Unreasoned Poems - Poems about Unreasoned

Wilderness of Mirrors

...Each season a new mirror rises
in our wilderness of mirrors
with their polished glass
reflecting the times we live in
we may reminisce about older mirrors
that rose in previous seasons
because ...

Where the Ocean Meets the Mountain

...You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing  
   I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer  
   I have ever known how to say  

You are the sea—each wave not an argume...

the age of Hate

...Ok, I'm not paid to think (like the TV shouting heads), I have no real voice (vote), and certainly no credentials - but I'm as invested in America as any high-school citizen can be. I've pledged alle...

Literary Form

...LITERARY FORM
the suspense
sealed
unexpected
   then unmasked
imitative
 with exploited variations

 influential concepts
innocence
  templated
remains
chronicled &experimental
intermitt...

The Ingredient Strikes Back

...[Written with much love and bonhomie in
response to Milt’s Poem ‘Hearty Poetry Soup’]

                 *

Not so long ago in a land called Soup
A warlock gathered a talented group
These were ...

Reasoned News, Headlined Bruise

...It is no longer headline news,

If anything scientific happens
it happens for a rational reason

If anything violent doesn't happen,
does it not happen
for an irrational unreasoned
compassion...

The Age of Hate

...Ok, I'm not paid to think (like the TV shouting heads), I have no real voice (vote), and certainly no credentials—but I'm as invested in America as any high-school citizen can be—I've pledged allegia...

Nostalgia

...Will this world be the same after we are dead?
Will the bylanes and kerbs be replaced
Dusty pathways by cleaner, wider roads
And the poor, homeless ones to alien hordes

Will the sun rise and se...

September

...September

The light is angelic;
People turn to shadows, shadows to people.
The heat of Summer cools, steps aside to Fall,
The trees burst into slow flame,
Reminding me that everything must die...

The Graying Mind

...To find solitude in a helpless mind
A silent new world from its judgment found
To ponder this curse unreasoned and blind
Anger is pressed when arguments abound
To find a crack in mirrored perfect...

Night, Unreasoned

...and reason fell to bed
as the yellow moon
climbed the Eastern bare-branch
trees.

and tendrils from a long-forgot fire
reached upward, skyward, starward
for what they could not grasp.

what ...

Sigh of Relief

...Pushed up from stomach's abyssmal pit
Choked off cries, constraint deformed
Packed with panic's punches
Right here where words are formed
Throat cords tightly gripped
Resistance rules my holding...

A Wish For April

...Your song resists the lyrics mine proclaims
by measured whispers begging Autumn’s reign

not drown this season with unreasoned pain
nor hobble Winter leaving April lame.

Just as the wick betra...

Soul Unrehearsed

...All life is a poem,
  new stanza each day

The questions unreasoned,
  leaves fall where they may

My story in long hand,
  the seasons in verse

Discovery my Muse,
 —with soul unrehearsed
...

The Discipline of Failure

...The Discipline of Failure
By John Herlihy

There is a discipline to failure that no one can deny;
We are set up to fail miserably, by others on the sly.
Risk can be calculated into the mix to he...

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