sniff out the garish lights
loud music and drunken discussions
enter the party uninvited
conceive uneasiness and instant disdain
you try to dance with strangers
who quickly slide away.
somewhere in the intercourse of a reddish night
they feed you to a pack of blue dogs
willing to drag you down into their fetid fires.
Loneliness warps all reason
lowers the standard
opens the vein to jagged strangers
liaisons come and go
like a roman legion
they begin the journey devil bold
ranks thinning by the minute by the hour
till only one soul remains
beneath a parchment shield
his destiny to forever cower
Categories:
uneasiness, blue, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
In the stillness and darkness of the night
I lay in my bed and my thoughts begin to wonder
I wonder what is life really all about
Wonder what lies ahead
Wonder how and when will it end
Wonder, wonder, wonder into the unknown
Unsettled with uncertainty
Dread and anxiety fill my being
My heart beats a little faster and louder
My head feels cloudy and light
I don’t like the uneasiness l feel
Distraction is needed
Until l fall asleep again
The comfort of daylight arrives
No more uncertainty , no more dread
No more thoughts of the unknown to wonder
Categories:
uneasiness, angst, anxiety, fear, life,
Form: Free verse
Dear Father in Heaven
No one knows me better than you
You know my fatigue
You saw my tears and smiles
Learn more about the battles and pains
I'm going through
Please give me peace
Give me confidence and strength
Disperse my inner confusion and uneasiness
I know you are always with me
I'm willing to rely on you
Bravely face all the challenges of life
I'm praying always to you Lord.
Categories:
uneasiness, desire, faith, hope, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Waited patiently in lines to cast the vote
The turnout was expected; patience was tested
Uneasiness, hungry, and tired enough to be tempted
To leave the line, but frustration heavy in tote
Some feel it was not a honest fair win
Ballots were burned prior to election
Should there been more ballot protection
Oh well, candidate chosen with a jovial grin
Just pray this candidate is honest and true
A lot of talk of what is needed in this nation
Many voters are celebrating with elation
Some voters will continue to be sad and blue
Everybody will not be happy no matter the circumstance
Its the fate of the political experience for voters
Both parties campaign hard with ads and funny posters
Switch. Different party, its like the nation qualify for a refinance.
Categories:
uneasiness, america, heartbroken, joy, usa,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
All the jesters from every land couldn't make me laugh.
Their cure for my depression didn't work. The hurt I went through has no cure.
My mind would have to be wiped in order for me to live life.
The kingdom I'm in is forced to mend my brain. No one should have to deal with this.
In the abyss, I lie all day with incurable uneasiness, the most worrisome of my diseases, with my heart always pounding out of my chest in distress. One day, I'll finally be laid to rest.
Categories:
uneasiness, anxiety, death, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Seated beside a river, waiting for the sun to lay down.
Blonde hair rolling to all appearances
Gazing at the leviathan gulping the fish
A soul inside me experienced uneasiness
The moon pronounced the fate of life.
The missed cuckoo clock refreshed the memories, life is one-sided...
Categories:
uneasiness, anxiety, character, conflict, how
Form: Free verse
feeling of uneasiness before taking the big plunge
Categories:
uneasiness, scary,
Form: Monoku
Drifting slowly as time slips away like a dog spinning faster and faster but never catching it's tail.
I have been here before floating in this sea of uneasiness, clouded by confusion and lack of self worth.
Whispers of things that could be lazily cling to the edge of what in my own mind seem out of reach.
I have pushed limits, seen, felt, and done things most would deem unrealistic. Yet still the whisper, It calls to me, body not what it once was, mind clouded and doubted by thoughts I can't understand. But still.... who am I?
Some say it takes a life time to figure that out.
Not sure I have that long, who knows. What's does the song on breeze sing to you? I give, I love, and those whispers words barely audible yet pulling at the fiber of my being. Who are you? I am a warrior, bound by honor, family, yet I never look for a fight, I protect, I defend, I love...
Categories:
uneasiness, deep, faith, giving, identity,
Form: Free verse
Come with me to St Matthews cemetery
a flock of culpability
What are red faces for ?
The incidence of pious Rosetta
At the graves edge
he was returned
An avalanche of prayers
omits forgiveness
A life unworthily lived
unmatching the reverend
The bats resume their business
The uneasiness of the pews
Feathers are the sinews of hope
Their curved plumage
thinks well of an English Hill
Categories:
uneasiness, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
My colors bloom and die with the seasons of life
My colors are bright and paint everything around me
My colors are dead and my broken bones soften the uneasiness your soles walk on
There's beauty in death because it leaves room for birth
I remain the same being but born to new habits
They say you've changed but I still have the same name
Planted in God's roots I rock on the red carpet with my dirty boots
Some of her rays of wisdom fall on me
Giving spring to my perseverance and winter beauty to my branches
My colors are a mirror of your grace
p.s. I will leave behind poison like leaves falling from a tree...
Categories:
uneasiness, faith, may, poets, seasons,
Form: Free verse
she said to refuse the path
diverge and emerge upon your trail
the first step is always fraught
with a queasy uneasiness
a modicum of doubt is natural
ask the lemmings that survive
life is all about listening to within
large measures of accrued wisdom
adorned in virtues a necessity
as you walk each step grows assured
the aim of life is to walk away
with who you are
always aware that ordered order
is the fog of chaos
the delusion of illusion
the elusion surviving lemmings share
the goal in life is to die free
scars are there to remind you
life comes with a price
mistakes are never to be denied
they are a gold mine of learning
the coin to the Ferryman
must be what you have earned
upon your forged trail
be worthy of the scales of Anubis
the quiver of quodlibets
no longer serves the bow
the path is straight and narrow
human questioning
is nothing more than grasping straw
to be counted amongst
the forgotten men
numbered amongst the homesmen
OKC 11/22
Categories:
uneasiness, destiny, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Low Self-Esteem states of affairs differing impressions
religiously surround us/me? Uncovered at an inopportune time
range of possible options channeled to social pressures, sensing
to belong are we clones? Do you sense being on the same wavelengths?
swayed to authoring and bad decisions? Low Self-Esteem borrowed
from childhood tribulations and bad habits and decisions, t. Lorust
issues? job and health uneasiness, unhappy childhood, physical and
emotional issues compelled to Low Self-Esteem of the self void of self
expressiveness growth of self-abilities, and confidences of Low Self-Esteem.
Categories:
uneasiness, 1st grade, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
It's the residue from the gunshot that you aimed right for my heart. See it ricocheted, backfired, meaning another false start…
A reissue of rhetoric accost the poet's you adore, so if acceptance is temperance then uneasiness no more?...
Do you remember that time we rode across your kitchen floor, clinging to a chloroformed kleptomanic repose, yet never in danger of being fully exposed, so we dined all night on a third and fourth course....just another case of the tail wagging the horse!...
When I held you in my arms I always felt you needed more...
See, we were allinged by chance, prepackaged romance, rinse repetitive repeat, another day, another week, who the f**k is winning in this game of hide and reep?...
I'll sow the seeds and water your fledgling soul, never once asking a suture for my own sterile self control…An awareness of sorts that our haves creates holes…
Acceptance is temperance then uneasiness no more, still when I held you in my arms, I could never see past my own sores…
Categories:
uneasiness, break up, change, deep,
Form: Free verse
Every birth drives through deep uneasiness,
Yet laughter cools pain of childbirth so gay.
There is no pattern to true happiness!
How smiles celebrate the womb's emptiness,
Simplify the joy heart awaits all day...
Every birth drives through deep uneasiness.
Happy birthday, dear sir in lousiness,
From my bottomless heart- sparks bright hooray!
There is no pattern to true happiness.
More of you to long healthy liveliness...
I wish you keep smiling all day that way,
Every birth drives through deep uneasiness.
God granted you your life partner's venus-
Love so true to bless your special display,
There is no pattern to true happiness!
Everlasting joy drives home coziness-
Where troubles won't be fit to block its way.
Every birth drives through deep uneasiness,
There is no pattern to true happiness.
Categories:
uneasiness, africa, age, appreciation, art,
Form: Villanelle
my friend is awake
we watch snow melt as it falls on the concrete outside.
"well, another season" is what he says.
they come and go here - he will be gone by the end of the year.
i am sad that the snow melts so quickly on the concrete.
it lasts longer on grass,
but i do not see much of that.
"roll up!" they tell me.
god damnit.
i gather my things and put them into two mesh laundry bags.
i try to ignore a tightness in my chest
and uneasiness in my joints.
they need the space for someone else.
they do not tell me to where i am being sent
and i try to convince myself that it does not matter.
Categories:
uneasiness, anxiety, endurance,
Form: Free verse
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