Best Come Back Poems
The Ink Bottle sits, alone,
It’s only Companions,
The Feathered Pen,
The Paper Pad.
The Desk, once alive,
The Words,
No longer,
Written.
Love, abandon,
But wanting not,
The Freedom,
It has.
A Wooden Chair, dusty,
Reclines not,
For the Comfort,
Once given.
Time, a mystery gone,
With passing,
Never to be recovered,
Longing.
Days of gloom, waiting,
Shine not, The Light,
The Heart,
Once brightened.
Come back, to Me,
My words, of Joy,
Of Laughter,
Wisdom, once known.
When roads of discontentment
take you places you don’t like
and the feelings you discover
leave you frightened and alone
Just come back to love
Come back to love
When the message in the mirror
lets you know you’ve gone too far
and there is no clear direction
in a maze of fear and pain
Just come back to love
Come back to love
I say this to myself as I would to you
when the world seems far away
When I feel there’s nothing left
and no one left to hold
I just come back to love
I come back to love
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After 4months & 1 week of separation, 129 days of tears and depression,
With a pimpled face and many grey hair, I write these lines,
wishing you were here.................
Marking the calendar as each day goes by...
My loneliness continues, I miss you and cry,
Near me you are but not with me,
How at peace can I possibly be?
I fast, visit temples and constantly pray,
"Dear God, bring back my love to me"- I say,
"oh Lord!, you said you sent him to me,
Then gone away from me, why has he?"
Eyes constantly glued to the door…
Ears await the ring of the phone…
Sonya, I long to see you and hear you say,
"Dear, I am back, hold me the same way".
"Chalo ice cream khilata hoon,
Laugh! Laugh! Ravan's sister-chidata hoon,
Dear, what did you do when I was gone?
I learnt to sing those pending two songs".
"Dear, I love you more than you do"
Why do you cry when I am with you?
I bought our car, home-n-jhoola just for you
Happily together we will live in our MAMU".
She took the Hearts ;We handed Her, as Family all together
Filled with Blessings for YOU Robin, in YOUR dire Family need
We Waited, without watching, only Thinking : only Praying
For YOU Robin L Gass , for YOUR Smile, For YOUR Art” True POETRY “
Your hints of return : “My PS Friends” Soup Mail being read over and over
Our Hearts, ask for more than Happy , Glorious , “ Growing Goodness “
For YOU YOUR “ Fellow” POETS : Mentors, Proteges, and Artist s
Pray for resolutions to YOUR dilemma Pray for YOUR return to us
Just a note saying hello : which WE YOUR POETIC Family : Embrace
Poetry Soup a Jigsaw Puzzle with one important piece Missing : ROBIN
LOVE FROM ALL of us TO YOU ALWAYS ROBIN L. GASS
Dedicated To POETESS Robin L. Gass
Reincarnated, I will come back as a mustached and bearded Italian organ grinder,
I will live in Rome, Italy and play my home-made barrel organ in the streets,
My pet spider monkey, Shark, will happily grab up silver coins, as a reminder.
And we will make the beautifully-dressed Roma gypsies jump and laugh and squeak.
I will grind out the best songs, and Ellen will discover us and want to put us on TV.
Shark and I will be flown to America, where we will be applauded and approved.
We will play romantic music for everyone, and be as obnoxious as we can be.
We will be a hit with no one on that plane, people who are boring, and not easily moved.
We will be offered millions of dollars, to leave our wonderful streets of Rome.
But we will make our escape, not caring about the fame or the money,
For spider monkeys and organ grinders know the beauty of being in their home,
And we have a cozy nest, with our llamas and our elephant, named Honey.
I sit here waiting, watching,
Wondering when you'll come back,
Wondering what I did wrong,
and what is it that I lack?
Was it something I had done,
That made you go away?
Was it something I did?
What did I say?
I sit here loving every memory,
And everything you gave to me.
Your words, your love, your touch,
I loved you so much.
Now your gone,
Where? I cannot see.
I sit here waiting, watching,
For when you come back to me.
OH! CARMELITA YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU,
OH! CARMELITA YOU KNOW MY LOVE IS TRUE
OH! CARMELITA WHY’D YOU HAVE TO GO……….
AND LEAVE ME ALONE…………..…ME AND MEXICO?
I’VE LOVED MY CARMELITA SINCE I WAS JUST A BOY
WHEN I SAW HER SMILING IT FILLED MY HEART WITH JOY
I NEVER THOUGHT THE DAY WOULD COME
WHEN SHE WOULD EVER GO..............
AND LEAVE ME ALONE ......................…ME AND MEXICO
COME BACK CARMELITA, COME BACK TO ME
COME BACK CARMELITA I’M AS LONELY AS CAN BE.
COME BACK CARMELITA TO THIS BOY WHO LOVES YOU SO .......
COME BACK TO ME…….…ME AND MEXICO
OH! CARMELITA YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU.
OH! CARMELITA YOU KNOW MY LOVE IS TRUE.
OH! CARMELITA WHY'D YOU HAVE TO GO ......
AND LEAVE ME ALONE.....ME AND MEXICO
PICK..... ( OH! CARMELITA )
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I wait patiently for the return of my friend
We parted as lovers
It felt like the end
But a true friend is forever
We can start again
Leave behind the lover
Come back as my friend
A candle in her window.
An invitation in the dark of night.
A portal to heaven's bliss.
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AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Come back to my sky O truculent sun
Do not go behind your clouds of gray
Do not from hunger wander away
I want to feel you deep in the green
Vein of leaves turning water to wine
I want to breathe you from sweet vine
Blowing kisses of oxygen by which I
Tell your stoic anguish for me to do well
O do not leave me, time writes our age
On petals while our passions rage
Mortal as a dew. I love your warmth
Your cosy way of giving ... and dying
Like us you never complain ... giving
Your life to be our dust ... I am inspired
By you, stay until my winter is expired.
When we were together I always thought what could be
But now that you’re gone
All I see is our memories
You were there to help me and
Guide me through the way
Now I just sit lonely on my bed and pray
Praying that you will come back to me someday
When I see your face I just want to cry
I know crying doesn’t help but it’s the only way I can express
How I really feel inside
To wait
is to drown
slowly
with a hope
one day
you will rise
only to witness
the time passing by,
getting closer to the bottom.
Here, struggle
is no longer needed;
surrender is easier.
To let go of heavier dreams
and embrace
the defeat.
Not to give up,
but to land the feet
to bounce back better
with an air of a new kind
created during the halt.
A pause to refill
and restart
what was unfinished
with a slight twist
that‘ll make
the whole difference.
Slice ham so thin, your in-laws will never come back
This pearl of wisdom came my way
So many years ago
A TV ad that to this day,
The funniest I know
It sliced and diced, did everything
A kitchen chef could seek
In fact, it claimed that it could make
ONE tomato last a week!
But best for me as I recall,
Laughed so hard, I could die-
Onions it could dice so fast,
You don’t have time to cry!
From “The Miracle Slicer”
Your heart has become so dark
No truths are spoken from your lips
You are only about yourself anymore
We wonder where has the real you gone
What happened to turn you so cruel
Asking to be forgiven again and again
Will you ever turn your life back around
Cling to the love that is given to you
Hold eye contact to your family lifeline
Know that we are here for you evermore
When we see you hurt we hurt even more
We love you more then you will ever know
You are hurting more then just yourself
Take a good look into your mirror dear
Ask yourself where the gentle you has gone
We pray you find her and her gentle heart
And when you find her once more
We pray you will come back to us
Our love for you continues to grow
This you should always remember
Entry for P.D.'s Free Verse Contest
written by: Carol Brown
10th Place Winner