Unavailing Poems - Poems about Unavailing

I Stare Into the Water

...I Stare Into the Water

I stare into the water
(The water stares back at me)
In chime with Terra Mater;
I expend no energy.

Without a paddle or wind to sail,
My prospects are unavaili...

Marigolds around the marigold round

...roses and roses around
unveiling scarlet drops
echoing voices where
raindrops fall
a rally of imperfection
painted into ..

tapped touches 
sudden whirling whispers
secretively ...

Heart of Desire

...Countless desires breed in my heart,
Countless aspirations take wing
from the soul of my mind;

Each aspiration has a spirit of its own
Each aspiration rides on
the wings of dream raring to soa...

''Portrait of a Panic Attack'' Revisited

...With macabre-like fear, I fret as Death glides near,
     all too near! And in my ears, buried deep,
ticks a ghostly tick-tock—it's all I hear
     (so deep, deep in my ears I cannot sleep)!

I'...

Wistful

...Great thoughts once kissed my lobes
Before blank despair her flags raised;
And brimless hope reigned as globes
Of full-shining stars in glowing cased. 

Now see what dismal desolate shells 
Mel...

Rise Again

...Wandering in the woods,I had an epiphany.
My life right now is an opera without a symphony.
The plans I made turned futile,
now my body is  exhausted and my spirit has turned immotile.
Dreams som...

When

...Does your heart ever ache?
When,

you realise unavailing efforts make you drain.
you see how helpless you are in pain.

you think there is no escape but death .
you realise death is not an esc...

Browned-Cents

...BROWNED-CENTS

One of the true ways 
to remain in captivity is to keep silent to avoid your captor’s 
hostility and confusion

A penny for my 
thoughts has provided me with the ammunition 
To...

Bird Song

...( "There is no other in the world-  Mine was the only one..."  - Emily Dickinson )




Uncounting by bird-song in a morning wash
in a mango copse by the low hung melting fern

and I,...

Road

...My acquaintance with poetry in general and the simplistic literary brilliance of Robert Frost in particular, came at a relatively early age. My mother would ambivalently imply that I was too young to...

Loneliness

...FORLORN 

Gone but here, 
Atop my brooding heart
Far yet near
My thoughts brings her forth 

I miss my dear
And the halcyon days we had
Doughty visage shroud my tears
But lugubrious of coun...

The Eye of the Sea - Part 2

...Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 1


The first mate, dour and sparse of words
Claimed few things were his pleasure
And too much beer had brought him here,
That and the rumoured treasure.
...

Dust

...Dust
                                     Frank Halliwell

A friend wrote a lament to dust.
She swore and fumed and long discussed
A publicly proclaimed decree
That dust was her sworn enemy!

But dus...

A Common Story

...Dark into its den submissively shrinking
Twinkle came in triumphantly invading
Long waited glister the world tendering 
There comes at last the blissful morning

The big tree just in front so fa...

I Lay Me Down

...One white flower in a wan worn field,
The frailest of butterflies failing,
The brown-leafed grief of an old year's yield,
The last ray of sun unavailing;

I lay me down in the wan worn field,
I...

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