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Unthinkingly Poems - Poems about Unthinkingly

Premium MemberPOETRY IS A RECITED ART

...POETRY IS A RECITED ART

as folk talk
&recite
they naturally
 pause
after one breath..
thus gramatical symbols
 are superfluous..

tradition calls
for capitals
at beginning of lines ..
b...
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Categories: unthinkingly, poetry,
Form: Didactic

Changing Channels

...Happy Hour is one drink short
of a buzz.
She’s found her remote
it was in the back of her mind
where remoteness begins.

It’s been a tough year so far
what with all this
apocalyptic  going on...
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Categories: unthinkingly, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Happiness is a new wireless mouse

...Happiness is a new wireless mouse

I bought from Staples earlier today
November 18th, 2024
cuz the the older one malfunctioned.

Said older generation mouse sported
a rather extensive "mouse c...
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Categories: unthinkingly, 1st grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse

Pretty Poetry

...I don’t write pretty poetry.
Life’s just not like that.
Sometimes it’s high,
Sometimes it’s flat.
Love doesn’t run smoothly
For we are human and frail
And sometimes we succeed
Most of the time...
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Categories: unthinkingly, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Apology To the Missus At Nighttime

...Apology to the missus at nighttime...
first day of January
two thousand and twenty three.

While the wife then in the process
of leaving a telephone message
for our eldest daughter,
(on vacati...
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Categories: unthinkingly, angst, anniversary, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme



Television's Explosion of White Trash

...I was appalled, no I was horrified
flipping through
the channels and I do it quickly
I saw the Steve something show on.

I could not understand the speech
of the whites
they obviously suffered...
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Categories: unthinkingly, 12th grade,
Form: Carpe Diem

Consequences

...CONSEQUENCES

The closer grow the trees, they more contend
To reach t’ward sky and seek the Sun they crave
Competing yet makes harmony in blend
Like soaring columns of a gothic nave

The meado...
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Categories: unthinkingly, life,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberA Rose

...You hoped she'd be strong like an agave;
instead, she bruised easily like a rose,
feelings like silken petals carelessly
scattered along paths she finally chose.

Full of daydreams, she was give...
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Categories: unthinkingly, betrayal, child, destiny, drug,
Form: Rhyme

I Cannot Forget Trayvon Martin Slain Teen

...I cannot forget Trayvon Martin - slain teen

no matter manifold more young people
unthinkingly killed, who spirits aspire
to ascend higher than a steeple.

revisited and slightly revised today
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Categories: unthinkingly, abuse, anger, bereavement, black
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberInner Luminescence

...Just as we breathe 
With effortless ease
Automatically 
Unthinkingly
Let our reflex instinct
Be empowered & distinct
Radiating love divine
Seeking to align
All who we touch by sight
With tho...
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Categories: unthinkingly, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Prettiest Ugly

...Within her I see, all the good, the bad, the prettiest ugly
   The tormented Queen, lost in her Princess Diaries
      Want to be, wanting to be, so miserably happy
         She screams, echoing i...
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Categories: unthinkingly, deep, identity, irony, psychological,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLies Awake Scheming

...Pretense blinks unthinkingly
prominent neon sign
Promoting delicious wishes
heady aspirations primed

Porous ears absorb spiel
Charmed python entrancing rises
Web weaving traitor traps
victim...
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Categories: unthinkingly, corruption, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Creation of Poetry

...THE CREATION OF POETRY
 
From deep inside simmering and covered 
with fragrant sauce, an imaginative dish will 
sometimes bubble up. 

I cover it with clever condiments, taste for flavor...
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Categories: unthinkingly, creation, poetry, poets,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

The City

...There are too many of us.
Unyieldingly sane, unthinkingly sane, all too sane,
too few know this.
There may be enough,
there'll never be enough for you,
but we'll persist unfailing
because I nee...
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Categories: unthinkingly, urban,
Form: Free verse

Wondering

...I wish that I felt closer

To people

And so could understand

what makes them act the way they do

Unthinkingly

Instinctively

So often in their own best interests

And not in mine....
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Categories: unthinkingly, confusion,
Form: Free verse

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