Best Releasing Poems
there is a river in each soul
flowing smoothly over sand
bubbling over rocky beds
until each living drop falls
Daniel ran through my river
second chance at love
flowing on gentle currents in my heart
waking emotions that lingered in limbo
lily drifting with tide
caught by the strong arm of a tree
until Daniel disappeared in dark water
dam broke; tears surged
lily cascades in a Niagara of tears
Daniel’s soul rises
tears chose to descend
the day he drowned
tears hold power, life
control their own release
drought consumes the heart
why can’t I release Daniel?
By Carolyn Devonshire
Dedicated to Daniel Sammons, a descendent of Daniel Boone, who proposed the
day before he drowned.
Written for HG’s “Personify a Tear” contest.
The choice is mine, to spend my time where seagulls sing for me
A day to play beneath the sun, have fun and feel no shame
My chores undone, but my heart is won by everything I see
Not often have I felt so sure, or found a cure to claim
I'll leave behind the pace the grind that keeps me on the run
Without a doubt, I want to shout, and thank the sun above
I'll hide away, and have a day, perhaps if only one
We are meant to have a miracle, a moment's breath to love
To pull down shades, on a sunny day, and grieve of life's demands
are not for me, I'll smile instead, assured of something more
Beneath the sky, I'll watch the waves roll in to wash the sand
and put on hold the old routine, that bores me to the core
To find myself, a sense of peace, a second step begins
All by myself, I will release, the breath I've held within
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6/20/14
Battle of the Honorable Mentions Contest
Sponsor: Richard Lamoureux
Lies from directions I had not expected
Offered in a variety of ways
Apologetically
Pretending to be concerned
I sent them away
Recognizing their imperfections
Seeing them more clearly now
Rumour Mongers
Thriving on gossip
Fabricated by clouded minds
Trouble makers
No longer friends of any kind
Cradling every scar,
Singing each pain to the wind,
Till I owned my song.
Written: June 20, 2023
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Shedding the chains In my mind, anile regrets reside.
A haunting reminder of mistakes I cannot hide.
Self-doubts and hurts cling to my soul.
As heavy chains, dragging me down and taking their toll.
But today I declare, no longer will I be bound,
The weight of these memories keeps me tied down.
I gather the strength to face my past mistakes.
To release the pain and let my spirit awake.
No longer will I let yore regrets define me.
No longer will I let self-doubt confine me?
I rise above the anger, the harm, and the pain.
Embracing a chapter where freedom will reign
I will not let the past control my destiny.
I will break free from its grip and set myself free.
I will no longer dwell on what could have been.
Instead, I'll focus on what lies within.
I am capable, I am worthy, I am enough,
No longer defined by past regrets and stuff.
I release the pain, the anger, the strife,
And step into a life of joy, freedom, and life.
I am shedding the chains that once held me down.
No longer a prisoner, I wear a recent crown.
With every breath I bear, I reclaim my power.
No longer allowing past regrets to devour.
I open the book and turn the pages
Releasing a mythical fantasy
The world and noise around me vanish
I emerge into a world anxiously
Into a touch of real true magic
That is in the making as I breathe deep
My heart pounding under the dramatic
lasting performance my essence will keep
A hunger for another existence
With each page I turn each chapter I read
Releasing and then embracing intense
Fantasy indeed, please don’t stop I plead
Peace and dreams not wanting to close the book
Impassioned, a mystic journey I look
9/7/2016
Into the wind
the heart speaks
the words
that stay hidden
from all others.
Joining with them
the heart spent
words spoken by
sisters and brothers.
The leaves of the trees
seem to gather,
with ease,
every heart-spent phrase.
Waving them each
to the heavens
in turn
then releasing
them in the breeze.
©Debra Squyres 2013
Girl I like the way you walk and your sexy attitude.
Every time that I'm next to you I feel like I'm on a higher altitude.
You have a gentle smile I just want to be next to you.
And girl just to ease your mind everything that I say is true.
So let me slide in while I'm kissing your lips gently.
I know that you want me to so girl stop teasing me.
Let me be the one to fulfill all of your fantasy.
I just want to see if you can really put it on me.
Baby I'm hypnotize by your eyes and infatuated with your body.
You're a nice girl but tonight I want you to act naughty.
Girl I want you to move your body slow for me.
Or I can get the tape recorder and we could make our own movie.
And before we both explode lets release our sexual pressure.
Me putting my face in between your thigh running my tunge over your treasures.
As you lay on your back moaning and screaming still enjoying the moonlight.
And after dinner we will have a lovely time as the stars shine bright.
But don't get me wrong we could wait until the time is right.
Until we're able to light the hell flames when our love ignite.
And girl I'll make it my mission to keep you wet all night.
Kissing you in the right places while we listen to Bryan McKnight.
First I'm going to kiss your lips than caress your ****.
Gripping your hips while I work my way down to your clique.
And girl right now I'm only thinking of things that I'm aching to do.
Baby you're like a dream come true for you there's nothing that I won't do.
My life is always better when I'm next to you.
I'm going to fulfill all of your fantasy by pleasing you.
Now tonight's the night you said that the time was right.
Its finally time for our bodies to unite.
Time for me to kiss and touch you all through the night.
Girl you're my princess and I'm your knight.
Me and you in bed together what a beautiful sight.
Now I'm sliding in and out while you're gripping me tight.
Our bodies have finally unite now watch as the hell flames ignite.
A sky’s pasty pallet,
thickly stroked
with a heavy brush,
lends pale shadows
to the earth below
while a filament
of a memory
improves the dreariness
with joyous rays
Soon to follow
comes the rain
as the clouds lessen
their laden load
and the day brightens
as remembrances lighten
and sorrow steams away
on the pavement
of a renewing heart
© Debra Squyres
Hence, forth I walk.
Too Summer I talk
When I leap, Jump I find.
I am the intellectual suffering voices.
When the voices rise.
I find the drastic Dragon.
Drum-roll.
I excavate terminologies.
Hence I colour the colour-book.
So forth
To remove the shadows
Of the voices, which I brask.
Submit
Not to another
Neither to your inhibitions
Let them be cast like a coat in summer
Free the spirit
That resides within you
Thereby submitting to yourself
Through that
All frustration will release
Only at that time will joy arise
As euphoria becomes the reality for all
Sorry dear,
I've noticed you accidentally
broke another finger nail,
as you raced for the last
fresh lettuce
at the Chinese grocery.
I know
what you can do to forget
all that happened!
Go the beach, and feel
the breeze and taste
of the ocean
on your tongue.
Better still,
you can eat seaweed-
they have oceans' salt,
and still taste
like the ocean.
You can also take a glass
of a 19th century old Venice wine,
instead of drinking coffee
in the cafes of Berlin.
I want to scream
But I’m down to my last breath
I want to cry
But I fear my death
But today I will be silent
And hold it all in
And let the demons subside
Within me again
I want to shout
But I’m down to my last breath
I want to laugh
In the face of death
But today I will be silent
And hold it all in
And let the demons subside
Within me again
Tomorrow I will do it
Take a deep breath
Scream and cry
Without fear of death
Release all my demons
For all the world to see
Let them all out
Before they kill me
But today I will be silent
And hold it all in
And let the demons subside
Within me again.
Reaching out in this darkness. Screaming with silence, my tears pouring with violence from the return to my cries always being with silence. Used for my kindness and condemned for my reaction somehow always being violent. Sick of being quiet and looked down upon for my loss of strength and crying. My soul daily is dying, don't you get that i'm not lying when I tell you i'm trying? I stand desperately fighting to find anything to keep me smiling. Anger within me becoming more frightening as my evil demonic darkness becomes increasingly inviting. Thinking of climaxing while listening to you dying. Realizing i'm closer then ever to letting go of what that fine line has been dividing. So my question now being, is it so uneasy to ****ing open your eyes and finally see me, before i'm totally overtaken by my blood thirsty demon and it begins it's uncontrollable violent feedings?
My purse got stolen from my car.
It had six or seven pieces of my favorite jewelry in it.
I kept lamenting about it, angry too about the money.
I had taken six hundred dollars to my daughter’s home.
To purchase a crib, but she decided on another one, online.
So, my six hundred dollars was gone too.
I was angry; I could not stop thinking about it.
My favorite diamond infinity ring was in that purse.
For seven weeks hatred came into my heart.
Hatred toward the unknown perpetrator.
Anger that I had lost my favorite ring.
One day I asked God to let me know that someone else loved my ring.
I said “God, if they love it half as much as I did, I will let this go.”
A week later I received a letter from a sheriff in another state.
He said he had my billfold and purse. I had left it with my cane in a McDonald’s.
There was twenty dollars in my purse. Would I want him to send it to me?
He would use the money. I called him and said yes.
I knew why the perp could not go back and claim my purse.
They had left my billfold inside.
I got my infinity ring back.
It was the only piece of jewelry back.