Unpacked Poems - Poems about Unpacked

Picnic at the Paradox

...Moe brought a cooler of sanctions,
solar forks, and a map none could decipher.
Larry arrived late, juggling borrowed napkins,
his blanket stitched from debt and belief.
Curly came barefoot, carry...

PACKING UP HOUSE

...
Packing up house
I do not like
Much, rather fly a kite,
Or go on a hike!
We lived in our first home 
Almost forever,
But in the last six years,
The third and most traumatic
Emotion in life,...

Come On Darlin

...For Aunt Carolyn, in memory of Uncle Dennis

They were just teens outside a gift shop door,
He said, "Come on, Darling, let’s go explore."
With a wink and a grin, and her hand in his,
They stepp...

obsessions

...I can be obsessive. For instance, last night I needed a command hook.
My mind couldn’t focus on “Principles of Biostatistics,” as fascinating as that book is, because I needed this $3 command hook t...

her buying obsession

...Buying was an obsessive hobby of hers
She was an avid collector of stuff
Her house was filled with unopened boxes
She stacked them to the ceiling and used paths
Most of her new things were never ...

Nightingale and Roses

...


“Nightingale and Roses”

the heart burst open
like a canary cracks open its cage with a song
listening to the nightingale with roses
flying like a throatful soul escapi...

The Kingdom of Forgotten Things

...In the bottom of a drawer,
where rusted nails and screws gather dust,
never used to mend the house
we swore we’d build together,
my dreams lie waiting.

In the back,
with the dried-up ketchup ...

The Manual Clunk

...My typewriter
was not a good typewriter,
its keys were weighty,
you had to use brain muscle to work it,
nobody wanted it.

My son unpacked a home computer.
I stood by and watched
as all the e...

Dream Rider

...I know you’re there, just out of sight, 
There among the black far-reaches
Like a rider of dreams in the night
Searching for reason that impeaches. 

You have left behind no traces
Of where you...

thanks Santa

...Let's wax poetic - wax on..

We’re in for it
When we enter
the insubstantial country of love

That secret theater, in an invisible mansion of moods

it’s a resort that houses its share of...

Home

...an unpacked suitcase is sitting in my room
the quiet side street in front of the house broken
the sky outside my window a highway to the stars 
...

The Fixation

...Fixated on the chemistry of it the human brain 
the sudden chemical imbalances that surge a 
sudden quickening of memories stored forgotten 
carefully store in an attic between boxes of brain 
ma...

GNRT THOUGHTS-OUR KIA SOUL

...
When we planned our road trip we set up with Budget 
that a Toyota Corolla would be waiting for us in Seattle
but after standing in line for 2 hours…I was a little rattled

When Budget ran out ...

snowball

...I got this new hand soap, called “Frosted Coconut Snowball.”
It's the dreamiest scent ever.

When I’d unpacked (from Spring break) and had everything in place, I dragged Andy and Leong into my bat...

Tearful

...
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi

I had heard the legend of her tears,
silent drops of sorrow ...

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