Freedom Sad Love Poems

This has been a huge mistake
All you ever do is take
Without the care or concern
You left me alone to burn
In a fire pit of despair
It...

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My patience is finally gone
I've been holding on so long
Now I'm at my breaking level
Causing fury like the devil
On your two faced lying butt
You need...

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We're black and white again

I must admit I miss the coloured rain
Of your presence
Tumbling down over whatever protection I chose
Unavoidable
Enthralling
Beautiful

It feels like the rainbow has...

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Happy?
I thought that's what I was for so long,
Enough to say it every time someone would ask.
But the sound of my voice would always falter...

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i had known deep down
he was a man i could never possess
he would always be feral
~ to his very core



Submitted on November 27, 2022 for...

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We prefer putting blame on pastor-counseler
For secretly meeting her without him
He, not suspecting, divide & rule strategem

She later explained, I gave Dean my side
In case...

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Talk   (Alzheimer's) 

You don't talk well, 
you barely say a word. 
I have to do it all, 
every time. 
I have to carry...

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I
My two daughters love Two States
Two ways, at least
They love Maryland & Virginia
They love English and Spanish
They love their dad and Mom
They love Democrat &...

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If you saw me first, would we have ended up the same? 
Would you have come over to me and asked for my name? 

Sometimes...

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Starry Eyed
Then One Day
Cast Aside

There we were, standing still
Then you break the silence
This would be our last thrill
You moved on without me
Was I supposed to...

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Nobody can go on without loving
when loneliness becomes your friend;
your dreams and freedom are limited,
always seek me out, darling
and survive just for my sake:
whenever you...

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a thousand strangers
in a universe of love
and sorrow ... life flows...

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If you’re reading this, don't tell anyone:
I guess you’d figure that by now I found it. 
There’s something so innocent, yet menacing about the way...

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His hands felt tougher than the bones
That cracked beneath his blows
He didn’t always throw these stones
At times, he brought me a rose

Suffering from the lack...

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Turkish Poetry Translations I



Ben Sana Mecburum: "You are indispensable"
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch

You are indispensable; how can you not know
that...

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