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An Unpainted Whore

When Russia inevitably evens the score
Ukraine will remain an unpainted whore
   To NATO unattractive
   Russia wary, reactive
Hiding in alleyways, pre-Third World War

Categories: unpainted, international, sad, war,
Form: Limerick

The Unpainted Clapboard House

We had moved six times in my seven years
Always some apprehension on my part
At this new school, red-necked bullies to fear
Only I did not know about their art

Oh! I was soon to find out what they do___
It was enough to make a grown man steam
It changed my life and made me fill with blue
Those bullies

Categories: unpainted, abuse,
Form: Sonnet

As Yet Unpainted Scape

Granite towers rising above the canyon,
Orange-colored dreams millennia ago
Carved above the lavender meadow below,
Reflecting in the stream meandering for
Miles like a snake slithering toward dusk
With scorching sun high and scintillating
Off limestone remains along the edges,
Smaller and smaller until they disappear
Into the singular vanishing point where
The painting melds itself to ornate framing.

FIRST PLACE WINNER
Brian Strand's Contest
August

Categories: unpainted, art, nature, places,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Unpainted Canvas

Unpainted Canvas 

 The insurance man was young and so closely shaved
it looked so naked, and I had to look away,
His face was  white like a blank canvas that had
still to be painted on by time.
When signing papers he had to use reading glasses
which made him look older.
He was incredibly kind I had an

Categories: unpainted, break up, business, car,
Form: Blank verse

Life Unpainted - Collaboration With Chris Green

I painted a desert in shades of my past
Muted in worry and tears
Granules of sand through a cracked hourglass
Falling in spite of the fears

A range of grey mountains all covered in snow
Cold like my feelings inside
Bordered the desert where nothing would grow
Disguised the volcano I hide

Arid reflections of times long before
Searing the pain to the

Categories: unpainted, analogy, art, metaphor, sad,
Form: Quatrain

One Nail Unpainted

She figures she will do it after she answers the phone
She waves her fingers in the air
hoping to dry them off
one nail is unpainted
she drops the phone
coughs once
collapses
the mortician wonders why one nail is unpainted
she figures the woman was painting her nails
when cardiac arrest took her life
she left one nail unpainted
the girl's mother painted the

Categories: unpainted, confusion, death, mystery,
Form: Free verse