#departure poems on Hello Poetry

Piotr Sordyl Jun 2017

I'm in a heart of a tree,
Thoughtless yet thoughtful being,
Where a stagnant melody of silence,
Blossoms with poignant dreams.

I'm in a core of the tree,
Growing in a womb, living thing,
Where I fight against a crave to fly,
To ignite an arabesque of the satin sky.

Upraising under watchful eye of ambiguous fate,
Unaware, uncertain, about flow and change,
Unbounded yet rooted, free yet unable to move,
Wanderer returning home, or one that never left its gate.

Light breeze sparks shiver,
Raise what have sunk in slumber,
Echoing a calling to rush,
Into a golden stream of brightness.

I am in the heart of the tree,
Awake, though it feels like a dream.
Am I the heart itself or merely a child?
My farewell...
will it bring my beginning or your demise?

Both, inspired by a sketch and written as a compliment for a shade of my heart.

#suntree #slumber #birth #growth #departure

Seazy Inkwell Jun 2017

Of Triggers and Lies

Hanging by the hinge of your last lies. /
Throwing out the legacy of our cremated honesty. /
Counting shoots by the destiny’s thighs. /

Let's start all over like them celebrity, \
All from the right angle and places. \
After we lied in the face of eternity, \
Selling our ways to the illegal graces. \

Next just need some bullet proof toes, |
Running near the fire range as wars start to cease.|
Be content with your diamonds sewn into our teeth. |
On the way to dirt ditches honoring souvenirs from Satan. |

Yet I promise you on the way up we annoyed the Angels. /
With another heavenly promise I load up my gun. /

Only if...
you…...
hadn’t lied
I…...
hadn’t sinned….. and
They…..
hadn’t started the fire.
………

#betrayal #lies #distrust #dishonesty #departure #end

Zero Nine Jun 2017

Energies|Cling to You

I said I would leave

My hand
Never
Left the door

Or left
Your

Tender little heart

In what time it takes to grow I thought I would grow more
In the time it takes to take a break I thought I could explore ignorance and never return to melancholia.

I know I said I would leave but I return
Didn't I warn you before that I need you?
I am desperate to warm you and freeze your brittle bones.

I thought departure would heal the wounds I deeply knew only square paper under the tongue fixed though I know if I never left I would never have felt the heartbeat of my apartment.

I thought I could leave but I have to write.
I could have sworn I did not need you when the beginning and the end of my existence run completely through you, sometimes you only, those who see Samsara, know their place, still cling, and me, I cling to you.

One.

Kisses.

#samsara #cling #to #you #energies #departure #wounds #heal #heartbeat #apartment

Steve Page Mar 2017

My Captain

Your songs sweeten this bitter passing,
   Lord, rudder me through to calmer waters.
Your words secure my departing,
   Lord, restore my shredded sails
For this last crossing.

But first let me stay a story longer,
Tell me tales from our voyage together:
Of past storms soothed,
Of old foes bested.
   Lord, ready me to weather this course
To its end.

#story #passing #storms #departure

J C Jan 2017

Gone

On an autumn day, they saw him stand;
on a winter night, they saw him on cold lands.
Such earthly things he needed were friends,
and there was no one, no one in the end.
They all knew about his loneliness
and his accompanying sorrow.
Smiles and laughter were objects
he could never borrow.
The birds and trees still stand witness,
the sky refusing once more to tell.
Everything he thought he knew
could neither be smooth nor well.
At the sun’s first ray of light,
at the trembling crack of dawn,
he spread once more his arms,
mimicking wings.
And he was gone.

#loss #loneliness #departure

Laura Enright Jan 2017

Purgatory

These double doors are my eyes that see into peoples' lives
the end of a neon bright hallway, surgically clean
a lone traveller drags her life by the handle
here at an obscure hour while others sleep

I wonder if it's necessary that she leave?
She seems so removed from the furrowed brow
ticking watch business-man beside her
Watch the time. A missed flight. The world unfamiliar.

The agitated jitter of a lady puzzles me,
why does she cry? what is she leaving behind?
where will she go?
the airport departure lounge
purgatory
for a travelling soul.

A poem written from a prompt from class to write a 'persona poem'.

#love #sadness #time #soul #flying #leaving #travel #adventures #airports #departure

Last Arpeggios Oct 2016

Hoarding

Leave then,
but leave them behind

You say,
Wrapping your arms around
the waste, protecting
a pile of photographs

The weight would
break my body

I say,
Turning my back to
this Burden you’ve built
on the floor of our house

You’re hoarding memories,
but you do not ask Me

To stay,
Searching through the pile
for a shadow. The floor creaks.
 If you move it may crumble.

(Can you still breathe? )

written August 2016

#death #memories #goodbye #departure #hoarding

Col Muhammad Khalid Khan Aug 2016

The Departure

Dust goes to dust and light goes to light
What one takes is just a wonderful flight
When beauty of Creator just comes in sight
Then love is bound just to be more bright
Vice brings wrong but virtue brings right
On call of Master soul rushes like a kite
Body goes down but soul touches height
For a lover it is an experience full of delight

Man right from birth is in search of pleasure
Master for him is like a total hidden treasure
Man in search of beauty is a relentless lover
When painting aspires to be with the painter
Then emerges on the life horizon real picture
Then state of happiness one can not measure

Col Muhammad Khalid Khan
Copyright 2016 Golden Glow

#the #departure

Gaye Jul 2016

Moment.

I stand there, every day, nose to the cold iron grills,
Eyes to the sky, dark and cloudy, desperate to rain,
Feet kissing the earth, mad roots of hibiscus plants,
Clasping my hands to catch some wind and put-
It all inside my bag, time has come to gather my things
And leave. Live the moment with me, grow with me.

#nature #moment #belonging #departure