Unsuited Poems

The leaf that never turned green

...Do I call it an unhealthy obsession?
The insanity of my restless mind? 
A picture-perfect story, unsuited for the frame 

But would it be too much to ask for?
To record every laugh of yours
To ...

Kakistocracy

...It's hard to maintain a strong democracy
when people elect a kakistocracy.
To those who believe in "America First":
your government now consists of the worst.

The POTUS must be cruel and cockey...

Black '47

...Gilgamesh O’Malley left his home in Fermanagh
With dreams of steaming plates of Irish stew.
He ate his last potato last time Sheamus paid the rent.
Since then, there’s not been very much to chew.
...

Knotted

...despite some consideration for the hows, whys, wherefores and whether
unguided, wandering through known universe tying things together

aged in millenniums, centuries, decades, days, hours and min...

All Is Love

...Feeling by life prosecuted 
'Cause our aura is polluted
Time's now we gently put on pause
Egoic thoughts to soul unsuited

Where we choose to dwell is life's cause
Love determines a...

Clerihew Ernst Ludwig K

...'Degenerate ' Kirchner had no place to hide
closed his life in suicide
There in Switzerland ,in exile
it seemed his art  *was unsuited to Nazi style

*https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ernst-l...

Righteousness Exhalts a Nation Proverbs 14:34

..."Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34. Both Socialism and Communism have atheism as their very own state religion! And the USA is definitely on the brink...

Days Are a Bobsleigh

...it's as though i untied the knots but am still tied to the spot
just because i saw all the tangles then untangled the lot
doesn't mean I'm not strangled and can handle the drop
or cut loose from t...

Her Wuthering Letters

...You get to a point where 
you can’t read them anymore
and consider yourself a grown-up.

But it wasn’t until I was fifty-two 
that I threw them away. 

How long could they hide
in a high scho...

That Good Old Fashioned Brew

...What would we do without our morning brew
It's our salvation when waking between me and you
Tea doesn't cut it
Orange juice unsuited
Only that good old fashioned brew will surely do<>

Oklahoma

...There are no lofty mountain peaks, nor inlets of the sea.
Just rolling plains for miles on end, where the wind blows wild and free. 

And before we found the oil, what was there indeed?
Mild land...

Library Blues

...Loitering in a public library this rainy afternoon,
courting inspiration, subjects come to mind
but are more suitable as essay than as poem.

All usual activities occur -- visitors come, visitors...

How I Found Love and Lost It Part 2

...Oh we spark
'n nature in our hearts
Who'd have thought we'd be so perfect
I'm so nervous, should I be not?
I thought about all the letters
I never thought to send her
But still we pass our note...

The Barren Tree

...A failure in the placement of the tree;
Too small are roots which spread into the soil.
At first so perfect,later one can see
Its strength unable full life to uncoil.

A hidden shame for partly ...

Dark Spaces

...Let the dark consume me as I am
Beyond that of time I shall never need
Take me to where space I can bend
To a place I need never beg and plead

Perhaps I can begin again... hidden
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