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Dec 2015 Chalsey Wilder

Ann M Johnson

I have trouble sleeping
my CPAP machine starting squeaking
like a mouse is in my bed
So I quickly yanked the mask off my head
The cat knocked something over
the contents spilling the contents on the floor
Too late to vacuum up the carpeted floor
Midterm week for school tests and
big paper to write
I need more sleep to think more clearly
The highlight of my day was reading
and replying to messages that you
my dear Hello Poetry friends have written
I bid you adieu for now and wish you
sweet dreams and hope for them too

#day #emotion #cat #insomniac

Dec 2015 Chalsey Wilder

Only After

Dec 2015 Chalsey Wilder

Carsyn Smith

Only After

The streets only glisten after rain,
Puddles catch the setting sun or
Soup the city's flickering street lights:
Suddenly the landscape is scattered with diamonds.

Sea shells only appear after a storm,
The waves kick and scream only
The best and the biggest ones to the surface:
Decorating the shore with rediscovered treasures.

A wolf only sings when it cries,
His echoes in the moonlit valley
Resinate from his shuddering chest:
Flying across the land ever so effortlessly.

Art is only lovely when it is broken,
Tear drop stains leave the best character --
Silenced screams in paint strokes entice:
Humans lie when they say they love a happy ending.

His touch was only gilded as a memory.

Dec 2015 Chalsey Wilder

"Promise Land"

Dec 2015 Chalsey Wilder

Arcassin B

"Promise Land"

By Arcassin Burnham

I've been looking for a place like you,
In search of all my sanity,
A better virtue,
Awaiting for a promise land,
That just don't seem to come,
Never knowing where I'm going to land,
My feet are in shackles and chains,
I've seen a lot of faces and I've been
A lot of places,
Of things I can't frame,
Thats why I'm looking for a place like you,
I'll never know where my life will end,
To be unsync with all my memories and
Bad stories,
All life is precious if you really had the glory,
Simply can't change it up,
And make this into a wonderland,
Maybe one day I'll be a better man.

http://arcassin.blogspot.com/2015/12/promise-land.html

#poetry #memories #stories #promise #paradise

Dec 2015 Chalsey Wilder

Ironic Really

Dec 2015 Chalsey Wilder

Em

Ironic Really

I'm sitting here heartbroken over a man who didn't know me, while I try to forget the only one who ever really did.

Dec 2015 Chalsey Wilder

Untitled

Dec 2015 Chalsey Wilder

M

Untitled

"If we burn, you burn with us."

Dec 2015 Chalsey Wilder

It's Not Fair

Dec 2015 Chalsey Wilder

Poetry by MAN

It's Not Fair

It's not fair..nor do I care
Emotions breathe without air
No more power shall I grant
My heart blooms flowers like a plant
Refuse to follow will not swallow
Immersed in thought where I wallow
Thus I ramble a poet's gamble
******* soul here is a sample
Write it short or write it long
Write a song for all to sing along
Edit mind that's when I find
Insanity speaks in rhyme
A traveller will always go
On the path to their soul
Destination peace of mind
Activate it anytime
Leave a map all can see
Choose to elevate humanity
Simple is the truth
Hardened by a gangsta youth
Drama goes on everyday
Participate or refuse to play
Doesn't matter you are in the book
Captured by my writing hook
A character we all become
First you walk now you run
To the end or finish line
A blip we are in space and time
Identity do I own?
Reap what I've sewn?
Life springs forth from thee
In our children we can see
Evolution we all wear
Nor does it care if it's not fair...

Poetry by M.A.N 12-1-15

#spilled-ink #poetry-by-m-a-n #its-not-fair