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...

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forsaken
    in silence and 
        despair,
         ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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EXFOLIATION, I AM      
 
In my advanced age am I but 
       The castoff--remnants...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Pennsylvania summer
In the coal mining patch
With crickets, mosquitoes and
Children racing sprinklers
Beside closed castoff mines
Like matadors with bulls;
The faded old grandmas sit on the porches
Lethargically fanning
With...

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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...

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Late a time barrel sound and moonlight inline for a castoff

The missing is a sure the pure blood leave along

Time a gate night it shall...

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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...

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