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Unmanned Poems - Poems about Unmanned

Abandoned
...They left me bleeding in a silent room, no mother’s arms, no father’s face— just hollow walls that held my gloom, and absence carved a bitter space. At sixteen, I was unclaimed land, a scarred......

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Categories: unmanned, family,
Form: Lyric
The Wordsmith - Apr 4, 5
...Yes! day and night, inside my roaring shop, pounding my heavy hammer ceaselessly against the hardened anvil Poetry, I ply tough steel into a pleasant shape. Working words cleansed of cheap and......

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Categories: unmanned, creation, journey, language, metaphor,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Premium Member The Death of My Soul
...In my chair, I sat, pure as the light/ When the Holy Spirit came with its might/ An outward explosion, a thunderous purge/ To banish the evil, to cleanse and emerge/ But I was a Saint, a soul u......

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Categories: unmanned, angel, bible, character, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Easier To Run
...Am I a coward because I’m afraid? My time is up and there’s dues to be paid. And now my welcome seems long over-stayed. So, what do I do? I can see just where I’m supposed to be But I can’t conq......

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Categories: unmanned, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballad of Circumlocution
...In realms where thought and tempests meet where shifting sands outpace the feet a creature stirs with cunning guise Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies its words like desert viper’s sting t......

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Categories: unmanned, allegory, allusion, confusion, philosophy,
Form: Ballad



The unspoken fear
...The unspoken Fear The weight of care, a constant hum, For my son, my love, my fragile sum. His needs are vast, his needs are deep, A constant vigil, while I barely sleep. I fear the shadows,......

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Categories: unmanned, anxiety, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Laura Norder 2 - New Balls Please
...Laura Norder took her gun and strapped it to her thigh The skirt she wore was so damned short she had to strap it high And stood there on the corner where the street lamps dare not tread She waite......

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Categories: unmanned, courage,
Form: Narrative
A bus in the hand
...A bus in the hand, Is worth two that fail to land, Or fail to stop on demand, Because they are needed, when trains do not run as planned, Or there has been slide of hand, From drivers on a m......

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Categories: unmanned, absence, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Grook
Premium Member With a ruthless hand
...In shadows cold, you made your stand, With all the nerve yet none of the spine You broke my heart with a ruthless hand The bed you chose, I wish lies unmanned, A ghostly hollow of your design......

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Categories: unmanned, betrayal, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Villanelle
A Consuming Weather
...Clouds in a Walmart mirror. The galvanized roof is eclectically painted and rattling its shifting shadows. Some mutter, hurry to the unmanned checkouts, some seek a deeper shelter in the spo......

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Categories: unmanned, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Behind the Scenes of a War-torn State
... The doctor’s practice went to waste the moment that the medic faced A call from his reserve platoon to fight a battle all too soon The CEO of Pharma-Tech ......

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Categories: unmanned, jewish, life, military, society,
Form: Sonnet
April 3 Look at the sky!
...April 3—Look at the sky! One day the world woke up To the impending end As a new asteroid. Quickly dubbed The doomsday asteroid Headed to Earth. Everyone looked up At the doomsday as......

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Categories: unmanned, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Retired VIP Guest Hospitality Specialist: Land Trustee-PS
...A pure Hawaiian of rare birth, living a life somewhat carefree, fed farm animals by this squirt, sticks and stones were real toys indeed, set trash ablaze, be on alert, a barefoot countr......

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Categories: unmanned, addiction, appreciation, blessing, dad,
Form: Free verse
Crane
...During the night, husks of buildings haunt the skies. A hook hangs high a universe away. It appears like a body - the way light lies. Don’t do this anymore: make it day, make it day. A swift gu......

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Categories: unmanned, dark, death, grief, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Drone
...A drone be, a male bee, useless in hive of she's, except at mating time! Expelled when job done. A drone is monotonous hum of sitars and bag-pipes, mantras meditating, prayer wheels. A dr......

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Categories: unmanned, conflict, death, flying, war,
Form: Free verse

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