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Unnamable Poems - Poems about Unnamable

An illusion
...If you had never heard the word beautiful, Would you know what it means? Could you grasp it in the curve of a smile, In the hush of a sunset bleeding into the sea? If no one told you a ......

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Categories: unnamable, anger, beauty, creation, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Great Unknown
...(“The Search For Unnamable Things Merit Badge”, 2011, original oil) A Great Unknown I figure there are just a handful or two Of friends and family who really know me But last night in ......

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Categories: unnamable, dream, perspective, relationship, self,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Planting a Seed
...("Heaven and Earth", 2024, original encaustic) Planting a Seed Sitting quietly I find a seed within my heart and entering into it plant something unnamable which was there all along ......

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Categories: unnamable, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Loveless Are the Romantics
...If I took my heart out of its cage you would think: "ah offal, just meat, fresh blood if I eat it quickly." . Crazily, you call 'need' love, you're crazed, heartless, a cannibal, a crippled dog......

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Categories: unnamable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Descartes' Rule of Signs
...I. Noise in an empty hallway: My old leather shoes protest as I hurry down the linoleum tiles Like I'm wearing a little piece of history older than I am. II. Headlights on a dark road: Speeding......

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Categories: unnamable, god, humanity, life, math,
Form: Free verse



A Bird In the Hand
...If I hold a little bird in the palm of my hand, it is as if I am gently holding the heart of God, even though the unnamable One is that infinite Phoenix of Light. For if I am gentle with this......

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Categories: unnamable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Darkest Light
...Here at the heart of the darkest day Darkest light at noonday and midnight The shadows show the holes to a different realm A different reality, negative images of creation The opposite of l......

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Categories: unnamable, allegory, allusion, anger, art,
Form: Rhyme
Carrying Onward
...As a boy I explored shallow river beds. I carried home in a jar unnamed water-bugs, minnows, tadpoles and little frogs that glowed yellow when the sunlight swam in the creek. Now the su......

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Categories: unnamable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
In My Spiel and Storied Telling
......dead mice thus far do gnaw, splintered mirrors neck and rubber yet with scant regret. Ropes both for hanging and climbing, good grief, bad love, honey-do-dew in a salty brew. In my closet, p......

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Categories: unnamable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Trumpasaurus Extinction Highly Unlikely
...Huge life like mockup rigged up to bark dare buzzfeed outsize monstrosity diet coke, McDonald's and meatloaf pet banality, execrable, and misogynistic words greets visitors at formerly named M......

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Categories: unnamable, allusion, anger, animal, anti
Form: Rhyme
For Dorathy
...A lady is missing. She does not answer her voice mail, distant friends look for signs indications of further steps. It can be presumed, assumed that the end of her brilliant earth existence f......

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Categories: unnamable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Et and Other Poets
...The mind is a long walk home, dinosaurs unnamable litter the green turf of our travels. Reptiles shrink to birds, the larger birds collapse like balloons eventually running out of sky. Lizar......

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Categories: unnamable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am
...I Am as am, in being-ness complete Self luminous, with vibrant bliss replete Here and now present, in the joy current Centred in void, to each pulse cognisant Swaying to the rhythm of loves hear......

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Categories: unnamable, i am,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marco and Laura Coming Together
...It could be seen in the rough surf Marco and Laura traveling towards French style turf Touring the gulf Showing the teeth of an angry wolf Winds swirling Waves curling Water hurling Lik......

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Categories: unnamable, horror, howl, hurt, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beautiful Shivers
...I was sitting in a church filled with light and beauty listening to an organist as he gently fused my soul Even the flowers on the alter seemed to be entranced in this ethereal place where harde......

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Categories: unnamable, faith,
Form: Free verse

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