Best Abandoned Poems

I'd married at 21 and moved overseas with my husband's work, so it had been many years since I had visited my gran at Rose Cottage. I was taken by surprise when I received a letter from her solicitor informing me of my inheritance. Her...

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sleep feels like an abandoned lover;
  heart weeps like a wilted flower..
wings of the sun, soaked with sapphire dust,
   rise and sparkle; like sea salt in the air,
twilight cascades upon my skin~
   wearing your perfumed memories,
I long to see your...

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O hear I chant clinging to a sullen northern shore,
tempestuous serene rocky beach that you so adore,
sultry soliloquy sturdy stifled structure sings,
a witness of forgotten sailors and majestic kings.

Them, I blessed with gracious shelter in storms,
for I unmanned, rejoiced in accompanying norms
dreaming of worlds afar...

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FUKUSHIMA, OCEAN EXPOSURE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eGzS0eYuo

FUKUSHIMA RADIATION IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFPEY-r9QQY





"Abandoned Cities"


Empty sentries standing firm
Vacant windows glistening
they sit with Poe, Van Gough and Edvard Munch all broken
waiting patiently ears open, silent screams, nothing spoken
empty library of learning, all that is beauty and wisdom burning
burnt out shells,
 
End of...

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Abandoned flowers placed against the wall,
stems bent and twisted, limp and on display.
In long, straight row they line the gloomy hall;
these wilted gems now spent, no role to play.

Some showing with their blossoms barely raised
and others hang on weakened stems so low.
In varied ways, their...

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She did not have to guess.
She felt it in her bones. 
Unfaithful he always was,
Unfaithful he'll always be.
She knew where he would be.
 
Anger flared in the pit of her stomach,
A heart-wrenching in the ache of fire.
What could she do?  Revenge?
She rejected such thoughts...

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Walking deep into the woods we stumbled on an old abandoned place
A white and blue farm house with a wraparound dilapidated porch
Tall grass was overgrown and with many shade trees of oak and birch
Plant pots of dried up and decayed ferns left on the railings...

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I surrender myself to you
The grains worn with times gone
I’m as withered as an old apple
That has no juice left to give   but

I do remember them

Those that loved me once full of life
Laughter ringing out, foot paths worn
Do they think of me with...

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forsaken
    in silence and 
        despair,
            my heart wilted
               ...

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ABANDONED AT THE ALTAR


You cast me aside
Like an unloved old rag doll
You no longer wanted me.
Jilted as your bride
Your betrayal took its toll
Where is my apology?

No explanation
Has been uttered by your lips - 
I was waiting at the church!
Humiliation
As my life is torn to strips...

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A deserted old house stood off the county road a little way.
To keep apace of living I rushed by it almost every day.
For years I'd wanted to visit there to see what secrets it held,
And perhaps find out about the folks who in it had...

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I sit here feeling so abandoned
Will I ever get there again
No hygiene care and the need to go
I haven’t been there since I don’t know when
Access blocked, I’m waiting it seems tears
Just one more time before I die
I’m growing older waiting my turn
Think I’ll stand...

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Knotted in the torsion of a tempest’s mood -
the barrage drains the sun and overwhelms the dusk
ire’s flash stabs the night.


Susan Ashley
April 6, 2019


~ Second Place ~
Contest: Favorite Poem From Last Week (March31 - April 6, 2019)
Contest: Lu Loo


~ Third Place ~
Contest: April 2019 Premier...

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The old wood framed home stood stark and abandoned, a
shell of herself, where now new homes were standing..
Rotted roped windows wept with the rains and rattled and
trembled with each passing train..
The once solid foundation now unmoored by silt causing the
aged house to lean, a precarious...

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Embraces shatter leaving timeless stories

Wrapped in butterfly nets, tied with velvet ribbons

Tangled cob webs and ghost blankets

Restless feelings and Kodak moments

 

Wasting into forever

Alone, rotting in the pantry

Forgotten happiness buried by sorrows

Telling tomorrow yesterday’s lies

 

A hollow soul searching for absent pieces

Going nowhere, tires spinning...

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