Unsurprising Poems - Poems about Unsurprising

One Invention; Industrial Revolution

...Into the sunset we’ll ride 
And we’ll see how much you’ve grown 
By the last words you choose to leave behind 

We can pretend that heaven denied you 
because you found your own path 
We can pr...

Nova Proletarium

...From the ashes of the never before, 
Lacking symbol, nor take to guide,
A Phoenix rises from storied lore,
In a portent of thrashing hide. 

Trumpets are a pathetic symbol,
For the lack of mind...

Fibromyalgia

...and then buzzing starts below skin
shocks shoot along veins

I hold my arm 
a different pain today

it buckles the knee 
grinds the shoulder
it burns the elbow
gnaws the hip

I rub my back...

Severe Surge Regarding Thou Shalt Not Kill Violations

...Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations

Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass kil...

Expectations

...EXPECTATIONS
enjoying
compromises
  mildly
invigoratin
&
fizzing
the heady
brevity
 to replicate
feeling
without
intense
 resistance

riotous
explosiveness
  midst
the
relentless
...

Mother Eartha's Choice

...I have an inside Mother Eartha Voice
which She would prefer
to keep hidden
given any cooperatively healthy
democracy choice.

Mother Eartha
does not necessarily trust
the sexy grace
and beau...

George Floyd Rip

...I know I shouldn’t have used unreal money,
When I went to do my shopping at the store,
I didn’t even know it was a forgery,
But I will not be doing it no more.
Four cops to apprehend me seemed ex...

Choir Dissonant Practice

...I am a right-brain prominent writer
which must not be confused with
a prominent left-brain writer,
which I am almost decidedly not
nor would I aspire
toward such all or nothing thinking
and not...

Shoot Nothing Like Killing Spree To Bookend August 2019

...Shoot! Nothing like killing spree to bookend August 2019!

The latest homicide,
where gunman(men) slew
dirty deed done dirt cheap
half dozen innocent people drew
minimal horrific gasps, now a n...

22

...I’ve lost all my faith

Meeting people who were double-faced

Who caring nothing, except their money

Even if I’m simple and naive

Love leads me to believe

That everyone will find the lan...

Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure

...[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
  a coat of cosmos covering
  over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
  a quantum cellar creating
  the very big bang...

Primed For Serendipity

...As luck would have it
I chanced upon the secret
of finding things not looked for,
to enlist serendipity on cue.

The more you look the less you see.
Stop looking for, and start looking about.
...

Carnivorous Cottage Routine

....
A whale in a pail is far more active in a gale or in copious amounts of hail. Putting money into sharks is a shifty act involving the shuffling of coats in cloakrooms. And clown costumes placed in...

Embrace the Lines

...three rhymed sestets written as a cento (see below) 	

PC       I muse, while the heaving waves of life are rising,
SO      earth’s rampant tides drag one deeper.  Unsurprising
CR      memories b...

Astonishing That We Should Live At All

...To fulminate against the hands of fate
To vent our anger on  beloved friends
Will not repair our ills and our mistakes
But may bring friendships to  a bitter end.

For who are we to know what is...

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