Best Disengagement Poems

I was conversing with my son yesterday when I came to an awful realization...When we become adults, never again do we feel love for...

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I am attending a party;
for which, I am the only guest.

It's my disengagement.
I celebrate the death
of my other soul
with poisoned punch.
My glass is raised high
casting...

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Don't slip through my fingers daughter of mine 
I've quilted the stars of heaven for you
and padded the moon with the gauze of the sun
Don't...

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"Gaslit" 
 
Truth they say
is sometimes 
stranger than fiction

Fiction they say 
is sometimes
the tonic to escape

Blue Pill?
Red Pill?

which one to take
before one considers
it is all...

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Perhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.

That disclaimer...

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Am i clutching at cobwebs in the rain? 
Have i held on for too long?
Is this my very own Kubla khan conjured out of the...

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What if we live in and out
among and yet autonomously
with and sometimes against
LeftBrain dominant enculturation?

Colonization,
predation with ego-logical economic secular outcomes
too often predicting compromised long-term health
in...

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Sudden was the descent of poetry on me
I tottered under its weight
My body heated up like the sun
A frying egg yolk on the pan
My blood...

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Sweet Mother..
You have brought me into
This world..
Sweet Mother
I took my first breath of life
You were there
As my teacher
You taught me well
Sweet Mother
Your love for me
Always..
I...

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For gift of life indeed precious
Packed with love and care, so gracious
My heart exclaims blest gratitude…
Thanking God* for supplies’ magnitude.

Overwhelmed with guilt’s misery
Drowning in bitterness...

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I want to ask of my  family
I want to  plead to those who are near
Please don’t look straight through me
For I know...

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Do you sense a difference
between ecstasy
and enchantment?

Ecstasy draws me out of my ego,
my body
my mind
my autonomous autumnal consciousness,
winter isolated awareness.

And enchantment?

Enchantment draws me in.
More of...

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Suzanne realized as quickly as she focused her bottled up angst upon this young woman that it
Was misplaced.Standing behind her son with hands on his...

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In search of peace 
he burnt down his books,
living precariously,
as colors were shifting.

After the disengagement
there was anger and chaos.
In the swirl of mudslides
the mountains stood...

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Here is the world for you and me
woven in a cord romantic feelings
It wraps us up in its cobweb
And rolls up in a ball to...

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