Best Abandoning Poems

Your true dearest point when you harbored Dear dreams
And then you discover life’s not what it seems
Like abandoning hopes at an age Fresh and Young
Did you have an idea that it’ll last so long

For you left your dear home at only 18
And sent to Iraq...

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She wears her pain like a stole of pure glass
The glinting fabric distracting from
Penetrating shards snarling beneath it.

She struts with agonizing precision
Portraying an ease she never feels
A carelessness born of sensing too much.

As the torment crescendos, fevered pitch
Assaulted from a new direction:
“Friends” who know this...

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On the banks of your life
Doubt fixing you offshore
A gripping beast never quits feeding
On dreams hungry for more

To ask yourself questions
Are they answers you know
Always precipitously trying to learn
You justify with the flow

Will you see your opening
Pushing your given chance
Do the beasts raptly glower into...

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abandoning
all those who loved him
~ choosing the bottle



posted on November 8, 2018...

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Dylan got bitten
hard by fame
and though wounded
continues to tour

A thundering 
majesty
in makeup and veils
jesters by the score

Divorced from
his wandering
a pilgrim of dreams
the past too great a cost

A caricature
of genius gone
eyes clouded over
—Camelot lost

(The New Room: June, 2023)...

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I
Practising something
Winning takes thinking
Like the world
Values curtailed, curled

II
Add anonymity
Online carefree community
Some will begin games
Not play; hope you go away
Courtesy questioned; charged with abandonment
Social contract corrected less fast (for content)

III
We play games
For variety, virtual community
Go everywhere, in His Peace, Shalom
Try always, to live your values, decorum
Yet,...

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Down, down the known street where
 the quite evening lying down, my legs took me a walk
 Sending the sun to west, something that street holding
for me. 

Little, little lonely voices' hands knocking my ears 
 from where 
 tied my steps with rope pulling toward them.
 Under a...

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