Unsettled Poems

Unsettled Vitality

The betrayal offences rendered on us daily unsettles swiftly progress.

They simmer and stir and spread.

Resentment, unforgiveness lead us to revenge.

Bitterness spreads so contagiously like a disease.

Infests and infecting all within reach.

God’s guidance keep my emotions in check.

Clear my heart of all distress.

As I mediate on your love and goodness

As feelings seem to resurface.

I seek your

Ode to Texas

There’s not much to love in the land of
72 ounce steaks
Air-conditioned grace droning over
AR-15 soaked Saturdays
Remembering is not the problem these days

Rather it is forgetting that
Children can have new names
If they pick them up with their own hands
The bootstraps have all but worn off 
these snakeskin boots

And I am tired of something I can’t put

Unsettled

leaf birls in floe winds
trees harvest flaming dry fire
earth’s robe a suite of patterns


November 2, 2022
Brain Strand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest

Unsettled Calm

Unsettled Calm

Why am I writing this, 
when they say... 
really no one cares? 
I don't believe they are right. 
The more "they" try to prove themselves, 
the more "they" show who they really are, 
and their true intentions. 

"No one." is out there. Just like me. 
Wondering if there is anyone left, 
that is still

It Is the Most Unsettled of Times, the Most Unsettling of Times

~ Welcome to 2022 ~

A time of conventional and possibly nuclear war
  where no one can be sure what each side stands for

A time of global power struggles and shifting alliances
  in which the old world order cannot be relied on

A time of soaring cryptocurrencies with no real-world basis
  challenging existing monetary

Unsettled

Waves rolling 
onto shore 
granting me 
inner peace. 

Can turn 
deadly at 
any moment.

I Was Feeling Unsettled

Greeting children at our school from the car line yesterday.
First car seemed to be parked. No one appeared to be in it.
Maybe someone is gardening, I thought. The garden is six feet from it.
The brake lights came on. I expected a child to get out.
No child did. I had a peculiar feeling about it, an

Science Unsettled

SCIENCE UNSETTLED

In times when magic ruled the world
When charms and spells gave power and sway
Then words of sorcery were hurled
To vanquish foes and win the day

But now in days more civilised
We’ll not decode entrails of birds
Though, reasoned thought process devised
We still resort to potent words

One such expression widely voiced
In substitute for fact reliance
Flagged with blithe

Shiver

Summer on I-10 

old van, 

no air conditioning

furnace oven days 

long hot tiring 

pushing on

dark night 

stop for directions

abandoned buildings 

streetlamp 

roadmap

landscape moving 

like waves on the ocean

What the hell

Open door look at ground

no ground 

only endless carpet 

of locusts

far as the eye can see

moving rolling

chilling

slam door take off

I remember

crunching sound under tires

for miles

I shiver

Unsettled People

Unsettled People

When you go to HIS house on Sunday, 
You are greeted with kindness and smiles. 
No one says a thing as you help yourself to coffee. 
Spilling it from the foyer all the way…
to the farthest seat, way in the back. 
There no one can bother you, or see if you are sleeping. 
You

Unsettled Night

Unsettling the evening brings with it cold
As the night holds the last of the warmth
Burrows of her brow lives likely to unfold
And her heart leaves with it dire and soft

The night holds mysteries from her heart
Unsettling the evening brings with it cold
Where she buries her feelings to impart
Burrows of her brow lives likely to unfold

She

Unsettled

Integrated feeling 
 Connected and willing
  Comes on a unexpected reeling ... 
    Feeling confused, that's what we're feeling 

Sensitive souls just knock knock
   The words of soft ,  We need to unlock
     Learnt to discard the fregile feeling , 
  To engage

Unsettled Sea

While whispers shush on sheltered shores, as soon the cockcrow quakes,
the seas descry a skittish sky, sense summer zephyrs wake  –
roused passions neath the sunrise pulse, the whitecaps throb and ache.

Along the crests crawl shallow shades the soaring sun effaces
and rains in streams enhance the dreams that fantasy embraces
while ocean sprays of yesterdays reveal

Unsettled Gain

Title: Unsettled Gain


A letter from moon came with hopeful
Scattering calm and peace for earth’s human beings
Opening window I found smile in face of the moon
Demanding surety of peace not only keeping words

Rays of the sun whipped encircling rostrum
Stop such non physical matter address, next
Bombs and bullets are today’s religion
Why you aren't understanding phases of human

Unsettled

There is unrest in my heart
they say things depend on
the sight of the beholder
each seeing from a different view.

They say men are men
and women are alien
perhaps it is men who
are actually the outsiders?


They talk at us and down to us
rarely seeing another's view.
Is it any wonder we tear our hair out
trying to understand their whims.

Obsessive

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