Taken Poems - Poems about Taken

When logic fails, something within me undeniably stirs, something that was always there, in the silent void, waiting for me to veer off, and let go. To stop thinking, start feeling, and open up. I shed my incumbent clothes, waded in, felt the tug of the tide, tasted the salty water on my lips, and went with the flow. To be carried to places reason could,...

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I forgot to add tomatoes to the beef. And I was told to put a 1/2 Of white grape juice in the Broth with an additional 3 T of crown royal and to omit the horseradish. We added one teaspoon of Anchovies oil to the mayo and crumbled in some sun dried tomatoes. That should be the show! Sweet banana peppers to do the...

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I forgot to add tomatoes to the beef. And I was told to put a 1/2 Of white grape juice in the Broth with an additional 3 T of crown royal and to omit the horseradish. We added one teaspoon of Anchovies oil to the mayo and crumbled in some sun dried tomatoes. That should be the show! Sweet banana peppers to do the...

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I forgot to add tomatoes to the beef. And I was told to put a 1/2 Of white grape juice in the Broth with an additional 3 T of crown royal and to omit the horseradish. We added one teaspoon of Anchovies oil to the mayo and crumbled in some sun dried tomatoes. That should be the show! Sweet banana peppers to do the...

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No matter I got prescribed Glycopyrrolate 2 mg tablets taken four times a day..., not one drop of sweat (especially on hot humid and hazy days) less than a gallon exudes forth from my pores but nevertheless I can single handedly manage... primary idiopathic palmar/ palmoplantar hyperhidrosis. Aforementioned physiological malady unwanted and unwonted figurative (metaphorical) beast of burden linkedin with matrix constituting mine corporeal essence...

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You wrote me in scars. You’ve made me like this. You tell me I’m not the same as my old self— That I am something you pay for. Am I something to be paid for? I am torn apart by the way you treat me. I am crushed by the comments you pass. Am I not good enough? I’m weighed down By your words. You’ve...

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The room was still when Power knocked— not loud, not proud, but sure. The Chair sat waiting, velvet-backed, untouched, and made to endure. The walls had yet to learn the weight of promises unkept. The carpet, clean—untrampled still— knew nothing of secrets swept. The pen was full, the desk was clear, the seal uncracked, unswayed. The nation...

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He would lie to them then swear on his word The gold in his pants a short but sharp sword Then with his sly grin He would draw them in Claim he’d a very cool way of climbing aboard ...

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I held your secret for me alone behind a latched Gate Where desire Muttered words of fire to burn endless nights A flicker of love twined Shadows refined to light a Jewel of love where church bells ring in holy song to merge two souls as one and now today a flight of love set sail...

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The moon lights a glorious glowing path before us like a splayed yellow band stretched to the stars where we walk and listen to the nightbird sing and allow our hearts to be moved by its melody we hold the hand that flames the embers of our soul and enter a rose colored rapture that joins our hearts...

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The Cat has Taken Over. ...

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The air is thick with the weight of things unchosen, paths untrodden, doors closed but never quite sealed. A shadow clings to every decision, the ghost of every road not taken, whispering — what if, what if, what if. We are architects of our own labyrinths, walls made of could haves, should haves, would haves — brick upon brick of speculation, mortared with...

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In a forest dim with paths untold, "The Road Not Taken" did unfold. Robert Frost, with gentle prose, Asked which path a traveler chose. William Henley's "Invictus" pride, In darkness, strength will never hide. "Unconquerable," his soul's refrain, Through trials, resilience does sustain. Max Ehrmann's "Desiderata" gleams, With timeless wisdom, guiding dreams. In silence, peace we often find, In storms, seek calm within the mind. José Rizal's...

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Five years ago my life was taken from Me, And placed in this Godforsaken place Leaving me just memories of those So very dear to me. Memories to let me know who and What I am, Memories that give me the will to see All of you again. Those I had trusted long ago Have done this to me...

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Tender toes, Treading tentativly, Taking time, Trying tactfully. Tendons tremble, Tension tightens, Tilting, Twisting, Tripping, tumbling! Terror. Trouble. Touching totality. Tomorrow. taken....

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