Best Castoff Poems

I wrote verse on the wings of a lark
romantic phrases in perfect rhyme
but the lark flew away in the dark
I wrote no further for the longest time

A lone blue jay landed upon my lawn
I wrote sweet prose on his sapphire wings
He spent the night with...

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

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Haunted Mansion – Beware!

Abandoned mansion cries in loud creaks and groans
From deep within the dark cellar ghostly moans
Attic lights flicker...then suddenly turn off
By unseen hands of haunted souls castoff.

Windows rattle, winds intone incantations
Of tangled webs to strangle all sensations
Hallways echo spectral chants as terror flows
Reeling...

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Sea Glass 7-11-24
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Sea Glass

On strands and shoals, waves of rolling tides,
 Neither pro nor biased, 
Tumble castoff vessels, emptied of purpose,
Into scattered shards of sharp amber remnants
  Piercing tender soles.

Bits of blue and green edges,
 Rub up against mica’s pearls,
Refined by fool’s gold -
Brokenness...

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Born in the Goshen ghetto,
bound by an Ashkenaz forged umbilical chain
Beloved mother was Jim Crow lynch poor,
adored father was the Uncle Sam same
Third-generation slaves,
pauper freed allegedly
But royal blood their ancestors  
sweaty tears did bleed
From the Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob genealogy,
we be the Judah seed!
Fourth...

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GOOD TIME ( translated in  two other languages)
Good time lies in onerous tracts
Where the minds reject
It shelters in a solitary world
Fidgets like a hovering danger
Reluctance, the only neighbouring sister
Dominates the city


Good time lies in the secrete
They entomb under the catacomb of rigor
Where man in...

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EXFOLIATION, I AM      
 
In my advanced age am I but 
       The castoff--remnants 
Of a vitality that once was and has  been pushed aside?
      Am I only...

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A castoff used only for the music purchased
purposefully, exceedingly carefully,
as though a mistaken choice would
distress the listener 
somehow
it went missing around the time you did.

I could only hope someone else was
pressing its buttons now – turning it
on and off at will, turning up the volume,
making...

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Was it the taunting stares
The feelings repressed
The betrayal by a friend
The weight of sacrifice
The promise of Abba

Did you give it up all
Eloi Rama.. Rama..

Was it the burden
The sin upon you thrust
Was there still hope
Was it fear of being castoff
Was it worth My Lord..
Was the sacrifice...

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I wrote verses on sullen wings of a lonely lark
romantic phrases I had written in perfect rhyme
but the avian flew off when night grew dark
I wrote no further poetry for the longest time

A beautiful blue jay then landed upon my lawn
I wrote such sweet prose...

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Byword People (Came By Way)



Pitch black was the day after
the nightmare before
When the blue wails
washed upon the sunset shore
Dark journey’s end for the castoff children,
who were unspoken for

Idol eyes resting carelessly,
got sin windswept upon a western breeze
Towards a bitter labor colony destiny

An ancient reign of...

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God perfections 
To a gone straying nation 
He calls and led the way for His heavenly son 
Who many soul he had won 
There is still hope in a tremendous outreach
Open your Bible and begin to read
For the eternal life fighting for creed
Temptation is a...

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Sea Glass
  
Waves
Rolling
Tides
Tumble
The castoff
Shattered
Shards
Of jars
And bottles
Blue, green, umber,
Recalling
Picnics,
Life’s
Laughter -
Seashore trash
Transformed
As 
Sea glass
Gems.

Thank you Line for your inspiration and suggestion!

6-14-21
Contest Waltzing Waves
Sponsor: Kim Merryman...

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sneakers twisted over hydro wires
co-joined 
dangling from tied laces
tracks to an unhappy ending

a runner's castoff
erasing the scourge of a race lost?
an overhead tale of something snapped
when expectations erode

forlorn scuffed shoes
undone by some soul
weary of ownership
fused to the wrangle of wind
where secrets shake
heavenward
till summoned back to...

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A ship in a dream pointing
her shapely shadows from the shadowed dawn.
The image tumbling on a castoff rose-swept bay 
and sweeping waves.

I watched in vain this drowsy ship from an older day.
Sails billowed in the swift winds sway.
Amidst the painted mid sea-blue waves caressed
the shore-sea...

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