Unsmiling Poems - Poems about Unsmiling

The call of the sea

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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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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 ...

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...

Spontaneity

...Spontaneity 2-28-24
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Spontaneity

Arthritic inertia,
Absent of the Prime Mover,
Bursts into astral fireflies of serendipity
Coloring outside del...

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.)...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Her Unsmiling Eyes

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                        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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