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Detaching Poems - Poems about Detaching

Transcending soul

...In my soul, transcending this world, I aspire to become anything other than a mere being made of flesh.
A light awaits me, attainable by a simple touch.
My whole being vibrates as I strive to reach...
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Categories: detaching, courage, death, deep, destiny,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNO WORDS

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I was beaten into silence as a young child
from my father's brutalizing rage and 
psychological torture as he punched me.

When I was 5, a man exposed himself, to me
I ran fast terrified, no w...
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Categories: detaching, abuse, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Free verse



Calm my mind

...Calm my mind,  
I’ve had enough.  
You’ve caused enough destruction;  
I am weary.  
I will move past thoughts of darkness and gray,  
Finding the light along the way.  
I’ll build a torch for ...
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Categories: detaching, perspective, voice,
Form: Free verse

Bodhisattva

...I sit beneath a sacred tree. Seeking no meaning. I just am
Stillness gives way to clarity. 
I vow to awaken us all
Searching for nothing. Waiting to rise above this earthly realm 
Detaching from ...
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Categories: detaching, hindi,
Form: Free verse

Let The Pills Kill You Instead Of The Humans’

...{"This heavy humanness she burdened inside, 
Sent electrical shocks through her body, 
she would weep silently with a fist pressed up against her maw with her eyes evidently glistening nobody would...
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Categories: detaching, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium Membernever blaming her mother

...The child could disassociate rapidly when she had to
She had plenty of practice
Thanks to her mother bringing home new daddies
Some had not been kind to the little girl

She had gotten used to s...
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Categories: detaching, abuse,
Form: Free verse

Enter15, Exit10

...Clutter of echoing chirpings up my sylvan irreverent tune
detaching reckless realities carefully sewn above a sovereign moon
Velvet violin tunes arose to a bittersweet string of polyester pratt...
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Categories: detaching, beauty, deep, introspection, paradise,
Form: Imagism

The Roaming Eye

...In NYC where cardboard boxes and bums come from
In the comfort of his brown paper home
The smelly old man sleeps on a concrete ground of cold
Snores alone like a train in heat
Unaware of his left...
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Categories: detaching, endurance, life, loss, poverty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnder the veil of eternal shadow, sown with lost dreams

...Under the veil of eternal shadow, sown with lost dreams,
It’s no use closing your eyes, you must keep them open in the dark,
This is my creed, I’m not speaking of sleep,
I’m speaking of what I bel...
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Categories: detaching, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Focus - Part 1

...How can you focus on love, when you’re solely focused on hate?

How can you focus on beginning, when you’re solely focused on killing?

How can you focus on nurturing, when you’re solely focused ...
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Categories: detaching, abuse, africa, america, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Kite-Surfer and Observer

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Kite-Surfer prepares for his thrilling ride
With double-checked gear, wades into the tide

Observer sits noticing all that’s around
And sees the direction where’s Kite-Surfer’s bound

Like an...
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Categories: detaching, 9th grade, earth, endurance,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhat If

...What if the incessant torture didn’t happen
so many dark times, but it’s unimaginable
for you to comprehend isn’t it?

No one knows, the tragedies that left me
so crippled, you can’t fathom, the...
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Categories: detaching, abuse, anti bullying, child
Form: Free verse

Regeneration 7

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"Regeneration 7"

The stories 
like leaves
flew fast from 
the Tree of Life

on each leaf
seeds dispersed
like memories
detaching, attaching

to others’ stories
bre...
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Categories: detaching, journey, muse, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

Falling Petals of Rose

...This poem is for my lovely friend Andrea Dietrich for her falling petals of Rose post:

FALLING PETALS OF ROSE 

Falling petals of Rose

beauty is not lost and goes

nor the life forever is u...
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Categories: detaching, introspection, rose,
Form: Imagism

Hair

...It makes me ill just being around you as you leave me for the millionth time 
The final straw was pulled and every straw you pulled before that took a piece of me each time like pulling strands of h...
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Categories: detaching, 12th grade, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse

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