Unlooked Poems | Examples


Park Bench Crone

There she is, she’s grown beyond root and branch,
at peace despite the incontinence of an unlooked for
wisdom.
And there I am,
of a sudden snagged by her knurled spell
as if she were the Virgin Mary, and I
a stumbling beast wandering through her world.

I want to keep my silence
let only my hot breath snort
but there, on a creaky bench a crone radiates,
as a young girl would
holding her newborn joyfully up to the heavens.

I surface from my reverie, my mood rocketing upwards
to a roofless place where the ages, are all still babes
rocking in a shining crib.
Shoulders back and head high I stroll past her.

“Good morrow mother,” I say with a light-head
(the archaic phrase seems appropriate, as if now
were already tomorrow).

“Good morrow good beast, will you witness”?

“I shall,” I reply,
“for am I not almost an angel, part conjurer,
part diviner, part beatific daemon,
a human thing, growing to be ever ageless?”

Together we both laugh out loud
as children may do.
Categories: unlooked, poetry,
Form: Free verse

U Clods Unlooked

on tip of a wisp
as it bevels and bloats
streamlined scribbles etching a note
upturned waves collapsing
in cotton bobs
greys and embers mating a mistake
ethereal tendril veins knitting patters undone
phoenix fogs missed mist
of almost pink
Categories: unlooked, poetry,
Form: Free verse


From Distant Lands

From distant lands 
comes help unlooked - for 
Arriving in tall vessels
Legions of stalwarts 
arrive on our shores 
The battles will surely be won
Just as we aided our allies in 
the past 
So they will aid us in the future 
Does it seem we deserve their help?
Yes, it does!
So, onward ye peoples 
Joy will come 
When the savage foe 
is finally put to rest 
And peace will rule the stars!
Categories: unlooked, conflict, joy,
Form: Free verse

At the Edge

Cool winds
whipping by
    chill the bones
An unheard of, an unlooked for
idea
     has come and 
gone
      at the edge
of a precipice
  sits the 
answer to our
questions
    this is the 
real game   
    the time for
the new dawn
      has finally come
Yet there are
still obstacles
    to be overcome
Let the vivid 
lights
      move into
our imagination
Before the end
     comes
  we'll 
       know
that the 
     phantasmagoric
         truths we 
seek
    are ours for the taking
 the lights are 
fading - fading rapidly
now
     tomorrow will
come
    and with it
the chance to grasp
the ultimate reality
and move into new horizons
Categories: unlooked, hope, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

At the Edge

Cool winds
whipping by
     chill the bones
An unheard of, an unlooked for
idea
    has come and
gone
   at the edge 
of a precipice
   sits the 
answer to our 
questions
   this is the
 real game
    the time for
the new dawn 
    has finally come
Yet there are
still obstacles
  to be overcome
Let the vivid 
lights
      move into 
our imagination
Before the end
    comes
  we'll 
      know 
that the 
     phantasmagoric 
        truths we 
seek
    are ours for 
  the taking
  the lights are
fading - fading rapidly 
now
   tomorrow will 
come
  and with it 
the chance to grasp 
 the ultimate reality
  and move into new horizons
Categories: unlooked, imagination, inspirational, life, visionary,
Form: Free verse


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