Unenviable Poems - Poems about Unenviable

An Eternal Immortality

...Seeming of a blessing, that morphs into a heavy curse
Infinite youth behind old eyes that behold a library of stories
Every generation is what writes in themselves the next verse
And the chains of...

With My Dying Breath

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* My take on the theme of my contest. Just for fun. 

A canopy of silvery stars speckle the ebon expanse above me, at once beautiful but at the same time, taunting. For if these jewels in space w...

Un

...Unavailable for work,
Unbeatable prices,
Uncertain times.

Undetectable fraud,
Unenviable tasks,
Unfathomable crimes.

Ungrateful children,
Unhelpful comments,
Unintentional consequences.
...

Our Echo Tales

...If they draw too close, I will call your name
Echo—lame
An unenviable feat despite a large crowd
Echo—proud
A brotherhood against fighting for love
Echo—shove
Because everyone seeds...

Phobia

...One day while out walking
His left foot started talking
Within the space of one week 
It was spouting in Classical Greek
Kept him awake that long night 
Trying to converse with the right
Therma...

Sonnet On Vladimir Putin

...This satanic one lives in a dark, lonely place
He’s thoroughly engrossed in pelfishness,
Utterly devoid of virtue, principle, and grace
He is lounging in narcissism and selfishness.
W...

Cribbar

...Cribbar



I stand on the precipice,

I drink her eagerly from atop the raw stone.

Her jaws split open in bursts of pure, vicious foam around the feet of civilisation;

I stand caught betw...

Pernicious Invaders

...Luna's visage, 
pale, pocked,
and blemished by time;
rises majestically below the astral plane
to traverse the ebony emptiness
of the night sky.
And like a Goddess;
glowing high above ...

Free Verse Fevour

...I see you every morning
skipping on your way to work,
a mundane task for anyone
but not you, it being your release
from your world of simplicity
and retardation.
I’ve often wondered what
goes ...

A Red Bird

...A red bird, motionless 
A cardinal rare to my city eyes
And almost indistinguishable 
From it’s neighboring autumn leaves
Crimson and rusty, 
Feathered with impatience 
For winter.

A red bir...

Without a Prayer

...She was original
And irreplaceable 
Does no wrong to me

Maniacal yet adorable 
Addicted to her very soul
Never could she be soluble 

When she cries it brings storms
It is ironical never gi...

Marathon Man

..."You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far." -- James Baskett

Marathon Man
There goes Mr. Marathon Man again
He's the world's fastest man now
He fin...

Little Fellow Traveler

...I saw the puppy, when I awoke behind the dumpster,
Playing with a piece of trash, snorting and woofing at
The imaginary beast and I wondered what brings the
Little gift to me to enjoy in this worl...

Redemption Over, Forgiveness Denied

...There is a Facebook page called BULLYCIDE, a campaign to try to end bullying in all forms. They ran a poetry competition about 3 years ago on their page and I had the unenviable task of judging it. T...

Life Beloving Dualdark Night

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Some days and nights
I am terrorized by death,
cold silo ache-echoing fear,
claustrophobic breathless dark
barking inevitable factness and finality
of my decomposing mortality,
of h...

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