Lost Desolation Poems

Desolation and destructions
Wars and rumors of wars
Trial and error, midst the terror
What are we fighting for?
Why? Must we ignore?
The writings on the walls
Whose gonna drop...

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Worse than being homeless,
Living where it's a home "less."
The panic attacks and numbness,
It started where she wanted love to be.

The whole world crushes, and nowhere...

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Stripped of the one
Whose existence gave his life
Its energy, shape and motivation
There he sat with curtains drawn
The flickering screen his sole companion
Trying to blot out
The...

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I’m in it now,  I’ve really done it this time
And now I’m getting hit by a whole wave of trouble
There isn’t a point in...

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City life had stripped me bare
Feeling lost and lonely with no care
The wall of discontent blocked my path
Why did I not see it coming from...

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He dances on the sand and waves,
white shirt in hand. 'The gold!'
He cries 'I've found the gold,
and ruby stones of deepest dye.'

Heedless, the cross-masts sink...

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Met you yesterday 
Yet it feels
It's been a decade
Each minute and every second 
I am lost in your memories 
Just like a mad
When I close...

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Lost in desolation
My mind became a prison map location
It was so very stark
When I couldn't see the light beyond the dark
I'd stumble around until I...

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The place of desolation, like
the mirage in the desert
You see it, but never arrive

Until the day of your departure, and
the mirage has arrived for you
A...

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DESOLATION
have we been blinded
eyes closed 
shuttered by that 
which they 
want us to believe
waking up without 
worry or care 
living in comfort zones
within our minds
not...

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Kids of today, we here them say, no respect, what do you expect
Always hanging around on the streets, doing nothing and nothing to do
Is it...

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Ahh despair-
sweet, sweet, sweet desolation.
As the crow flies- enter onto me

Salvation from freedom;
on his wings- incarceration.

Nuveau of Elvis rhyme
Faith acquired through distress
Velveteen fraud
particle blues- such...

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Upon the hill where I lay
surrounded by dimmed natures lonesome 
with solitary mind.
Nightly breeze awakens morose eyes
thoughts of her
desolate thy watery heart.

Darkness sky reveals beauties...

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Desolation

When love flies away
And respect has lost its crown
Desolation thrives.

©  Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    1/ 5/ 2008...

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