Short Untarnished Poems
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The gentle beauty of your blooms
are delicate and exquisite to the touch ~
your history's fraught with wrongdoing
but through ne'er fault of your own
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The palm
that holds the truth
is
unlined
uncorrupted by evil
pure in its
self
chaste of defiling
untarnished
shining
straining forward
I reach to embrace
an
empty
hand.
I want a life with no regrets
one shiny, bright, and new
bereft of stains and rips and tears
untarnished and unused.
No dents or dings, not slightly worn
refurbished just won't do
I want a life with no regrets
and I want it minus you.
Form:
In entwined hearts’ fathomless niche
the luster of nascent desire nucleates
layer on layer luminous,
into pristine pearl of love,
a treasure covert and untarnished,
the protected epithet of precious oneness.
A mother's heart
Always knows her child
Whatever, whenever, wherever.
A mother's eyes
Always defeated by her feelings
Situation, occasion, intuition.
A mother's love
Always lends a helping hand
Unrequited, untarnished, unconditional.
Every well worn pair of cocktail gloves
quietly passed down
untarnished but imperfect
always stretches to a perfect fit;
Lace left with unforgettable
imprints from every manicured hand
too unique to ever be identical,
yet the style fits each woman equally.
The Old One
The old one reached down
into the cellar of his remembrance
and found a faded image
of a paramour;
a love known so long ago.
He cherished
its lustrous glow,
and in his heart's forge
shaped a silver frame
to hold the beauty
untarnished by time.
HOLY---
Holy cleanse vessels without spot nor wrinkle.
Orderly fixed in spiritual and of physical realms.
Laundered flawless immaculate intangibles pure.
Yearning of dexterous proficiency untarnished unsoiled.
1/28/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2019©
Fragile – Handle With Fear
Yes
No
Maybe
why oh why
can’t it be simply
a decision based on the facts
untarnished by the inadequacy of feelings,
a determination of truth arrived at through a consensual understanding.
1/26/2017
submitted to - contest – Form F – Poetry Contest
Taking the tear in mid flow
Wiping the effect but untarnished the cause continues
Salt sphericals ousted from their nest
Breathing down my sobs
each sigh another weight added
solitude for the lonely
and pain without a source or stimuli
Standing on the edge of nothing
as it falls into you
Confidence of youth,certainty of self untarnished by reality,
time or ill-health.Swagger without substance,energy that cries aloud
for the skies,a shootingstar across the heavens,bright and fast to fade & disappear,such pace cannot last.Beauty of youth,lost in a sigh where
yesterday’s dreams wave goodbye.
Think of yourself as Gold
Fashioned in a star
Blazing bright
Untarnished no matter
Think of yourself as Enduring
Reliable as the star
Shining light
Unhurried no matter
Think of yourself as Wonder
Conceived in love
Born perfect
Unencumbered by strife
Think of yourself as Beautiful
©David Byrne Sept 2011
I painted us perfect,
love's untarnished gleam,
but your control chipped away
at the heart of my dream.
Five years, a gilded cage
where freedom slipped away,
now your betrayal's echo
darkens every day.
His whispers poisoned trust,
his games left me confined,
wounds deep and lingering,
a love redefined.
Drunkard are you,
But my fantasy of
You remains
Untarnished.
Strolling,
through trees
in Wine Country
Your kiss is
Ever so intoxicating.
Until you're inside
me I can't bear
this anticipation
Although we've
Never met, and
You probably don't
Exist.
You are indeed
my secret lover,
full of surprises
And more than a
Rabbit hidden in
Your hat.
A blue so blue appeared in the sky
purer than the blue of a maiden's eye
Poking a hole through puff-clouds billowy white
its majesty moving those who prize sight
I wonder if it knows, as I marvel in awe
at its beauty so rare, no unperceived flaw
Or is its struggle to emerge so all-consuming
naivete yet untarnished ~ pristine, unassuming
I have the strength to nurture
I have the courage to protect
I have enough love to heal any heart or any part of me that is stricken
I am eternal. Evolving.
Transformations cut me.
Tragedies sear my skin yet my soul remains untarnished
And my heart's beat is complete
I am a gift that is received and given
I am here. I am woman.
At last, I know me.
There is something unexhausted of you
in this aging washed-out coat
and I lift my nose
to taste the smell that desires
to be invited-
ignited in the closing of your breath,
untarnished and thirsty.
Like rage, it licks,
streams,
and enters my dreams
glossy as brilliance-
you-
rush in my mentation
with warmth that comforts
my skin.
I breathe you in unfathomable-
not wanting to exhale.
Form:
I want to write
some beautiful words...
I want to craft some
beautiful thoughts...
I want to string them all together
like a strand
of the finest pearls...
Untarnished Symmetry...
Unblemished...
Circular.
Chaste.
Like a strand
of the finest pearls
to be worn
around my soul.
(November 14, 2010 Wausau, Wisconsin)
(c) Copyright 2010 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved
I have grown weary of the truth
Blighted soothsayer soliloquies
Shouted from hand-made signs
Railing against self-made silence
Shattered beliefs drowning
In doubt’s echoless dungeon
Stained glass demons
Muted by mindless dust
Leaded beauty denied
Untarnished expression
An old woman waits on the corner
Knowing she may go hungry today
Rats scurry in the alleys
Knowing that they won’t
SHOOTING STAR
Confidence of youth,certainty
of self untarnished by reality,
time or ill-health.Swagger without
substance,energy that cries aloud
for the skies,a shootingstar across
the heavens,bright and fast to fade
& disappear,such pace cannot last.
Beauty of youth,lost in a sigh where
yesterday’s dreams wave goodbye.
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What falls from my eyes is dry; as crystals of a saltine
Frozen waters, be damned; I find calm in what they mean
Sweetness of their memory; form a perfections praline
Warmth of space, you're a true descendant of constantine
Thawing by infernos of thoughts; they returned to saline
With untarnished glare, I find to be a perfect sheen
Through earned tears; uncompromised understanding, can be seen
In the cobalt depth serene,
where silence whispers,
concealed aquatic elegance
transforms the gift of the sea
into spheres of opalescence
within clammed hidden heart,
a beauty shaped from fluid dream.
In entwined hearts’ fathomless niche
the luster of nascent desire nucleates
layer on layer luminous,
into pristine pearl of love,
a treasure covert and untarnished,
the protected epithet of precious oneness.
Nobody knew me,
and that was my choice
The distance I kept
protecting my voice
Though others had promised,
their words fell in vain
My spirit untarnished
whose breath I lay claim
My heart often suffered
the pain I’d been caused
But a force pulled me inward,
all hurt left on pause
This pathway my own,
its direction so clear
Where alone I must travel
—new voices to hear
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)
She stands there, still
Untarnished by society
As the onlookers flash
Their many lights at her
Of the deepest beauty
She stands tall above
All who dare to compare
The classic look of her
To the modern look
That we call beauty today
Her eyes, illuminated
By the various flashes
Blink not at the many
Who try to sway her
She is constant, as she
Was when first created
Will be constant, as she
Is forever gazed upon in awe
Set by her masters hands
On a day when nothing pleases you,
not land, sea or sky - a vision,
a natural completeness
of nature unfolds.
Shedding all former perceptions,
you see a world unmasked,
its untarnished visage
now reflecting only perfection.
Before you, blossoms a reality,
an ageless beauty
that had yet to be imagined.
The purity cannot hold for long,
the world returns,
wearing its shadow-laced rags
once more,
but you remember,
and your eyes are clearer.