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Relinquished Poems - Poems about Relinquished


Wraith, Geist, or Wrath of the Failure
Seems my handwriting will never improve, Yearlong efforts, letters still oblong. Not quite right, but we pretend it’s not all bad, I fixate on each line, a prerequisite approach. So next and then that line and its spacing, proper striving for excellence, sentence, cursed to find some semblance, a distant echo. Earshot. Eardrum. POP! Outward rang disdain, my reality indifferent, Marks resembling a bell...

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Categories: relinquished, anger, change, conflict, devotion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Relinquished
Like milkweed seeds they fly— to map the blue-washed sky, these three adults who see things differently than me. They're out in the wide world, their thoughts and dreams unfurled— like banners that proclaim the world won't be the same. And in each face I see just ripples there of me. But I know I've done right to loose in windy flight three seeds to bloom upon this earth when I am gone. * with...

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Categories: relinquished, children, mother,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Emotions Relinquished-
so sad and depressed relinquishing emotions hey, you'll be Okay 5/11/20 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2020...

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Categories: relinquished, analogy, angst, emotions,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Relinquished Dreams
Unremitting responsibilities  Aspirations tampered by reality Relentless quest for more Beautiful wife, children, home Cars, boat, vacations, clothes All requisite trappings Abundance of wealth and success Colleges, tuitions, mortgages Debt free, substantial savings Old age, sickness, infirmity Dusty, unplayed Fender Stratocaster guitar...

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Categories: relinquished, life, loss, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Stone, a Childhood Treasure Relinquished
Out back, he dug a hole in which he placed his old friend’s corpse. Atop the grave, he pressed one stone, a childhood treasure relinquished when he buried the Waimaraner – his great beloved gray ghost. Nov. 7, 2017 for One Stone Contest of John Lawless (a Waimaraner is a beautiful breed of dog called gray ghost)...

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Categories: relinquished, loss,
Form: Sijo



Relinquished
His light is not extinguished Only his body is relinquished ...

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Categories: relinquished, bereavement, eulogy, inspiration,
Form: Lyric
Relinquished Endeavor-Nighttime Musing Contest
Nighttime Musings Contest Sponsor: FJ Thomas Absorbed in my meditated communications, all sorted out beyond my close reach, and there you walk, right into my mind, fighting for me....please stay forever... -and propel my relinquished endeavor... Reflections of when our eyes met,...

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Categories: relinquished, desire, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Relinquished Pride
I stand high on the podium today Reciting my memoires clearly I say I remember the times you mocked my walk The days you turned your back and talked Today I see you all look up at me Listening to my speech so intently Each guffaw is so suddenly silenced Each sneer so speedily disappeared I see admiration in each tearfilled eye today But...

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Categories: relinquished, school
Form: Couplet

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