Unable
Turned away
Unable to withdraw
Turned towards
Unable to get close
Invisible forces in action
Unable to resist
Despite desperate intentions
Always unable
To resist your magnetism
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Categories:
unable(p), conflict, for her, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Complex Change
It seems like the old you and now are different.
The smile that reflects in your eyes is no longer the same.
Hair that flips when you walk is no longer shiny,
Tired eyes and body want to fight, but they're too skinny.
The old you that laughed genuinely,
A smile that made your cheeks feel chubby.
A walk that looked
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Categories:
unable(p), change, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Rhyme
unable to solve the case
A dozen dancing markers ran through the streets screaming for help
Avoiding Mr. Gold and his thugs as best they could
Unfortunately, coal and ebony got lost in a Chicago alley
Their runaway plans thwarted when the mafioso grabbed them.
I asked if the film maker had gotten this on video.
She said yes, and she had zoomed in on
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Categories:
unable(p), 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Unable to let go
Foundation of the piece.
Is life just a purging of the soul and to ascend to a higher plane of existence,
do you have to let go of everything and everybody you once loved or knew?
To do so?
Or would you wait to be called to join them if separated because you couldn't let go of your
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Categories:
unable(p), spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Unable to feel love
Unable to feel love
A shadow hangs, a constant chill,
Despite their warmth, my heart stands still.
They say they love, with words so kind,
But in my soul, no solace I can find.
Their touch, a breeze that barely blows,
A distant echo, where affection grows.
Their smiles, a mask they wear so well,
While mine, a truth, their love can't tell.
I
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Categories:
unable(p), absence, family,
Form: Free verse
Unable to fear Jamaican terrorists from Tampa
Jahore Pakistani kind of terrorist driving a Tahoe shooting into my home attempting to impersonate me gain royalties from my American poetry sorry my ancestors served Wwll Vietnam Korean Afghanistan Iraq for these reasons I will never ever fear scum like you carrying a rubber badge you obtained from Gargano strip club on fletcher ave.in
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Categories:
unable(p), allah,
Form: Epyllion
Perche' Di Notte Non Riesco A Dormire-Why At Night I'm Unable To Sleep
Perche' di notte non riesco a dormire;
ah, potro' mai sognare un mare scintillante
e stringerti in queste braccia cosi' calde
e non cercare piu' quella luna di neve?
Why at night am I unable to sleep;
ah, could I ever dream of the glittering deep
and hold you in these warm arms and not
look for that snowy moon so unbright?
Perche'
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Categories:
unable(p), anxiety, betrayal, dedication, desire,
Form: Lyric
The Puppet and the Strings
you are the puppet,
I am the strings,
and yet you control everything,
to wake up each day
with a promise I've made,
only for you
to not see it through,
does anything matter to you?
alone in my bed,
wandering thoughts,
what's it for,
to sit and rot?
I'd rather not,
but here you lay
wasting each day
like it's worthless to you anyways,
with strings I command,
yet you
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Categories:
unable(p), angst, extended metaphor, mental
Form: Rhyme
Hidden In Plain Sight Virtually Unable 2 See
Surely it is virtually impossible
To hide and disguise
In plain sight
Of curious mind eyes
The quite patently blatantly obvious
Unless that is of course
Those they who are
Looking and watching on
Are so terminally stupid
And utterly delusional
In the end it all makes
Perfect sense
As we only see
What we want to until
Everything else becomes somehow
Somewhat superfluous
If we do
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Categories:
unable(p), truth,
Form: Free verse
Unable of Late
Of late, I seem unable
To write a song or fable.
Perhaps it’s too much caffeine;
I seem to be unstable.
Now recently, I’m shaking;
My muscles have been aching.
I may be lacking protein,
Or maybe I’m just faking.
A certain strange malodor;
Those germs are all freeloaders.
Perhaps it is my hygiene,
My wife complained, I showed her.
Perhaps it’s too much caffeine,
I may be
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Categories:
unable(p), missing, muse, silly,
Form: Rubaiyat
Bhasha
Mai sabko sab-kuch samjhana chahta hu,
Aur mai samjhaunga bhi…
Abhi mai nai bhasha seekh raha hu.
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Categories:
unable(p), absence, anxiety, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Sopie Helen Is Unable To Walk Today
We have had nineteen dogs. Sophie Helen, our black cocker spaniel,
has been with us for eleven years; not our record, but close.
Today she cannot lift her back end. Is it her weight? Her age?
Are her legs too weak?
Has she had a stroke? I carry her all around inside and outside.
We discuss options.
Wonder if she
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Categories:
unable(p), dog,
Form: Narrative
Unable To Breathe I Chokingly Gasp For Air
Far as the (ease)
severely myopic eyes can see,
nothing but polluted atmosphere
where skull and crossbones
memento mori betokens beware,
especially with increasing chronology
mortality becomes crystal clear
existential crisis yours truly didst despair
not so much death itself, but failure
(inadequacy) at livingsocial
mine life to the hilt
plain as day everywhere
casual attitude apropos
(pertinent personal paradigm
regarding aspiring poet)
equals laissez faire,
hence the following
his apt
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Categories:
unable(p), analogy, conflict, depression, father,
Form: Free verse
Unable To Bid Papa Goodbye
Nonagenarian father afflicted,
his body electric awry
with congenital heart failure,
before long twill bid existence bye
whose physical well being -
corporeal essence inevitably will die
unavoidable manifest destiny...
accompanied into afterlife courtesy death
envision caricature immortal grim reaper
moost ofttimes (normally leering)
brandishing trademark scythe,
impossible mission to skirt dark shadow
creeping closer along edge of night, not shy,
eclipsing former robust native son Brooklyn
once upon
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Categories:
unable(p), 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
Through Deep Darkness Unable To Steer
It was deep dark, silence roaming outside
if I couldn't see and hear, it is myself to chide
the urge within pushed my fright aside
time to open the gates of my soul wide.
My journeys I used to have on my own
seeking sheer thrill in my serene zone
for what I painfully miss, I strive to atone
thriving when
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Categories:
unable(p), beauty, deep, destiny, friendship
Form: Rhyme
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