Departures Poems - Poems about Departures

...I see you flinch, but the universe spins without aid, Beloved, our world dances in circles, yet we anchor in place. You forget the shadow and the years shift, like a play changing its set, Beneath......Read the rest...

...We dwelt together, one hand on a door handle. Keeping rooms --- a semi-settled living, parents still squatting in our heads, rent due spaces, red buses passing below or above, according to what......Read the rest...

...When I entered the City Senior Center with my Open Mic proposal to increase resilience and decrease apartheid dissonance I could hear no music, see no dancing. The quilting room and the ga......Read the rest...

...?•?LIKE TUPAC LIKE MOHBAD?•? Pain persists; Mysterious exit. Tupac & Mohbad's demise calls for justice. Tupac reigns in death & we await his rise, Mohbad's the first superstar buried twice. Jux......Read the rest...

...God is our answer When the mind has lost His battle with the azure, When a dress slips Under a pillow, An gold earring, God is our answer Before the weight of the world Before the love of a......Read the rest...

...Then there is the night with its backstreets of characters, masked, intractable, unwilling to leave the comfort of their lifelong haunts. They call out then turn away in fear of being known. ......Read the rest...

... "Grenades" When Humpty fell off the wall she stood over the mess that bad egg left like a marauding architect she was holding two pistols the smoking guns of a life p......Read the rest...

...My latest piece is too long for the poerty sectiob - it's in "Short Stories." It's called 'an interview" Here's MOST of the URL: www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/an_interview_10880......Read the rest...

...must be nice re-united are souls separated on Earth, memories come to life, once again. Uncles, Aunts, grandpas and grandmas - a newly formed family, up in heaven. must be nice Whilst we ......Read the rest...

...A new dawn is coming When no one will be running It's boldly written all over Our pains will soon be over It's a preseason of restoration Soon we shall be bestowed with decoration For the ser......Read the rest...

... The exit ramp looms large just up ahead, though still an unknown distance ‘round the bend, a terminus of sorts. Perhaps a point from which to send us out of time constraints, into the n......Read the rest...

... Rain drizzling on the window pane Sullen moments, filled with melancholy Wishes glued to hopes of sunshine Rays washing away the storm clouds, The gray day – the tempestuous darkness......Read the rest...

...Requirements, or strictures, often stifle creativity Thus, I tend to avoid forms with strict syllable count, I appreciate a suggested topic, but I may not feel it, And the message of a......Read the rest...

...movie about Preparing the dead Was moving In so many ways It celebrates life And the beauty contained As a heart wrending Story relays My favorite scene Is the one Where they feast ......Read the rest...

...You’ll know when it’s time to go home or to stay, When flight seems much better than standing to fight, When the hair in your beard is starting to gray, When oncoming headlights are glaringly brig......Read the rest...