It stares into me
That feeling of self awareness
The thoughts that I don’t want
Reflection in the mirror
The sorrow inside my soul
The bellowing cries of pain that gasp at the hope that is slowly dwindling away from me
My last breath of imagination of love
Slips away like the slit across my throat that takes away the heartache
Like silence, my heart beats no more
I feel lost in this world without love
It’s empty of true love
It only has pain and selfish souls
I feel lifeless with little clinging to what love may be
Categories:
dwindling away, betrayal, emotions, heartbroken, hurt,
Form: Free verse
"Our times and life will always be changing, but
the strength that dwells within us never changes."
Quote by _Constance
Time is changing how we live life,
because danger is a cruel knife;
not sure that my country is safe,
I read news with anger and chafe.
With family- cannot share throes,
for too many of them repose;
My life friends are dwindling away,
for only the true will not stray.
My building neighbors come and go,
there are none to share my sad woe;
though a few are friendly and nice,
at church- so hard to break the ice.
I do like social internet,
oh, hundreds with the same mindset;
sharing thoughts and feelings on Soup,
and also with my Facebook group.
________________________
February 07, 2023
Poetry/Rhyme/Times Are Changing
Copyright Protected, ID 02-1523-845-07
All Rights Reserved, 2023, Constance La France
Written for the Standard contest, Acquaintance and Neighborhood
sponsor, Sotto Poet, Judged 02/20/2023
First Place
Categories:
dwindling away, family, friendship, life, social,
Form: Rhyme
My sparkle is dwindling away,
I am just scouring the edge lay,
Launching the vigor to praying,
Like a dream on this olden day.
Whimsical at loads is bursting.
Nirvana seeps his crux meeting.
He grasped dictum obfuscation.
Scrawled on my ego beguiling
Thus burst in shards of vexation
I posit soothing deception.
Recognized by a focused gaze
Mind that is field to rendition.
Lethargic shifts ruined surprise.
Mental pathway like a sheet maze
Despite bold blowing of the wind.
This is faithful blithe for God praise.
In shackle of land dreaming bind.
Sounds genuine usurped by pride.
illusion bubble with worry.
Is it true to goodness we're blind?
2nd Place contest winner
Written: May 13, 2022
Bubble of illusion Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
Categories:
dwindling away, analogy, caregiving, change, character,
Form: Rubaiyat
Signs of summer dwindling away show themselves
Yellow buses exclaim school is in session
Children no longer fill the parks through the day
Parents breathe a sigh
Teachers prepare great lessons to mold young minds
Eyes wide with wonder at what they discover
At three the bell rings and hastily they go
Home or to practice
I sigh a big sigh and smile for the thoughtful
Insights of my students throughout the quick day
I breathe deeply and prepare for tomorrow
To do it again.
I wouldn’t change my career choice for the world.
There is a lot of dumb politics involved
With pay and contracts and appeasing parents
But it is worth it!
Categories:
dwindling away, teacher,
Form: Sapphic stanza
I can’t think.
Can’t get my thoughts
To stop their frenzied waltz
And line up once again
In a straight pattern,
One after the other,
The way they used to
When everything was still
So goddamned simple.
I can’t effing think.
If my shattered heart
Beats any faster,
I fear it will escape
The familiar prison of my ribcage,
Take off into oblivion
As I wish I could
Every time I meet
My own pleading eyes
In the reflection cast
By broken mirrors.
Thinking used to hurt
So much less than it does now.
Even my own damn voice
Makes my skin erupt
In waves of gooseflesh;
A rain dance illuminating
How dark and how cold
Self-hatred can become.
The blindingly bright fires
That once warmed my despair
Are hardly pinpricks of light,
Dwindling away the more I drown:
The more my hair swirls
Around my tear-stained face,
The more my hands
Fail to grasp for the rope
That might have saved my life
If it had been thrown
Just a bit sooner.
Categories:
dwindling away, depression, teen,
Form: Free verse
LOST AND FOUND
Life once lost can never be regained,
Often taken for granted, by sin it's stained,
Verily, verily, once your soul is lost,
Everything put together can't pay the cost;
Remember there is only one way,
Do it now, there may not be another today,
Listen carefully to what I say,
What you sow is what you pay;
Lord Jesus is the only bright ray,
In this dark world dwindling away,
Look to Him, repent and pray,
He will become your only stay;
Without Lord's love, don't live a lost life, so feigned,
Men, women, girls and boys, this is your choice,
Listen to His voice, find Him and rejoice;
Life once lost can never be regained.
DATE: 08/02/2016
Categories:
dwindling away, god, gospel, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
I am shrinking,
I am shrinking,
I am dwindling away,
And i hardly need to tell you this is not a normal day.
Now i'm smaller than a pickle,
Than a pencil,
Than a prune,
And it's patently apparent i will vanish very soon.
I am shrinking,
I am shrinking,
I am smaller than a bean,
And unless there's a reversal,
I will exit from the scene.
I'm receding every second,
Now i'm smaller than a flea,
A midge,
A molecule,
And now i'm nothing to see.....
Categories:
dwindling away, words,
Form: ABC
Intro:
To be a writer such as he, there are none
His work outlasts the best, I’m sure…
…~William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1601-
“to hold, as t’ were, the mirror up to nature…”
BROKEN OAK
~*Rispetto/ Miranda Lambert ©*~
Contest: “The Tree”
Written: 04/20/2011
Nestled on scaly plates, known as the White Oak
Pennetly lobed leaves, twiddled between my fingers
While the morning dew, the summer sun did soak
As the aura of this native wood lingers
In the “Y” shaped branches, only I could fit
And hour or two I stay, as luck would have it
Ghastly winds blow my hair, my branch starts to sway
We both come tumbling down, dwindling away
Categories:
dwindling away, childhood, nature
Form: Rispetto
Alpha Omega
Has your silence consented
Turn around,look at me
Heavy heavy bursting away
Jehovah Nissi
Manna provider our father's enjoyed
Fill me in to your presence
Manna provider give me food
Peace in heavy heart
Smiles for saddened sorrow
Alleluia in your bide
Staying there forever
Another year at her ebb
Dwindling away flicking
Tommorrow would be yet another
What would you do for me?
Fine torrential tears
Heaven's floodgate open wide
I'll wait till you touch
As I bleed and bleed
Like the woman with an issue of blood
I won't let you go till you bless me
Baba....baba
In cold cold feet
Hands soaked in tension buried
I'll stick and wait
Won't you answer?
Please answer
Here I'm waiting.
Categories:
dwindling away, introspectionme,
Form: Imagism
Sometimes I speak
just to make sure
the words still come out of my mouth
with sense
I never really
say the things
I truly mean,
those thoughts come out
so much easier
on paper
I think the world
is a shallow, heartless place
to spend forever
dwindling away,
dying
So I make sense of this doom
with ridicule and humor
even though I understand
Life isn't funny
So what is it?
Categories:
dwindling away, life
Form: I do not know?