Unfortunate Poems

unfortunate heaven

(The stage is bare. The poet steps to the mic.)

(Begin calm, deliberate)

They tell you prayer is soft hands,
is waiting for a sign.
They tell you it’s a useless, romantic kind of whine
that only grows your doubt.
But I say prayer is a shout.
My prayer is a dare:
May love grow in the hearts of men,
and may believers learn

Expanding Hell

No paradigm of peace will ever dwell
Upon the land of evil and the outcasts
Who are not evil, but were born in hell
And this alienates them from the lucky ones
Who despise those unfortunates, believing
They’ve drawn the short straw they deserved for sins
Of their forefathers, which seems merely decieving
To the unfortunates, for they’re not welcomed in
The lands

August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a freaky Friday the thirteenth) did (nor does) not find me exceptionally superstitious, and rather than wait for the morrow, I feel so pent up

Unfortunate

My best mistake was falling for you, 

I would replay it over and over again, thinking about the time I fell for a friend, 

it was the way we got close, that was what lead me to miss you the most, 

I loved you, and unfortunately I still do, and as much as I wish

The Unfortunate Plight of Women by Ho Xuan Huong - English Translation by Michael R Burch

Ho Xuan Huong (1772-1882) was a risqué Vietnamese poetess. She has been called "the candid voice of a liberal female in a male-dominated society." 

The Unfortunate Plight of Women
by Ho Xuan Huong
translation by Michael R. Burch

Hey sisters, do you know?
The baby bawls at your breast
While your husband slides onto your stomach.
Both demanding your attention,
Both endlessly

Unfortunate Snail

I happened upon the tiniest snail today, it's spiral patterned shell caught my eye.
Not thought of fondly by many,
would turn your legs into jelly,
would make the keenest of plant lovers cry.

An interesting truth, they have many a tooth.
In fact 14,000 of these.
They chew through your berries and flourishing plants.
I'd Most definitely prefer to keep bees.

Now,

You Poor, Unfortunate Woman

Last Monday was a special day for me.
You got that big promotion and the raise!
I pity you, for now your life will be
a rat race through a long, nightmarish maze.

You’re doomed to spend that extra salary
on nerve pills and work late six days a week.
While I breeze through my work days trouble-free,
you’ll wrestle with a

Unfortunate Last Names

It could be Frog or maybe Stoner,
first one’s Richard last is *****; 
Parents play such twisted games,
such unfortunate last names;
Having just one? So much better.

The Kiss That Never Was

So close your breath tingles my skin.

A transient kiss, placed on illusive lips.
I so wish, this moment would eternally exist.

Unfortunate souls bounded by love.
Two cold hands, in one glove.

Yet so far it's all a blur, this confusion I must concur.

This moment won't go in vain. 

because i know, it will be a while till i

Unfortunate Appointments At Imperfectly Perfect Times

water flowing
i move not
unfortunate that i will have to leave quickly
i think about all that are no longer here
the water's sound eases my mind like it knows
i move not
unfortunate that life and time waits for nobody's nothin'
i think about being late
i think about not showing up
i think about those ugly ole ramifications
water flowing
humbled, i move

Unfortunate Demise

Here lies Hector Amos McSpiel
Slipped on a tossed banana peel
It really was not Hector’s fault
He came down hard upon his heel
We buried him here in a sturdy vault  

Written April 8, 2022

Unfortunate Single Woman-

...a newly single woman speaks)
I had a love and his love was beating in my heart
And though it was possible physical
It wasn't enough there, there was no spiritual part
And though I found a way per se
We lived to bond in a way
We co-created children together
Yet life still didn't get any better
He had fallen by the

The Fireworks

Like a marvelous bright lightning bolt
Appeared in the sky
Sparks of colours burst
And shooting across the sky
Against the plain darkness
Ushering in a prosperous new era
While some unfotunate men 
Still sunk
In the mud of poverty
Glancing the same sky
Helpless

To Be Insured

People say
Life is to be insured by
Insurance
Education and qualifications
Money and treasures
Medicine
We man finally find out that
Nothing can be totally insured
So during our life spans
Why not multiply our happiness
By sharing with others
Who are less fortunate
Why not upgrade our reputation
By doing good and avoid evil

The Heaven Is Still Far Away

Befiore one climbs the ladder to the heaven
One must fulfill one's promise on earth
Glitter the life on earth
Herald a meaningful life
Attend to the needy
Fair to the unfortunates
Treasures on earth are to be shared fairly
Just like the share of a place in the heaven
When you've paid on earth
Sure you'll be free in the heaven
This is what

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