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lisa-v
American
*Hope dashed To play with Drenching drops which Mirror her thoughts The world cries with her At the injustice The wars and hunger Fills her heart I call after her but she Is already gone There is no hope for us Unless we become it*
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Dec 17, 2012
Dec 17, 2012 at 12:07 AM UTC
Hope
****** from this dry earth Where your soul once flourished You were stolen Suddenly your body failed as your daughter watched on You were gone No one to console her She cries for her mom to come home Now an orphan**
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Dec 12, 2011
Dec 12, 2011 at 12:52 AM UTC
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*My vocabulary is not large enough to contain you To figure you out and narrow you down I approach problems with a calculator in hand To be precise in my answer But you have no numbers or bounds You are infinity Too hard to wrap my head around and something science cannot explain There are infinite number of feelings that swell up inside me, and an infinite number of words would be too few to describe you Some people narrow these feelings down and call it love I would rather search through those millions of words before settling on four small letters.*
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Dec 7, 2011
Dec 7, 2011 at 3:48 PM UTC
Infinity
Their way: Nothing final about it. They will haunt me for the rest of my life. Getting into a good school Earning a good living What would I do without a white collar job? A fancy car? A perfect life? Mine: I will write poetry while everyone is in a fury. I will try, but I will not take it too seriously. I believe in grades as much as unicorns. Do I do well? sure, but I know something they don't That life is more than numbers and dollar bills. It cannot be boiled down to physics and chemistry We might be governed by laws and rules but I refuse to let them predetermine the rest of my life.
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Dec 6, 2011
Dec 6, 2011 at 2:51 PM UTC
Finals
I am     suffocated     by their eyes.     These watchful expectant glares keep me trapped inside. My mind fails me as jumbled ugly words project like slimy *****      What they expected is fulfilled and in that fleeting instant all hope for me to                                                                                  change in spite of myself is lost.     And the d                     o                w                       n                w                        a                  r                         d   spiral commences, they look away and shake their heads as their thoughts manifest. There is no hope for me now.
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Dec 6, 2011
Dec 6, 2011 at 2:27 PM UTC
Expectations
I cannot write sappy love lines. I have no use for them. They will not feed me or clothe me or bathe me. Therefore, all I can say is I have no use for love. It only leaves and takes and breaks. No one needs love, especially not mine. The love of an unlovable is never enough for anyone. And I try to explain it to you, but you won't listen Love has poisoned your mind... Just like it did mine not too long ago. You reach out to me, but the man who came before left a six foot four fortress surrounding me. I'm left cold and hard to escape the silly sappy love that I would rather do without.
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Dec 6, 2011
Dec 6, 2011 at 2:22 PM UTC
Used love
Smokey room clouds my mind.       I reach for you as the outline of your face breaks the fog, but my hand only meets the damp air. Instead you e  x p  l  o  d e  into sparks of gold and red. The dim light captures the shimmering cascade which now surrounds me.        I look to the clouds on my left and begin to scatter you throughout the night sky.              I have not abandoned you for no matter where I am the sky is always with me.                    Longing and desperation fills me heart from dawn till dusk.... but at night we shall be together And when I die we will share a permanent home in the sky among the stars
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Dec 6, 2011
Dec 6, 2011 at 1:44 PM UTC
Life and Death
I feel an irritating tick     in the back of my head. A ghost whispers your name in my ear,        with urgency and a fierce persistence. I crave to drink in our        silence as we intertwine in warm thick sheets. We would stay in our         own world, where we only have each other and we live without food or water.         United we don't even come up for air. Instead, we live off each          others sweet sweat which is more than enough to sustain life on this          musky afternoon. Together we are transparently aware of our selfishness in       each other but can't seem to pry ourselves apart. As Life would          be, however, you haven't called and if you did what        would I say. I'd rather live as a figure in         this still life than find out       that it can't come true.
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Dec 6, 2011
Dec 6, 2011 at 12:34 PM UTC
Dreams or delusions
White foam drifting, turquoise waves swaying gently to the shore. Looking out to open endlessness. Feeling insignificant and vulnerable, yet relaxed as the sand between your toes massages away every pain. Carelessness fills up your rosy body as heat heals your bones. Dancing overcomes you as you spin alone on the crest where sea and land embrace. Your mind is finally blank in thought and peace settles throughout the delicate shades of the bright blue horizon which is reflected by the sun deep down into your soul.
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Dec 6, 2011
Dec 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM UTC
Seashore
I take back every secret I told you and all the laughs we ever shared. I really don't even like you that much. I don't like your perfect white smile or your honest eyes. I can't stand looking at your rosy lips or your towering shadow next to mine. But most of all I hate how you look at me because I know it will never be with the same passion I have for you. I can't stand trying to convince myself against my love for you. It's easier not to care, but it still hurts to hate.
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Dec 6, 2011
Dec 6, 2011 at 12:11 PM UTC
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