Thinking Out Loud: Favorites

Jul 2015 Thinking Out Loud

Joe Cole

what a strange title*

If you want your words to last
Write them in concrete and set them fast
To often our words are written in sand
Washed away by the rising tide
Some poems get added to a group
Saved there for eternity
But most get tangled in the grains
Of rolling shifting moving sands

Jul 2015 Thinking Out Loud

A Mistake

Jul 2015 Thinking Out Loud

Emily Von Shultz

A Mistake

I remember that time we went to a public lake.
I was afraid to wear a swimsuit in front of others,
Even chubby children,
And their wrinkling stretch-marked mothers.

I hated my body,
But you held me by the hand,
And told me I was the most beautiful creature,
In the lake or on the land.

I loved you back then,
As we sat in the shade.
And that was probably the biggest mistake that I have ever made.

Not because I let you tell me I was beautiful,
But because I thought your love ran deep,
Though it turned out to be fake,
And perhaps even more shallow
Than that puddle of a lake.

#love #old #shallow

Jul 2015 Thinking Out Loud

The Rain Unseen

Jul 2015 Thinking Out Loud

SøułSurvivør

The Rain Unseen

Rain falls
behind her eyes

misting her world
the color of asphalt and
wet granite

not a single

tear

falls

Soul Survivor

I saw a photograph in Life magazine.
It was of a woman who was displaced from
Oklahoma during the 1930's.
She and her family were homeless.
Not a tear was in her eye.
She was too numb to cry another tear.
She was done crying.

This is for all the women out there
who suffer in silence.

Jul 2015 Thinking Out Loud

Destiny (Collab with Wolf Spirit)

Jul 2015 Thinking Out Loud

Caitlin

Destiny (Collab with Wolf Spirit)

When I was oh, so younger
I used to rule the day
Catching toads
And flying paper planes
Until the lure of pretty girls
Got right in the way
My destiny came calling
And I chased it on the run
Time goes by while tears run smiles
And not every day is fun

The chase was fun,
But oh, how it ended.
They no longer caught my fancy.
I turned to games and friends instead
Until one day, girls started to chase me

And what a merry chase it was
Living and loving just because
Age is a constant gardener
A teacher of self and suffering
The premise of life eternal
An opening of not merely eye
But heart, mind and soul
To find love is to know life
And to know life is life eternal
Captive on a carousel of time
The world is yours, ours and mine

We fell in love and the world erupted in fireworks.
Nothing could have been better.
The pure joy that I felt with her was unrivaled by nothing I've ever felt before.
She was the one.

The one who became my other
Who completed me
Who took me to places love had never shown me
And felt like home
A place to belong
Yes...she was the one

No other could take her place.
She was mine,
Just as I was hers.
We were one, together,
Yet still just me and her.

And in that we found our destiny

Jul 2015 Thinking Out Loud

Wish List n°3

Jul 2015 Thinking Out Loud

Ocean Blue

Wish List n°3

I want you to know
That you are here
In my mind,
In my thoughts,
Every single day
Deep, so deep inside my heart,
My fortress,
Your territory.
I want you to know
That, like a rock breaking the waves,
Firm I will stand
And wait
Until you... (I don't know what)
Not so clairvoyant,
You ignore what I said:
I always keep my rare promises.
None of them ever gets lost (modesty)
Darling,
Don't underestimate my patience,
My Love.