Best Drop Away Poems
Moments of happiness drifting away
Silent days, lonely nights
I hear the ocean playing its song
Emotions are strong
I hear it so close and listening
Love conquers all for those who seek
Each wave, my heart might catch
Let all thoughts and words about yesterday's drop away
Even though the ocean foams ~ I love you without limits
The sky and the sunshine we shall always share together
24.01.2016
A-L Andresen :)
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Categories:
drop away, emotions, heart, love,
Form:
Free verse
can't really reach You
anymore
everything is
disappearing
our old arguments
as well
bits
just drop away
everyday
naked fear left behind
strangling your mind
normality already
a thing of the past
I am not sure
when it happened
crept up slow and stealthy
this drawn out
goodbye
not knowing
when my cameo role
in your heart
will fade away
to nothing
Categories:
drop away, age, farewell, forgiveness, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
H azily, as nightfall glides ,I unlock the front-gate
O verwrought from drills of a riddled job,
M y toes stumble on scented violet buds
E nhancing gripped thoughts to drip-drop away.
S omehow, Mom’s roast chicken trails along
W here piano notes soften the blues… and there,
E merging through a hall; Oh Granpa appears
E ager to spend a ritual of my life’s rhapsody;
T urning my drones into an abode’s breezy song.
H eartfelt jousts ring to nourish time’s warmth,
O ften soothing an outer world, restless… yet this
M erriment flames brightly in this safe refuge,
E ver precious as restful chants of heaven’s lyre.
2/3/2016
Contest: Home Sweet Home Acrostic
Sponsor: John Hamilton
Categories:
drop away, house, uplifting,
Form:
Acrostic
I want a reason to live
My heart wrenches in pain all too often
Tears stream down my cheeks
Trembling lips
An urge to scream loudly
I hold it all in.
There are way too many thoughts swirling in my head
Dizziness and a feeling of loneliness
Creeping right under my skin
A mental breakdown is soon to show
I hold it all in.
Everyday I get closer to believe
Death might be a better place
For one who is nothing
but a hindrance to oneself
I hold it all in.
Thoughts of doing harm again
It is getting tough not to do so
Letting everything spill on the floor
The water stealing every drop away
I hold it all in.
Weights fallen drastically
Who notices, no one
Trying to be pretty
Who am I kidding?
I am nothing but bones
A shell yet full of too many emotions.
La la la la.
Mind not clear.
Eyes clouded.
Throat soar.
Body numb.
I want to leave.
Somewhere faaaaar away.
I am afraid of the day
I can not hold it all in
That day shall be
My Death
Wandering off to somewhere else
Fed with lies from all sides
I am Alone.
Categories:
drop away, angst, confusion, death, depression,
Form:
~
Flour on her hands, and centuries on her elbow
Fingers balance a 'hand-me-down' dish,
Roosting deftly on finger-tips, high in mid-air
Lovingly she spins it, magician's hands twirling
Trimming the edges with flourish and flair
A bit like Da Vinci' ,…a small tool in hand
Skillfully carving, as a blade skims the rim
Pieces of pie dough, will soon drop away
She is shearing the excess, and trimming the dough
That turn into ribbons…wouldn't you know?
You must use every scrap,…meaning just that!..
Waste not, want not…each morsel a prize
Rolling them flat to large walnut size
~
Spread thick the butter…nothing is better
A sprinkle goes here, a sprinkle goes there
Cinnamon sugar, please don’t be spare
Baking till golden, toasting next to the pie
A preview of magic, a taste of delight
How does she know it, ... this magic voodoo?
Lessons in chemistry, from so long ago
She had watched this drama unfold in her dreams
Unfolding and playing on her memory's screen
This silent black magic, will play once again
Although the old soundtrack, worn of it's skill
The warmth of old memories, will never be stilled…
Don't bother to ask, for recipe pages
It is magic at best....., so priceless the task
So sprinkled with love, and has passed through the ages
Categories:
drop away, childhood, food, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
I just found out how skin of day
breathes in the grayness of Fall sky,
as moist eyes fold to drop away
on moonlit puffs that slowly die
like mirrors crashed into the air,
a splendor gliding down below,
while tradewinds' draft glides off somewhere
biting the night with sharpened jaw.
My fingers trace sweet memory
calling Jack’s name in every bloom
while angels restore the glory
of traces born from love’s heirloom;
I pause… his Light perches on trees
where we christened fire tasting rum,
and though wonder passes through leaves
the days will sift joys, dear husband.
-------
For Susan’s ‘ I Just Found Out’ Contest
*As narrated by my female cousin
after her spouse passed on*
Categories:
drop away, death, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
(A Piece in Triplet Addressed to Dr Monir Táhá)*
Yes, we’re mountains, all together yet alone,
From foot to crown of rock and with hearts of stone.
Unmoved by all, moving none, we’re on our own.
To this song on the way of love that you hear
I’ve listened too for an age, year after year,
And have shed tears as from an arrow or spear.
I don’t beg for love now that I’m old and grey,
Melted away in solitude, but I say,
Like the waters, one by one we drift away.
1.31.’13
* The renowned Iranian lyricist and chairlady of the department of the Italian language & literature, University of Tehran, who used to stop on her way to stare at me for several bothering, lengthy minutes in the corridors in mid-1970s and who did something most abhorrent to me in an Italian course final exam; just to remind her how
Everything alters
And one by one we drop away
— Composed while still listening to “The Way of Love” by the late Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum which I listened to in solitude shedding tears when I was a teenager, and having in mind Matthew Arnold’s poem “To Marguerite — Continued”, W. B. Yeats’ poems “When You are Old” and “The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Waters”, as well as a poem by the late Iranian poet Shámloo the title of which I can’t remember
No comments, please!
Categories:
drop away, vanity,
Form:
Tristich
How do u bask in the sunshine when all you see is rain.
Feeling every drop as it falls on your skin and when It touches... it's pain!!!
Leaving a constant ache and permanent stain.
While the words of GOD rang through my head "Be grateful and don't complain"..
Which sometimes feels impossible when there's no light and the rain just won't refrain..
Meanwhile standing one drop away from going insane...
Desperately in need of that light which keeps me maintained...
But if only I could see the sunshine through the rain.
Categories:
drop away, confusion, faith, introspection, light,
Form:
Rhyme
conditioned since birth, to pursue interests self-serving
consciousness soon hypnotised amidst myriad desires
head and heart misaligned, fierce rivals for attention
delusion that we are only mind body doomed to die
causing fearful anxiety, objects of desire vanishing
awareness thus choosing to turn inwards in silence
whereupon stillness ushering soft tender touch of love
felt as bliss currents within form osmotically percolating
cascading waves of benign energy divine cleansing form
conscience telepathically whispering voice of clear truth
cosmic inspiration thus enabling a gradual fulcrum shift
translated in thought, word and deed, as devout prayer
moment to moment, all moments in silence entwined
healing our soul, now reflecting Gods love and light
vibrant presence in childlike trust melding with the joy
imbibing benedictions as and when upon soul bestowed
time itself yielding to unflinching courage and resolve
ego urges vaporised in an ocean of vast emptiness
vivified by the passionate, warm endearing embrace
of Gods ineffable love wondrous leaving us thus agape
as veils of delusion drop away layer by layer to reveal
love alone real, pulsating within the heart in renewal
from where the self strayed, having fallen from grace
prodigal son reunited with joyous heart, our true home
18-April-2021
Agape poetry contest
Sponsor: Regina McIntosh
Categories:
drop away, god, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Blackbird seeks out
another bird’s weakness,
(fly nest, die nest,
you’d better get away to another)
Sparrow, why did you throw away your egg?
Now you beg,
but I know that
you’re marrying the Blackbird
(give the word: scurry, hurry,
find another home)
Then a peck, claw (what’s the law?)
Make another egg
for the Blackbird
(chase an egg, make it drop away
to the black day)
Die nest,
Another fell away.
Categories:
drop away, abuse, betrayal, bird, child
Form:
Rhyme
From my seat on the airplane
I watch the years drop away below
The man with whom i shared a bed. towels, salads, a seat on the sofa.
He says i was too hasty
but I felt strangled there.
The longer i stayed, I was heading toward darkness.
He doesn't understand
why I had to be so hasty.
I felt a noose around my neck.
Hard isolation, such limitation, a kind of prison that was pulling me down.
Now is when i needed to leave
Yesterday
For some deep gut level reasons that I'm not sure I fully understand yet
From some inner place, a healing of self
I suspect that some inner sense guided me
Against his usually good judgement.
But I have to remember who I am again
I saw no other way
Categories:
drop away, absence, break up, change,
Form:
Free verse
Point of No Return
YELLOW BEAR PAW!
circular arm saw.
In my head,
I'll be famous when I'm dead.
There is something wrong with the people here for sure,
it simply is something that we cannot ignore.
Rampant addictions,
corporate suspicions and deceptions,
Environmental tyranny!
Humans scream ME! ME! ME!
It is a tragedy, but yeah we love these things.
Like some Shakespear sh@t, this be.
Does anyone want to start over with me?
Drop away this unnecessary-
Spending, expectations, egotistical and materialistic
garbage that we carry.
We are reaching that thin red line
ladies and gentlemen.
Our point of no return.
By Clara Sue Bereuter
09/01/2016
Categories:
drop away, addiction, conflict, confusion, grief,
Form:
ABC
enveloped by darkness, from a surge of sadness
my emotions drop away to this darker realm
where I find a swirling madness of gloom
and the depth of somber is found
I become a broken twisted world
where my mind retreats
and flees from life's shattered shards
whose sharp edges cut the tendrils of illusion
leaving nothing but silence
that holds me a captive, numb to this space
so dark, so quiet
where I begin to understand
what foreboding feels like
5/7/23
Categories:
drop away, anxiety, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Formless soul, in body takes birth
Shaped from the elements of earth
Bestowed by grace, God’s life essence
To nurture love, in bubbling mirth
Pure heart and joyous innocence
Agendaless exuberance
We’re thus born complete, bliss replete
To enhance our luminescence
In sync with pulse of the love beat
With soul surrendered at God’s feet
All we need to do, is receive
Vibrant bliss, that makes heart upbeat
Ego has it’s own script to weave
Urges us, from love to take leave
Striving in pursuits self-serving
Temptations, that seek to deceive
Once attention begins swerving
We believe we’re not deserving
Oft mentioned as man’s fall from grace
Dark delusion that’s unnerving
If we but slow down, earth life pace
Ceasing doing, no goals to chase
Veils drop away, soul’s light bursts forth
There remain no puzzles to lace
16-March-2022
Categories:
drop away, innocence, joy, spiritual,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Divine Mother’s grace
Holds us in tender embrace
Being God’s energy transmission
Felt within as rapturous bliss ignition
That all ego veils of ignorance drop away
And attention internalised, we cease to sway
What happens then is this: transfixed in bliss
Ego identity recedes; we see truth as it is
Our true self shines as God’s living light
Reinforced by bliss by day and night
That we assimilate it within form
As the epicentre of this storm
14-May-2023
Categories:
drop away, blessing, i am, joy,
Form:
Rhyme