iwalkalone Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 (edited) A Night—there lay the Days betweenEmily Dickinson A Night—there lay the Days between—The Day that was Before—And Day that was Behind—were one—And now—'twas Night—was here— Slow—Night—that must be watched away—As Grains upon a shore—Too imperceptible to note—Till it be night—no more— The Battle fought between the SoulEmily Dickinson The Battle fought between the SoulAnd No Man—is the OneOf all the Battles prevalent—By far the Greater One— No News of it is had abroad—Its Bodiless CampaignEstablishes, and terminates—Invisible—Unknown— Nor History—record it—As Legions of a NightThe Sunrise scatters—These endure—Enact—and terminate— Edited November 15, 2006 by iwalkalone Quote Link to comment
dix Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Still as profound today as when I first heard it............. the secret of life itself : Every Rose Has It's Thorn by Poison We both lie silently still In the dead of the night.Although we both lie close togetherWe feel miles apart insideWas it somethin' I said or somethin' I didDid my words not come out rightTho' I tried not to hurt youTho' I triedBut I guess that's why they say Every rose has its thornJust like every night has its dawnJust like every cowboy sings his sad, sad songEvery rose has its thorn Yea it does I listen to your favorite songPlayin' on the radioHear the DJ say love's a game ofEasy come and easy goBut I wonder does he knowHas he ever felt like thisAnd I know you'd be here right nowIf I could have let you know somehowI guess Every rose has its thornJust like every night has its dawnJust like every cowboy sings his sad, sad songEvery rose has its thorn Though it's been awhile nowI can still feel so much painLike a knife that cuts youThe wound heals, but the scar,That scar remains I know I could have saved our love that nightIf I'd known what to sayInstead of makin' loveWe both made our separate waysNow I hear you've found somebody newAnd that I never meant that much to youTo hear that tears me up insideAnd to see you cuts me like a knife Every rose has its thornJust like every night has its dawnJust like every cowboy sings his sad, sad songEvery rose has its thorn Quote Link to comment
dix Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Another nugget of truth from the soul of the Troubadour/Poet Robert Plant and his comrades from Led Zeppelin, this is the guiding priciple of my life.... Black Dog Hey, hey, mama, said the way you moveGonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.Oh, oh, child, way you shake that thingGonna make you burn, gonna make you sting.Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that wayWatch your honey drip, cant keep away. *ah yeah, ah yeah, ah, ah, ah., ah yeah, ah yeah, ah, ah, ah. I gotta roll, cant stand still,Got a flame in my heart, cant get my fill,Eyes that shine burning red,Dreams of you all thru my head.Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. Hey, baby, oh, baby, pretty baby,Tell me what you do me now. Didnt take too long fore I found outWhat people mean my down and out.Spent my money, took my car,Started tellin her friends she wants to be a star.I dont know but I been toldA big legged woman aint got no soul. All I ask for when I pray,Steady rollin woman gonna come my way.Need a woman gonna hold my handAnd tell me no lies, make me a happy man. Quote Link to comment
iwalkalone Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 A Recipe For Suicide Take lies and fearsAnd a pinch of regret and alsoA little confusion and mistakes.Put sickness and worryAnd a cup full of betrayalIn an enormous cauldron of tears.Mix with depressionAnd a touch of failureUntil tears rush down your face.Throw in a miscarriageAnd a lost love or two.Then, broil in a broken heartAt one million degreesUntil overwhelmed with grief and sorrow.You can tell it’s doneWhen you can stand no more pain.Let stand until tired of the madness of the world.Sprinkle on some jealousyAnd serve with sadness and unrest.Taste a touch of suicide. Quote Link to comment
iwalkalone Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 My love is lost.............. There is a pain in my heartthat brings tears in my eyesI am sad because my love hurts meMy love, like a sky without clouds, like a river without fishes andlike an ocean without wavesI am sad because my love left me aloneThe stars are in the sky are not glitteringThe moon in the sky is not sailingThe cool breeze is not touching meI am sad because my love don't care for meThe truth always become lieThe love always become troubleThe understanding always become failI am sad because my love don't trust meThe thoughts in my mind become wasteThe dreams in my heart cannot be fulfilledThe life in the world brings me an emptinessI am sad because my love need me no more Quote Link to comment
iwalkalone Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 An Angel Cries Isn't is sad when an angel cries? Small pearl drops fall from the skies, holy water flows in tears, human burdens their only fears.They live among us everyday, to help guide us on our way, it upsets them to hear our lies, Isn't it sad when an angel cries? Everyday they absorb our pain, in their tears it will remain, we may ask what goods it for? But everyday they are fighting our war.Some battles won whilst others lost, earth to be rebuilt at such a cost, life streams are broken when they try, isn't it sad for an angle to cry? Quote Link to comment
iwalkalone Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 Here i am crying, but i told my self the next time i will cry is when i k*ll myself. Im crying though. How can i break like ths How can i cry?.... u ask..... it's like death wounderful but sad. but thats me.All sad, sad like the black hole of sadness. How, how how, can i break and cry when i should'nt. But im dead. I'v been dead all my life so how......why........why do i cry tonight? Quote Link to comment
spongebobby Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 after all these years, still my favorite poem. and after all these years, i still post in lower case--because of e.e. cummings. somewhere i have never travelled somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyondany experience, your eyes have their silence:in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose methough i have closed myself as fingers,you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i andmy life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,as when the heart of this flower imaginesthe snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are to perceive in this world equalsthe power of your intense fragility: whose texturecompels me with the colour of its countries,rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closesand opens; only something in me understandsthe voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands -- e. e. cummings Quote Link to comment
TNT Hsia Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 (edited) For the Longest Time-Billy Joel Oh, oh, ohFor the longest timeOh, oh, ohFor the longest ... If you said goodbye to me tonightThere would still be music left to writeWhat else could I doI'm so inspired by youThat hasn't happened for the longest time Once I thought my innocence was goneNow I know that happiness goes onThat's where you found meWhen you put your arms around meI haven't been there for the longest time Oh, oh, ohFor the longest timeOh, oh, ohFor the longest ... I'm that voice youre hearing in the hallAnd the greatest miracle of allIs how I need youAnd how you needed me tooThat hasn't happened for the longest time Maybe this won't last very longBut you feel so rightAnd I could be wrongMaybe I've been hoping too hardBut I've gone this farAnd it's more than I hoped for Who knows how much further well go onMaybe I'll be sorry when youre goneI'll take my chancesI forgot how nice romance isI haven't been there for the longest time I had second thoughts at the startI said to myselfHold on to your heartNow I know the woman that you areYou're wonderful so farAnd its more than I hoped for I dont care what consequence it bringsI have been a fool for lesser thingsI want you so badI think you ought to know thatI intend to hold you for the longest time Edited December 1, 2006 by TNT Hsia Quote Link to comment
iwalkalone Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 A Gas Butterfly Tell me what's happening to me? Why is my heart beating so fervently? why has this madness, like a wave, Broken through the rock of habit? Is it my strength or just my torment I'm too disturbed to tell: From the shimmering lines of life I extract a forgotten phrase... Is it a thief who turns his lantern Upon the crowd of dreary letters? I can't help reading the phrase, But haven't the strength to go back... It really had to flare up, But it only harries the darkness; All night, like a gas-flame butterfly It trembles, but cannot escape... Quote Link to comment
iwalkalone Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 Till death do us part I will hold youTill death do us part I will be there for youTill death do us part I will protect you Till death do us part I will love you Till death do us part? What does it actually mean? Is it about being together, Until we die? Till death do us part I shall carry youTill death do us part I shall care for youTill death do us part I shall be with youTill death do us part I shall love you Till death do us part Will not be the end of my loveFor as long as I exist in body or soul My love for you will carry on Quote Link to comment
cuatro_ojos Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 (edited) "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveller, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ------------------------------------------------------ Don't Quitby anonymous When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,When the funds are low and the debts are high,And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,When care is pressing you down a bit,Rest if you must; but don't you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns,As everyone of us sometimes learns,And many a failure turns aboutWhen he might have won had he stuck it out;Don't give up, though the pace seems slow;You might succeed with another blow. Often the goal is nearer thanIt seems to a faint and faltering man,Often the struggler has given upWhen he might have captured the victor's cup.And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,How close he was to the golden crown. Success is failure turned inside out;The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;And you never can tell how close you are,It may be near when it seems afar;So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit;It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit. Edited December 8, 2006 by cuatro_ojos Quote Link to comment
naked_angel Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 the invitationoriah it doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.i want to know what you ache forand if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. it doesn’t interest me how old you are.i want to know if you will risk looking like a foolfor lovefor your dreamfor the adventure of being alive. it doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...i want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrowif you have been opened by life’s betrayalsor have become shrivelled and closedfrom fear of further pain. i want to know if you can sit with painmine or your ownwithout moving to hide itor fade itor fix it. i want to know if you can be with joymine or your ownif you can dance with wildnessand let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toeswithout cautioning usto be carefulto be realisticto remember the limitations of being human. it doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling meis true.i want to know if you candisappoint anotherto be true to yourself.if you can bear the accusation of betrayaland not betray your own soul.if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. i want to know if you can see Beautyeven when it is not prettyevery day.and if you can source your own lifefrom its presence. i want to know if you can live with failureyours and mineand still stand at the edge of the lakeand shout to the silver of the full moon,“yes.” it doesn’t interest meto know where you live or how much money you have.i want to know if you can get upafter the night of grief and despairweary and bruised to the boneand do what needs to be doneto feed the children. it doesn’t interest me who you knowor how you came to be here.i want to know if you will standin the centre of the firewith meand not shrink back. it doesn’t interest me where or what or with whomyou have studied.i want to know what sustains youfrom the insidewhen all else falls away. i want to know if you can be alonewith yourselfand if you truly like the company you keepin the empty moments. Quote Link to comment
habahabatuta Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845) ...Quote the Raven, "Nevermore." Quote Link to comment
gonefishing Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you becauseyou would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually,without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. Quote Link to comment
iwalkalone Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Death Of An Angelby Joseph Smith I once knew a lady namedMiseryshe lived in a damaged worldshe calls to me in transparent dreams a lonely staroutsidethe closed universe she was my twisted soul long agoshe experiencedthe darkest ofpain beauty was somethingshe could notbelieve I once knew an angel namedEvilshe traveled like aghost into the shadows her heart was dying for some form oflife all seems balancednowthe angel burns todie Quote Link to comment
iwalkalone Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Crazy doom, And a flower blooms,Boom KaBoom, your out , before I count to 2,Played your cards damn you messed upfool, Angel of death, Bloody eyes black , So gloom, Beautiness and Tenderness I would assume,Id love to give you a kiss but it would all end to soon, Roamed a carnival, Oh, Heres a balloon, Saturated pain to slowly seep through skin, Beautiful purple eyes ,I got lost in your haze,One day ended,To end both our days,I see all grey ,But you spark color in my lone dismay, So shall we stare upon Mother Moon ,And in minds begin to pray,Please dont let this night end,For' Tommorrow, I cant see you again, Brings forth another bad day,To dream and stare around at my four corners all day. Quote Link to comment
naked_angel Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 the dance i have sent you my invitation,the note inscribed on the palm of my hand by the fire of living.don’t jump up and shout, “yes, this is what i want! let’s do it!”just stand up quietly and dance with me. show me how you follow your deepest desires,spiraling down into the ache within the ache,and I will show you how I reach inward and open outwardto feel the kiss of the mystery, sweet lips on my own, every day. don’t tell me you want to hold the whole world in your heart.show me how you turn away from making another wrong without abandoning yourself when you are hurt and afraid of being unloved. tell me a story of who you are,and see who I am in the stories I live.and together we will remember that each of us always has a choice. don’t tell me how wonderful things will be . . . some day.show me you can risk being completely at peace,truly okay with the way things are right now in this moment,and again in the next and the next and the next. . . i have heard enough warrior stories of heroic daring.tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall,the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will.what carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness? and after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently lovingthose we once loved out loud. take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance,the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart.and I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet and the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again. show me how you take care of businesswithout letting business determine who you are.when the children are fed but still the voices within and around us shout that soul’s desires have too high a price,let us remind each other that it is never about the money. show me how you offer to your people and the worldthe stories and the songsyou want our children’s children to remember.and i will show you how I struggle not to change the world,but to love it. sit beside me in long moments of shared solitude,knowing both our absolute aloneness and our undeniable belonging.dance with me in the silence and in the sound of small daily words,holding neither against me at the end of the day. and when the sound of all the declarations of our sincerestintentions has died away on the wind,dance with me in the infinite pause before the next great inhaleof the breath that is breathing us all into being,not filling the emptiness from the outside or from within. don’t say, “yes!”just take my hand and dance with me. Quote Link to comment
Mobius Stripper Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 A song from Cat Stevens touched me today ... To the youth of today as they were yesterdayTorn between partying & making a differenceWanting to do both but realizing one contradicts the otherThus instead blaming the previous generation For the mess they themselves contributed as wellBecause they are the larger mass marketTo whom the law of supply & demand catersKnowing very well that one dayThey will become the previous generation. Oh very youngWhat will you leave us this time?You're only dancing on this earth for a short whileAnd though your dreams may toss and turn you nowThey will vanish away like your daddy's best jeansDenim blue fading up to the skyAnd though you want them to last foreverYou know they never willYou know they never willAnd the patches make the goodbye harder still ... Oh very youngWhat will you leave us this time?There'll never be a better chance to change your mindAnd if you want this world to see a better dayWill you carry the words of love with youWill you ride the great white bird into heavenAnd though you want to last foreverYou know you never willYou know you never willAnd the goodbye makes the journey harder still ... Oh very youngWhat will you leave us this time?You're only dancing on this earth for a short whileOh very youngWhat will you leave us this time? Quote Link to comment
nightingale Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Ode:Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhoodby: William Wordsworth THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparell'd in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;— Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more. The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath pass'd away a glory from the earth. Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song, And while the young lambs bound As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong: The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep; No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity, And with the heart of May Doth every beast keep holiday;— Thou Child of Joy, Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy Shepherd-boy! Ye blessèd creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel—I feel it all. O evil day! if I were sullen While Earth herself is adorning, This sweet May-morning, And the children are culling On every side, In a thousand valleys far and wide, Fresh flowers; while the sun shines warm, And the babe leaps up on his mother's arm:— I hear, I hear, with joy I hear! —But there's a tree, of many, one, A single field which I have look'd upon, Both of them speak of something that is gone: The pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream? Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come 65 From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. 85 Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years' darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learnèd art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new joy and pride The little actor cons another part; Filling from time to time his 'humorous stage' With all the Persons, down to palsied Age, That Life brings with her in her equipage; As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,— Mighty prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave; Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the Day, a master o'er a slave, A presence which is not to be put by; To whom the grave Is but a lonely bed without the sense or sight Of day or the warm light, A place of thought where we in waiting lie; Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:— Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never: Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy! Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song! And let the young lambs bound As to the tabor's sound! We in thought will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to-day Feel the gladness of the May! What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. And O ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, Forebode not any severing of our loves! Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might; I only have relinquish'd one delight 195To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripp'd lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet; The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Quote Link to comment
iwalkalone Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 From All in All to Not at All © Jonathan Robin pseudo limerick written 1 October 2005 I was stem, I was thorn, I was rose, I was leaf, I was grief which arose when you spurned me and burned me and quite overturned me to stimulate nectar's outflows. Life was clement, I acorn which rosethrough belief to be chief tree each knows, who discerned me concerned me and right from rite learned, to be true to no counter-fate woes. Don’t condemn, never mourn, if Death chose like a thief no relief to propose, little earn, no return, we won’t haunt, daunt nor flaunt free to simulate spectral hell_owes! Quote Link to comment
iwalkalone Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 PoetryAkara K. What is poetry? Poetry is many thingsBut there are far more things that poetry is notPoetry is not a style of writingPoetry is not a rhyme or a limerickPoetry is not something you can readPoetry isn't just seen or heard, but seen, heard, and feltWhat is poetry, then? I can't tell you that, no one canBut you can only knowAnd even then you can't tell anyone what poetry isBecause poetry isn't wordsPoetry is a feeling you get in your chestPoetry is a chill that runs through your bodyPoetry is a knife that slices your soulPoetry is experienced from withinIf something rhymes and it makes senseIt may be a poemBut it isn't poetryCan you hear your soul calling out to you? That is poetryCan you feel the tightness in your chest, the squeezing of your heart? That is poetryA boy and girl at the edge a cliff, dangerously close, leaning over the edgeTheir arms outstretched, they soarThey can fly anywhere without ever leaving their perchThe sound of a flute and swirling colorsReds, blues, greens, white and blackHarmony, a sound that goes straight through youThe midnight sky with stars that speakWhat they whisper in your ear is faintBut even if you can't hear it, if you can feel it, it is poetryA solitary wolf bounding through a forestSo graceful, paws that never touch the groundEyes shining brighter than the sunThe movements of the human bodyMuscles within neck, arms, legsThe body is living poetryFlex your fingersHow do they move? Every part of you, poetry in itselfThe wind blowing through an open windowMoist breeze that dampens your face, your bedThe moonlight shining throughIs poetryBut this is hardly poetry, what you read nowBecause poetry isn't wordsPoetry isn't what you see or hearIt is what you feelPoetry is what you believeWhat you are Quote Link to comment
iwalkalone Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Scream... Meagan Reid Throw your hands in the airAnd just walk awayLeave me there to cryAnd just wait for me to die 'I'm sorry' I screamI never ment to bother youI never ment to wake you upAs you scream 'What did you do? ' You grab my arm fastLook at my scarsAs I start to cryWhile thinking of my past I try not to do it anymoreI really do...Just when you scream at meI don't have any another way I wait for you to leaveEvery single dayJust so I can ease my painFor a few seconds while you're away We fight all the timeI don't see a way outI have to do thisPlease don't shout You scream 'I've heard enough, I don't care anymoreGo ahead k*ll yourselfWhat are you living for? ' Just smack me in the faceCome on just onceI need to feel painJust put me back in place Throw your hands in the airAnd just walk awayLeave me there to cryAnd just wait for me to die When the going gets tough, The tough get goingI see the weakness in your eyesEverytime you walk awayMy heart slowly starts to decay Through these teary eyesCan you see what really lays insideAn angry teen girlWho's heart has now just died Everytime you walk awayEverytime you hit meA piece of me slowly diesYour almost finished, don't stop now I'm sorry for waking you up tonight daddyI never ment to, It was just a little accidentIt's just I couldn't hold the tears inI had to let them go Grab my arm, check them againI can't take these tears anymoreI can't take the shame You turn to walk awayAfter the silence that lasted an eternityI scream 'I need you to help me! 'But you just walk out the door As I lay there on the floorYou watch me through the windowI squirm aroundI scream 'daddy don't leave' You turn to leave me foreverAs I run out the door I scream 'Daddy you can't leave I need you, wipe away my tears'You just laugh And keep on walking There's no convincing you to staySo I will just bow my head in shameFor I know you won't come back todayMiracles can happen....Just not to me I'm just a little teen girlWho's heart is decayedAnd who has a fatherWho never wanted to stay Throw your hands in the airAnd Just walk awayLeave me there to cryAnd just wait for me to die..... Quote Link to comment
iwalkalone Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Underneath The Surface Meagan Reid Behind this fake smileIs something you will never understandSo stop trying to figure out who I amWhen you only see the make believe I make up lies to keep you happyIt tears me up insideTo see you so happyWhen I put on my fake smile I hope just one dayYou will see passed itHear my silent screams for helpAnd do something about it I know you wouldIf I told youBut I know I can'tIf I did we would come un-glued Behind this fake smileIs someone you will never knowYou think you know meBut you only know the make believe Today I cried in your armsBecause I was tired of pretendingYou asked me what was wrongAnd I said Nothing Babe, let's keep going I have to lieJust so I can have somebody thereWho loves meWhen really, you only love the make believe When I put on my fake smileI see your face light upMy heart breaksBecause I know this is all a fake My life is so messed upWell the one that you don't knowI hide it all......Every single thing from you Knowing that our relationship isn't realMake my eyes fill up with tearsWe never were And never will beBut I have the right to feel I told you the truth todayAnd I'm surprised you didn't yellBut instead you walked awayAnd didn't try to ease my pain. Quote Link to comment
spongebobby Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 almost forgot about this poem until i saw it in someone's blog. probably read and re-read this a thousand times--and its simplicity and elegance still moves me. the red wheelbarrow by william carlos williams so much dependsupona red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens. Quote Link to comment
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