I wondered when you'd return.
How could you just leave me behind?
I thought you loved me.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
Honorable Mention 2026
I always felt safe
with you beside me my love
why did you abandon me?
I had to leave you
my love was consumed by you
I had nothing left for me
All the tape and bandages aren't going to mend this broken heart ~
When you abandoned me without goodbye you tore my world apart.
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Vanished souls in the night.
Years pass by in signs of abandon.
Little hint of the story.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
I've been hammering my hope with city sounds
Coffin nails clicking on concrete dreams
Smoke stacks preach,and I am their parishioner
Every alley is an altar,every streetlight a saint
I drink from the gutters of gospel graffiti
Find my reflection in broken bottles
And bless my sins with spit and asphalt
The rain spared her the concrete
That her heart tried to conceal.
The lights flickered in abandon ;
wishing kindness and hope --
Which suspended in the emptiness.
His eyes held a long lost smile;
Of a knowing that flowered bright.
A breath, a gasp, a whisper
grew as they sighed within---
Dividing the spirit that held them.
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Allowance is issued by allegiance
Descent
De scenting the grain
Defection from account
The man above watches
As open journal
His story is carved
And reared
Nearer grown abundant
Recital of vow and order
un adhered
Ends actions statements
A fold is created
Company is kept seperate
Abandon not your vow to do what is right
Built upon integrity along sincere practice
Cling to your commitment with steadfastness
Directed toward service and reaching-out.
Exhorted for loyalty and fidelity’s tenacity
Fulfill your role well with honest heart
Guarded against hypocrisy’s destruction
Hoisted for readiness to help by God’s grace.*
*1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
May 21, 2025
3rd place, "Abandon" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France; judged on 5/23/2025
Cravings of lower mind repulse ~
Follow only the truth impulse
~ quote by poet
Ego but serves our body-mind
But we’re not this form, we’re not this
Who we are is love, light and bliss
Pursuit of lust makes us unkind
Let not feral instincts prevail
If we choose love, we will not fail
Why do we wander like the blind
Embrace one and all, friend and foe
Repay now debts of love we owe
Exit oh hermit, ego’s bind
Focus on growth of soul alone
With mindfulness, consciousness hone
Let’s be with our conscience aligned
We heed it when our heart has thawed
Know dear child, it’s the voice of God
Ego but serves our body-mind
Pursuit of lust makes us unkind
Why do we wander like the blind
Exit oh hermit, ego’s bind
Let’s be with our conscience aligned
“When life traverses the path of pathos the beguiled birds fly to
show the course out of the feeling of being abandoned”
– Quote by Poet
If in the flushing garden path you walk entranced forlorn,
the scarlet sun of the dawn’s seraphic sky embraces you,
you’ll see my heart in the lilac lines of cloud up above,
there you won’t be lonely, for I won’t ever leave you.
If on the waves of the desert dunes you trudge desolate,
trace the melting mirage to the sundown hazy horizon,
you’ll reach the verdant oasis sprawling in my olive heart,
there you won’t be lonesome, for I won’t ever desert you.
If on the golden sands of the satin beach you pace alone,
the rolling waves adorn pearly lattice on your ivory feet,
you’ll feel my heart’s cadence in the cascade of moonbeam,
there you won’t be lost, for I won’t ever forsake you.
If on the surging stream of boundless love you float adrift,
meander the unanchored life on the plateau of yearning,
you’ll hear in murmuring ripples the symphony of my heart,
there you won’t be dismayed, for I won’t ever abandon you.
Please don't abandon this life so soon
Before blossoms spill their sweet perfume
Wait with me for morning's garden song
that gently reminds we each belong.
Watch as sun dances over each hill,
waking sleepy fields, lilac and still.
We'll run through a field of marigolds,
splash in a stream that defies control.
We are so lucky to have this chance
to share such beauty in a small glance.
Don't abandon hope, for there is more
waiting on sandy sparkles of shore.
Love and beauty are everywhere
just hoping to find someone to share.
Please stick around for joy is random,
and it will find you. Don't abandon!
in a reckless abandon, hordes of biutterflies
float playfully about the heath on spring noon without a care;
many lovers wish their hearts could be just as free!
"How sad when it comes to face the world as an orphan! Chasing shadows, he/she searches for the love and protection lost. Having no trail to follow, the search goes on endless"~ By Poet
I am a street urchin, cruelly abandoned,
and hurled into the bin like a piece of trash,
now roaming to find the one who gave me birth.
It's months since I began this endless search,
from the days I started to think and feel.
wonder if I could ever curl into her warmth!
In the roaring crowd that moves along,
and on all the faces I chance to glance,
I search for a ‘Mother’, who cast me out,
into the dark hide out of a vacant street,
still smelling of newborn blood,
and still fresh with severed chord,
to be eaten away by ants and rats,
be trampled over or crushed beneath.
Now I wander all day long,
across the dingy streets I lay forlorn,
with hopes so bright and fancies wild,
to see my mother emerge from the crowd,
with hands outstretched to hug me once,
and own me ever, this forsaken child!
"The sun loved me again, when it saw that the stars would not abandon me" Jenim Dibie...
I paint on the blue-black arms of blank skies,
with pirouetting promises in midnight eyes,
no longer impatient for the dawning of hues~
manipulating the ache between ink and muse.
I breathe in silence, wrap my soul in rhyme-less forms,
to taste topaz tears of dusk, beneath swirling storms,
as I’ve long learned to sing with wistful stars alone,
amidst the warmth, cloaked within cold-chiseled stone~
flickers of grief, now veiled by bonfire blazes,
of melancholic memories and fleeting phases,
where love and light no longer collaborate,
yet sail like astral flames of fate that life must validate…
I ponder, do nameless ghosts of the sun recall my name?
For I crave not the fickle flares, nor to take their blame.
I am kissed by the redolent rays~
of ruin and wild orchids in lilac moon’s haze,
surfing through lagoons drenched in marine dust,
fighting tilted tides mirroring broken trust…
So, let me abandon the scorching gold of sunrise~
forgive this heart, serving nothing but lyrical lies…
POTD
Tipping the light with curves arched
and flowing with rain,
she mounts her tinseled limbs
on summertime's crest--
The trees, seeds, and flame
in her eyes lightly open
the fingertips of near August.
Quick to beat on belly drums,
her shadow trance melts
the liquid stars in one tender rush...
How unbridled and young is she,
holding the skirt that lifts into a dance
of raw abandon: the moon hangs
like a harp strutting a rhumba that drifts
on gloss of her arms:
And if every detail of silk on her derriere
can be sewn in weaves fondling her shade ,
this she shall bring too...
In a summer of July's reckless abandon.
First place~
.~
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