Best Lostness Poems

This pledge that l,Ntando, make today serves
as my guideline that I shall follow
happily, ungrudgingly and tirelessly
for the sake of our love life.
Indeed l am well aware of the fact that
the beauty of this pledge does not only lie
in word alone but in action as well.

For...

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Life throws a curve
It's overdue 

A thumb is clearly
Under screw

The wall so cold
Against my back

Lightening strike
Now charred and black

"Nine lives all spent"
Purrs leaping cat

Nowhere left
To hang my hat

A parachute
With twisted lines

An absent ear
For bell that chimes 

Cruel Critique
When poem rhymes

Once friendly chat
Now voiceless mimes

A sense...

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A TRAIN IN THE DISTANCE

This morning
I heard the long, moaning sound
Of a train in the distance
Moving past town.
If only it could carry me away.

And I thought in this instance
Of the folly of resistance
To the darkness that continues
To blight my soul.
A few days of relief
From the...

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For years you’ve heard others describe
what they call “getting saved,” accepting 
Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.
You’ve listened with great interest,
been moved by their sincerity,
and have wished (but only briefly)
to have what they say they have,		
all while lacking full understanding.
Sometimes you feel confused,
envious, even angry....

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Grim, hollow, pointless
Walk limping through its lostness
For a name he is clueless
For a past he is dreamless

His insight is only some bored routinity
Which is stuck in the airport of dead society
Killing time like it never be killed
Living a live like it never be lived

An ambush...

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I see hate in me and all around me.
Anger hate frustration lostness, loneliness, failure.
Don't know a way around it, it's like a wall I cant break down
So I must hide it well and hide it well I do.
No one can see me beaten down and...

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The space in-between
Two worlds
When we transition 
From dreamland
To harsh reality
That moment
When you are
Neither here
Nor there
Traversing
The barrier
Crossing 
The line
Stepping in
Stepping out
Over the threshold 
Negotiating the border
The ready, steady
Before the go
The rising red curtain
Before the show
Liminal lostness
The uncomfortable
Homeless
Non-place
The wilderness of un-belonging
The chrysalis of transformation
The journey has begun
Simultaneously...

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I have swallowed the poison...
suffered through darkness.
I have tasted the ashes,
lived in utter lostness.

I remember the pain
when hitting bottom;
desperate I dreaded,
what I had become.

To be punished for sin,
how dare I complain!
Is The Lord not my life
from whence I came?

I have entered The Light!
My Soul has...

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In my lostness, you came as light to me ...
Where next should I be lost to get only Thee...

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Goodbye leaves an emptiness inside
it feels like an ache so hard to describe
only by experiencing it can one know
the lostness and loneliness to ascribe

Thinking of the words goodbye itself
is there anything about it that's good?
bye has a finality about it so real
it means an end...

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Throughout the years, most fears for family
have been dispelled by their firm guarantee
that they’ll make right decisions, that they’ll be
okay! Since I’m not always worry-free,
I pray for them. I know God hears my plea.

Though with good health, I’m blessed, I must confess
with rush of years,...

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I had lost my way and felt all alone.
On a delivery mission near the end of my route,
some 25 to 30 miles from the shop, but it felt farther.
Every part of my being was being tossed about.
No phone, GPS, or internet; nor did I have...

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Oh how difficult it is to find purpose
Longing for the day I find mines
The truth of all this wandering
I can't seem to find my own
Own way of life, own way of knowing
Of the times that make me happy 
I am aging in every minute 
But...

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Headed to a destination far west of my home town, I was a thousand miles from home and a thousand miles yet to go to reach my destination when I took a wrong turn. 100 miles off the path before realizing it, this wrong turn...

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