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Unwound Poems - Poems about Unwound

Premium Member The Lamp Post
...There was a lamp post, just one, in the middle of a field at night— no road leading to it, no fence surrounding it, just light standing there like a question no one asked, glowing for no one. ......

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Categories: unwound, depression, longing, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sad Tuesday
...Without making a single sound, a ball of yarn, my cat unwound. Meanwhile, my dog had more to say, whiling away the gray Tuesday. Barking loudly, he buried a bone. I whispered sadly on the ph......

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Categories: unwound, animal, sad, sound,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
...I. Sighting I saw you through refracted light- a prism of chance splitting ordinary into spectrum. Wind-tangled hair terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails th......

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Categories: unwound, dream, innocence, journey, loss,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The Distance We Never Chose
... We spoke in ways the soul would bleed, no second guess, no hidden need. You knew my silence, I knew your tears, we stitched our hearts across the years. But time, that thief, with silent ha......

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Categories: unwound, crazy, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Memories Lost Within A Frozen Mist
...The winter stared at me, hollow-eyed and grim, flakes of snow draped the earth in silence. My lips quivered, teeth rattling their cold refrain, and they danced—not with legs, but with their whole ......

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Categories: unwound, confusion, extended metaphor, imagery,
Form: Free verse



sundered tulips
...New York Theory Boo don't talk to me news He rebegins Chaste in here with you I held out empty ink Twirling walls Rampant porcelain dreams Too many parks In one day, destroyed me sunder......

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Categories: unwound, film, rap, vanity, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moomy, Smoke and a Pancake
...Sweet mother, Virginia Slim wedged between your fingers, that last light willed to die at the rig of a darkened room. You—half-goddess, half-ghost, pinioned in some still-life setting of tumb......

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Categories: unwound, appreciation, introspection, mother son,
Form: Free verse
The Lost Princess
...deep in the woods where shadows creep where tangled vines in silence sleep a princess walks with weary tread a crown of thorns upon her head her name was whispered, then was gone like morning ......

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Categories: unwound, princess,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballad of Circumlocution
...In realms where thought and tempests meet where shifting sands outpace the feet a creature stirs with cunning guise Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies its words like desert viper’s sting t......

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Categories: unwound, allegory, allusion, confusion, philosophy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Two Hundred Thousand Feet
...One first flight, Columbia’s name. Seven souls aboard, bound for fame. Six days, then ten, experiments thrive, Eighty hearts of science, dreams alive. Si......

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Categories: unwound, nostalgia, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blue Mushroom
...Off the forest trails, where bushwhackers stray, Restless Mary ducked branches, left her screen that day. She was startled when a Horned owl flew A dragonfly landed on her sleeve; its color wa......

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Categories: unwound, blue, childhood, dad, daughter,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Brain Drain
... I took a visit inside my brain today To check what was happening It has been a little sluggish of late Like a cloudy day not a clear day in spring! It was dim on entering So l turned on my l......

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Categories: unwound, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Mr Ragged 2024
...Mr Ragged 2024 The unsteady slow winter moon, trudges towards a freezing night; riding on winds back,of shadows feint, blowing out the days diminishing light, It i......

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Categories: unwound, abuse, addiction, death,
Form: Free verse
STAND II
... Beneath a sky veiled in black velvet silence The moon’s silver sliver grins like a knife, a greedy eye Carving hollow light across a hallowed field Where footsteps dissolve and flee Consumed by......

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Categories: unwound, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Expansion
...event horizon revealing outer limit of singular force swirling cosmic dust genesis of star’s being clouds stellar ceiling space lying between all that can be felt or seen formed that whic......

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Categories: unwound, creation, history, life, science,
Form: Haiku

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