Best Forsook Poems

They whipped Him
And stripped Him
They tried Him
Crucified Him
They nailed Him
Strength failed Him
They mocked Him
Hurt rocked Him
God forsook Him
Pain shook Him
They hit Him
Spit on Him
They pierced...

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There is no rain on the moon,
flowing rivers, or blue seas.
A drab and colorless globe,
there's not so much as a breeze.

There is no air to...

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I know I’ve made a thousand journeys,
withstood the tests of time and foe
shed the dust and shouldered worries
struggled onward against the flow.

Unconforming, seldom bending
straight the...

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They were a carpenter's hands, calloused, yet so soothing,
Freely offered to those whose burdens needed smoothing.
He forsook the carpentry trade, His Father's will to keep,
And...

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" From the debt of my heart"

The African child
Sat behind the bamboo fence
He was sober and tense
Sputtering and wondering.
He forsook the bush meat
And the gathering...

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Oh Juliet!  A memory of a love long lost in vain…
thy bridal song, a dirge of darkened madrigal becomes.
Yet thought of you, for me,...

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The world can be a scary place
when you can't recognize your face.
And though I stare in the mirror,
it never gets any clearer.

I see a man...

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Her name was Brenda Bates, a novelist
bewitched from burrowing inside her book
of fiction 'bout a boatman, Bo Barist,
the character who botched her life...betook
control of him...

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It is a law
Observed even by God
Never interrupt the fisherman
Counting strikes on the tip of his rod

And heed this advice
Lest thou face be forsook
Never stand...

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The hands on the clock move slowly forward
My tired ears listening for the sound of breathing
Listening, waiting for the sob that means I am alive
That...

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There on the threshold of the dawn
when lights of night of had been outdone.
His chariot was slowly drawn
before the Mistress of the Sun.

Her sable breath...

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5/10/19
"So Long As"

Came a long way from being a rook
They're about to forsook
Scared to take a look
Competition shook
Not ready for what I'm about to cook
Can't...

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Summer beauty died when you forsook me.
Now autumn returns with all its wistful glory.
Leaves change their greenish hues	
into brown, russet, or golden themes,
a kaleidoscope of...

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For years he proudly wore the uniform of his beloved nation,
Fighting in many conflicts seeing mankind's terrible desecration.
In the heat of battle he often looked...

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I hear it though a friend
and my knees begin to bend.
"It's Sasha"

My eyes grow,
the world begins to slow.
my heart stops beating
logic is fleeting

Hands quiver,
a gut-wrenching...

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