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Uprooted

Life is uprooted 
moving from place to place with 
no happy place found

Categories: uprooted, home,
Form: Senryu

To Cry a Little Bit

Afford me some time
To wail a little bit this morning
Give me a little while
To whine like a dumbbell.

Try to comprehend me a little
My friends, men weep too a bit
Men and women cry because of trouble
To relieve the sad and envious heart.

Crying is not an act of cowardice
On the contrary, when things beyond the bounds
One has

Categories: uprooted, betrayal, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Uprooted

Unlike the Famous Five,
with capers, japes and adventures,
boats and well stocked picnics, we lived
a back street life. With a sock and masking tape ball
and mucky fat sarnies.
The Family Allowance Five.
Each one of us an extra pound.
With facsimile school photos,
in hand me down jumpers and carving knife tread pumps,
floorboard cricket bat and under the bed air

Categories: uprooted, childhood, family, growing up,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Dreams Uprooted

Dreams uprooted, leaving scars
 Never a wish on a falling star
 As melancholy rhythms echo from guitars
 Despair the spaceship drifting afar

 A sliver of hope ride on moonbeams
 Which may yet fulfill  the dream
  But it's obscured by clouds in ebon streams
 Which hides the truth, eclipses its gleam

 The heart awaits

Categories: uprooted, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Uprooted

Uprooted

Uprooted now, the limbs
Become the trunks of her new trees 
Wind is the father

Categories: uprooted, strength,
Form: Haiku

Uprooted

I wonder what she’d say
would she stare in wonder?
cry in disdain?
Fear for my fickle bones.

When her child is rested into her flesh
No more than fertilizer, 
giving for the last time.
Will the earth mourn me?

And does this creature
of ancient bones and colossal mystery
know how we think of her?
are we simply ants long her back

If she could

Categories: uprooted, earth, grief, home, life,
Form: Free verse

Trees Uprooted

Palm trees uprooted-

mad waves from shoreline avenge

nature's graciousness




Haiku in the Tropics: Julia Ward
27th Sept 2018

Categories: uprooted, conflict, storm,
Form: Haiku

Uprooted By Empathy

Staccato inhale
Eyes stinging like alcohol on a latent cut
Your kindness hurts
It bends back my arms, 
My shoulders straining to remain attached. 
Feeling trapped by my desire to be loved 
And dreading its sequelae. 
I fear your caring.
I am terrified to accept it.

Why, why, why, why do I want to retreat?
To be plucked out by a

Categories: uprooted, anxiety, confusion, emotions,
Form: Free verse

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UPROOTED


“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.”--------------------Rumi
listen not to the vagrant zephyr
seeking only sustenance of its kind
idol thinkers lolling in innocence
swayed by every whispering sigh
unaware – that secrets lie.

“We put the urn aboard ship.”---------------------------------------Sappho
Single struggling sapling
scented with the longings of leaving,
kissed by the roots of a family’s tree
adrift on a sea of doubt
holding

Categories: uprooted, family, history,
Form: Verse

Uprooted

I used to rock my baby
‘Neath an overhanging tree
Which grew right by the river,
Just a block or two from me.

Its leafy boughs provided shade
To my most favorite bench,
A haven in the city
Where a new mom could entrench.

In recent years, those branches
Formed a bower where I’d rest,
To read or write a poem or two,
With breezes that

Categories: uprooted, nature, tree, urban,
Form: Rhyme

The Uprooted Girl

Egypt is where she was once a tormented slave,
Many nights she was beaten into a cold grave,

She would lay for hours in the abyss,
Where she bled from her heart down to her wrist,

Tragically she’d question if there was more to life than this,
And if it was all over would she even be missed,

Then, One night

Categories: uprooted, happiness, hope, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Epic

Uprooted and Windswept In the Storm You Caused

Uprooted and windswept in the storm you caused
I was aghast and asunder like a sinking boat
the last straw was placed and I drowned
it was your slight that I simply could not fight
you tossed your royal, handsome head
your eyes smirked at me in your new find
no doubt she was so pretty and fine.


You did not ever

Categories: uprooted, lifeme, life, me,
Form: Free verse