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Vacantly Poems - Poems about Vacantly

Premium MemberLost Love

...(Note: taken from a diary of a young lady)
 
In memoriam of Jose` Maria
aged twenty, drowned.
 
I lounge on an uneven stone
under the uneasy shade 
of an ancient carob tree,
away from the hot...
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Categories: vacantly, loss, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Body Possession Feeling

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In the flowing darkness of the delirious night     
I saw once my being sink with my essence escaping,
get dissipated in dissociative domain of ethereal ether
where I heard the sound of the di...
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Categories: vacantly, confusion, mental health,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberMy Inner Voice Told Me

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After a hazardous trip from a far- off district,
With drooping spirits and waning energy,
I alighted at the station to catch the night train,
My heart besieged by memories of a home,...
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Categories: vacantly, anxiety, journey, night,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBus 268

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Everyday for the last five years

His dedicated routine was the same

Catching Bus 268 at 9.30am to be with her

On Bus 268 at 5pm to return home again



Tuesday was like any other

Th...
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Categories: vacantly, age, life,
Form: Rhyme

Guilt No Longer Overflows

...Why do I feel so much fear?
So much fear here? Oh dear…
I shed a tear…the end is near
I feel there’s a need for cheer

Guilt no longer overflows — it surely shows
I see the light in me glow
Wh...
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Categories: vacantly, devotion, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Lyric



Premium MemberDo you see me in my fleeting forms

...Do you see me in my fleeting forms,
In my moments painted with ephemeral hues,
With the posture of masks and affectation on stage,
Playful in jewelry that glitters vacantly,
Shyly heralding the y...
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Categories: vacantly, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSoul's Cry

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Marooned on the island of loneliness
Shadows of delusion confront me
In a stormy sea, I got shipwrecked
And the sea has robbed everything from me
What unanticipated change comes ove...
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Categories: vacantly, angst, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMom, when I Saw you Last

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Is not ‘Mother’ the sweetest word in the dictionary?
She's one’s closest friend, companion, and guide.
How can I restrict her within the frame of a poem,
when my entire world circled...
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Categories: vacantly, appreciation, farewell, mother,
Form: Free verse

Do Ra Me

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Do Re Me

How I lay in bed and eyes wide awake
I de-tuned my brain and become free from a river flow
Bombarded by doing things that makes no sense
I now felt the lose seep through the fields o...
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Categories: vacantly, africa, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDesperate Hope

...Vacantly staring into the night sky
She saw big bellied clouds drifting away
Are they fleeing away from the luminous moon? 
Or mercilessly driven out
After being robbed off everything...
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Categories: vacantly, angst, betrayal, depression,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNightmare

...It was my first journey by train all alone. When dropped at the station by my cousin, I saw a huge crowd waiting at the station. Like a drop in the ocean, I quickly merged with the crowd, and patient...
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Categories: vacantly, angst, fear, feelings,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberHeartbroken

..."Heart heals with time, but it never forgets the memories you've made or how it felt when you embraced and loved those we lost." Quote by poet 


Heartbroken.
I sit, my back against m...
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Categories: vacantly, bereavement, grief,
Form: Free verse

The Power of Rain

...It is remarkably insane,
To look vacantly out the pane,
With a green bottle of Bollinger champagne,
Enjoying the wobbly rain, rain, rain!

I would rather spend a day in Spain,
Or sit by the sea...
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Categories: vacantly, 12th grade, rain,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBus Number 268

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Everyday for the last five years

His dedicated routine was the same

Catching Bus number 268 at 9am to be with her

On Bus number 268 at 5pm to return home again



Tuesday was like an...
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Categories: vacantly, change, dedication, life, true
Form: Rhyme

Sobriety

...I want to seek sobriety everyday
I hope to God this sleepless night
I pray and pray away the pain tonight
I want to be okay as I lay here, decaying like a wilted flower in May

I feel thi...
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Categories: vacantly, angst, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Lyric

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