Uncommitted Poems

Premium MemberEvening Prayer

...My soul desires true love’s embrace.
Its sweetness soothes the bitter taste,
prolonged by uncommitted arms,
that dole me crumbs of passion's charms.

I dream of life once blessed with bliss,
a ...
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Categories: uncommitted, lost love, romantic, sad
Form: Kyrielle

We Bawl, Then We Ball

...Drugging myself. To live in a way I know I don't want, to convince myself I do. To keep waiting for love. Pining over someone I am unwilling to approach. Living in a mess of papers and clutter to kee...
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Categories: uncommitted, emotions,
Form: Free verse


'breaking the Trauma Bond'

...'Breaking the Trauma Bond'
Do you still like me? 
Let me count the ways.  
The tired old familiar abuse,  
The ugly scowl,  
The “get outta here’s!” 
“Don’t give me that kind of sh..t!!” 
 
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Categories: uncommitted, abuse, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Into the Headlights

...To live non-affirming
to live not at all
To hide in the shadows
and creep down the hall

To live uncommitted
new doubts to contend
All time intermittent
repressed till the end

To live with...
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Categories: uncommitted, life,
Form: Rhyme

Lessons

...We turned the pages of our lives, from the beginning
I wonder why I had to live with those humiliations again
Yet his constant voice urging me to continue the narration
Pretending that he was detr...
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Categories: uncommitted, abuse, betrayal, character, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberPastel Purple

...It’s 6:15pm. Peter, Anna, Sophy and I are studying in the common room of our suite.

“We need to get serious,” Peter whispered, but there was no subject in the declaration, so I was left confused a...
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Categories: uncommitted, conflict, confusion, humor, identity,
Form: Free verse

Group Nine 280

...confussion and frustration
made the task a chore
it favored longety which
at first evaluation
of the work had been ignored
in referance to the group
we were straong and committed
but in labor
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Categories: uncommitted, business, creation, science, visionary,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberMy Vagabond Dream

...I wander about through myriad scenes of glee
On the Ferris wheel of life, no fancy pedigree,
While deliriously, excitedly, simply being me
Gliding over life’s troubles and woes on my spree
Uncomm...
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Categories: uncommitted, dream, freedom, happiness, how
Form: Monorhyme

Buck Fever

...Lightly armed and uncommitted
—the question always turns to why

(Martha Brown’s Woods: January, 2021)...
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Categories: uncommitted, fear,
Form: Free verse

To Be Free

...What would it be like
To be free?
Peace and tranquility...
Just to be me.

No one to answer to
When you sleep all day
No one to bump into
Or get in the way.

To be free...Oh, to be free
To...
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Categories: uncommitted, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Tyranny Counts the Ballots

...“Never forget 
everything Hitler did 
in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

drop by drop lady liberty bleeds
red on white and blue
common sense vexatious 
verboten spins askew 

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Categories: uncommitted, political,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPlanning For Grace

...Last night I arrived very late
for a GRACE planning team meeting.
GRACE's mission advocates against
all things racist,
whether systemic
or the normal chaos of antipathy
and sin 
against everyd...
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Categories: uncommitted, appreciation, community, culture, prejudice,
Form: Political Verse

Only Inside Me

...The opposition of love is to hate, for the sake of life for life is to create.only to debate a crushing blow to your everyday life, a moment I the night, for what's life worth, only to sleep like the...
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Categories: uncommitted, angel, anxiety, bible, blessing,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberIn God's Work

...In the work of the Supreme God,
The Lord calls not the slothful and indolent…
…the proud and arrogant, the selfish and covetous…
…the faithless and doubting, the uncommitted and unfaithful...
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Categories: uncommitted, appreciation, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Confession

...The night was young, ecosystem calm
Thoughts flooding my mind, I got drowned in them
Pin fall silence, I could hear my blood flow
On the spur of the moment came misdirection


Entered she, soak...
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Categories: uncommitted, cute, emotions, for teens,
Form: Narrative

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