Poems...come share your work.

[T4Texas]

No matter how many days
we spend apart
I still have a place for you
right here in my heart
a tiny little nook
set aside for you
no matter what you say
or no matter what you do
it doesn't matter how the world
might spin from end to end
that little place will still remain
a refuge for a friend.

You'll always have that place
no matter how things go
if some day you come to find
you must move along, just know
there will be no animosity
no anger or despair
just someone who always cared
and wanted to be there
You've given me a gift
I never can repay
you've given me myself again
somewhere along the way.

You remind me of the Texas sky
at the end of a perfect day
when the ribbons of red reach far and wide
then fade to deepest grey
it's all a part and parcel
of the mystery that is you
I hope that I shall never lose
that moment when I knew
you were the woman I wanted to know
and to keep a little close
the one who brightened up my life
and made me less a ghost.

[Mr Nice Guy]

Raven
Verdict
Rendering
Shouts
Whisper
Wing
Eye
Soul
Cradle

Take your sign of death, your raven that sits upon my heart.<<disallowed word>>
My heart is not dead yet.<<disallowed word>>
You cannot steal my soul to quench your desire of need.<<disallowed word>>
You cannot cradle my soul and expect me to just lay.<<disallowed word>>
You will hear my shouts of protest and know my wrath.<<disallowed word>>
You will know that I will not go willingly.<<disallowed word>>
I will stand up and look you in the eye and whisper in your ear with venom.<<disallowed word>>
" I am me and I choose to stand strong with hope and faith " I give this to you as my rendering, a statement, a fact. "<<disallowed word>>
This is my life's verdict.<<disallowed word>>
"I will love again."
<<disallowed word>>Take this on a wing and a prayer.<<disallowed word>>

[luv2luvgirls]

what a great thread! Thank you Cinderella for making it and inviting us to share
I must say all of these poems hit me for so many different reasons,thank you all for sharing them here is two of mine..


let it burn...be consumed in the flames
tears stream silent falling like rain..
wash my face cleanse my soul..
bring me back out again whole..

...with each emotion comes a price
feelings are like rolling the dice
even when one is pure and true
its opposite is waiting to claim you
Ri~




in sorrow we see the better side of the you and me
in pain we digress to scared to confess
in love we are blind to all rhythm and rhyme
in hate we are consumed by the flame of doom
in happiness we feel like conquering the world

Ri~

[LaneyDoll]

disenchantment: (English) Singular Noun (plural noun-uncountable) 1.the act of disenchanting or the state of being disenchanted. 2. freeing from false belief or illusions


~*~Disenchantment~*~

You say I don’t exist
Yet I lie here in your arms
So how did I end up here
Once I fell for your charms?


All the times I wanted you
So close and yet so far
I could almost reach and touch you-
Like grasping for a star.


I listen to your heartbeat
And feel the breath you take,
I touch the warmth of your skin
As I lie here and I break.


But when you talk I hear you
And tears fall down my face,
When you say I that I’m not real
That I don’t have a place.


You gently kiss my lips
And run your fingers through my hair
So why did I feel these things
When I’m not even there?


To you, I don’t exist
And yet you held me tight,
As the moon left for the sun
And morning replaced the night.


~Laney
(c)

[cinderella]

Yay!!! I love poems that rhyme!!! Loved it!

Originally Posted by LaneyDoll

disenchantment: (English) Singular Noun (plural noun-uncountable) 1.the act of disenchanting or the state of being disenchanted. 2. freeing from false belief or illusions


~*~Disenchantment~*~

You say I don’t exist
Yet I lie here in your arms
So how did I end up here
Once I fell for your charms?


All the times I wanted you
So close and yet so far
I could almost reach and touch you-
Like grasping for a star.


I listen to your heartbeat
And feel the breath you take,
I touch the warmth of your skin
As I lie here and I break.


But when you talk I hear you
And tears fall down my face,
When you say I that I’m not real
That I don’t have a place.


You gently kiss my lips
And run your fingers through my hair
So why did I feel these things
When I’m not even there?


To you, I don’t exist
And yet you held me tight,
As the moon left for the sun
And morning replaced the night.


~Laney
(c)

[cinderella]

You're more then welcom,luv2. Glad you are enjoying the posts. I particularly liked this one of yours...very touching.

Originally Posted by luv2luvgirls

what a great thread! Thank you Cinderella for making it and inviting us to share
I must say all of these poems hit me for so many different reasons,thank you all for sharing them here is two of mine..


let it burn...be consumed in the flames
tears stream silent falling like rain..
wash my face cleanse my soul..
bring me back out again whole..

...with each emotion comes a price
feelings are like rolling the dice
even when one is pure and true
its opposite is waiting to claim you
Ri~




in sorrow we see the better side of the you and me
in pain we digress to scared to confess
in love we are blind to all rhythm and rhyme
in hate we are consumed by the flame of doom
in happiness we feel like conquering the world

Ri~

[luv2luvgirls]

Originally Posted by cinderella

You're more then welcom,luv2. Glad you are enjoying the posts. I particularly liked this one of yours...very touching.

thank you Cinderella ...im in the mood for expressing hope you dont mind more :P

up and down and round again
wondering if today it will end
love falls on deaf ears
bringing the sound of my fear
gently i sway
...to the rhythm I play
in my heart so true
the beat is for you
lyrics in my head
fall like spent lead

Ri~


you didnt see,couldnt feel
the hurt inside was so real
finding ways to cope with loss
wondering why its so easy to toss
your words ring false and untrue
I'll never get over you
one day I will lift my head
face the world feeling dead
‎life has been good to me
raise my glass and let it be
have a drink on me toast my pain
lift your glass and let it rain
down your throat it slides
warm as fire as it glides
its ok I learned life is that way
consume me in the flame
so I rise again another day

Ri~

[cinderella]

You walked away so long ago
I cried so at the start
I've tried so hard to love again
But how, without my heart.

Among the things you took with you
When you walked out the door,
My soul, my heart
My faith in love,
Now lost forevermore.

[cinderella]

This is what I wrote with the 9 words that were provided in the challenge. I wrote this a few years ago...


The 9-Word Poetry Challenge:
Dilettante * Flotsam * Sheer * Lighter * Lazy * Woeful* Ivory * Filigree * Leaves

The Elephants Graveyard
Ivory bones bleached lighter by the sun,
Shining through the filigree of leaves.
Trumpeting widow’s woeful cries are done
Her sorrow-laden heart no longer grieves.

Very much like flotsam they are now
Sheer, skeletal debris all that remains.
Where now that massive head and noble brow,
That curling trunk that drank of the sweet rains?

The wild holds no refuge from the callous hunter
Greed impels him here to where the beasts abide.
Triumphant they carry their kill as they saunter,
Never knowing nor caring how many have died.

Dilettantes discussing the length, shape and sizes,
And the glorious trophy as they made their stave.
Ornaments are fashioned from the ivory prizes
Carved from all the tusks picked up from that grave.

Lazy matrons vying to obtain possession
Of the bounty brought to the homeland shores.
Anxious eyes covet with greedy obsession
To add yet more booty to their treasure stores.

[luv2luvgirls]

Originally Posted by cinderella

You walked away so long ago
I cried so at the start
I've tried so hard to love again
But how, without my heart.

Among the things you took with you
When you walked out the door,
My soul, my heart
My faith in love,
Now lost forevermore.

such emotion in this..I really like this

[Morgan]

Fear is something to be conquered.........
Morgan

Think what you want, I don’t care, you surrounded me and lied to me.
You said they would hurt me, so I feared them.
You said they would laugh at me, so I hid…..
... I believed every word you said, I trusted you, now I know it wasn’t true and I am left with nothing more than a shell of who I am.
All my life I have been afraid to live.
I have continuously walked in others’ shoes.
I played it safe, fearing the worst, afraid to participate in my own life.
Morphing into people I met along the way, a piece here, a piece there, until one day I became them, all of them.
Like some warped and grotesque figure, staring back in the mirror. Who is this person, who are they all looking back at me?
How did she know, she says “oh you cannot hide”, now it is time to face my demons, oh how I want to run……
My muscles have grown tired and I have grown weaker, with each passing day I have grown weaker, today is my fight, today is my day,
My mind is mine, my body is mine, and now I know MY LIFE IS MINE.
I am no longer a child……..I have no excuses, MY LIFE IS MINE.

[T4Texas]

Never love a stranger
they'll take your heart away
they'll set it loose on the northern wind
and there will be no way
that you can get it back.

Never love a stranger
they'll leave you feeling sad
and wishing that what you wanted
was more than what you had
but you will have nothing.

Never love a stranger
they'll be quiet when they leave
with the lights still out and the curtains drawn
they will try to make you believe
that they'll be back....

2/25/12

[WomenMoveMe]

Not much of a poet, not certain I get it really. However, I suppose most all of us give it a whirl at some point in our lives. This was my one and only attempt:

A Beauty Unsurpassed


With a beauty unsurpassed by any,
that’s how our love should have grown,
but I took advantage with my selfish ways,
oh if only I could have known.

That I would so soon, yearn to touch your hair,
and feel the blessedness of your smile,
to once again enrapture your laughing heart,
and this time keep it laughing all the while.

For childish reason I disowned your love,
for a pain of which you knew naught,
oh if only I could have known back then,
the sheer joy your love could have brought.

So bestow me your sincerest forgiveness,
although your word values more than my worth,
and our lives shall grow together as one,
as our love regains strength in rebirth.

[Hollylane]

My first attempt at Gogyohka:
• 5 lines of free verse
• No set syllable pattern
• Short & succinct lines, governed by the duration of a single breath
• Captures an idea, memory, observation or feeling in a few compelling words


I think I may have missed the mark on "succinct"...

Anyway...Here it is:



Is what you are experiencing
Through lengthy conversations
With eagerly parted lips
enough to know both the satiation and the hunger
of wholehearted love?

[Hollylane]

A second attempt at Gogyohka:


From the dock
A tether breaks free from the mooring
Adrift on a torpid lake
The empty vessel is floating into the dawn
And there is no one left to bear witness from the shore.

[SingularNYCFemme]

Originally Posted by Hollylane

My first attempt at Gogyohka:
• 5 lines of free verse
• No set syllable pattern
• Short & succinct lines, governed by the duration of a single breath
• Captures an idea, memory, observation or feeling in a few compelling words


I think I may have missed the mark on "succinct"...

Anyway...Here it is:



Is what you are experiencing
Through lengthy conversations
With eagerly parted lips
enough to know both the satiation and the hunger
of wholehearted love?

I'd say you're spot on. Lots to remember ... I might need to try this sometime.