Disengaging Poems

Premium MemberInterlude

...With keen eyes, I follow July’s evening
Spread its blended palette of amber tints,  
Of varnish 'midst interlude of showers
That  I enter into nature's mystique; 
Before me— an avian carousal...
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Categories: disengaging, bird, july,
Form: Free verse

HEAVEN IS VERB AND NOUN

...     Heaven, synonymous with 
Heart in its becoming of
the New Human ~ 
perception, perceiver and perceived
when merging incubates an 
anechoic  reality________
all els...
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Categories: disengaging, allegory, allusion, beauty, emotions,
Form: Free verse


CREATION OF MAN Section Sistine Chapel Ceiling 1511 -MICHELANGELO

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    GO !  BELOVED
         YOU are the CENTRE OF CREATION
go  c r e a t e
see  these children in my embra...
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Categories: disengaging, allegory, art, character, creation,
Form: Ekphrasis

My Seventh Decade

...As if startled awake
from fitfull sleep

Of dreams both cartoonish
Yet with meaning deep

My life having passed
as this very repose

A young woman
Now grand dame all as I dozed

For I mus...
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Categories: disengaging, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Outsiders

...In a world that rushes,
we step back,
disengaging from the flow
to observe, to reflect,
often choosing not to engage,
but to understand.

We, the outsiders,
interestingly disinterested,
brin...
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Categories: disengaging, freedom,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberPeace Prayer

...If now is your time
in this final threshold
between life
and death,
then this is our passion time,
remembered past
torn from imaged future.

I cannot bear this burden
this loss
this relinqu...
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Categories: disengaging, death, grief, life, light,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberTide

...
Up the shore the rhythmic tide strides.
Twice a day, the army marches in succumbing.
Then retreats, tail between its legs, discharging
Its grip and flooding embrace, releasing, disengagi...
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Categories: disengaging, ocean, time,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberZen Mode

...slow strangulation
osmotically penetrating
the very fabric of our being
stymied before fear germinates
simply by our nonchalant observation
plateaus off the sunken vibration
which we look at sl...
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Categories: disengaging, i am, silence, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOrpheus

...Slang..
Chick-fil-a = the best place ever
jade = 
brooke = gorgeous 
mishin = the boss, as in “You aren’t the boss of me.”

Orpheus
We’re on vaycay. School is OVER, COVID is over. We’re...
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Categories: disengaging, humor, mothers day, new
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStorm Ali Was Here

...The prophecy came true in the swamplands 
She rose from the bowels of an alligator’s belly
Disengaging herself with the hands of a sorcerer
Those who saw were struck as if by lightning
She was co...
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Categories: disengaging, storm,
Form: Prose Poetry

My Time

...My road to hell began with good intention,
Floating up then crashing down more times than I can mention.
Tripping through time in  a parallel space,
The scars of my life reflect upon my face.
Mis...
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Categories: disengaging, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Hand On My Heart-Mystic

...At the dead end of broken road, losing hope
my introspecting mind took a disengaging view
of life wandering in wasteland, trying to cope
with trying times to reach the destination new.

I heard ...
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Categories: disengaging, emotions, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLearning Healthcare Systems

...My educational system
has a diseducating problem.

How to engage young minds,
like young ideas,
easily distracted,
and potentially miseducated,
by vicarious
and often trivial entertainments.
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Categories: disengaging, anger, bullying, caregiving, education,
Form: Political Verse

Unarmed

...Give me space
I want to disappear
I’m purposely invisible
There’s nothing to see here

Allow my disconnection
As I'm guarded and afraid
My boundaries have been set
Don't approach my barricade...
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Categories: disengaging, conflict, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDisengaging

...disengaging
before
the truth slips out



posted on July 27, 2018...
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Categories: disengaging, angst, silence, spoken word,
Form: Senryu

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