Unfamiliarity Poems | Examples

To moon

How does man get to know 
    that the moon is treckable 
    or flatsohow or level not 
   mountainry?, imagine the first phase of the moon 
    or even when it is full?, imagine the unfamiliarity 
   of it's surface here about 
    landing hinter.

still nine at heart

You smell like an unfamiliar address, and
I look like a stranger with perpetual eyes
I wait for the rain like I wait for you
in mid-July, but it's summer now.
You look like a poem, and I sound
like a song; long stolen. I write letters
addressed to unfamiliarity 
and blame you for everything else
I'm still nine at heart, getting lost 
with people around. You're twenty-six years away
searching for me in a different crowd.
If I didn't look like a stranger, perhaps
You would've found me by now.
I still taste half rotten and blame you for
everything else.

JUST

I just needed to be
That young woman in the red, cable-knit cardigan one more time
Who mama had to make excuses for…
“She’s very intelligent.”
And there were silence and blank stares all around the table
I just needed to be that young woman in the red, cable-knit cardigan 
Maybe things would be different
And I could be “enough”

Was I an English major then?
Lost in Radcliffe and Love Story illusions of bliss
The reality of being adrift on a tumbling log of family dysfunction
Losses in the raging rapids and tousling winds
Threatening  to overtake me…Soon, too soon.

But I smiled and drank my coffee cautiously, ever so carefully
Fading away like swallowed cream swirling in the throat
Trying to be unnoticed…a guest in this house of  unfamiliarity
A visitor beside family who had to make excuses for my being
My very presence an apology

Stars of Clarity

"Sometimes things only become clear when we are old enough to grasp what the universe is trying to tell us."   ~~The Poet~~


Had it been labelled charity?
Gazing at that star of clarity.

Watching it make its trajectory
Drifting through my memory.

Long lost from my childhood days,
Motherless, a father to praise.

Though I was told of her love,
Left me, now lives in heaven above.

I recall his love as he took care of me,
But he left me there when I was three.

To play with orphans and waifs like me.
Was the last of my father I was ever to see.

Gazing at that shining star of clarity,
There creeps a ray of unfamiliarity.

Now though what seemed prison bars,
The orphanage window frames the stars.

I see many stars of clarity shining fair,
A vison of him handing me that tiny bear.

It was cold, not cuddly as a bear should be.
It wasn’t for play, unsure why he gave it to me.

Now, all these years later I gaze at that tiny bear,
Looking deep into it, I see him standing there,
 
Giving me something he knew would last.
In crystal clear clarity his love was never surpassed.

Singularity

In the Tranquil of night, I wake from dreams,
A sound, like glass, shattering at the where.
Quiet serenity or a deep wound
I try to hide, but can't escape it.

It's scary enough, being done
Falling into this deep fear
I try to ignore it
It rings like they want something
Nothing to give, But here I am
Falling into this place with no light
Obsidian, they call it

Shadows are taking over,
In this barren land,
So colorless, yet lively
Unfamiliarity knocks
Isn't there a miracle,

Can I go back?
Regrets, yet all over
Knowing its Bad
I can't help it, but want it

A Thousand Years

My past hides like a shadow from me.
My past hides like a shadow from me
As I pass through this hallway of time.
The open doors of my memories
Lead to nothing but thine eyes.
Those sparkling ruby orbs
That never match well with mine.
The distant voice of honey that robs
My heart and my thoughts
For tens and thousands of years.
Through music this dance may have begun
But now I'm too old to recall the rhythm.
As I forget the warmth of thine arms
My body fails to react to the sound of your name. 
This strange feeling of unfamiliarity 
wraps it's claws around my neck and chokes me.
As I struggle to find your voice
Within this hellsite of memories.

Fear

What is fear but insecurity

     He who cannot face unfamiliarity

Unfamiliarity

UNFAMILIARITY
evolving
  exceptions
with unusual clarit
the
 night shifts
spanning
&deliberately
 posited
as a hybrids
form
 flaring

 in the
distant
  gloom
a
silhouette
 an
 alter ego
obscured
 visible
secretive

a sense
in a dreamy a
illusion
 recedes sharply
into the
distance
  vanishing
 beneath a
    yellow moon
glowing
  incandescent
distinctive
  primordial
abandoned
  separated


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2022

At Your Last Breath

If I had to explain to a child 
What is fear?
I could not 
I would not

But for the adult 
Fear is all too familiar 
Yet so unknown 
Transcendence is skewed

Fear is natural 
Yet it is corrupt 
It is in the mind alone
But also physically numbs 

A lingering silence 
Devoid of thoughts 
Or a chaotic noise
Without a gap between screams 

Blooming from confusion 
Unfamiliarity, wrath and kindness 
The reason for being afraid 
Was not the same 

For Jack or Jill 
Dorothy or the Tinman 
Stepmother or Stepsisters 
Bonnie or Clyde 

Are you still afraid?
One asked a dying man 
‘No’, he replied
If not before, then at your last breath

Love Story

She's past the point in her healing process where her heart doesn't feel quite as tattered and raw.
She's used to the fact that her daily routine has changed, and has accepted that when her phone chirps, it no longer signals that it's him.
The times of the day that used to be spent with him have been replaced with conscious self-care and self-healing practices.
The struggle to resist reaching out is less intense and less frequent.

Indeed, she is starting to notice some progress, and that not-so-long-ago feeling of 
unfamiliarity is not quite as strange.
But that doesn't mean she no longer thinks of him.

She still feels the loss.
She still sheds tears.
She still has moments that pull at her heartstrings and bring her to her knees.
And she still wonders...
If this is how their story ends.

July 14, 2021

Extraordinary Devotion

Extraordinary Devotion
David J Walker

Forgive my unfamiliarity with 
Kindness that accompanies love

The healing hand beyond the passion
In my blindness

The kiss beyond the fashion of our
Oneness 

As you atone for my sins of 
thoughtlessness

As you alone make known to my soul
the definitions of extraordinary devotion

You are the sum of each numbered day

in the solstice of Summer and Winter
I am your Spring and Fall

Sweet Elation

The silence is deafening within 
the shadows of my heart 
Amongst waves of whispered 
emotions from the start 
Constantly awaiting confirmation, 
yes that I resisted
Unfamiliarity of a life without 
you has me twisted 
My surroundings are unrecognizable 
now in the mist 
My thoughts are reaching out 
for the one I have missed
The brief moments still linger 
upon my soft warm lips
Fluttering of my heart beat where 
your memory has eclipsed 
Words don’t understand this feeling 
I hold deep inside 
Hurts like what in life every 
goodbye held implied
If tears were flowers I’d have 
a garden to walk within 
A voice silenced no longer tells 
where you have been 
My life spent without you now 
holds no kind of inspiration 
Days are no longer bright they’ve
lost all sweet elation 

11/21/2020

Dedicated to my bro bro
Winged warrior

I, Republican

I am a republican, i speak with utter certainty
I believe in my own facts, the press is my enemy
I support global warfare, paying for them warily
I support oil revenues, with climate killing clarity
I support big tax cuts, with debtful hilarity                        
I support seniors, paying for them bareily   
I support guns, with mass shooting regularity
I support walls, preventing laborer familiarity
I lie with impunity, truth an unfamiliarity
I am evangelical, i lie with cool piety
I believe in family values, of a corporate variety 
I rally your sympathies, with solicitous demagoguery 
I believe in my health care, yours with insincerity
I believe in my future, yours very narrowly...

Escape

I was broken,
I decided to go,
I was down,
I decided to come,

I didn't mind the distance,
Neither the unfamiliarity with the place,
Or the costs it take,
I just want to run away,

And as I ran ,
I never thought you would come,
You with the bright smile,
We ran from the cruel place we know,

A thousand steps and we are there,
A place our eyes haven't seen before,
A place our heart had been looking for,
it is the  place we found,

Heartlocks locked on handle of the bridge,
Lovers boating in the grand canal,
Tons of people roaming around,
Taking pictures of the scenes they love,

A place we had been was a real paradise,
Though the distance was quite  far,
With someone to run with,
All the moments are worth it.

Just Be You

The world is such a big place,
For such a little one,
Unfamiliar and unforgiving,
For a girl so naive an young.

Unfamiliarity sires awareness,
As you sojourn through the years,
That were paved with much happiness,
And gladly, only a few tears,

Many have tried to shape you,
And some you never knew,
The only person you should emulate,
Is the person you turned into.

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