Unclaimed Poems

Unclaimed

Conspicuous
by his absence
Entrenched  
in his abeyance
Condemned
in his reluctance
All feelings
askant 

Forgiveness
but a carrot
From a garden
long estranged
Those closest
to his exit point
Bereft
— and unclaimed

(Villanova University: January, 2025) 

UNCLAIMED ECHOES

In the echoes of your whispers, I heard the words you spoke, "I wish to be the last," a promise gently broke. She, the canvas of your dreams, painted in hues divine, A masterpiece of beauty that, alas, will never be mine.

I'm selfish, I confess, I can't let you slip away,
Yet her name dances in

Unclaimed fallen leaves

Spring winds clean winter branches
Leaves billow far from home
A maple tree sheds its own in tune
No one is around to collect them
Flat and perfect to be pressed in a book
Unlike humanity’s tree in March
It sheds its leaves year-round
We gather around its floating remains
We mourn our buds yet unfurled
We cry when our crimson leaves fall
But some

Wishes Left Unclaimed

Living in the present
living in the future
One conflates the other
betrothing joy and hope
Moments breed contentment
from wishes left unclaimed
Tomorrow rules our nightly dreams
— and all today holds dear

(The New Room: December, 2023)

Unclaimed Spirit

We've decided to sell our souls,
for the pursuit of Utopia,
But it seems that it's still there,
In between two heartbeats,
Of the opposite spirit.

Written: June 27, 2022

Unclaimed

Ten siblings
though an only child
Divorced fraternal
 bastardis wild 

Ten reminders
of what I’m not
Isolated
 dropped not caught

Ten siblings
that share my name
Whose backs have turned
with eyes that blame

Regret incessant
to live outside
This name a prison
—wherein I hide

(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)

Unclaimed

Writing in obscurity,
musings unrestrained

Words to live both free and clear
—nothing to repay

(The New Room: April, 2021)

Lost and Unclaimed

Standing in 
baggage-claim,
watching belongings
go round again
waiting for something 
that will never come,
an army of strangers
grab their bags and run
leaving me distant
adrift and alone,
as the carousel stops
—my location unknown 

(Shangri-La Airport: January, 2004)

Unclaimed Baggage

con conveyor  ~  belting blame





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Unclaimed

A Poetess schemes
A Poetess dreams
In the thick afterglow
Of what’s never to know

Her feelings unsure
Her words premature
Her voice still unnamed
 —her suitor unclaimed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

Silence Unclaimed

Dropping its bomb,
  always missing the mark

 Your echo implodes,
  a sound hollow and dark

Answers unquestioned,
  all bombast enflamed 

Drifting abandoned
  —in silence unclaimed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)

Living Unclaimed

Present ordained,
  past—future in shame

The Poet and Jester
  as one

Living unclaimed,
  free and unnamed

Archangel and Devil
  —undone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)

Unclaimed Freight

UNCLAIMED FREIGHT

I offered myself to you - Rejected many for you, made myself
Exclusively yours - You never understood that I was not here
To endure jealousy, hate or envy –
Only to serve you and teach you how to include instead of excluding...
You looked over and under but never really looked at me.
Patted my head most appeasingly.

I

Living Unclaimed

Present ordained
  past future in shame

The Poet and Jester
  as one

Living unclaimed
  free and unnamed

Archangel and Devil
  —undone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)

Lost Luggage Unclaimed

Drowning in utter pain
black dog bites
Once again
I can't breath
I cannot cope
Heading for the torrid gutter
via the slippery slope
Lost in the srounding confounding darkness
Where I blindly fear to tread
I crawl into the sanctuary of a shell
of my bed
A bed of nails that stab so deep
My only escape and allie is sleep
But when I awake
My overwhelming hits

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