Abandonments Poems

I lost another friend today
Lived not close, some distance away
Still through past years together we’d play
Drinking good beer, Ha! what can I say.

O spin away, stars from dreams most felt
Sparkle you fully in glittering abundance
Drawing to you like kinds for...Read More

everywhere i go is wherever i call home
but never am i
someone elses
im just dust in the wind,
waiting for an end

ever sense birth ive felt abandonments cold
here a few years there a few years
to and fro
but never a solid home
i tried...Read More

Oh dearest Alice you’ve fallen through my looking glass of reality,
Where rabbits forgo pocket watches, and vestment coats, hopping
Instead wild, free amongst clover evergreen valley’s lust!
Here dreaming child of enchantment’s lore, storybook charm exists
Within the natural revelry of the wild...Read More

I wanted to write something in which each successive line had one more letter than the one before; it basically wrote itself :


I
do
not
wish
to see
the sky
before a
bird goes
soaring by
that I may be
at once alive
observing him
soar, turn & dive
no cares, the King
of...Read More

As darkness absorbed in my reveries, my usual lapse accommodated itself in height of melancholy but not in this conscience. Then I found myself in my room and my window opened. Everything in upheaval, a white structure, huge, marvelously at...Read More

Quitely closing again her cupboard; a slice of hope in tiny hands
Tiptoeing away, another cold as daunting day; embracing, their child
Dirty dish water his hummingbird hovers, then fly's away; creaking steps
Self-conscious humble heart's gazing at the knots, amid her shoe...Read More

as happiness avoids me
you leave with her
the one

and you plot
to entreat yourself to friged abandonments

and you still ask
"do i trust you?"
and seem surprised 
when i say no

you pretend sadness 
and sorrow
but you dont understand
you have never known those true feelings
you...Read More