Short Marooned Poems

deep vibrant velour
delicate intricacies
thorn pierced marooned bled...

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Sunshine -
on a desolate beach
an old sailor marooned
trapped between
the ebb and flow
of distant tides...

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Marooned among the 
ripples

I am stalked by the next
rising tide

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2015)...

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MOON ISLAND

seaside bumbershoot
harbors
the marooned moon
keeping her all
to himself.

cloudy nights ~
on the mainland.

12/16/2017...

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walked out  
ran off 
have not 
came back 
again since 
that day
have left 
the heart  
marooned 
on the island 
of loneliness 
since the day 
you walked 
away...

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Listen to poem:

Mumbled murmurs emerge
Marooned rumblings wake up
Madcap mayhem threatens
Maelstrom rattles the room
Marred peace sinks in chaos
Moment secret is out
Mad how fast rumors spread...

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Manic waves sunk my boat,
marvel how I could float,
made it to an island,
man there had drinking stand,
mirage I was thinking,
many swigs lemonade,
marooned coconut shade.





4-19-17...

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weathered and beaten
the tides have cast me back to shore
forsaken and destitute
betrayal hurting far less
than the emptiness now felt inside



AP: 1st place 2023

Posted on November 13, 2022...

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Fertile Turtle On Beach Named Myrtle

We finally found out she had been fertile;
And marooned on a beach named Myrtle;
Her spoil;
A big boil;
Each egg did turn out to be  a tiny turtle.

Jim Horn...

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Seething sorrow simmers in the marooned mind, 
permeates pain in heart plunged deep in misery. 
Divine light illumines the soul, agonies rescind, 
rousing hope weaves bliss in blessed life tapestry. 

...

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I’m marooned on this desert island
with just one beautiful woman:
sandy beaches, blue sky, sun,
more food than we can eat,
crates of washed-up beer.
Just thought I would 
write this note
and gloat.
Help!!!...

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There was a young scientist from Rangoon
Who built a rocket and flew to the moon
But His rocket booster failed
Now I am stuck here he wailed
He wont be coming home anytime soon.






Written 10th April 2018...

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If the world were but an ocean
And love our precious boat
Then what are life’s true values?
And would we really float?

But what of us my friend
Yes, what of you and me?
Are we just marooned lovers?
Or pirates without a sea?...

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defiant
     disdain
haughty
    self-reliance
envelops,
   then
     devours..
the proud:
taunts
provokes
    distrust,
if
never
unlearnt
becomes
    marooned
on
   an
     island
       of
           one..
..alone...

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In marooned mind shaped in webbed design
the strands of psychic hues are patterned.
In its fold rainbow secrets lie
as captive of my own making,
turning into Narcissus in introvert insight,
where I’m with me as an aberrant recluse.

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EVERYONE HAS A HISTORY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS




This Perilous Pilgrimage, Produces Nary a Saint
Time Conceals the Blemished Deeds, Now Faint
Nary a Soul Is Spared from the Indelible Taint
Marooned in Our Conscience, Harboring the Plaint...

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Bound up, restrained
my skin's too tight,
I want to howl the moon.

I wring my hands
fright is my plight
ev'ning comes too soon.

Mirrors quiver
in ambient light
to an aged crone, I croon.

No where to run
at each twilight
alone, inside, marooned....

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I swim to an unknown rocky strand, marooned by the captain's hand,
Up on the barren shore I stand, up on the wave-washed sand.
The sandpipers dance a saraband; could I like the birds withstand?
Held by the bars of a coral band, alone in a rocky land....

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my love


as
i
say
my love
whispers awaken me
her flesh is greeted
finding loves creation
before outstretched arms
embraced beyond moments
hearts beat to a symphony
time
has
been
marooned
as
i
am
bound
thoughts
of
my
love
?...

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She held illuminations in her eyes.
Mimicked the earth with her skin.
No wonder flowers grew from within.
Adrift in her aura.
Marooned.
Interstellar swoon.
Rendered lunar love language.
Though words could never define.
What was already written in time....

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Subtle and mild.

Summer love came.

Answering our cry.

In swift reply.

Marooned.

In mid-summer's bloom.

Secrets rendered.

Illuminated under moon.

Radiant nights.

Pandered to our request.

Forever and this moment.

This life and the next....

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Betrayal stings, a bitter wound, A trust shattered, A heart marooned. 
Once embraced now pushed aside, a disbelief we all confide.
But rise we shall, from ashes, strong. 
a lesson learned, resilience throngs.
For in the pain, We find our might. 
To forge ahead, and heal our plight....

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Naked 
On the pulse of time 
I wait


Naked
A silholuette
Marooned on paths spittle-spiced


Naked, Gehazi
Without two talents of silver
And two sets of raiment


A quaking step
This vanishing blur-
                            Oh
That my shadow may retreat
Ten steps to Ahaz...

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When we got married at twenty two
We said our vows beside a ski-doo
But then got marooned
So we honeymooned
In a five star, two story igloo

My wife said a stiff drink would be nice
But I couldn’t locate any ice
So I stripped to get numb-er
Then asked for a hummer
Hoping that my iced cubes would suffice...

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Love
Not felt, nor seen
Lost….
Forgotten, lost to the waves
Waves of hurt, bobbing away
Locked, in prisons of their own making
Cut off from the shore
Shores not seen a while, marooned
Till the rocks of culpability, to break
To open a heart, shipwrecked
Shipwrecked in a sea of delusions
Shipwrecked in a sea of angst
...

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