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Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

Brent Kincaid

I was hoping for sunshine
Instead you brought me rain.
I thought it would be all pleasure
But it ended up causing pain.
I wish you’d sung me love songs
That fell on my ears like psalms
Instead you turned away from me
And I had nothing in my palms.

I wanted to assuage my heart
That I would not be alone
But I seem to be a person who
Disgusts you to the bone.
I’ll never understand how you
Could turn from hot to icy cold
Somehow the love you felt at first
Quite suddenly got too old.

You no longer gently smiled at me.
And you found my jokes unfunny.
We began to live in cloudy skies
That never quite turned to sunny.
We both had misjudged the other
And things went south from there;
Made a wrong turn at Albuquerque
And I think I know just where.

It started when you realized
I’m not good at one-month stands.
You looked up and looked around
To see who else was at hand.
And since there are always those
Who date based on a guy’s looks
You became all hot and bothered
And I became one for the books.

One more notch on your pistol
A face to avoid on meeting.
One more victim of your game
That deserves no kind of greeting.
The good side of this story is
I am no longer under your spell.
I am going to move onward now
And let you sashay to hell.

#love #infatuation #fleeting #heartache #recovery #poetry #kincaid

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

My thoughts are scattered; I need a rope to tie them up

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

Blade Maiden

My thoughts are scattered; I need a rope to tie them up

I'm guilty
I'm always guilty
it bugs me, won't leave me alone
"you're filthy, empty
only filled with things you collected
over there, in anothers life
you're all things neglected
hell, you're not worth the dive"

Shut up! Just be quiet.
Only once. Give me some bliss.
I am the one who decided
I'm fine with how it is.
Why can't you be my ally instead?
What is driving you so mad?

Yes, I feel pathetic.
Are you happy now?
Won't we make this sound more poetic?
The least we can do is put on a show.
Is this all I can do?
Always fighting this stupid me and you

I'm happy, can't you see?
My eyes cry out to make you believe.
I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy,
why don't you let me be?
A little bit futile,
in the eyes of my own judge
Quite a bit volatile,
and how it still all feels like a little bit too much

I know what I'm supposed to do
I know no stranger should feel like hope
I know I alone need to come through
I know there's no red rope
nothing that ties my floating pieces together
scattered for far too long,
underneath a bright and broken moon, forever
singing some beautiful and lonely song

Realization,
I recognize.
Acceptance,
I understand.
But I can't be changed.
I won't ever be changed.
Always feel estranged,
countless thoughts deranged
in the picture you see, so beautifully arranged.

#doubt #selfdoubt #pathetic #guilt #worth #happiness #acceptance #change #deranged #picture

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

Always Take That Step Forward

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

Ronell Warren Alman

Always Take That Step Forward

Always take that step forward
Move towards the light
Escape from the dark clouds
In order to make your world bright
The choice is yours
Create your legacy
Be all about your business
Manifest your destiny

#life #hope #inspirational #encouragement

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

Jealousy

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

Lady Misfortune

Jealousy

I loved you
You broke me
I envy
Your capability

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

Brown Penny

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

William Butler Yeats

Brown Penny

I WHISPERED, "I am too young,"
And then, "I am old enough";
Wherefore I threw a penny
To find out if I might love.
"Go and love, go and love, young man,
If the lady be young and fair."
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
I am looped in the loops of her hair.
O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
One cannot begin it too soon.

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

Unflinching

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

Kush

Unflinching

So swift to burn second chances
but casual cruelties do not equal honesty

Strength at the expense of others
is not strength at all

I've walked into the dark woods
It lies obliterated, charred
never as damaged as the ones who are scarred

Wells of patience are not frequently found
steadiness is rare and grows from the heart
judgement has been bled from my veins

And treading the path of truth, my art

Do not falter

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

Verse 1, Where

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

IrieSide

Verse 1, Where

It nourished my garden
this dripping of words
from clouds in thought
and glacier energy
I found my soul
again
etched in this
sacred poetry

Stay true to yourself. That sacred energy you know is there. Follow it always, and it will guide you home.

#heart #abundance #seeking #truth #path #life #follow #heaven #treasure #gold

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

I Used To Think My Hands Belonged To Someone Else

Sep 2018 Semi-literate Poet

DaSH the Hopeful

I Used To Think My Hands Belonged To Someone Else

Cautionary visions visit in viciously vivid fashion
I'm dead and my head is missing
Everyone is laughing

                     But me

And the sky is sorta dreary but I don't know
With no eyes you don't see too clearly

      Sew me a new one on,
Attached at the neck
Plastic instead of brittle skin and maybe then
     I can exist in some form above the normally gray and grim

    I pray to a faceless facade
            I made a "God" in my head
An eternal alternative to turn to and blame
   And claim to strangers that he works in mysterious ways
        My lips are chafed from singing unheard praises

        I'm tasteless and it has me thinking that maybe my mouth was only a product of my imagination
     Food for thought I chew and stop
           Its too **** hot for contemplation

      Still, I used to think my hands belonged to someone else
     Right up until I used them both to **** myself

#surreal #weird #poetry #you #me #life #love