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Best Abandonment Poems

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Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: abandonment, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member She Arose
She arose…
A phoenix out of a pile of ashes…
Out of abandonment
Out of hardships and constraints
Out of depression and sadness

She arose…
Out of cutbacks and setbacks 
Taking...

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Categories: abandonment, confidence, courage, endurance, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Timeless adoration
“A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more than you love me?
Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you.
I've disappeared...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abandonment, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Disorientation
You have raided my night again,
as the burst of a sudden storm,
sneaking into my loneliness,
at the most unexpected hour,
plunging me into swirls of pain
too deep...

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Categories: abandonment, angst, death, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To An Injured Fox Cub - With Thanks To Michael Coy
Today I found you cornered, drenched in cold,
your fur coat nothing but a newborn's down,
a tiny ball unfolding while I hold
you shivering. Your lacerations frown

and...

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Categories: abandonment, analogy, animal, hurt, metaphor,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Recollections of a Condemned Man - Collaboration With Robert Lindley
178 months, 129940 hours,
now only 10 minutes remain.
Sitting in cold eerie darkness,
he observes the rhythm of water drops,
slowly wipes away streams of sweat
with his withered...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abandonment, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Souls Cry
Essence melancholic bemoans, echoing soul’s doleful cry
When clamors of unrequited love, earnestly amplify,
Bruised yearnings of deep desires, as lovelorn heart sighs,
For the longings of shattered...

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Categories: abandonment, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member For Shame
The inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it...

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Categories: abandonment, betrayal, environment, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Eve
Does the past really matter?
 Does it set you free? 
I’m absorbed in the sin,
That is surrounding him and me. 

Lost in the curiosity,
Cold to...

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Categories: abandonment, angel, beautiful, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The First Gathering, the Wrath, the Return of Zeus
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The First Gathering, The Wrath, The Return Of Zeus
( "Wherein Fate and Destiny Reign Over Blind Worship )


Else the throngs of mortals find the truth,
...

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Categories: abandonment, art, corruption, creation, imagination,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Crisp Winter
From blade of grass to the tip of twig,
The white dust of winter fall’s.
Frenzied  flakes move in lost abandonment,
Finally pitch on fence and wall’s.
On...

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Categories: abandonment, inspirational, life, nature, seasonswinter,
Form: I do not know?
Inspired By Slim Shady
You can probably tell I've always been inspired by Slim Shady 
By the way I rhyme words and the fact my pen's crazy
I'm the equivalent...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abandonment, fun, funny, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Tale of a Former Black Sheep
For years I wore
your shame as my own
and lived unknown
in terror of being seen
like a leper
self-quarantined
intrinsically unclean

Your neglect
became to me
my insignificance
undeserving of your glance

Your abuse
became...

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Categories: abandonment, abuse, hope, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From My Diary: Nature
I celebrate the nimbus clouds
     stealthly gathering in a silent sky.
No great claps of thunder to shock
    ...

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Categories: abandonment, autumn, celebration, dance, joy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All That I Am
I love him with all that I am ...
Beyond the noise and hype of this world
Beyond the ebb and flow of ocean tides
Beyond all the...

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Categories: abandonment, lovelove,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs