to be speeding up…
  it actually is

Perception trumping reality looking forward,
  not looking back

Undercooked moments blow into the future,
  their aroma unsettling

As tomorrow disowns today
   —lamenting the past

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)...

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