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Unsmiling Poems - Poems about Unsmiling

The call of the sea
... The call of the sea I walk alone Amid the crowds Of unsmiling grim-faced people And dream of turning into a white bird And fly away From the noise surrounding me ......

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Categories: unsmiling, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Trybullyst
...Gold! Gold! Dassel screamed: he had found gold! And so what we were told, he stuffed his pockets and told the fellas to pull him up.They had straddled a well rig used to clean shallow wells to lower ......

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Categories: unsmiling, adventure, betrayal, film, money,
Form: Ballad



Sappho Translations XIII
...Sappho Translations XIII by Michael R. Burch In these translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if they are used i......

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Categories: unsmiling, beautiful, beauty, desire, joy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spontaneity
...Spontaneity 2-28-24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Spontaneity Arthritic inertia, Absent of the Prime Mover, Bursts into astral fireflies of serendipity Coloring outside del......

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Categories: unsmiling, fun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
..."A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand." (Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)......

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Categories: unsmiling, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Prose



Homeward, After the Last Day of Work
...Here I am again, in a familiar silence Inside a bustling place full of lies In a bench of solitude, my preference To watch the world as it dies Before my senses, before my sighing eyes. I see ......

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Categories: unsmiling, conflict, december, depression, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jealousy
... her mean-spiritedness detonates unsmiling green eyes that narrow and expose the crannies and cubbies of her harsh mouth amplifying sounds of rage in her honey tones, sickly sweet...

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Categories: unsmiling, anger, emotions, feelings, green,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member Soccer
...Lisa and I had been watching some boys strut about, as they played soccer, in their little shorts, in the freezing cold. It’s an old animal story. The game ended, or it was intermission and about ......

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Categories: unsmiling, boy, life, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Fantasy of Childhood
...The Fantasy of Childhood There was a tiny house near the main house built I think to house the elderly, but ended up being a place for old furniture, bits, and bobs. There was a loft where we kid......

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Categories: unsmiling, anti bullying, beautiful, best
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Legislators Are the New Mill Owners
...JUSTICE They stare out at us unsmiling from tintypes of the first photographs, from the tea-colored pictures of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled in cold bare rooms in tenements, children cl......

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Categories: unsmiling, anger, angst, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seeking Assurance
...I am sad and need reassurance this choice was not bad at the time of searching Home's new-found voice, and is not bad now, and will not be bad and sad in my shortening future. Diminishing......

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Categories: unsmiling, earth day, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
A Shattered Past
...Twenty one was the year it took- To being unraveled like a book. And all those footsteps that once were woven. Become random patterns as my past is stolen. When I was unsmiling and sma......

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Categories: unsmiling, anxiety, appreciation, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Taking Over From An Outgoing Treasurer
...The Out-Going Treasurer had me briefed But through the released records I still leafed, Just in case a thing was tightly overlooked And I some tomorrow hatefully booked Over some books I had bare......

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Categories: unsmiling, career, image, integrity, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hope Never Dies
...Night follows day in bitter hungry monotony, as wane laughter dies upon parched lips, and ignorant innocence is trampled underfoot at every corner of the decadent deserted plain. Homeless bulimic......

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Categories: unsmiling, angst, hope,
Form: Free verse
Her Unsmiling Eyes
... Even when she laughs, she’s sad her smile does not reach her tired eyes deep within her heart, pain spreads, she feels so bad life was never her friend, i......

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Categories: unsmiling, for her, heart, sad,
Form: Rhyme

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