Unfastened Poems

Silent Struggles

...In the hallways where whispers cut deep like a knife,  
I walk with my head down, hiding my strife.  
You're just thinkin' it's a small thing that happened,  
But the world ended when it happened ...
...
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Categories: unfastened, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberBlame it on Hydra

...It was a memorable evening, bright
with my beautiful, charming fiancé
(once my wretched, tormented heart's delight)
near the old village of Fatheringay.

Drawn by the lilt of a whispery v...
...
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Categories: unfastened, evil, magic, marriage, moon,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberPaint Me an Ugly Duck, lyrics

...
Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere 
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions  
Millions of colors of the rainbow at one point I thought I was ra...
...
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Categories: unfastened, art, conflict, death, flower,
Form: Lyric

Silent Struggles

...In the hallways where whispers cut deep like a knife,  
I walk with my head down, hiding my strife.  
You're just thinkin' it's a small thing that happened,  
But the world ended when it happened ...
...
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Categories: unfastened, 10th grade, bullying,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberMy Bloody Valentine

...
As darkness approaches, I grow anxious for our meeting
when your first touch will make me shiver in greeting.
An invitation to a private feast, darling, for you to dine.
After centuries together...
...
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Categories: unfastened, humor, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberDECLARATIVE UNIT newman zip

...The
metaphysical
of
human scale
   counts

spectral closeness
  centirely
of colour
 flanking form
in
extreme
   asymmetry
lateral
    inflections

continuity
 presence
of verticals...
...
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Categories: unfastened, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberLive And let Live

...Labouring like ants and bees, humans of goodwill gather
Being sloth-filled like sloths, does one have the right to scatter?
With nobleness, each being should acknowledge the other
If one fails to ...
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Categories: unfastened, humanity, life,
Form: Sonnet

Shackled Butterfly

...Finally, I’ve escaped the chaos of life,

I’ve been anxiously waiting for this day to arrive. 

Then you returned and disturbed my tranquil tune.

You are bringing chaos where I once silenced t...
...
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Categories: unfastened, betrayal, confidence, deep, freedom,
Form: Verse

PAIN AND LONGING

...PAIN AND LONGING 


Reluctant wood lay
marbled down His spine
as His passion extracted
His strength in diamond 
drops daggered 
my hip pain a micro
misplay of that which 
nailed His truth :...
...
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Categories: unfastened, analogy, animal, character, color,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberThreads

..."When threads of love are frayed, 
                a heart is left threadbare and broken."
                                                  ~ by poet.


Threads from my yesteryears remai...
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Categories: unfastened, break up, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOn Christmas Eve- Story Poem

...December came with Christmas beckoning at the door
He saw every house bright with many a lamp
And the whole streets illumined with colorful lights and star
But his tiny hut looked dismal n’ dark l...
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Categories: unfastened, christmas, god, prayer,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberAnother Day At the Jail - Acts 16: 19-34

...A jailer has never two similar days
never knowing what will be next
I should know for that's what I do
way back in the days of no text

There were these two prisoners
two Christians Paul and Si...
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Categories: unfastened, day, prison, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSuch Secrets

...I enjoy your storm;
Those flashes and thunder claps
merging with my dark; 
Now if my teddy gossips?
It won’t be filled with this truth;

My words were hung up;
Stuck, before you unfastened
ev...
...
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Categories: unfastened, emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse

Reflection

...You are my passion 
You are my Poseidon

My depth of my despair
My depth of infinity

You are my weakness 
You are my bane

My fear of destruction 
My heart's fierce desperation 

You lea...
...
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Categories: unfastened, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSit With That Feeling

...when you feel like pacing up and down
hitting yourself in the head
on that perimeter fence of enclosed emotion
bracing for an onslaught of pain
that won’t dissipate on the barbed wire fences

a...
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Categories: unfastened, courage, depression,
Form: Free verse

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