Best Abandonment Poems

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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Running off with tomorrow
divorcing today
The moment left orphaned
— all time astray

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)
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Although I seethe with fingers clenched
to silence this mad virus in my marrow,
the sight of favored quality time for siblings
gnaws this band of jealousy, untamed.
Being second or third best, rage is my ally,
igniting a fury hidden inside this chest
an expanding tremor ready to pounce back...
do...

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I carefully climb the old oak tree,
traipsing upon its extended limb.
Hold my breath, counting one, two, and three,
abandoning my perch for the swim....

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When Sartre suggested there was no God,

Did he mean female or male God?

What consequences were to be faced?

We should not live in hope he said!

We should always act rather than live in hope,

If we act rather than live in hope of rescue,

We are more likely...

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The day was long gone as midnight became an opaque obscurity.
Her ebony veneer was
   enough to hypnotize.
Smoke clouding homicidal judgment . . .
   I stood aloof—
Wondering about death.
   How am I suppose to suture such a crimson masquerade;
 ...

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The Bitterness of Abandonment

Flows Most Forcefully in Memories

 The Hope Endures during the Longing Journey

 Leaving No Time But For The Present

 Lost For Good

The Inner Compass Fatefully Broken 

The Bond Never to Be Sealed

 Cast Out Amongst the Unforgiven Seas

Only Love 

Sweet Love

 Can...

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I was seventeen, so were you.
With the innocence of a child,
tabhair me mo chroi duit.
(I gave my heart to you.)

Starved of love 'till you came along.
Your kiss so deep, intellect so strong.
You picked me out, held me close.
Told me you loved me.

Made me feel the...

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You chance upon her
in the far reaches of the backyard
a place you never go
and there she trembles  a tiny tiger in a blurred world 
secreted in shadows below blackthorn shrubs 

faint mews draw you closer
the power of her vulnerability
fills your veins with a pulse...

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Broken promises and sad goodbyes,
You left me standing there with tears in the well of my eyes.
In the blink of an eye you turned your back and walked away.
I often wonder if you're okay,
Everyday i dream of how perfect my life would be if you...

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I sabotaged my eight-millimeter childhood.
I never knew Sartre
But I contorted my latex face,
Burying my nothingness in family films.
My child was scripted to be ugly, skipped over
In comic relief.

Only recognizable as Menoetius, 
My only animation was insolence.
I believed nothing in myself,
I knew nothing.
 
I sought my...

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You Raped My Soul
by Elise Hendry


I slowly trusted you…

I shared the depths of my heart and soul with you…

You allowed me to attach to you …

Like a newborn fawn…to it’s mother…

I drank deeply from your heart of love, tenderness, gentleness, kindness and acceptance…

You covered me...

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Alone in the night, with no one to hold,
A life she never chose, yet she's so bold.
Her mother left her, on the day of her birth,
A cruel fate, that dealt her an insurmountable hurt.

She never knew the warmth of a mother's embrace,
Feeling lost and disconnected,...

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I wake up in a bed barely rumpled
to confront truth of jarring, endless ache - 
I am broken, my pale heart beats crumbled.
My nonchalant is an ascetic fake.

My furtive thoughts imagine you as dead.
Finality could be absorbed by me
quicker than abandonment’s gift of dread.
Love ifs...

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Oh, to be a broken Christmas light
Surrounded by the glitter burning bright,
While dampened by the blanket of the broke.
People look and think you are a joke.

You are alone, surrounded by the life
Of your friends, yet you are here in strife.
You try your best to glow,...

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