Unwed Poems - Poems about Unwed

Femme Fatale

...For you I’ll paint them red, she said
my lips my toes my fingernails
yet know I will remain unwed
it is the fate of most females
...

Radioactive Stars

...As Balmy 
Comets Dazzle, Exhaling 
Fragranced Gold; Haloed In Jasmine Kisses~
Lyrical Moon Nimbly Orchestrates
Peace, Quenching Radioactive Stars, To 
Unwed Vain Woes; Xylophones Yie...

Jarrard's Poem

...My love, jarrard.
I wish I were dead.
So many things left unsaid.
I will go in silence instead.
Keep everything hidden in my head.
We are unwed. 
We shared so much bread.
I feel so misled.
Th...

Half Truth

...Necessary
but not 
sufficient
Stated
but
unheard
Always wrong
but never
in doubt
Sworn
but forever
— unwed

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)
...

Sappho Translations IX

...Sappho Translations IX


Sappho, fragment 17
translation by Michael R. Burch

Hear me, Queen Hera, as your delightful festival nears,
you to whom the sons of Atreus performed vows,
those dazz...

Sappho Translations VII

...Sappho Translations VI by Michael R. Burch


Sappho, fragment 52
translation by Michael R. Burch

Yesterday,
you came to my house
to sing for me.

Today,
I come to you
to return the favor...

Casting Off The Bow Line

...Casting Off The Bow Line

Goodbye
my unwed darling
I’m married
to this dream

Freedom
calling out to me
betrothal thus
redeemed

Bachelorhood
a Siren’s calling
Feted tween
the sails

...

Love For Sail

...Love was in the wrong places
Out of luck, there'd none at all
Veered cross his eyes on faces
Ebbed men and numbers to call

Twilight drops an altered star
...

Castaway

...
She talked about her family in glimpses,
like she was always walking a tightrope.
Between normal and just chucking it all,
for the next bus that might give her some hope.

She tried to paint a...

Great Expectations

...
great expectations
anticipated in the 
poetic heart 
Havisham delivered
all and more for love, 
a separate unseen thief, 
tore the others’ worlds apart

webs like ectoplasm
from underneath...

The Seed Never Sown

...My love to be once said to me

And she but a maiden from Kent

Nor will I wed or will I bed

So I packed my bags and I went

As twilight neared I ever feared

That my seed would never be so...

Journey of a Contemporary Joseph

...
Author’s note: The following is in haibun form—poetic prose (microfiction with less than 200 words in this case) coupled with a haiku. It was written in response to a writing prompt to (re)tell...

Norwegian Bachelor Farmer Days I Never Lived

...Norwegian bachelor farmer days I never lived

Woebegone and egg foo young on you
meaning me of course
sidestepping a crucial positive
electric kool aid battery acid test
prior to pledging troth...

Night Stalker

...One who sleeps
with dreams unwed
—can never divorce the beast

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)...

The Two Green Peas

...A newly-wed couple entered a coffee shop
Spent an hour to relax

Having a different nationality with something to drop
Green peas after wedding, they sprinkled everywhere without flax

A sign o...

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