Best Discarded Poems

A song by the Allman Brothers, titled Melissa, I was, hearing Sweet Mellisa over and over, while writing this.
 The Story begins as a teenaged College student is informed by her Doctor that she is pregnant. Her thoughts began to overwhelm her. Thoughts of telling...

Continue reading...

In the dead of night she lays

Still , alone

Once so full of life

Now lifeless so far from home


No-one knows she lays there

Discarded  like refuse

Is this to be her final resting place

Left naked and abused...

Continue reading...

I am accustomed to spitting out bones of my prisoners, not witnessing their escape. I hear whales whistle their stoic dirges as I descend—they know the doomed are villains and freedom is promised to the brave of the brine. I am Devil Damsel, doomed as...

Continue reading...

my mind carries me 
each day spent
through waves of wonder



AP: 3rd place 2022

Submitted on June 23, 2018 for contest MAGICICADA 13 - BODY AND MIND  sponsored by MAUREEN McGREAVY  -  RANKED 2ND...

Continue reading...

Look at this leaf.

Where did it come from?

Stuck in a mud, like a

discarded grief from a weeping willow.

I like its shape.

Follows my hand. Pair it

in two and you can make a glove

or a puppet doll that says “I love you!”

It’s full of wavy hurdles,

a caterpillar’s...

Continue reading...

Black valentines blot the sky,
A clinging soot that breaths a sigh
Into that rarefied, misty region,
Where trust is often given freely.

Unfettered, pure, without condition,
Angels float for choice position.
Through blinding forks of probing fires,
Exposing secret, mortal desires,

Comes the never-ending parade
Of the cherub-faced depraved,
Whose hearts are daily pierced...

Continue reading...

Affection ridden 
Disrespect established
Love and tender discarded
False tears and all of the fakeness
In this moment
In this calming bit of second
I hate them more than ever
My own flesh and blood
The disgrace they give
The lack of concern 
The spiteful disrespect
The blackness of one’s heart
The least of love
The...

Continue reading...

All you see are gifts and lights in the mall 
         Loads of Christmas trees standing tall
No wise men in sight 
            Vendors in a retail...

Continue reading...

A
discarded 
plant was I

that a traveler,
a kind, gentle traveler,

picked gently up, and
planted in a rich, fertile land

to make me a tree,
a big, blossoming tree,

but no, - not for him,
yet for all the passers-by.

I’m that tree, that tree,
that he wanted me to be,

with boughs so bent...

Continue reading...

Another Discarded Love 

I was in love once 
I thought it was most perfect
At first it seemed so 

But lo and behold 
Like all good things it turned bad
Maybe it was me

I am not perfect
But you weren’t perfect either 
We almost were though

It ended with...

Continue reading...

hung with their seems sealed
Roses in a wheat paste field…
Peeling paint revealed...

Continue reading...

Discarded

flipped right through
like one of fifty two
nothing but spite brews
as lies spew and prides bruise

every bit as bitter as I seem
the tension teems and splits the seams
I explode through trusses and splintered beams
as bright white anger quickly gleans

Outcast, miscasted actor, cast away
breaking my neck to...

Continue reading...

amidst sandy shore
withered rose lays discarded
from the sea of love...

Continue reading...

There are days, when I wonder
Wonder where you are
Wonder where you went
Leaving me alone to defend
 
I hope you would come, every single day
A day is not easy to pass by,
I wish you would just come and say
Oh! My cupcake come here, don't worry
I know...

Continue reading...

lay crumbled on floor
her face alabaster white
red lips as though they had bled
     no life anymore
     beautiful blue eyes shut tight
     puppeteer had cut the thread.



original date jan 2016...

Continue reading...