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dave-slate
dave-slate
Writer and amateur optometrist.
There was something in your smile, When you looked at me sideways, Sitting, in the passenger seat, of my car. And I can't help, but replay the memory. I bought the beer in your hand, I would have paid for the world, But I let the moment pass with the joint. I hope to never know why you're here. It was outside of the bar that I realized the reason that I came. Smoking, confessing our dreams and our truth. The way our eyes connected, I could tell it was you.
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Oct 6, 2015
Oct 6, 2015 at 11:58 PM UTC
I don't even know your name
November you can find me at the voting booth Putting in my plus one only for the real truth All people of the earth were created the same This is the election that will change-up the game We are liberating Blacks, Gays, Trans, and Females So that everybody counts the same as white males Nobody shall be left out of our public schools Nor shall their hands be banned from their right to use tools Until equality is provided for all Brothers, Sisters, Mothers, Fathers join me in call, “Our cause is one, our right divine, if our justice Is denied, it will not stop or cure the restless”
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Oct 4, 2015
Oct 4, 2015 at 2:59 PM UTC
Ode to Change
I spent a good portion of the day Writing poetry I'll never publish Competing against people I'll never see. The faux-socially aware Stand on the shoulders of the confused, My enemies have solidified over the years. I'm a rolling stone Never giving my contemporaries The privilege of emotion. Cold and uncalculating. The only girl I tell myself I truly love Has thrown away my notebook In a fit of rage. I had written Of another girl not unfamiliar.
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Sep 23, 2015
Sep 23, 2015 at 10:21 PM UTC
If You Only Knew
I'm in bed, my soul's on fire Thinking bout my one desire To have that touch I've had before I had enough, but  I want more I think about you from time to time Recollecting days when you were mine One memory that sticks to me Has hauntingly been bittersweet I was young and you were dumb You were drunk, I had some *** On that couch we talked all night I dropped you off in morning light I miss you now, but I know Things come around and they go
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Apr 25, 2015
Apr 25, 2015 at 11:32 AM UTC
Soul on fire
Back and forth, up and down I've been spinning round and round. Where I'll be's not up to me But can it please be pretty? I'll give up, you take control Don't make me own this sordid soul. This way's straight, but is it north? Has this lone path been my course? Is my love, really enough? Where do I turn when it gets tough? If I'm lost and can't remember, Is the next step always surrender? Does the show have to go on Even after I am gone?
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Apr 24, 2015
Apr 24, 2015 at 10:45 PM UTC
Thoughts after the lecture
Sleep has made a fiend out of me Every night I try to hold out And in the morning, painfully I do what I can to keep the light out Sleep took the love I had for night Sleep, the jealous nagging wife The only true cure for my plight Is the one who threatens my life Sleep is pulling me below It waits down there for me to drown And when my breathe comes low and slow Sleep anoints me with its crown Sleep takes from me time and energy But all is forgiven in a dream
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Apr 22, 2015
Apr 22, 2015 at 10:05 AM UTC
Sleep
Say the words that stir my soul Internet love my heart's ablaze The fire, the nerves are your control Lover you have me amazed More sympathetic than my friends In languid, sloth-like afternoons Escape to you brings to an end The rise and power of my moon I miss you, though we've never met Our souls attached somewhere in space But someday physically we'll get To share a couch in the same place I wonder can it really be Six hundred miles between we
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Apr 21, 2015
Apr 21, 2015 at 10:03 PM UTC
Internet love
If your wish is to be well known Let my advice fill up your ear Go home before your coop has flown And thank them for all of their years It's simple enough if only Done once you're ready and able Don't let your self become lonely Sad, destructive, unstable It's true that you're all that you got But don't think you're all that you have Others pick up what was forgot As will you on love's two lane ave Remember have courage, be kind And your strings will never unwind
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Apr 21, 2015
Apr 21, 2015 at 10:00 PM UTC
If your wish...
To do this thing it's kind of hard At first you may just want to try Eventually you'll want to star And if you do you'll have to die Forget your name, forget your past If it's behind you never mind Another voice says it won't last Don't mark it down it's just a sign You realize now it's all been wrong Don't fret too much that's not progress Give up your life it won't be long Till all wisdom is said in jest You are the keeper of your soul An infinite eternal hole
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Apr 21, 2015
Apr 21, 2015 at 9:56 PM UTC
To do this...