Short Unshackle Poems

There was a gent named Hackle
With a temper he’d oft unshackle.
He was known to scream
Uttering curses in a stream
And then pop, snap, and crackle....

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Unending mind games
Chasing wisps of smoke
Senses dead to bliss
Aflame deep within
Recesses of heart

Rise, oh hermit
From your stupor
Unshackle self
From narrow thought

That that is
Is as is
Love throbbing 

Go there
Within

Now

12-December-2020...

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unfreeze now, oh hermit
umbilical cords bind
unkempt is lower mind
unshackle innocence 
usher in bliss upsurge
under divine guidance
until the end of time

30-April-2021

Pleiades U poetry contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman

7 lines @ 6 syllables each...

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drawn to the light instinctively
we nestle therein, then pause
looking at the inky black void
which without doubt is a veil
concealing God's living light
but the fact we see darkness
signals we are yet in bondage
that silence alone can unshackle

23-November-2022...

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Advise for all your older generations 
Make a promise to re-instil that dream
Every generation need leaders and guides
Reach out to younger ones inspire again
It time to unshackle all the true dreamers 
Change will come if you choose to accept
Arise show leadership to the new leaders...

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unshackle the mind....
remove the rope that bonds 
the true self from escaping 
it's internal prison 
unshackle the mind....
unlock the chains of 
self-induced oppression 
that has taken control
over the internal realm
unshackle the mind....
release the truth that 
lies just beyond the surface
unshackle the mind.......

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undress--
render to me those fault clothing;
those appeasers that hinder your pours;

unshackle--
unloose those harness;
mental verbiage from your past;

lock up the presents
past being the future tense;

unveil the crossings over;
over cross the veil;
un...
-RENDERING

7/2/19
Written words by James Edward Lee. Sr. © 2019...

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I walk alone beside a highland stream
watching shadows lengthen and grow
in a tranquil valley where tree boughs lean
while grazing cattle quietly glean
about the lonely canyons as I go. 

In silence I view the fading sun
its rays alight the mountain peaks
a golden crown that begs me to come 
unshackle my burdens and hear the One
whisper His love, to my spirit He speaks. 





Written on 4/8/2018...

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Just behind the crystal gaze

wrest with defeat and crumbled name

know me though you cannot see

Silver ghost haunting  me.

shadows passing mind to mind

A thought to hide forbidden

and while peering eyes to eyes

the random hope is hidden .

Oh haste defeat this vexing stare

This would unshackle you .

The crystal Gaze entrances all

Wipe your eyes and seek for truth .



                          By L. Dale McKee...

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Once,drenched in mournful tears,
'neath the timid soul in fear;

Now,burning in anguish's flames.

Once,trodden and unheard,
Battered and bruised; 

Now,searing in febrile waves.

And once fragile and tamed,
A prisoner of your whim;
A slave of your caprice;

Now, ready to unshackle the chains.

So behold me,
As i surge high;
As i fly away;

Once,caged in your vile world;
Never ever again !
Never ever again !

Never.Ever.Again...

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Sing, sing a song of sadness
Walk, walk this road of madness
Unshackle these chains
That keeps our love apart
I'm just a prisoner
Of your heartless heart

Lie, lie right to my face
Laugh, and put me in my place
All these little games you play
Just tears my world apart
I'm still a prisoner
Of your heartless heart

Nothing, nothing left to sell
Bought, bought and sold in Hell
Your motives are so evil
They rip my soul apart
I'll die a prisoner
Of your heartless heart...

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Too many words of love,
yet few for a scarred soul.
A shallow heart sings in pain,
a rhythm of soul,
strings struck to reverberate 
in this solitary world.

In your dreamy looks 
and wavy locks lost, are you?
why the apathy towards my misery?
a grain in the sands of time, 
find some for this fool.
unshackle me from these bonds.

A kid are you? underaged. 
to toss me and bounce me. 
enough now!
Find someone else to bother,
leave me be to wander,
the fate conspired for me....

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Tuned Ebony Shades of Ecstasy

Here we are—
black as the night;
sable souls singing songs
of Nubian love—slow dancing
on opaque rhythmic nimbus clouds.

Unshackle melodies of generations
flow from charcoal tributaries 
slowly undulating—
streaming between ebony sheen banks.

Estuaries of ecstasy splash
joyously into the wetness
of the dark hued sea of our love.

Tuned and harmonized
in the abyss of relief,
fading moans moor themselves;
waiting the coming of the next tide....

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