Abandoning Poems - Poems about Abandoning

Dylan got bitten hard by fame and though wounded continues to tour A thundering majesty in makeup and veils jesters by the score Divorced from his wandering a pilgrim of dreams the past too great a cost A caricature of genius gone eyes clouded over —Camelot lost (The New Room: June, 2023)...

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I Practising something Winning takes thinking Like the world Values curtailed, curled II Add anonymity Online carefree community Some will begin games Not play; hope you go away Courtesy questioned; charged with abandonment Social contract corrected less fast (for content) III We play games For variety, virtual community Go everywhere, in His Peace, Shalom Try always, to live your values, decorum Yet, what shall one do? Use BLOCK! ONLINE, we are unlikely to...

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Down, down the known street where  the quite evening lying down, my legs took me a walk  Sending the sun to west, something that street holding for me. Little, little lonely voices' hands knocking my ears from where  tied my steps with rope pulling toward them.  Under a tree, a mere brown box.   Under the mortal sin, placed the...

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abandoning all those who loved him ~ choosing the bottle posted on November 8, 2018...

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She wears her pain like a stole of pure glass The glinting fabric distracting from Penetrating shards snarling beneath it. She struts with agonizing precision Portraying an ease she never feels A carelessness born of sensing too much. As the torment crescendos, fevered pitch Assaulted from a new direction: “Friends” who know this will pass, another come. Sparkling eyes and a painted-on smile Tears she...

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Your true dearest point when you harbored Dear dreams And then you discover life’s not what it seems Like abandoning hopes at an age Fresh and Young Did you have an idea that it’ll last so long For you left your dear home at only 18 And sent to Iraq at only 19 And been left forever with permanent scars Even...

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On the banks of your life Doubt fixing you offshore A gripping beast never quits feeding On dreams hungry for more To ask yourself questions Are they answers you know Always precipitously trying to learn You justify with the flow Will you see your opening Pushing your given chance Do the beasts raptly glower into you Or escape a second glance Whenever you travel alone How will you...

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