Short Unstrung Poems

Bits of what we had
Became unstrung, life then spun
Out of my control.
Then saw goodness of your soul...
Sadly cannot find them all....

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John was a boy who loved to whittle.
One day he made himself a fiddle.
It produced a bad sound
The worst to be found.
Forcing John to decide to whittle little....

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I'm writing a book, I've got the page numbers done
Could be a best seller, maybe even become number one
Writing the last page first
How it starts is my thirst
Okay I'm totally bonkers, think I've become unstrung...

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Eavesdropping
the liars
where poison is stirred
Their message 
rings toxic
the future interred
Foreboding
forsaking
all hope is unstrung
While deaf
to the mantra
— where truth waits unsung  


(Dreamsleep: January, 2025) 
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Unstop the drain
  kiss the pain
  let nature run its course

Trip the wire
  start the fire
  new vision at its source
  
Time unstrung
  past on the run
  tomorrow lies to all

Hearts open wide
  the moment flies
   —past memory to recall

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)...

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Unstrung as the brave
Nonviolent in protests  
Questioning moral wrong
Unfavorable of unfairness
Extravagant in ideas
Supporting freedom
Taunted by the ignorant
Irascible over foolishness
Obsessed by cleanliness 
Nameless to the envious
Ambiguous in everything
Bountiful in blessings
Liberal in thoughts
Enthused by laughter...

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Every night this body
becomes a dissecting knife

a crime scene of blood
and unstrung flesh,

the lamb spreads the wool
for a deadly charge of skull plate

with a gift of mathematics
a moon cutout in sky

before the shadow of myth in the depth
of tortured chemistry :

the endless nothing will kiss the darkness
my blindness becomes a diet.



SATISH VERMA...

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Every night this body
becomes a dissecting knife

a crime scene of blood
and unstrung flesh,

the lamb spreads the wool
for a deadly charge of skull plate

with a gift of mathematics
a moon cutout in sky

before the shadow of myth in the depth
of tortured chemistry :

the endless nothing will kiss the darkness
my blindness becomes a diet.



SATISH VERMA...

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What would you pay
to erase a memory

What would you buy
to blot out the stain

What would you give
to not be forsaken

What would you take
to lessen the pain

What would you know
if the words came unstrung

What would you hear
if the silence prolonged

What would it be
if time was delinquent

What would it mean
— if the meaning was gone  

(Dreamsleep: January, 2025) 
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THE browning Version
ET> Unstrung heros Premonition
Enemy of the State
Good will hunting
Mystery, Alaska The family man
Galaxy Quest Hook ghost busters
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
5 easy pieces Last American Hero
WITNESS
High fidelity
PULP FICTION
HEIST
Waterworld The Big Lebowski
GO TO WHITE CASTLE---DEAD PRESIDENTS
   the scarlet letter
       Nixon
3,000 miles to Graceland
   Luke 11:9...

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Unstrung lover broke her beads.
Pearls - black and blue, pure white, cream.
A river of wicked deeds
would release her unhinged scream.

Vertiginous whirlpool’s drunk
on All Hallow’s Eve. Unbent
string and fine ornaments sunk.
Unwound hate and pearls ferment.

10/19/2020
Contest: Impressions
Sponsor: Nette OnClaud
Visual #1

*to work up (as into a state of agitation)...

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Will we see fire death and pain, 
fall from the fingertips of the insane?  

Will we get tweets of our own destruction 
from people on permanent malfunction? 

If you’re searching for the truth you’d better not ask 
those politicians who hide behind an outlaw's black mask.  

What we do this day can never be undone 
and the ropes we let bind us can never be unstrung.  

Yet we will close our eyes and praise their name 
because there’s always someone else to blame....

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