Short Departures Poems

Departures sidewalk, drizzle-lustrous,
Beneath dull sky reflects glum kiss....

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So many lost,
             among those 
             who arrive,
             and those 
             who leave,
             at the light station,
             of life... !...

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My latest piece is too long for the poerty sectiob - it's in "Short Stories."

It's called 'an interview"


Here's MOST of the URL:

www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/an_interview_10880...

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The lingering hug
  The last "I love you, Dad"
The suitcase on wheels
  behind him now

Automatic doors open
  "Get back in your vehicle, sir"
A final glimpse --
  Gruffly now: "Move out, mister..."...

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Love and Death

Inseparable these are..
Inseparable and pointing
To the knowing
Of who we are..
Death points to our 
Frantic or calm
Entering and departing..
Love stands still
While noticing how our
Entrances and departures
Left unimpeded
Do not linger at all......

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the eternal board is flashing
white letters on dark screen
destinations departures arrivals
scheduled greens
expected reds
delayed blues
frisking ffor the security of the
masses
collect your valuables he said
we forget though
life is the most valuable
we forget to collect...

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Damn it's hard
For me to love
To embrace
My inclination, to separate.

I apart of
Something.
And again
I rush to you.

Complete strangers
More than a month ago.
We've wept
I've welled
With simple human warmth.

This day of our departures
I fantasied
That we are one inside....

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Whispered secrets, memoirs on a breeze
Rustling gently through the emerald leaves
Eclipsed beyond departures of the moon
Melancholy memories gone too soon

Disjointed dreams, frail and illusive
Disintegrated, fragmented and reclusive
Prevaricating mysteries do erode
Where whispered secrets once so clearly flowed...

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Mad kings are sly devils, 
and like math homework,
they’re hard to get rid of.

Like ex-boyfriends they
waltz the line of patience
with dawdling acknowledgements
and sluggish departures.

You find yourself the airline 
agent, “Sorry sir, your departure 
is booked and ticket printed - 
please proceed to the gate."...

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Eyes, 
looking back 
from inside the secure area of a departures hall, 
through 10, 20, 30 meters of busy space,
around other, blocking passengers,     
seeking me out as I stand outside looking in,
then finding me, 
locking onto,
talking into, 
my own eyes, 
instantly defocusing everything else.

That’s how eyes are meant to look....

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(for Chris Okigbo)


Briefly …
She makes a watery presence:

Singing
Before our oil-bean;

Clotting in departures:
Cloying with the shrine!

Singing
Worshippers have come;

We have come,
Singing but in sudden tears;

The goddess and her priest,
They have twinkled from the shrine:

Wiping their foot-prints
From Heaven’s Gate!...

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Nothing's ever certain 
When relying on a flight.
You may confront delays for which
You're powerless to fight.

A little snow or fog or else
Mechanical concerns
Might get you where you're going late -
Departures or returns.

It's futile making solid plans -
They're bound to disappoint 
And when they do, just try your best
To not get out of joint....

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Majestically, they stand perched.
Arrivals and departures, they see.
Carefully guarding their home;
The keepers of the quay.

Their hover maneuvers astound
All that happen to see.
Maintaining their height and gracefulness;
The keepers of the quay.

On beaches they’re searching for food.
To people, annoying as can be.
Seagulls just trying to live,
The keepers of the quay...

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Moonbeam departures 

A chilly morning
greets me beneath
 silent springtime skies
of fading stars
and moon beam departures
as another new day
finds me 
thinking of you

And as I quietly gaze
across sunrise glimmers
tickling distant weary fields
to the northern horizon
my thoughts change
as I wonder. . .
if you are thinking
of me too

Good morning Soupers...

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HAIKU STRAINS 2


Morning news flash
Volcano erupts;
No fly zone

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Planes grounded
Volcanic ash smog;
Delayed departures

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Good old Bali high
Airport closure;
Dreadful sighs

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Overseas trip
To keep in touch;
Musical chairs

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Joy speaks
Humble heart heeds;
Cheery excursion

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
14 July 2015
Singapore...

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Responsibility

A question of burden:
imagining a future
where responsibility falls..
Light or heavy
is the measuring stick
which swings at
us all..
There is variation:
light to one
heavy to another..
These are perceptions
which result from
imagining departure
from our
peace just now..
However..might we
observe these departures
from our peaceful place
 allowing their departure
within our peace...?...

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Come oh come ye Caucassian goons
Come and show us the light to Istanbul's heart and soul.

Come and see the gravelling agony, the ghostly departures, the deep craters of hatred on brittle soil.

Come and hear the sounds of shattered mirrors, the noise of screeching birds, the screams of dying mothers.

Come and feed on the grailing ruins of a forgotten disaster, like a pansy daisy field with an abandoned dandelion....

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Remotely waters flow
Influentially in glows
Many flavors Kool-Aid
Tangs mixes

Soarid colored intact
Racist people react
Broken leaves on the trees

Embalming feelings what gives
Fashion departures
Dark burst peoples hurt
There's no room for the colors

Placed in a paint can
Mixed in a shaker
Stirred not shaking
As the Omni One


Ends racism

10/5/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Eagle-Sea -- Hope, the long Wave--
Slow -- to the Acorn --
From where Million goodbyes
As the best deflowered Drive --
Deep in and out -- 
It's impossible I meet!

I read your long letters --
Breathed --Organic glory --
Sublime ecstasies --they are all your flesh --
Chanted -- the perpetual
Revolution of that Dips!

Let me not to be ashamed
By saying, "They shake me sexually" --
I could not know
How departures I have --
All flocked me away!...

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Forgiveness





	Forging ahead to brighter horizons,
	Overlooking misunderstandings and discord,
	Reconciliation of feelings and despair,
	Grieving problematic circumstances,
	Ignorance excused and disregarded,
	Validation of thoughts and feelings,
	Expressing contentment within yourself,
	Narcissistic attitudes abolished,
	Exasperation departures in flight,
	State of mind harmonious,
	Spiritually composed ... mind, body, soul....

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Till the end story
hope was not visible
to others.

Lie neutral truth
and road side innocence
died under the sun.

End in view was shifting
from error to error.
Statements squeezed between departures.

Steaming cup of patience
dazzled the penniless.
I was sick of hypocrisy.

At the end of my forest
dawn of my child
was peeling a rainbow.

Pedlars of worn out boats
were standing at the shores.
Two little feet were crossing the sea. 



SATISH VERMA...

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Till the end story
hope was not visible
to others.

Lie neutral truth
and road side innocence
died under the sun.

End in view was shifting
from error to error.
Statements squeezed between departures.

Steaming cup of patience
dazzled the penniless.
I was sick of hypocrisy.

At the end of my forest
dawn of my child
was peeling a rainbow.

Pedlars of worn out boats
were standing at the shores.
Two little feet were crossing the sea. 



SATISH VERMA...

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I never overcame your departure brothers
since then
my feet walk crippled
the kidney only filters half of the residues
my heart partially collapsed
and beats insufficiently
the gastric juice became acid
and corrodes the sweetness of dreams
the bronchial airways are carbonized
and emit a roaring echo
the neurons lost
innumerable synapses
when dying necrotic
but here I am with my soul
regenerating light
so that the guide with the candle
calms my rumble of jungle...

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Airports a blur they look the same
From one big city to the next
Departures delays and arrivals
Morning noon and night
Stuck midway in transition
The epitome of boredom
Everyone with a place to go
Their script their ticket and their mission
They all have a story they burn to tell
People they’re flying off to join
The ones they love and left behind



AP: 2nd place 2020

Submitted on January 15, 2020 for contest STRAND SELECT 12 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  HONORABLE MENTION...

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