Shut Away Poems | Examples

Her Voice Resonates

Her voice resonates
Strongly in my delighted ear;
My soul smiles -
As if she'd not died years ago
And been shut away in a wall ...

To love and to be loved

Maybe in another life I would be the perfect fit
The one you can't let go 
The one you will fight for till the end
The one you wouldn't have doubts about.

Maybe in another life we will have out fairytale ending
We will let ourselves enjoy the freedom of being ourselves
We won't care about who sees or hears
We will be truly honest about ourselves

Maybe in another life we will let go of our worries
Live like there is no tomorrow 
Laugh like the world will never end
Do all the crazy things we used to do

Maybe just maybe we would have joy in the sorrows
Wipe away the tears that linger in our eyes
Seat by the moonlight and dream about another world
Full of only us and shut away our problems

It's no longer a maybe its a see you later
In another life though
We are soulmates who weren't ment to be 
But the love will never fade away

I will love you until my heart can't anymore
Until I give up and I'm weary
Until I can't see you in the distance anymore
Or even imagine you infront of me
Oh how I loved and was loved, 
My heart still beats for you my love.

Cave

Cave

There is no cave
Can hide your light
No hidden place
For Joy so bright

There's nothing
You should shut away
Your beauty needs
The light of day

As friends we'd scale
The highest heights
Clear all the wrongs 
Replace with rights 

To let you know
The path is down..
To meadows, rivers
In hopeful town

Where dancing, music,
Food and song
Replaces all your sense
Of wrong

Your presence welcomed
To be yourself
Not hermit hidden
Or dusty shelf

For this is where 
The love is found..
Where grass is green
Where truths abound

Your heart is free.
Not judged or measured
Just you. Adored.
Accepted. Treasured.

The Hibernating Muse

Delightful muse, end for me
your dormancy in twenty-three.
Inside myself the churning gusts
of winter thoughts on paper must
be released, un-bosomed, loosed.
So, wake up beloved muse!
Continued sleeping's pure abuse
upon an old soul shut away
inspired by plenty more to say.

Fill my head with words alive
such that my poet heart derives
the pleasure of a well said thing
as metaphors and verses sing. 
Come to me in dead of night
and open up my third eye’s sight.
This world’s in need of better moods
that forms poetic often soothe.

1/5/2023

Read Harry Potter If You Want To Know More

Harry Potter a boy with no real family
Living under his cousin’s stairs, in a closet’s gizzard.
Shunned and shut away as a nambly-pambly
In another world, a known, famous wizard.

Hagrid helps him get to Hogwarts where he meets lifelong friends
Ron Weasley and Hermoine Granger, a muggle-born witch.
Daring escapades and escapes are Rowling's books’ brightest bends.
Harry’s phoenix tail wand is magic with a flick and a switch.

Harry took off on a broom when he was not supposed to yet ride.
Swiftly marched in in by McGonagall, head of the Gyffindor House
Dumbledore names Harry as seeker of the Quidditch Team’s G-side.
I am not going to ruin the rest of the story; I am not a louse.

Water

The waves are coming in
The sound of the water is all but familiar
I would let it touch my skin
I would let it wash me away from the world forever

As I held my breath and sunk into
I was swallowed with the world shut away 
Given a chance to imagine anew
I was given an exacted moment to know I’m okay

And I never felt more alive being so enclose
Feeling so weightless with waters so heavy upon
Just a while more yet no longer... I rose
Revealing once again to the world I don’t belong

How long can I hold my breath under water?
How long more can I survive the world we build?
There is no need to really be better...
Simply a need to feel... and be real

The waves are washing out
I will hold my breath one more time
Will the waters wash away my doubt
To once more emerge... what will I find?
.............................
 Genre: life
Song: Early Morning Fog by Hans Zimmer

Secrets

I keep everything inside
I don't know if I trust people enough
To say what I really need to
To say what has to be said
To say what I really mean
Maybe I need to let go
Maybe I need to keep my life shut away
In the whole inside my heart
In the mess that is my brain
Keep them in
Don't let them know
The secrets I have inside of me
The terrifying demons that haunt my thoughts
Cant be released
To the public 
Where my life of torment would begin
Can't let them know my secrets
I can't let them know

A Divers Prayer

I hope people will open their eyes 
Open them to what I'm saying
Listen to what the minority are saying. 
I pray they stop pushing us away 
That they start listening to what we have to say. 
I pray to God above 
For support and encouragement
To continue to do what I am doing. 
I pray that they won't see us as environmentalists 
As people who need to be shut away
But that we are people who want people to wake up 
Wake up from their states of hypnosis 
Look and see what we are doing is destructive. 
I pray they see it before it's too late. 
But will my prayers be heard? 
Or will everyone go about their lives 
Hypnotized and zombie-like  
To the world around them.

Villanelle: Look Not Back and Lament How Your Life's Gone Astray

Villanelle: Look not back and lament how your life's gone astray

Look not back and lament how your life's gone astray
Mistakes you have made must of needs be also made
Don't guiles lies with smiles guide all forms of inter-play

If mistakes never lie in wait in one's blind way
Each one of us can choose our path in sun or shade
Look not back and lament how your life's gone astray

True, some like Sexton or Plath would fall by the way
What they said somehow reach down to us still persuade
Don't guiles lies with smiles guide all forms of inter-play

Think of those legions minds deranged maimed shut away
Through no fault of their own nor by mid-wives' hands degrade
Look not back and lament how your life's gone astray

The madness of the moment wreaks mistakes holds sway
Some urge some hapless encounter the fated raid
Don't guiles lies with smiles guide all forms of inter-play

Far too complex far too hidden each act to weigh
Sometimes some mistakes lead on to a choice well made
Look not back and lament how your life's gone astray
Don't guiles lies with smiles guide all forms of inter-play

(c) T. Wignesan - Paris,  2018

The Forgotten Innocence

He hurt us, you didn’t know
Once the bruises healed, there was nothing to show
You didn’t protect the child I was
You didn’t want to make a fuss
I don’t want to put this all on you
You always cry as if on cue
He hurt us, he beat us, he tormented us to no end
He was nothing to us, not even our friend
We tried to tell you, we tried to make you believe
We tried to hide but didn’t succeed
We were locked away, shut away, he threw away the key
We were laughed at, scoffed at, made to live for an outstanding fee
I love you too much to put this on you
I love you too much you have no clue
But holding this in will soon destroy
I don’t want to be forgotten like a used old toy
Believe me when I say, this is not intended to hurt
I will no longer be treated like dirt

By a Spring Fire

By a Spring Fire

There is a place

Where boughs of singing birds are swaying;
Little colts with wobbly legs are playing;
And bluebonnets and paintbrushes grow.

Once my love and I rode horses, o’er
Rolling hills like rough golf courses.
So long, long ago.

Now you are gone and I grow old;
Shut away from days of gold;
And the evening memories glow,

In the fire of early Spring’s  cold.

Mismatched Me

Smeared it in pure black hate,
Until it was completely covered. 
A black heart engulfed me,
Only telling me to destroy, destroy.

Without realizing my ugliness,
I felt at ease.

A long time ago, I once loved this world. 
Countless ponds shining like gems,
The soprano of the leaves,
And wind sweet in scents.

In a world like this, 
I was a complete mismatch.

So I cried, sending out my wish,
But those tears will not bear grass or fruit. 
I continued to cry yet I continued to hope,
One year, ten years, fifteen.

Eventually I grew taller, and the lake of tears dried. 
"Somebody, please look at me." 
I shut away the small voice I heard.

Because that's the way it is. 
This world is full of lies and fools. I lie, you lie. 
It's all part of growing up. 
Those who believe will be treated as idiots.

I'm so glad I snapped out of it, 
I don't want to be treated as a fool a second time. 
Love is only an illusion, the weak are the only that dream it. 
Right? That's because......

Well.....
I don't have a reason or a word.

My words and tears and life will never bear fruit.

Hizbiz

Shut away from the world
Hizbiz found a ghost curl'd
In his breakfast plate
This might be a bait
"An enticement", he snarled

To Resonate

To open up, to once again take a breath,
To let go, to be saved from infinite death.
This, the Lord has done for me.

To shut away the influence of the earth,
To grasp on to His Word and its worth.
This must be done to truly see.

To break down, to invite the Lord within,
To open one's mind, new life to begin.
This, I long for in thee.

To show the light, to escape their endless night,
To be the change, for the blind be sight.
This is the power of the Lord in me.

Half Way

on a blank canvas
i begin painting
as one builts 
a great big wall 
So high, 
trapped in myself 
Shut away from life's hurt 

Dreaming of greener pastures 
One with happiness 
Safe in my Dreams, 
An apparition 
of what life 
could offer 
Feeling unworthy 
of a place 
Left with cruel words 

Making one feel 
bad about myself, 
in the reflection 
upon the ripples 
a shattered illusion 
on the surface breaks 

Touched by 
my inner most desire, 
Like a child's
 first steps 
Happy when finding 
one's feet, 
Slowly learning 
to trust your feelings 
Smiling when they come 
back again 

climbing this wall nervously 
Walking to the summit, 
Dreaming of love 
A vision 
of happiness, 
Escaping my prison 

Staring off 
into the stars 
At ease 
with the distance, 
So close, 
yet so far

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