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 Apr 2016 cleo
Akira Chinen
I'm not writing anymore
As much as I'm
Watching in helpless wonder
As the words
Fall out from my fingertips
As my heart flys
Off towards the songs
Of her voice
And I find myself
Hypnotized by her picture
Framing her perfect
Endless Ocean Eyes
And would the effect have beeen the same
Had we meet
After one too many
Or spilled each others coffees
In a crowded café
If I held her hand on a late night walk
Instead of this longing
To know her touch
Instead of dreaming of what could be
If not for the ocean
And time
And distance
Would I have been too shy
To say word
Had she danced or chanced
Before me...
I know
I would have froze
And quitely walked away
Never to say a thing
But maybe one day
Write of the regret
For the dream that I let
Waltz right past
And never took the chance...
I cannot explain
Or dare question fate
Of the why
All I can do is watch
As the words fall out
And helplessly stare
At her eyes
Perfect in their frame
Its easier to write poems than to send a simple message... I'm more of a coward and a fraud than an artist.  Dam, I think that's the fraud police at my door... don't worry they'll never take me alive (I'm already dead)
 Apr 2016 cleo
Mark Tilford
Ashamed
 Apr 2016 cleo
Mark Tilford
I am
Sometimes just because

With no pause
Sometimes caused by my flaws

From what was
Sometimes from me breaking the human laws

From what I have done
Sometimes  because I had to run

  From what I have caused
Sometimes from what cannot  be undone

Of how I treated someone
Sometimes from how I treated everyone

From how I treated my loved ones
Sometimes from how I let everyone down

From me acting like a clown
Sometimes from me being a letdown

Of  how I just shutdown
Sometimes from not staying around  

Because of the people I have blamed
Sometimes from the people that I have shamed

Ashamed
No more
From what I have  done
Because no more will it be done
 Apr 2016 cleo
Tom Blake
God
 Apr 2016 cleo
Tom Blake
God
Change me
Make me
What I
Am not...
Make me strong!

Don't let
Only words
No, no
Only words
Let Me BE Strong!

Right now  I'm sinking
Loosing power  by  the day
I've got to do
Better
Than I am doing
I've got to do better.

Give, give me strength
To carry on
To carry on!

Don't let
Only words
Lonely
Words.

Let me
Be
Strong!
This was written in my early thirties.
 Apr 2016 cleo
phil roberts
I dreamed that I knew you
But that was only a dream

I once met a man
In a pub full of gangstas and dealers
And fools like me
Who thrived on the adrenaline and the anarchy
This young man returned my buddy's keys
Not the place to leave them on the bar
So we got talking, as you would
And this young black guy was impressive
He was obviously intelligent and articulate
As straight forward and easy going
As the place allowed
We got on pretty well
Saw each other and said hi a few times
Chatted at the bar occasionally
Then I didn't see him for a while
Until I saw his picture in the papers
He had shot and killed a man
For machete-ing his younger brother
It just goes to show
We never really know

                             By Phil Roberts
 Apr 2016 cleo
Vanessa Escopin
I give myself time to think
Think if I really feel something
Something special for him

But it turns out, he mis-understood my silence
My silence reveal the truth
The truth that he's one of the boys

One of the boys who easily give up
Give up in the times you're realizing
Realizing that you're falling too

I fell too hard that it breaks me inside.
*I love him but he give up.
I thought I didn't love him but...
 Apr 2016 cleo
jeffrey conyers
We can fuss.
Disagree.
And see different perspectives on life.
At the end of the day realize I love you.
No need to question it.

We can be quiet all  through the house.
Which honestly speaking occurs between many of spouse.
And we are no different.
But at the end of the day realize who loves you?
Yes, this man here does.

I over shower you with love.
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