Unhearing Poems

Premium MemberRoshidere

...Silver-haired princess
Masks her heart with icy glares
Russian secrets bloom
Whispered words like snowflakes fall
Melting on his unhearing ears

Classroom desk neighbors
She scolds his sleepy ...
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Categories: unhearing, high school,
Form: Tanka

A Sob For Truth

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The world is dying, yet the quietness develops,
As shadows shroud the cries underneath the stone.
Where when we discussed harmony, presently nobody knows,
The reverberations suffocated by voices...
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Categories: unhearing, cry, future, world,
Form: Sonnet


Dancer

...Talented but lone like the last flower in the row 
Loves music very much
But cannot hear the rhythm
Defected from an ankle but wants to dance 

Love music very much
Likes to move on the unheari...
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Categories: unhearing, 10th grade, angel, anger,
Form: Pantoum

Premium MemberCalling School Bus Drivers

...School bus drivers stay aware with eyes peeled 
For cyclists who are out there peddling wheels
Watch out for those who travel on foot too
Students who saunter along as they do
The elderly, bli...
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Categories: unhearing, journey, school,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFaith

...Ever wonder why a willow would want to weep
While dreams haunt you as you sleep
Somedays blur by
You try ,
But in doing what is  right, hold to your heart and fight ,
 is at the same time doing ...
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Categories: unhearing, april,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberWillow

...Ever wonder why a willow would want to weep
While dreams haunt you as you sleep
Somedays blur by
You try ,
But in doing what is  right, hold to your heart and fight ,
 is at the same time doing ...
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Categories: unhearing, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme

The Tumultuous Tracks of Nature

...As my legs grow into trunks and my arms into branches, the leaves of my leavings fall and sprout seeds among the grasses. 
Spreading my roots through the mud, bringing myself a sort of immortality, ...
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Categories: unhearing, anxiety, art, metaphor, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHatred Hatred

...The wings blemish on the laminate panel.
The zany suit shudders at dainty muscle.
Sparkling splashes on abhorring emerge.
Brainless spirits shine over despot spurge.

Ill-mannered...
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Categories: unhearing, abuse, allegory, anxiety, character,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberFunner To Be Kind

...Easy to be cruel
against sublime unitarian longings
stewed in outdoor green/blue sunshine
reproducing universal solitude belonging

Within this multiculturally hued
resilient solidarity
I like...
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Categories: unhearing, caregiving, education, environment, fun,
Form: Political Verse

Athenian Epitaphs Ii

...Athenian Epitaphs II

These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...

Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night: 
his owne...
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Categories: unhearing, animal, best friend, death
Form: Epitaph

Premium MemberYour Long Angular Feet

...Your Long Angular Feet

You don’t know me, but
I been riding here in this trundling lounge car
for two hours now, watching 
you and your long angular feet,
while rumbling over these burdened tr...
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Categories: unhearing, travel,
Form: Free verse

Let Me Be

...Let me be a light
A beacon
A hope
For the sightless

Let me be a shelter
A home
A refuge
For the homeless

Let me be music
A song
A melody
For the unhearing

Let me be faith
A message...
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Categories: unhearing, prayer,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberLife's Greatest Regret

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I watch the sun fall from the sky
tumbling soundlessly, the horrid quiet deafening.
As I see it touch the horizon, the world burns
and clouds, like kindling, burst into flames
set a...
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Categories: unhearing, sad love,
Form: Free verse

Once Again

...Let us fall, once again,
into the oblivion of unknowing,
unseeing, unhearing.
Let us fall, once again,
into touch and feel and skin on skin.
 
Let me feel, once again,
your heartbeat beneath y...
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Categories: unhearing, emotions, i love you,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFelix Seely: a Spoon River Poem

...Now there are special classes for those like me--
                    "special-needs" people. That sounds so much  
	            kinder than the harsh terms in use when I was
	            alive: "...
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Categories: unhearing, community, joy, life,
Form: Free verse

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