Short Disowned Poems

Money, wrapping paper 
  of disowned creation

Destroying the gift, 
—laying claim to the box

(Jamestown New York: May, 2011)...

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A crime for a crime,
The belt whistles, waterfalls,
In a loop it goes...
The shirt of blame now fits you;
Disowned, waterfalls no more...

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Always the odd ball
His family disowned him
Child of the unknown






















-I write about my past friends....

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I’ll light new year candles of hope in dismal hearts dark and disowned

December 30, 2018
Syllable count : 16
Checked on howmanysyllable.com...

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the sky
rooftops, looking in-
lie- peripheralvision
potential for abuse
edges of anger perform
incision
disowned in likes of
the norm, the
lapping tongue of electric
storm....

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Some came home…
but never came back

Some came back…
but never came home

Caught between
forever

And what forever
—had disowned

(Vietnam Veterans Memorial: March, 2020)...

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Leading from today
into the past

Present state of mind
destroyed

The future an orphan,
waiting disowned

Hell’s pathway
—to the void

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Waiting for the music,
naked and alone
the words become orphans,
unsung and unknown

The letters in limbo,
each phrase nether blown
with melody absent
—the magic disowned

(Rosemont College: December, 2021)...

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A friend gave a Xmas potluck,
I couldn't boil just water.
Took two pies for a buck.
Mother said I'm not her daughter!




















12-17-2020
Contest:Chastushka
Sponsor:Andrea Diectrich...

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I told you I loved you
You didn't say it back...
I said you disowned me
You never corrected me...
I told you the pain you caused
I even said what you did...
You said I lie 
And it was him...
What you forgot
Your other kids saw it too....

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I just lost my job

My girlfriend called me a slob

Where are my car keys?


My phone keeps ringing 

My canary stopped singing 

Still can't find my keys


My neighbors stoned me

And my parents disowned me

I guess I'm walking...

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Giving up the money
  for a chance at transcendence

The words became sacred,
  all time was disowned

Chasing that one thing
  that if caught defies memory

At one with the truth
  —forever at home

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)...

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Like leaves in the wind,
words scatter about

From the woods and high grass,
they call and they shout

“Come find us, come free us,
we’re out here alone

“The Muse has deserted
—and left us disowned”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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a phoney on my ownly
living lost and lonely 
like my soul disowned me
phone me homie or text 
say hello if you've known me
show what wasn't shown me
let me see then leave happy 
cus you've seen my reality
as gone wrong as can be
who'd want to be me...

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Like leaves in the wind,
  words scatter about

From the woods and high grass,
  they call and they shout

“Come find us, come free us,
  we’re out here alone

“The Muse has deserted,
 —and left us disowned”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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Did you dodge the bullet,
  but not its intent

Is the ocean now calm,
  as the storm reinvents

Have feelings rehardened,
  with blood on the stone

Back to back with yourself,
 —all escape you’ve disowned

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)...

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The commonest denominator,
stepping toward the throne

His minions with their blindfolds on,
about to be disowned

The commonest denominator,
laughing at their pain

Another lie, stick in the eye
—a life of greed and shame

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)...

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My ego lost virginity,
upon the critics throne 

Pregnant with doubt ectopic, 
its embryo disowned

With labored forced delivery,
and fetus left unsired  

 A chastised unwed mother
—giving birth to words bemired

(Ronald McDonald House: February, 2020)...

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tell it like it is, sweet babe, 
have a brother bipolar knave, 
disowned me last time we met, 
bipolar cant get off his chest... 
awful thing hey, 
coming off the zoloff quick, 
he was going to murder us just a bit....
bloody bipolar hey...Don Johnson...

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The past is but a distant flame,
with reasons there disowned

Where fire burns in effigy,
to singe that falsely known

The ages but a candle dim,
its wick burned to the quick

As torches rage from deep within
—all time a kindling stick

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)...

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She named her husband Ruth. He thought it was funny at first.
Her second husband was nicknamed Thomasina.
He left before the marriage was consummated.
You have to stop doing this her mother told her.
She nicknamed her mother spoil sport Dick.
Spoil Sport Dick disowned her....

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Incompitance leading to my failure
Never justified by my right hand
And given the strength
To out do the other man
And bring him down
Just like I was found
With wounds and bleeding scars
As pain to my heart unaided
Left to bleed on my own
Finding out the hard way 
That i had been disowned...

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You have money in the bank,
  but you’ll never be rich

With the power to buy and sell
  though yourself disowned

Those things today and then tomorrow,
  their weight crushes in upon you

A legacy doomed as rock by rock
  —your future coursed in stone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2019)...

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The grace of god powered with wings
Slave everymore to these slights in time
No repentance from these virtual souls
Apart from the one
Beloved son exhiled and debunked
More human than angel
Less evil but more punished by being more human
Not the essence of evil
but its punisher.
The first risen voice...

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His bravery inspired
  a hero defiled

By one of his own
  whose spirit disowned

All memory attacks
  what never came back

   ‘from a war beyond
    winning or losing’

The best of the best
  too early to rest

His brothers in arms
  —his first choosing

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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