Short Unwittingly Poems

Man, by speeding things up, unwittingly, humanity's doom accelerates!






(C) Demetrios Trifiatis
      18 April 2016...

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The layers shed, all to behold an unwittingly  demeanor, a shadow in the light, unknown to the beknown, calm the bestowed storm beneath......

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I unwittingly caused a vast chasm~ 
                                     where despair is eroding love.


2nd place contest winner...

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Man prides himself of his freedom yet unwittingly to the unyielding destiny succumbs! 



    

© Demetrios Trifiatis
    20 November 2016...

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out-dated 
learned 
patterns of
behaviors 
brought 
to the 
surface 
buttons 
pushed so 
flawlessly 
unwittingly
explosion
emotional 
fallout...

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We all get bruised at times in our lives,
People use us all in some way,
Acquaintances, Husbands and Wives.
Unwittingly we all do it too,
Yes, even YOU.......

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they're
cutting
down the
last big tree
on my street
unwittingly re
leasing a giant
honey bee as the
buzzing of chainsaws
sting         my          ears...

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Sured my inclination
To goad trapper's ware
For I seek to be strung
By the trap that ensnares
If only to acquaint 
With a pardoner's air
Thee whom unwittingly
Summoned my dare...

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I unintentionally
always
seemed to 
make the 
mistake 
of unwittingly
inadvertently 
believing in 
the possibility 
of a brighter 
tomorrow 
one in which
reconciliation 
is the out come...

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As days wind into moments
sped away too soon -
So memories injunction is a road
so walked upon - but in unfold.

I walk, unwittingly into self-controlled,
and breaking free - remember thee,
the moments we did hold 
released to me again  ...  in truth's extolled!...

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Today’s child thinks what they have to say is golden
Interrupting adults is not a big deal
Questioning teachers is their right

Today’s child unwittingly shows us a somber future
Were they raised by wolves?
Or parents who spent their time with them staring at electronics...

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Those who find in dismal poetry attraction
Could have within themselves some sadness in protraction
Behind seeming face of placid insulation
May be hidden melancholy well concealed
Many living lives of quiet desperation
That, in response, are unwittingly revealed

11 Feb. 2019...

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I, myself, and me,
we comprise the royal we.
I makes most decisions,
while me or myself makes the needed revisions
to ensure we three
don’t unwittingly disagree.

Me, myself, and I,
we're a well-integrated guy.
On the whole,
we're a tripartite soul
stuck together till the day we three die....

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Alone she walks,her head held high
To her the crowd is indomitable,
With determination and vigor she smiles unwittingly
Never to anticipate her heart is full of torment
Bruised by the thorns in her life, she obscures her cicatrix
With make up, cloaking her beauty and grandeur ,she walks with her head held high...

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A dose of a placebo
intended to deceive
the symptoms and your feelings
are just what you perceive.

This game of med deception
unwittingly you play
no change in your condition
that's just the price you pay.

Sometime in the future
they gather all the stats
perhaps a cure resulting
thanks to all you rats....

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Flitting furtively from 
family member to 
family member
like a truly bumbling bee
frantically, frenetically flying 
from flower to flower
frustrated at his failure
to discern the nectar of love
amongst the resentments,
the caretaker drone
strays unwittingly
into the mouth
of the family dog,
saving the others
from themselves...

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4 July 2025  Juxtaposition Contest  
sponsored by Regina McIntosh


Can a lie be true?
Unwittingly!

Can truth be a lie:
unable to see?

Is what I perceive the only truth;
or, just my angled point of view?

Where is the bird’s-eye scene:
the whole, the real
that holds all things, and all of time?

Surely, that is God’s:
not mine.
...

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Ten years of life she unwittingly stole
		from the man who loved her with all his soul.
		To love him that deeply, she so desired.
		Time widened the gulf; he left, for he tired
		of hoping their union would become whole.


posted February 23, 2016

entered in Brian Strand's Contest 263 (any theme or form, seven-line max)
on January 13, 2017...

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sweep away the clutter
let the tide recede
wash away the grime
bare my soul, my mind
cleanse and start anew

let the winds reset
what's unwittingly askew
bird songs will return
with each rising sun

we must not despair
even when things seem
at an all time low and
never never must we think
of giving up on hope


Posted on September 16, 2024...

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On her death bed,

Fatally wounded mother nature, bleeds profusely 

While 

Ignominious Man 

Drives further his dagger of ignorance into the heart of life

Thus

Unwittingly committing at once the most heinous crimes 

Of 

Matricide and suicide 

Under 

The vigilant eyes of a wrathful God! 








© Demetrios Trifiatis 
       09 July 2019...

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No sooner our mind accords preference
to an outcome imagined optimal,
fears boomerang, stifling heart’s radiance,
self-blocking onset of God’s miracle,
manifesting fate inhospitable.
Reworded, our power of creation
births consequence as of thought suggestion,
which being rooted in ego craving,
unwittingly chooses agitation,
whilst cessation enables elation.

09-September-2021...

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Just the town children ne'er
feasted a forest of one tree's
in a labyrinth of the uninvited
stirs like cream in cocoa
--rightfully aloof

Their eyes steeped in a delft brew
brimmed by clamourous whispers
of an ephemeral sound alights a tortoise
yet ne'er have tea
--unwittingly

Juxtaposition compares bears none to
contrast, ne'ertheless, true to form,
town children
--they'd be.



Date: 09/06/2019...

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My verses smell
 reality when
the truth of life
calls me.

My verses taste  hope,
 which is
my raw material...

my verses unwittingly
don't delight, it's because
I did not have them wet with
enough inspiration...
And not carelessly or
ill will, is that occasionally 
I miss this
supply....

But my verses,
I'm sure has not
lack of joy... I do them
in harmony, with
the hours that mostly
move me...!...

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He lures his victim
Into a glass prism
Filled with fake diamonds
That turns to water and ice

The top closed
His fate sealed
To kick and thresh 
To escape his wrath

He appears through the glass
Looking straight into his eyes
The drowning victim 
Unwittingly drawn to him

In his desperation he can’t look away
In his fighting he’s ensuring his stay
His eye sockets frozen still
For him to take his soul...

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You can't really understand
Them until you look
 
A spider's web
In-between two railings
Swinging in the wind
It almost looks like
The strands will rip apart
Barely holding on
By either end
It's almost like the web
Isn't even there

You have to look at it
In the right light
With the right angle
But not everybody
Likes spider webs
So that can be a good thing
Unless they run into it
Unwittingly
 
Where's the spider?...

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