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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Cartography of Salvation

By Mark D. Stucky
No outline on a globe.
No page in an atlas.
No ink on a road map.
No pixels in Google.

But parabolically defined
by two...

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