Best Drop Away Poems

Hi everybody, my name is Vera as some of you already know, and I am the wife of Peter Duggan. I came on this site to cheer Peter on, and also to read some poetry which I do enjoy at times. I have made a...

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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...

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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
...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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(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...

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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...

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recognition of our true constitution reveals
we are not merely limited mind-body combine
our soul being encased in five sheaths or coverings
of which the first and grossest is the material organism
the second our pranic energy field, which keeps body alive
third our lower analytical mind or what we...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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