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The engagement

On Saturday the fifth, I will meet my bride.
By side of alter, and then decide.
If I should flee, or marry thee. 
You may think me cruel, or ungentle of man.
But she’s the type, to toll a man.
By cost and affect, because she can.
By Sunday sixth, she will be Mrs or amiss.
But me a Mister, regardless of this. 
Her name in tarnish,  but mine varnished still.
As a gentleman untamed, unmarried and with will. 
It will be my choice, whether we rejoice.
Or my plan, that I leave her in abandon.
On Friday fourth, I get a jolt.
A letter brought forth, has me revolt.
Miss will not see you on Saturday.
She’s decided against, the matrimony. 
How dare she, I gasp!
To leave such a man, not at the alter
But by, the pen of hand.
Categories: ungentle, break up, engagement, loss,
Form: Ballad

At Last

AT LAST

On my veranda I watch beads of sweat 
slide down the glass of ale I use to get over 
something I’m not sure of, perhaps just an 
absence of idea or thought, a quiet discontent 
that sparrow at the feeder cannot know.
The small bird skitters to his majesty the Red Oak 
who lives slow in the corner of my woods.
He is old enough to speak with substance and 
weight beyond the business of anything I’ll ever do...
To my left that willow I set in the ground some years 
ago waves long wands in the breeze over the water 
and careful plantings on the terraces and slopes. 
And there it is, the sure knowledge ofan ungentle 
slide down three score years and ten to sleep, 
with a paucity of hope for substance and weight.

Copyright
Vol Lindsey
7/12/2004
Categories: ungentle, age, meaningful, tree,
Form: Free verse


Suicide Is Dangerous

In the light she died,
although it was I that faded to blindness.
The Beloved
ransacked me, She was ungentle.
Years past, empty nights, grey hours
in the harsh light of anger.
I held my grudge against Her
like a hot iron.
Then She died for me.
I awoke remembering what I had done
and was distraught.
None can kill God,
all death is a lie
told to the back of your eyes,
yet slowly killing myself killed Her also.
Suicide is the ultimate sin,
not a crazy doctrinal unfeeling edict,
but a warning.
If you try to kill God,
the Beloved will find you
and Her love will not be gentle.
Categories: ungentle, poetry,
Form: Free verse

My Pain

I truly believe that I was only created, just to feel nothing but heartache darkness and gut wrenching unbearable pain and sadness only to be ing destroyed!!!!!!!!
I am an unbearable chaotic ing mess of dark demented unthinkable thoughts my thoughts make other people's nightmares look like muther ing sugar roses and God dam lollyingpops!!!!
And when this destructive horrendous darkness comes it pours through me turning everything dark sad and black
I'm going insane the pain I feel for him cuts through me like a ing knife to a ing vein.
Sometimes I think this horrible pain deep inside me is just a horrendous nightmare but then reality snaps back in and I realize I'm not asleep!!!
I am completely ing lost going insane with no ing hope of ever being ing ing found!!!!!!
I've been left for dead my heart he did rip ever ungentle out of my barely breathing ing chest my soul and spirit he did ing destroye
OH, ING WELL!!!
IT'S NOT LIKE ANYONE GIVES A .
THERE IS A HORRIBLE UNBEARABLE PAIN IN MY CHEST WHERE MY HEART USE TO BE,
BEFORE HE STOLE IT AND ripped IT OUT OF ME!!!

BY: SHANTAE PAPPACOSTAS
ORTEGA-ZELE (6-14-20)
Categories: ungentle, heartbroken,
Form: ABC

Bubble

Bubble
by Michael R. Burch

                Love—
          fragile,    elusive—
     ­ if held         too closely
    cannot              withstand
  the inter                    ruption
of its                              bright,
  unmalleable           ­   tension
    and breaks, disintegrates,
       at the              touch of
           an undiscerning
                   hand.

Originally published by Neovictorian/Cochlea. I believe this is my only "shape" or "shaped" poem. Keywords/Tags: Love, fragile, delicate, bubble, tension, held, breaks, break up, pops, disintegrates, explodes, implodes, hand, touch, harsh, ungentle, violence, stress, relationship, abuse, anxiety
Categories: ungentle, abuse, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberTwo Hearts Unite

Two hearts unite in holy matrimony
  Pledge their troth in sanctimony

Yet in a year or two, up springs acrimony
  The likely cause, ungentle parsimony

All that money spent on pomp and ceremony
   ~ Was better saved for alimony
Categories: ungentle, conflict, marriage, money,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberCome Hither, Come Thither

Come hither, come thither, come nigh
   Don't dither, don't blither, don't sigh
 
Ask me how, ask me where, ask me why
   Come hither, come thither, come nigh
 
Dance airily, dance merrily, dance spry 
   Not warily, contrarily or sly

Come hither, come thither, come nigh
   Bedazzle, becharm, beautify
 
Do sparkle, do sizzle, do fly
   Ask me how, ask me where, ask me why
  
Be gracious, vivacious, sagacious
   Not voracious, rapacious or salacious
  
Don't be judgmental, tempermental or ungentle  
   Come hither, come thither, come nigh  

Don't shout, don't pout, don't cry
   Tread lightly, tread brightly, glorify

Come hither, come thither, come nigh
   Ask me how, ask me where, ask me why
Categories: ungentle, language, light, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Your Place In My Thoughts

Your Place in My Thoughts

I so forcibly suppress my thoughts of you.
Your entity lingers like the putrid scent of sulfur in my soul. 
The havoc created leaving me shattered and blue.
I had given up so many things for us.
You seemed so happy, without a fuss.
Yet you still threw me down so worthlessly like coal.

Here I lay as destructive as ever.
I knew our relations would be detrimental.
For I never thought it would be us that'd sever.
In the moments after we would both lash out.
This deep hatred for another soon began to sprout
This reality just begging to settle, I never knew it'd be so ungentle.

May 5th, 2018
Categories: ungentle, 10th grade, loss,
Form: Rhyme

In the Raw Like We Were Animals

He that stalks like the prey
Holy steps he takes towards me
Sniffing at the sour air, claiming my scent he travels on

He that struggles with me in a clothes fight
Tearing, ripping undergarments to dignity
Ravishing me like some form of beast

He that makes my heart pound
Drumming my pulse one stroke at a time
Creating a ungentle rhythm

He that my body calls to
Loudly with stares no words
How I wish of him to devour me
Categories: ungentle, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, passion, romance,
Form: Free verse

The Master's Piece

The ungentle wind
breezes in through the window,
cooling an afternoon lust
that was widely soaked
in a summer haze, blending
with the sweet aroma of
a great Africa,
whose erotic craving was
painted in her big, round eyes;
only unearthed by
the master’s naked body
through her hot, darken coffee


--

The Master’s Piece, inspired by B.S. Picture Poems Contest 
and it was based on Paul Cézanne’s  «L'Après-midi à Naples» . 
 
http://www.nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?
IRN=98698&ViewID=2&GalID=ALL&MnuID=1
Categories: ungentle, art, history, love
Form: Choka

A Night, With the Stars

We spent the night—
once, in non-verbal talks, from rhythmic 
folk steps in duple time 
to a wild swaying. To enjoy life, 

be totally free. A lover, friends 
and me. Yes, me. I was there, to be with 
them. They wanted loud music and 

the exotic juices of an Agape plant, I 
preferred a peaceful night. Still we 
partied, with the ungentle winds 
and my sentiments. The snapping chimes 

of woods in lit and the boozes took 
us down the field, presenting the earth and 
the sky. I watched the night, with 

drunken eyes. Ah, there were the stars 
and me and the options 
yet decided. The stars easily had it, and I dazedly 
winkled, welcoming them into my world.
Categories: ungentle, life, nature, social, teen,
Form: Free verse

To Where I Am

come here
to
my
   grim
   ungentle

where
haze
   falls to
gray
and
   dark
hides the 
way
   to the glint
of your
heart
   distant

beyond this
wall
of charcoal
   wounds
fingers
   reach
   out
from the
   gloom

come here
come soon
Categories: ungentle, angst, confusion, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
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