Abandonment Poems

List of New Poems

PM	Poem Title	Poet	Form	Form	Categories
	Unconditional Paternal Love Toward Shana Punim	matthew harris	Ballad	Ballad	abandonment, appreciation, beautiful, daughter, freedom,
	The Satisfaction Tree	Panagiota Romios	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, happiness, inspiration,
	The Rose	Judy Dunbar	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, beautiful, beauty, death, flower,
	About Twenty Two Score Years Ago	matthew harris	Narrative	Narrative	abandonment, april, art, celebration, day,
	A bridge of gentleness	douglas pederson	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, faith,
	From Liberation to Incarceration	Lu Loo	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, freedom,
	A Lover's Goodbye	Cora Malone	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, allah, analogy, anxiety, assonance,
	FORGIVE ME	Missy Demont	ABC	ABC	abandonment, child, cry, deep, forgiveness,
	Lock and Key	Kai Michael Neumann	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, future,
	Touching with Kindness	Gerald Dillenbeck	Political Verse	Political Verse	abandonment, anti bullying, caregiving, children,
	Short Story	Kai Michael Neumann	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, life, light, love,
	Unite To Peacefully Overthrow Trump Administration part I	matthew harris	Political Verse	Political Verse	abandonment, allusion, anger, corruption, fate,
	Here With Me You Will Stay	Judge Burdon	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, abuse, death,
	Flames of Betrayal	Anahi Quinteros	Bio	Bio	abandonment, 11th grade, age, betrayal,
	The equation of silence	Amy Sullivan	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, heartbroken,
	Thank you Dad	Heidi Sands	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, appreciation, father, father daughter,
	Broken Mother	Kaitlyn Cole	Sonnet	Sonnet	abandonment, addiction, childhood, drug, hurt,
	OTHER THAN ME	Semih bilgic	Alliteration	Alliteration	abandonment, allegory,
	A Love So Blue That I Can't Undo	Lu Loo	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, sad love,
	I threw away the mask	Heidi Sands	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, child abuse, corruption, courage,
	To speak or not to speak	Heidi Sands	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, abuse, childhood, violence,
	Alone	Huberta van Akkeren	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, betrayal, hope, hurt,
	You Raped My Soul	Elise Hendry	Lyric	Lyric	abandonment, fear, grief, loss, love,
	tried and convicted child	millard lowe	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, abuse, child, high school,
	Invisible Realities	David Richmond	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, abuse, faith, inspiration, inspirational,
	A Respite In Time	Emile Pinet	Rispetto	Rispetto	abandonment, 12th grade, dream, fantasy,
	Going nowhere near you	Christopher Flaherty	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, goodbye,
	THE DIVINE WORLD WITHIN	Demetrios Trifiatis	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, faith, god, prayer,
	Mind's not a Friend	Brandon Connor	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, depression, divorce, love hurts,
	Inspired by Slim Shady	Alex Duffy	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, fun, funny, inspiration, inspirational,
	Tale of a Former Black Sheep	Rhona McFerran	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, abuse, hope, how i
	Your Cruel Rue	J.W. Earnings	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, angst,
	To Belong is a Harmonious Bravery	J.W. Earnings	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, angst, betrayal, confidence, confusion,
	Supporters Abandonment	Kale Brereton	Quatrain	Quatrain	abandonment, lost love,
	What Remains Within - Reverse Rejection and Recycle Reassurance Again	J.W. Earnings	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, angst, courage, emotions, fear,
	The Dream	DM Babbit	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, allusion, dream,
	A CHILD LOST FOR MONEY TO GAIN	Bob Taub	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, anger, betrayal, children, cry,
	When Abandonment is No One's Fault	Andrea Dietrich	Etheree	Etheree	abandonment, father,
	My Abandonment	Craig Hawkins	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, sad,
	Come See The Mystery	Bette Bavington	Rondeau Redouble	Rondeau Redouble	abandonment, adventure, culture, dance, emotions,
	Distant Shores	Laura Leiser	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, culture, farewell,
	Heart-broken	Michael Robinson	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, care, caregiving, change, deep,
	Abandonment	Leilei Brooks	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, emotions, lonely, sad,
	Abandon	Curtis Moorman	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, absence, confusion, depression, grief,
	Eyes Of A Sunrise	curtis johnson	Couplet	Couplet	abandonment, abuse, child, child abuse,
	ABANDONMENT ANGST	Beata Agustin	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, angst, blessing, encouraging, faith,
	Love Without Embrace	Winged Warrior	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, absence, longing, lost love,
	Redeemed in fake dreams	Sam Perkins	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, fate, hip hop, rap,
	The Wild She	Caren Krutsinger	Free verse	Free verse	abandonment, abuse, addiction,
	Enjoying Retirement	Dave Timperley	Rhyme	Rhyme	abandonment, family, retirement,

Abandonment Poem Example

A Crown of Thorns

1
Insanity has its own wellspring and demise.
There is no better place to hide than between coils
of convoluted grey-white matter which can't recoil.
Mind has no leering lips to scorn or show surprise 
as ungoverned, the ancient demon-dancers rise.
The traitorous bits, which cut with Brutus’ red fang,
have no regard for the womb from which they sprang.
They seek dominion; they care not for your cries.
Crazed, their freedom paid for on the rack, how they sang
of anything, of windigos’, and warriors winged 
of fresh flesh beneath a gibbous moon's harangue, 
where those in sanity beneath their blankets cringed.
Night terrors sweat the sheets of the weak, as fear sprang,
a ripened, musky-scent arose from those unhinged.
2
A ripened, musky-scent arose from those unhinged
cloaked in mirrored, morose, magic; the mind a foil,
the heart, the soul, the sunny days, caste down, embroiled; 
destined to languish convulsed in the depth of coil.
Brightness, so dimmed, is lost within a rancid soil,
left to meet horned demons all but unarmed, alone, 
no company except the mirrored self-entombed,
no bliss state, no ripening sweetness to uncoil
a compost heap of bitter memories, atone ...
atone, little mother, well-used wife, wander now,
seeking ever seeking, yet finding no one home,
insanity wakened, waits, patiently endows ... 
empty days and nights, the infrequent sound of om,
cuddling the traitorous bits, shooing brighter dreams roused.
3
Cuddling the traitorous bits, shooing brighter dreams roused,
the teeth of dogged night rise-up, they breed turmoil.
Deep within the sleeping mind of men, sorrows roil.
Abandonment, disloyalty, hatred espoused,
all shriek to the traitor, the night arouses. 
Niggardly night, loath to lose ground within the dome
of blanched white, gray matter, within this skull of bone,
delights in the sorrowful detail night houses.
Insanity licks raw the salted wound entombed, owned.
"What could we be?" the ego cries to he or she.
"What would we be?" the windigo screams but, “alone.”
On, on, they chatter in the carapace, they breed, 
spreading dark matter, for they've no chaperone,
no friend to stay the brutal cousins, so mislead. 

4
No friend to stay the brutal cousins so mislead,
so in darkness, fear and hatred spread on fertile soil.
Yet, self-hatred shields its sharpened claws, as day uncoils
filling the breach with bright creations, dark concedes, 
and dims the room while manic laughter recedes.
A sunrise bows through prism-glass and colors swell
a lighter laughter comes, newborn to dwell.
Hands that once drew only blood, now tune bent reeds                        
of green, blades of springtime grass within the dell;
where larks sing and long lost lovers dare to reunite, 
no mention made of darkness or the depth of hell,
for sanity has cast a lighter stage this night.                       
Daybreak suspends the demon-dance upon the fell,
now, fairies prance in pastures high, and verse delights.
5 
Now, fairies prance in meadows high, and verse delights
her fancy takes a softer turn at his behest,
with buttercups, in a Fairy Ring, they coalesce,
and shine the golden glow beneath a chin of white.
With the talent of a troubadour, love does strum
upon desire's strings the raging beast is culled
as coy love songs and  sweet lullabies emerge from
the hidden depths of mind where sanity is mulled.
With the talent of a troubadour love does strum
upon strings of desire the fearful beasts are culled 
as coy love songs and sweet lullabies emerge from
the stygian depth where her frail sanity is mulled.
How long will harmony dance to love's blissful hum
Will dark's whine wake, disturb, insanity so lulled? 
6 
Will dark's whine wake, disturb, insanity so lulled? 
A scent of jasmine fills the air with swarming gnats.
Her covered ears belay the sound of feral cats
yet, huddled in his sheltering arms, her pain is dulled.
Dulled, but not waylaid, raging, she becomes unglued
She starts to rock, to whimper, and then, cry out- loud
begging for the dev'lish tide to leave, as he vowed,
renting strands of flaxen hair from her small skull.
Torn, he watches as she fades within a shroud,
a witless waif, bedeviled by the harvest moon.
He had to leave; he could not stay beneath this cloud
ever waiting for this, her omnipresent doom.
His love had its limits and yet, he was not proud,
Oh, he could not stay and watch her be consumed.

7

Oh no, he could not stay and watch her be consumed,
to have his pleasant memories of ardor's bloom
be marred by images of her so poorly groomed. 
No, never would he stay to see her be consumed.
One morn he left, his sum was not what she'd presumed. 
And, she sat in the rocker by the door unfazed,
her bowed lips o'er cast and her eyes o'er glazed, 
alive, but not, her nascent sanity entombed.
Death had come, death of the mind, his metal now assayed
he ran from old memories, as each thought enticed.
Their first tryst 'neath jasmine vines vanished in a haze.
Was love's reward, a sweet repast, mania's disguise?
Would true love have held the course where sanity betrayed,
insanity has its own wellspring, and demise.

First Published Five Poetry Magazine 2014

Poem Copyright © Debbie Guzzi