Short Unsound Poems

I’d like to believe that i’m
As tough as nails,
But I know that my paper skin
Is only protecting fragile bone
And an unsound heart.
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Skeleton!
Tell us what you lack ...
the ability to love,
your flesh so slack?
 
Will we frighten you,
grown as pale & unsound ...
when we also haunt
the unhallowed ground?
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Writing poetry upside down
Is a dangerous practice most unsound,
When you're a Southern Hemisphere poet
The ink in your pen just won't flow it 
And you have to hang on to the ground....

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                                  A PATIENT OF MENTAL ASYLUM 
                           THINKS HIMSELF SOUND SO HE IS THERE
                              ALL ARE UNSOUND WALKING OUTSIDE
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I once knowed a poet named Jerden
Who ain't atall stuck on his wordin'
    If they judge 'em unsound
    He may nudge 'em around
And don't atall find it a burden

February 24, 2016

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Love-
Walk a park?
Putrid fruits?
Butterflies- inferno?
None of the above

Frown, dear love.
Frown.

In love-twitch,
Twitch.
Quaver, Stutter
Unsound 

Poetic lines, cherished love.
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Every dune set a windless descent
when we let it
No moon a path without us
Crafted perfection no dents
Turning windmills required
our smiles
The wind's own motion felt you...
uncovered

...you left me,
unsound and frail...

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Shadow these dreams, hear your screams.
You play the fool in this sad ballet.
Harbor your evil, darkness retrieval.
Only you know how to betray.
Smirk at the ground, cause your unsound.
Waste all your energy, for nothing good.
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STILL ALIVE
Screaming, my contorted face
Buried in this hard ground
By a naughty Nate, wickedly unsound
Natural beauty in my cold palace
I'M COMING BACK FOR MY REVENGE

*This Poem is a Nate Special for PoetrySoup
  as a response to his poem "Alive"
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LOOKING FOR YOUR MIRROR IMAGE CHUM,
MIRROR IMAGES DO REBOUND 
THINKING SAME THOUGHTS RIGHT AROUND , 
TO FIND EM IS THE SUM,
 SHE IS OUT THERE TWEEDLE DUM,
 AWAITING FOR YOUR SOUND,
 WITH HI=DE-HO N HUM....
FROM JOHNSON QUITE UNSOUND......

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There is no one here
save presence aware
bones weary for wear
yet with divine pair
for breath of fresh air

Ego abounds
no anchor found
yet hangs around
in thoughts unsound

Presence free
it’s entrée 
blissful glee

We flow
Aglow

Here

05-October-2020...

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Unmanly; unsightly; unskilled
Unsociable; unsophisticated
Jerk; unruly
And hurt and bruised
Unmanly; unsound
But, unselfish in unseasonable weather
Of warmth, sky clear
Unmistakably; unlikely 
Too be unusually calm
In a untouchable manor
And then-unmanly; unruly; jerk.
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Slip into night,
Rather than a flight,
Destiny,
Rests in me,
And the world around,
Is so very unsound,
I beseech,
The furthest reach,
To cradle me home,
Rather than roam,
The dark,
Hear a lark,
Sing,
I’ll bring,
The world a light,
It only seems right,
Among the decay,
I feel today.
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Most cry all night without making a sound, but I'm the only one
that feels blessed for what I have found. The distant stares into a world that is
unsound;The joy I will feel when I am homeward bound. The steel that contains my
body is very heavy; my thoughts will always be steady....

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Karmic rebound but a mirror 
To know God in-dwells all
That we may feel love within stir
Manifest as bliss squall

Ceasing to weigh and size
Oh hermit, here now rise
God’s pure love, realise

Desires unsound
Karmic rebound

18-February-2022
Quietus ...

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That sinking feeling of despair
Surely not ours to keep
Switch frequency and with love pair
Bliss the reward we reap

Fuel not ego unsound 
Know we are free, not bound
With each breath, new joy’s found

Debilitating
That sinking feeling

10-February-2022
Quietus ...

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I am fine
I will survive 
After every time 
I live, I will get mad 
At you sometimes 
You do mind, 
I don't get your kind 
I will find,
Another way to get signed 
To find some other way 
To not be in your day 
Crawly to find other ways 
To be no-where to be found
Running with unsound like a ninja unbound....

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Reason you give, rings unsound,
Beyond logic, and no longer valid, 
Premises of lies, conclusions rogue,
Arguments and fallacies, just full of lies. 

Think you I be deceived, and love you again?  
Ney, think I cherished, these last days?
Ney, think I drowned, in your plays? 
Ney, I think you failed, and I wont be fazed....

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the unconscious a source of images&action  in disguise& gesture with slips of tongue interpreted with simile& metaphor of  libidinal desire listening to the unsound  made loud out of view of id&ego impulses exposed as universal symbols in  the repository of memory by the fiction of  dream&myth transitioned  into the realm  of reality...

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Despicable words shouted with vengeance
are unacceptable and unforgiving as sin; 
they breed in darkness poisoning minds,
while warmongers mash unsound reasons with lies... 
wouldn't kindness lead them to peace
and understand each other with honor and grace?
Then should evil eyes look to the stars for guidance,
if their thoughts reflect the times they're living in?






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that crab nip
upon fingertips
as sunlight tilts his hat
and nighttime makes his start
drinking liquid
from the passing breeze
unanticipated tremble of the knees
Squawked yawn as seagull retires
and sound swathes
its way
through quicksand air
Slip your chill
past neckline
nomadic course down spine
Wrap your silk cotton
darkness around
safe but unsound
unfound...

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SOFT HEART – RAW NERVE

suspecting my position is unsound
accepting sinking feelings I
may drown

heartbeat limp and malleable
gentle and mellifluous yet
scarcely stable

smarting anguish of frayed nerve
raw, synthetic hyper alert
tests reserve

escaping at last to spaces I go
pacified nerve and compliant
heart flow


 (‘mellifluous’ = pleasing to the ear)


© Kim van Breda—April 2014


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My  cider comes from Somerset,
I likes it coz it's strong.
Tis made from apples good and sweet,
wiv flavours thats a real treat.
What's more I likes to drink it neat.
I likes it 'cos it's  strong.

My world ish shwimming all around,
my legs is wobbly and unsound,
I think I'll sit down on the ground.
Black coffee, please.  And strong!

~



For Heather's Competition....

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hallucinogens of the unsound mind
anesthetic figures state their somber positions
the commodities of their mirthless smiles reast unconfined
i'm writhing from their false amorous animations

i romance with death dancing in the winter lights 
in malevolence i sing my sorrow.  prying it will end
trying not to impede the unhappy yet happy ones rights
i freeze a smile upon my face to be with the fashioned wind...

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Leaking, sinking, thoughts suppressed. 
Why am I always so damn depressed?
Unsound and unjust why I must
Keep my head down in the dust.
Crying tonight, trying to make it right.
Everyday is a constant fight.
Empty and hollow no words to follow
I take another pill and begin to swallow.
Does it work my memory is gone.
Then I realize its already dawn.
No rest for the wicked no sleep for the dead.
Bearing these thoughts enough has been said....

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