Best Estrangement Poems

I rise from deep within the earth
out of pressured lavas

I rise above the level into
breathable realms

I rise following the risen
He who set my path and
monitors...

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I sit with the wall against my back. The wall refuses to move despite endless requests.

The door opens and closes its mouth, it wishes to...

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My existence seems like a timeless tragedy,
ticking away in the harmony of misophonia and me.
I've been reluctantly raised in the arms of trauma,
hiding from the...

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We long for relationships
that know no borders,
in which hearts can roam free,
frolicking with each other,
and galloping at will
through fields and streams
in broad daylight,
and spontaneous affections
can...

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Dear Siblings Three,

I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.

This is a variation on a...

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Peering through crystals along the palm lined
Avenue of Angels, stretching endlessly
In a parallel universe serenaded by unheard
Choruses of lost newborns ripped from their
Mother's wombs through...

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Alone - Solitude and Loneliness


Solitude
is a state of mind
being solid as a rock
taking a walk in a country park
on a Sunday afternoon
alone, 
deep in the...

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Tears oozed down my pale cheeks
As I read the unknown woman’s
last mystic diary entry:

     The acute pain lingers in agony:
 ...

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Die Bücherverbrennung ("The Burning of the Books")
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of dull oxen...

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Dear son,
              I have no prologue, nor epilogue, only dialogue
  ...

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Jack Frost, Old Man Winter
hibernation not allowed
a camouflage of  mask
and cloak, a guise that is
only window dressing
as I wander through  

my wintertide.

This season...

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Estrangement is an empty house that brings us loneliness,
mining poems from deep within, a frantic frenzied prayer;
and problems soon confront us that we simply must...

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The Fault Line

My son sent me a message from the Grand Canyon and a boyo he is
        ...

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LVI Elapsed October 17th's Bore Witness To A Girl Born With True Grit

Tuss ben big goo me newt to write
and how though trite
thine complex edifice...

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Happier without me
How could you be 
Don't you miss me 
Why don't you miss me 
Does this estrangement 
Not have any affect on you 
How...

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