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Dreams are yours
Color them as you like
Vibrant hues of the world
Are on your palette
Paint a rainbow
Or, rainbows over rainbows
Look up at the sky
Lots of colors
And explore what lies beyond
Over the rainbows
And head held high
 Oct 2014 Rebecca Durrett
paige v
You think that intelligence
is measured by words
by sentences
by essays
but no combination of letters you put together will be enough
to erase your ignorance.
grades don't define you.
A piece of you
Reflecting back
The bitter words in your mouth
Too raw to speak
A poet is
Someone in pain
And someone in love
Someone who looks at the world
Through a kaleidoscope
Who takes a magnifying glass to each
And every
Word you say
And lets them imprint on their heart
A poet is
A star gazer
A dreamer
A chaser of
The improbable
But hopes anyway
A poet is
Tissue paper skin
A heart of glass
And a soul of titanium

A poet is
A sharp tongue
And a gentle kiss
She is a sob
He is a sigh
A poet is
The sun at midnight
Bright and
Burning
Hot
Alive
But cloaked in a darkness
They cannot shake
The brightest day
And the darkest night
A poet is
The human experience
A paradox
An oxymoron
So complicatedly
Simple

A poet is
A lover
Who refuses
To stop wearing their heart on their sleeve
No matter how much it bleeds
But rolls them up
So you can’t see
The blood stains


A poet
Is Poetry
 Oct 2014 Rebecca Durrett
Shiloh
Turning over reaching out
the moans slowly fade
with the realization
that beside her lay
nothing but air
she takes that in deeply
and with a smile goes on

Waking up
rubbing the sleep from her eyes
to her instinctive surprise
she can't find her glasses
laughing it off
knowing she doesn't need them
she gets up anyway

Still slightly half asleep
and images not as clear as they are usually
she stumbles into the bathroom
where she regularly brushes her teeth
not being able to find the toothpaste
she laughs it off
she must have simply forgotten to get more
after running out
seeing this as nothing
to make a bad morning over

Tiptoeing to the kitchen
in the cold, she hugs herself
blinking in the bright light
not quite ready to face it all
her muscle memory kicks in
automatically she reaches for the
coffee maker, and finds it has disappeared.
sighing she finds contentment
in heating up a leftover cup from the fridge.

This being the third thing,
and maybe partly the caffeine
she starts to become flustered
her mind starts trailing off into
different scenarios of what could be taking place
she tries her best to examine her surroundings
maybe she is in the wrong house
she goes to the front door
to check for an apocalypse
and finds joggers, then children playing down the street
making sounds of frustration she closes herself off to the world
she walks back through the house trying to see
a sense of entitlement washes over her
this is what she deserves,
what she has set in motion for herself
the questions are endless and her bad mood tide is rising
she wishes to call
the lover she lives with
but quickly discovers her phone to be misplaced

Running her fingers through her hair
the location of her brush is now unknown
her heartbeat beating faster
right when she can't calm herself down
the front door opens again
her love walks in
the sight of him holding
what seem to be the shape of two coffees
makes breathing better
she doesn't have to say anything
her face questions all
he quickly apologizes for not being there
when she awoke
he had to act quickly
handing her the coffee
her fingers rapidly warm with contentment

she asks about her glasses
he places something in her hands
saying he knocked them down which broke them
hence why he left, to fix them
putting them on she looks around
everything is safe and sound.
It is nice to rely on certain things
but to be so caught up we have to be careful
to routinely have a wonderful state of mind.
I once asked you
"How long will you love me?"
You answered "Forever and a day"
with your faded photograph smile, but

Only a few months later
we'd spend most our day
packing short-term memories
and ******* our goodbye

I guess you either needed a reminder
of why we lasted as long as we did, or
maybe you just wanted to feel my love
being emptied inside you, one last time

Either way,  you and I were never meant to last
we were a chance encounter, a flame
that quickly burned out  moments after you came, and I
watched the farewell dim your eyes

It's funny now, how forever
ended up being a Friday
at a crowded bus station
A remix/repost
In love I was born,
A body with no soul
She held me in her arms,
And slowly she made me whole.
In her eyes I was made,
Her gentle heart--
Breathing life in me.
From the moment--
I was awake,
She never did let go of me.
In her embrace,
She raised me in a cruel world.
I was her everything,
Dear then them gold and pearls.
She sang me her love,
A lullaby so I could gently fall asleep.
Whence I dreamt of the stars,
She was the one,
Who gave me all the love--
I would ever need.


You gave me all you had
And then some more.
Lived each day for me,
With all the weight you bore.
You taught me,
Everything that I am.
It was in your arms,
That I learned how to stand.
You showed me,
How to love the world.
To be kind,
Even if sometimes it hurts.
In your presence,
Even the shadows were bright.
You held my tiny hands,
And slowly walked me to life.
I owe you alot more,
Than to be just alive.
You gifted me my soul,
When you sang to me--
Every night.


Years go by in a blur,
Only age lets one cherish--
The time one once had.
To remember,
The moments gone by
When we turn back.
And all I see is you,
Holding me in your arm.
Every smile of yours,
Making me warm.
There was nothing more divine,
Then to be in your shadow.
You lit me up in colours,
When I was but hollow.
Though, now I'm old,
You are still the same.
And when you take my name,
I become the little one--
Once again.


Oh, dear mother
I've loved you--
From the day I was born.
Seasons wither,
But I'll always love you--
For you're the only god,
I have ever known.
In case you are wondering about the Title, every day is a mothers day, don't you think ?.
 Oct 2014 Rebecca Durrett
Toni
.                  Beautiful
                  lOvely
   ­               iDeal
           prettY

        exquisIte
      handsoMe
            ­      fAir
      stunninG
            gorgEous
 Oct 2014 Rebecca Durrett
Sarah
Blue
 Oct 2014 Rebecca Durrett
Sarah
Pretend my eyes are blue
to match my blood;
deprived of life
and breath
my lungs search for air,
but I drown.
I hold no love, no life
between the gasping cavities
of my cavernous chest.

Pools deep below my eyes
unseen
Deep into my body, endless depth
to drown in,
drown my heart in my lungs

Stifle my love in depravity

Death with no oxygen for my blood,
for my brain,
for my mind,
for my love.

Blue.
I cannot feel,
for a lack of life
suffocates me.
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