Abandonment Poems

Abandonment and Other Magic Tricks

I hope he makes you feel 		   at home
hope it’s sweet when he’s singing you songs

I’m sorry I choked 	  chewing on 
my own tongue for too long

You’ve moved out
		and moved on
Making vacancy space inside my arms
but there’s something I’m still clung on

Vagabond who can’t wander on
or let go of that glimmer

Lost to the Theory

You and I seemed a sure thing,
we’d been strong seven years,
had man more up than downs,
nothing wrong, it appeared.
But then you started changing,
talking empowerment,
calling our home a prison,
our kids a detriment.
Saying that a ‘strong woman,’
has no need of a man,
somehow we who loved you most
didn’t fit with your plans.

Do you know
our kids will never forgive

Meaningless Abandonment

There's abandon the stage playing music too loud
And abandon the podium in front of a crowd
Abandon the radio is playing a tune,
And I once saw a show with abandon the moon
McCartney once sang of abandon the run
And abandon the convent had a singing nun
I sing with wild abandon when taking showers
Wear abandon my hair with

Limericks X

Limericks X

This is a more serious limerick:

The Abandoned Child’s Complaint
by Michael R. Burch

I hoped you might have loved me,
but you pushed me out to sea
   like Moses, for some other
   strange Egyptian mother:
Isis, Nefertiti.

Keywords/Tags: limerick, child. childhood, children, child abuse, baby, abandonment, unloved, love, unwanted, mother

The Man In The Hole

Once there was a man who stumbled into a ditch,
He fell hard and let out a painful pitch.
You see, this hole was terribly deep,
He couldn’t climb out—the walls were too steep.

So he waited on sun and moon for aid,
Till down fell a boy, with a shout, dismayed.
They talked awhile and made a plan:
“You’ll stand on

Not Enough

It’s alright  
                                                   

Unrequited Love, a Soliloquy

To love someone who no longer loves you is the cruelest trick played by the world. I didn’t know you wanted me that way, I thought you only cared for my body, so I found another who seemed to want a connection. I should’ve told you then how I love you so, I wish I

To the Looser who Lost Out

I reflect on the days-
Her first little steps, those tiny feet chasing dreams. 
Her doing silly little dances on the floor,  
She'd giggle, then stumble, then laughter galore. 

You weren’t there when she climbed the school bus stairs.
Smiling like sunshine with a lunchbox in hand,
ready to conquer the world
before the world even knew her.

You

Abandonment

I have been abandoned,
Left as a baby,
The main person you want around,
Is the mother figure,
No cards, no letters,
No visitations she made,
Just left me in the world,
After delivering me,
On what should ave been a special day,
My father not around,
To busy with another woman,
Abandoned by him to be left alone again,
All grown up living my life,
Things seem

That feeling of belonging

my dog is loved
and that’s a fact
yet it lives in fear
of abandonment

why so i ask
you have a home
it’s never happened
you’ve never been left behind

you’re safe
why is it you live in fear
when I head out that door
your panic so intense

frantically pacing
your heart is racing
it’s a primal fear
wild beyond control

how can i put your mind at ease?


AP:

The Abandonment

It was full of long stringy grass which had grown out, all over the back of the house. It hung over the bare walls. The briars were everywhere and they would prick you clean red blooded. The shed widows shattered and the door covered in heavy moss. the thick smoke running out from the chimney

Foundling, found poem

A mark of scarlet was the first,
Fitting of inferior character.
He was associated of plagues,
The name given of a tragedy.

The dead made a bottomless pit on him,
Rendered executed, the title of foundling.

Forsaken

My spirit,
Incinerated. 
Its ashes 
Descend back into
That dark crater:
That inky opaque abyss,
Where the slightest din
Is swallowed, 
Where that one fragment of light is asphyxiated,
Held down, 
Stripped and raped from its alluring, golden iridescence. 
It drowned in its own tears
And then scattered across its own grave. 
They turn their backs 
With apathy entrenched into their depths:
The

Orphan

You chance upon her
in the far reaches of the backyard
a place you never go
and there she trembles  a tiny tiger in a blurred world 
secreted in shadows below blackthorn shrubs 

faint mews draw you closer
the power of her vulnerability
fills your veins with a pulse rising
brimming you with a nectar needed
like a dry stream bed

Loneliness

This winter, the dogs are hungrier than ever
And birds get away from the rotten trees
The children abandon the orchard every afternoon
And the street cats wail in the lonely nights

Every dusk of this December, I'll go
sit on the cold bench of my orchard
And look at the withering red roses
Till the last ray of the sun departs

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