Best Release Poems

Heart Release



Oh how I have tried to push you away
......Fear
Escaping into daydreams and fantasy
Purposeful intentions and made-up agendas
Pretending you were unimportant 
Something to avoid

Chocolate chip cookies and Chardonnay
Softened your advance
Pushing you down
Your effervescence rising from the depths
Clinging to me like morning mist on the seashore

Oh...

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Pain had I ignited bright
Through my silence, had my hurt worsened
Denied conversations with all for superficial reasons, I had
Forgetting that love was my life
And people were my love
As I danced, did I repent

Slower were my motions
An expression of joy, had my face not worn
Though the...

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Hold onto life, my little leaf,
in spite of pain,
in spite of grief;
and, when the wild winds rape the bough
till trembling more than now,
you almost lose your grip:
hold yet to life.

Hold onto life, though brittle brown,
remains alone of life’s fair gown;
for Spring must come again, I...

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There was once an old man from Altoona

   Who decided to cast for some tuna

      'Twas a mermaid he landed

         He sighed saying off-handed

      ...

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I stand trembling,
Writhing in apprehension 
When I hear you sigh through your teeth
As you rush past me

Bubbling now,
My stomach swirls
My spine warms me with shivers
And my heart wants desperately to lift

The further you go,
The more every part of me sinks
I nibble my lip to fight...

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Embrace your life
and all it brings to you.
Don’t simply “be.”
Get up and DO.

Release all hate
that might dwell in your heart.
Forgive; move on . . .
Each day is a new start!

Embrace your loved ones.
Always let them know
how dear they are.
Love’s light must always glow.

Release hard feelings.
When...

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I have no idle time to spare
to just sit, rest and stare
Leisure, a word I literally define
into my world I can trace no sign
a body in motion.. a brain absorbed
beauty blurred.. life confined
The Muse of poetry, the soul is the abode
do I need my ink...

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Nearing four hundred years
of living in captivity
Solar eclipse aspirations
has been my people’s enduring
ebony destiny
Almost four hundred years
of divided slavery:
chains seen and chains invisible
Hellish experience of double trouble
Self-congratulatory proclamations
of emancipated release 
were accompanied by chains slapped on the brain,
having a tighter squeeze
We were taught
when our alabaster...

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Don’t baby your babies when they are five.
Don’t carry them into kindergarten.
Kindergarten is for learning.
Kindergarten is for sharing.
Share your woes with adults.
Share your philosophy with friends.
Friends make the world palatable.
Friends are good for your child.
Child, be your best self.
Child, use please and thank you.
Thank you...

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In less than a year, hundreds of poems have poured out of me.
I thought I'd drown in my tears, but I began to swim in poetry.

When the ink touches the pad I'm so glad to feel the spiritual release.
I address the worry and stress which...

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Who will make a stand?
Countless like the seashore sand…
Who shall make a stand?
The end of mankind is at hand

Will someone save me?
Knee deep in regret, I see…
Save me from gravity's hold or I’ll be upset
Nighttime's rainfall shines upon my mindset

Make me feel a little bit...

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Perfect time of Day,
Where emotions that have haunted me in Sleep have somehow stilled at bay.
My Hand once covered in rust,
Now have particles falling as I write in a rush....
Thoughts and words alike all in a rush.
My pen can hardly seem to keep up,
As this...

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Under the storm clouds  
the rain starts to  
wash away

Creating streams  
that carve through earth  
and broken stone.

Sometimes everything  
has to be  
eroded and  
worn away

so you can find  
the solid ground  
that was there ...

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A dark rainbow rules my life.
When will it ever be sunny and bright?
There is no cool breeze on this hot day.
The dark rainbow comes out to play.
Where is the ruler of peace and love?
Who is hiding the colorful rainbow of above?
The ruler of the dark...

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Everyday I am Rah-leasing More

I must make room for what's in store

I became who I became so I could survive

I honestly didn't think I would be alive

Now that I am, I can do something different

Wealth, Health, and good relationships seemed so distant

Health- I will work...

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