Unnameable Poems

Children of Cain inspired other theological ruminations

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"Reification" has it that biologically-intrinsic "Morality" understood as a-priori to Perception makes "Religion" a "Collective" or "Shared" Psychological experience.

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Categories: unnameable, religious,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberOpen the Floodgates

...What strange cascades course down my spine -
invisible, unnameable, and as of yet, undiagnosed.
I only can liken them to rain or wind.
Sometimes they are as a shower -
pitter-pattering lightly do...
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Categories: unnameable, prayer,
Form: Free verse


Acquiescence Begets Hegemony

...Acquiescence begets hegemony...

Think Putin whose forename
Vladimir translates as great power,
whose singular minded aim
after lobbing bombs into
second-largest country
by area in Europe afte...
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Categories: unnameable, abuse, anger, beautiful, city,
Form: Rhyme

Broken Neon Ii

...I walk at a quick pace...
For I fear their black eyes.
It quickens my blood.
My heart takes flight.
As shattered neon explodes into the sky
Sparks rain in, glass tinkles into the silence.
The o...
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Categories: unnameable, allegory, allusion, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

The Shadowbox

...In a box full of Shadows...
Dwell objects of Cryptic Imagery...
Through ancient Frosted glass...
Fractured like spider webs.
Creep items of the unknown or the forgotten.
From rusted gears of bro...
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Categories: unnameable, allegory, corruption, death, dream,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberPoets, Keeping the World Awake

..."My passion is to see poets' souls, brilliantly on fire!"... .P. Romios.

" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world!" Percy Bysshe Shelley, romantic poet


Without us being phony p...
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Categories: unnameable, courage, encouraging, inspiration, poets,
Form: Free verse

The Garden of the Heart

...Unnameable the moment  when it starts
The  sun goes turns black  and flowers  die on the stalk
The agony in the garden of the heart

Unnatural rhythms  subvert  accountants’ charts
Poor nestling...
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Categories: unnameable, emotions, grief,
Form: Villanelle

The Spell of the Outcast

...last I checked I wasn't one of you
I was ultimately and overarchingly one of me
apparently fortune had brought him to this instant
to the point of questioning fate hard
when the child is smarter ...
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Categories: unnameable, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Unnameable Gate

...Looking around her at all of the strangers
doesn’t know where she is
doesn’t know the faces around her
and as their smiles turn into a horror
it’s in the currency of children
to the perversions ...
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Categories: unnameable, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Free verse

Scared To Death Of

...These things are passing
temporary in their afflictions of
to be dealt with in problematical
or carried a brick of sacks
slung this weight upon the back
to weigh a feathers heart
against soluti...
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Categories: unnameable, death, life,
Form: Free verse

Brain Injury Save Her From Further Suffering

...Karuna, a beautiful nurse with a mother’s heart 
Used to take minute care of patients in her ward
In a Mumbai hospital  
Her services to the patients befitting her name
Were full of compassion:  ...
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Categories: unnameable, pain, sympathy,
Form: Free verse

Unnameable

...Ripped from womb
Slapped to teens
Used by all
trapped within this fleshy cage
Anger feed upon my emotions
And slowly changes all to replicate its form
Life sits upon me squeezing air from my br...
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Categories: unnameable, poetry,
Form: Free verse

An Unnameable Feeling In Two Parts

...I. Your ears, your eyes

Impact
My hands and the door knob
Still intact
No lightning
Just trying 
To be or not to be
Frightening 
I ask
Please don't worry
It’s writing
And nothing more

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Categories: unnameable, anxiety, confusion, emotions, fear,
Form: Free verse

The Streets of Childhood

...The streets I trod
As an innocent and naive child
Appeared as gold-paved and rosy-hued
And the brilliant light of optimism
Shone on all and everything,
Banishing worrisome dark shadows.
Only no...
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Categories: unnameable, childhood, feelings, growing up,
Form: Free verse

Aura

...My face flushes and tingles as I near your presence, encountering that
unnameable feeling, giving off a palpable buzz of joy, an almost electric field that causes the hairs on my arms to stiffen lik...
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Categories: unnameable, desire, love, lust, passion,
Form: Verse

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