Get Your Premium Membership

Set Adrift Poems - Poems about Set Adrift

Guarded
...I'm lost in a riddle of answers. They never seem to find my prayers. Drowning in an ocean of conclusions, my ship set adrift somewhere. Basking in the light of delusion, the world gets lost in......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Goodbye Poetry
... Oh poetry, why do you not feel me. I was once your poetic percolate, the assonance to your consonance, spilling in silver ink, upon Earth's raw fibres, but in your quest for perfection, wa......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, analogy, angst, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dreamlands
... A parade of floating, verdant fields appear within a clouded dream idyllic islands in the sky a tranquil vision, peaceful sigh of heavenly serenity. Yet now, the scene is set adrift by om......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, dream,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Sonnet to August
...I will miss you so, dear August of mine! When September winds blow and the days shift Into evening silhouettes of birds, Listlessly observing from trees that lift Long limbs, where ac......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, age, appreciation,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In an Instant
...In an instant, life can change, Things get weird, and paths feel strange. A spark, a flash, it all can shift, And suddenly, you're set adrift. A word, a hug, a simple smile, Can make you happy......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Janet From Another Planet
...Maybe you’ve seen Janet she’s from another planet making all her regular stops at the local charity shops loves a second hand rail or two lives in the land of good as new to knock and shock the......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, 10th grade, drink, missing,
Form: Rhyme
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
...April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and fil......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, absence, age, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Superficial Love
... She pooh-poohed his smallish gift. He looked glum and she looked miffed. No diamond in sight, She did not delight. Her love for him was set adrift.......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, cute, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My Last Poem
...Become my air, pursuing my scent in sweet fragrant fields, where devouring tastes of bohemian spirit, delicately descend in subsistent sighs. Distracting the tones of silen......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, devotion, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Waiting
...The time ticks by As I stare at the clock Knowing my near future. Just sitting Waiting. No news, no change. Storms rage, Confusion, resignation, consternation . The time seems slower so......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, flying, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Icy Islands
...Two Icy Islands Cracks appear in the ice Become wider but we don’t cross We each urge the other to jump To join the other on their slab of ice I motion to you, you motion to me Neither jump. ......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Refining Consciousness
...I awoke Alone In a crowded field Budding potential Growing amidst Disillusionment. Tossed into the air Stung by the edges Of chaffs collusion Separated From all connection To whatever was......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, growth, life, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Afraid
...Sometimes it seems so hard just to step outside Great big world and not a single place to hide And when life's storms come crashing down There's nowhere to go, no hope to be found While it se......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, courage, fear,
Form: Rhyme
We Who Laugh Last, Laugh Best
...That foolish stranger who had wandered into town bickering with folks, trying to shove them around was nothing more than an old worn-out clown. Beneath Soup Creek Bridge, we saw him drown. We t......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, community, poets,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Tethered To Oblivion
...Short shadows stretched by a sinking sun, darkness denotes the day is done. And Sol slips over the edge of the Earth tethered to oblivion, and yet, shackled to Dawn. Twilight morphs into Du......

Continue reading...
Categories: set adrift, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Verse

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things