Away Poems

Premium MemberAn Arm’s Length Away

Sometimes, when we hurl
angry words—
ancient stones thrown by indifference,
lodging in the ears of our children.
Witnessing horror twist itself into child’s play.
A stone’s throw—killed our empathy.

Anger knows its enemy:
sitting next to,
sitting opposite of,
never with.
It sits a stone’s throw away.

Rising from the ashes of fear—
Vapours of flesh smoulder
as blooded lava flows.
Cools—
our scarred magma to a crusted creed.

The
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Categories: away, anger, angst, conflict, discrimination,
Form: Free verse

Miles Away


In the vast expanse of distance, where geography stretches out like an endless canvas, I feel your presence, a gentle whisper that caresses my soul, even though you're a thousand miles away.

Every second, every minute, every hour, and every day, my longing for you grows, a crescendo of yearning that echoes through the chambers of
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Categories: away, cute love, how i
Form: Free verse


Scene, While Away, 2

Background B.B King it

You'll get home alone

A Quartering as Jazz
As quart and liter
As meter and mile 
Footage and reconcile

Irish Quartermasters Gaurd

Kevin J. O'Meadhra

Trace as feather
Low of ash
Bury of quill
Fide et amore

Nightingales Ergo
Send in rot
Further, borrow
Scottish wreathing
Entangled Britain
Relent



They of leave
Twined as lecture
Recital of yellow
Beckon brown
Revile of green
Tustled hearth


Baby babysit looks like
It's gonna hail
Jump and jive

As sent
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Categories: away, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA sentance to avoid'

Be aware of a verb, thats emerging..From an Aussie, it has been formed, And  its Now surging.' Quite
Descriptive and gritty, Aimed first off at canberra
City, where the originals (are said to be spawned?)
You don't need its description, its scar is real hard old friend' a strong
Valediction.' Of how low? You are thought in your
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Categories: away, anxiety, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Ballad

Once it is far away enough

Only be distal enough from crowded stay 
The fresh and sweet of the air can be tasted
And the chirping of birds be appreciated 
Also, the dancing butterflies be exquisite

Which of the untouched are full of charms 
Such as imagined fairies shown in murals
In the corner of this, being ignored by them
No humans hustle and bustle
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Categories: away, appreciation, butterfly, community, environment,
Form: Verse


Premium MemberSteer away from extremes Australia'

Stay focused Australia..Do not follow extremists.' Hold your nerve.'
And the centre ground.'
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Categories: away, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Garden Chases away all Glooms

tittering among the hollyhock blooms
two elfin men both named Mack
just seeing them chased away my glooms
I knew they always had my back

two elfin men both named Mack
my flowers sparkling fresh and pretty
I knew they always had my back
the joy they gave me kept me witty

my flowers sparkling fresh and pretty
my garden developed quite a lovely
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Categories: away, garden,
Form: Pantoum

Premium MemberFade Away Fairytale

What mistakes,
on broken rafts
in the river
shredding
of wooden boards,
couldn't
be
less than
a drowning
vessel...
I hate the
introspection.
I never
dare to see
as cards fold,
and a fantasy,
takes me
into raw-ness.
Of one such here
of love and
princesses,
hold her dear.
The night terrors
green goblins
and dusk is near.....
The warm bake,
of your skin
and as the sun's
so tender.
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Categories: away, introspection, love, miss you,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOne That Got Away

It's been years since we spoken
Most things hadn't changed at all
Our youth had started to dwindle 
But her beauty It could not fall

Back the we had big dreams
Though the we could change 
I laugh when think about them 
They are optimistic and strange

The one dream I had back then 
The one I wished had come
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Categories: away, beautiful, crush, cute love,
Form: Rhyme

Real

I only feel real 
   When I'm downing glasses full of depression
    And regret comes around every now and then
     banging on the door
      real turns its head 
  When rivers on my skin run too deep
   
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Categories: away, 11th grade, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAway from the Wreckage

Holding up traffic
is a terrible pileup
on the interstate -
the opposite side also
is slowed by rubberneckers

Many are injured
while six have been declared dead
as folks wonder why -
cops investigate the scene
while sirens are heard wailing

flung far from her car
lies a woman and cell phone
which has solved the case -
messaged at time of the crash:
“I am dying to
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Categories: away, dark, fate,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberPink Frog is Chased Away

pink frog was chased away by the divas of the day
she leapt over toadstools and moss, trying to get away
Don’t ever come back!  The prejudiced female frogs yelled in a mean way.
Because she was pink, they had quickly chased her away.
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Categories: away, animal,
Form: Monorhyme

Don't Let Me Drift Away

I grew up hearing tales of who You are
So kind, so just, so full of love and grace.
You watched me closely like a guiding star,
Your whispers now still echo in this place.

I speak to You, and tears begin to fall,
For in the quiet, I can feel You near.
My Friend, my Shield, my Strength through every
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Categories: away, baptism, bible, care, caregiving,
Form: Sonnet

A call away

I’m only a call away 
I don’t mind being there for you
For some reason 
I don’t like having to say no to you
I want to help you but as long as I’m not hurting myself in the process 
I want to be the person you call on and the person you lean on
I feel like
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Categories: away, people,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberwishing my neighbors would move away

I keep my alicorn hidden from prying eyes
she only leaves the yard when there are darkened skies
my neighbors to the east are prejudiced against magical beings
intolerant of differences, five unlikable human beings

I think my neighbors to the west can handle mystical creatures.
They have lovely parties with outside movies, double features.
if the neighbors to the east
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Categories: away, me,
Form: Rhyme

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