Sad Estranged Poems

This Time Last Month

A customer
Opens door
Bell lets out two rings
That smell of books
Telescopes
Globes and other things.

Travel guides
Atlases
Maps strewn everywhere
Customer
Breaks fourth wall
Speaks as if you're there:


"I...

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I sometimes think
   The only way out is suicide
   But as you drink yourself to death
   I only have...

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Had time be for leisure, 
The orchard's shade shall serve its purpose. 
Were it be for the stretches of time - 
Our loins shall melt...

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Dreams do not pursue me anymore
They stopped visiting the day I called
Them worthless
They melted away
In shock
With hurt welling up
In their eyes
They never again
And I refuse...

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He
looks on
with glasses.
In the distance,
the faces are blurred
and it only
magnifies
his deep
loss






Ninette form
3/23/12...

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Unrequited Soliloquies Of The Heart 
Estranged

By M. Taha Effendi

(Sonnet)

As I walk along the twilit avenue,
A forlorn heart bids the day adieu,
The rubicund sun withdraws its...

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"Estranged Love"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Rhyme)

Countless days came and passed,
each day in misery spent.
every day I live as my last,
since the day you are absent.

Each day...

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Break into my life
Lock the cracked door
Slip off your shoes
Your creaking clothes
Sneak into my bed
Uncover my soul
Sweeten the sunrise
Caffeinated yet cold
Caress my regret
Callous naked me
Hold...

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Every brick in the cell has a date and a time, 
Ingrained in a blood red script; 
Countdown markers of a history of mine, 
Symbols...

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