Unraveled Poems

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Bad Nation

I’m living dead, I’m a bad nation
As bad as you like to percieve
The easiest for condemnation
En masse, so maybe I’m not me
Because I’m always undistinguished
I am a crowd you ignore
All personalities relinquished 
It doesn’t matter now what for
I cannot see a film director
That could have done a sequel to
Forman’s Ragtime, like a reflector
Under the name of Ragtime Two 
A story of the insulated
Would not attract lot of attention
It would be booed and claimed outdated 
And all the dire consolations
They’ll put into quotation marks
And I’ll be ridiculed to bits
So no more travels in the dark
No waiters bringing fish and chips  
I’m cursed just for the case of birth
This thread will never be unravelled
For me all governments on earth 
Are one – its obvious at my level.

Epitaph-Unraveled Words

trickling streams   enlist fingers stroke
translating silent stares script air bubbles

soul skirmishes   dying   and breath twitches
her amort jabs shatter blind eyes

soft breaths   linger aphonic   sighs
surfboarding alongside rocky creeks

you wish to decry me with   metaphors
whispered secrets   shared solely betwixt us

words untied    weighed by fireflies glow
bemoaning to aurify   amid fiery   solar flares

hoping for air in a pathless stream
let me shed words from   balm of dry lips

you said that   you might catch them

I've seen the way a glass dances, though
slips through your fingers   and shatters 

I hear a forlorn violin   pluck its strings
catacombs lurk in a hollow cage

when it beleaguers, it wails and shrieks
an uncaged spirit walks with a dog

left, just a beshrew echo in a silent world

Unraveled

I could fill a bottle with air,  
sunken by liquid depression.    
A matter so densely populated.     
by false hope and worthless thoughts.   

I cower to my need to feel this way,    
for this was the path I chose.    
and this is the shoe I must eat.    
God be damned, and I damned me.    

So yes, I'll be having another,    
and another, and another,    
until the floor quakes.    
under the pressure of shattered glass.   
and the walls give in to my blows.   

And F you for saying a word to stop me.    
Don't you know who I am?    
You are the son of Adam,    
and I am the afterbirth, less than.    

Earth can't decompose me.     
because I don't deserve the mercy of death.    
So, my heart will pump and my liver will fill    
and this darkness will swallow me.    
until I am nothing but matter.    
enveloped by all things vile.    

Leave me alone while I shiver.    
Forget about me as I remember.    
Go back toward the light,    
for I will be forever lost.

Unraveled Seams of Frayed Dreams

With blade sharp tongue his words stung
with the pain felt when funeral hymns are sung.
In a mournful voice, off key of course,
as was his choice in the way he spoke to me.

I was blind not to foresee
the dagger that soon would be
plunged deep into my pulsing heart.
His committed sin could not be expunged,
for rivers of blood drained from my eyes.

There was no fairytale disguise
to silence my sighs or hide my fears.
Tears were what I used as thread
to try stitching closed the tattered seams
for now, shattered and frayed are my dreams.

There was no bewitching magic elixir 
potent enough to be a fixer that could mend
the once upon a time love story of he and I.

                                                       ~ The End

*old pains have healed from apologies made and accepted. 
Perhaps his sin has been expunged by the hand of our judge.

Unraveled

An hour meeting 
leaving people unraveled 
new expectations

Unraveled Daydreams

Unraveled daydreams,
the flow state of the poet;
A ribbon of words.

Truths Unraveled-

Truth unraveled and told 
Help us all Lord
To find your truth 
Oh! Father God as we aspire
To be clothed in your righteousness, 
while seeking you higher
10/2/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2022

Ukraine-Unraveled By Dirty Cats

the sugar-coated jasmine sigh
breeds jealousy - bellicose-blue sky.

sunflowers vastly disappear in ash -
the yellow beauties pure joy
immortalize in dearth.

Brutes, take your hands off the yellow-blue flag!
Townsfolk stand tall with vultures' dissection.
They hide their pride in each cranny and crag.
Beasts never share in Ukraine's affection.

blue and yellow twine
unraveled by dirty cats -
shadows in darkness

4/12/2022
A combination of forms:
Crystalline- Kimo- Quatrain- Haiku
Sponsor: Emile Pinet
HowManySyllables & Rhymezone used

Unraveled

I've been waiting for you for quite a while
Though when you resurfaced I was unable to smile

I was tangled up in a web of lies
with the one I needed to say goodbye

His grip was strong as he held me tight
Blinding me; I could not see your light

The day arrived when I came to my senses
Letting go of all past defenses

I washed away all of  my sins
Now I am ready to begin

I needed time to heal my heart
That is why we could not start

Time was my friend throughout this trial
It sure was indeed, all the while

I am free now to pursue
whatever I wish myself to do

I am secure, I am for real
Let's go ahead and make our deal

There are no tricks, only treats
Therefore we'll endure any defeats

Let the past be forgotten
Failing relationships, it makes us rotten

Communication is the key
For me for you, you for me

I long to hold you close, hold you near
making all your nightmares disappear

I always wondered what we could be
Me inside you, you inside me

I love you more than you could ever know
So let's get started and give it a go!


Copyright 2/19

Unraveled Mind

The stitches begin to unravel
               The seams are tearing apart
                     Arteries bursting within a heart
                           Through insanity the mind travels

          Unable to grasp the sincerity
                Through a kaleidoscope of fears
                      Drowning within rivers of tears
                            Thoughts no longer have clarity

           Living like a garden vegetable
                       Dreaming of being an intellectual



                                      12/29/2017
          Written for contest: (5 words, 10 lines Rhyme)

                Placed 1st in Contest Results

She's Becoming Unraveled

pink and pale skein of face
her twine 

        S
   p
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      n
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     I
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        G

              she’s becoming

u n r a v e l e d

spurious colors DEFEAT
fingers fretting
the frenetic needles 

!!!!!!burning!!!!!!!

all day
              all night

picking UP stitches

some f
            a
                l
                  l
she’s becoming     U N R A v e l E D

ladders going d
                          o
                              w
                                   N
never up
running /\ / \ \\  /\ out of yarn

hang
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G
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by a spider web

(((((cocooned)))))))

once again

no way out
of her

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mistakes

6/29/2017
free verse

Cat O'Nine Lives Unraveled Thrice

Why does your cat only have nine lives?
The cat o'nine whip has three strands
Plaited cords unraveled thrice
Nine to three, three to three.
Cat plays bold for three
Strays for next three,
Stays in for
last three
hides

My Ancient Soul Unraveled

i tried to ignore the dreamy steps
with their gapping eyes staring,
undressing me until no flesh 
is left, nor bones.

Life.

Again, i tried to ignore 
the sound of a train-like roar
as this soul of my own 
walks the cracked broken rails
of living this citrus -orange life

of picked Memories,

like the ink that enchants me
as though each character strung-out
is as a pearl necklace with a 
hint of ocean's salty tears,
and no longer a need to ignore.

As i watch, i caught the grand sight
of my ancient soul unravel as flotsam
and spirit as jetsam into that mystery
we deeply have begged to know!

I select you.

:: 01152016 ::

Death Unraveled

Life’s greatest mystery
is Death –
It’s not God,
It’s not Soul,
It’s not the heavens
Or the laws of Nature.

The inevitable end
to our existence,
The only sanctuary
from the rigors of life,
The final destination
to our life’s journey;
No matter which way
you traverse,
You are bound
to end up dead!

Life is like riding a horse
without you holding the reins
Or your feet in the stirrups,
Like driving a car
without your hands
on the wheels
Or your foot on the brakes;
It’s like taking a 
roller coaster ride
over a route of steep
inclines and sharp turns
with the prospects of
all the thrills and
heart-stopping descent!

Death is life’s greatest miracle –
The Absolute, Irrevocable Truth;
Your only road to salvation,
A portal to the soul’s 
ultimate metamorphosis!

Ha, give me death any time,
For life exacts harsh wages,
Life for once might abandon you
But death, 
It will always stand by you! 


"The Life of Death" contest by Anthony Salusen

~"Death and Dying" contest by Debbie Guzzi

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