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 Aug 2014 anna
Adam Johnson
Poetry isn't just words.

It's living breathing souls reaching out to touch eachother with sentences and phrases that invoke feelings and give the reader pause.

Poetry isn't just words.
 Aug 2014 anna
Katie Anne
When I was little
and innocent
I thought the world my friend
I thought it best to be kind
and curious
and soft

As I grew older
and sadder
I thought the world terrible
I thought it best to be cold
and distant
and hard

As I grow ever older
and hopefully wiser
I think the world neither bad
nor good
nor a mix in-between
just as it is
not worthy of kindness
not deserving of cruelty.
When I asked you to fix me,
You told me I wasn't broken.
But, let this soak in.
I just wanted to know,
If i was still a pretty enough picture to be worth, agonizing over a puzzle.
Even when it's a struggle.
And you have to nuzzle each piece into place,
Kissing the pieces bent out of shape,
Searching for pieces gone missing,
But you can't make a raisin back into a grape.
Yes, I Remember your middle name
And who says we can't celebrate failure?
Don't be sad, we tried, we tried.
When you write your story in the sand it washes away with the tide.
It isn't our fault.
We may have cut ourselves open, But we didn't ask for the salt in our
wounds
Can I still say "we"?
I guess you're kind of done with me.
I don't blame you, Puzzles are frustrating.
they're a tease.
Please, tell me I haven't lost the most important piece.
Tell me I haven't lost
you.

© copyrighted Nicole Ann Osborn
 Aug 2014 anna
Kimberly Seibert
I still dream about you.
It's a place we still talk and know one another.
A place where your hand still finds the small of my back,
even in subtle conversation.
I haven't forgotten the depth of your heart or the beauty of your soul.
Though I'm quite certain you'd never find yourself here,
it's still as if you never left.
 Aug 2014 anna
Jessica Evans
I had a dream about you last night
I don’t know where we were or how we got there
But we talked
Had a conversation.
I didn’t dream we were dating again
You didn’t kiss me like sometimes happens
Late at night when I have no control of my thoughts.
We talked and laughed and decided to be friends.
Like we were before feelings got in the way.
I miss you again
But in a different way.
See that’s the thing about moving on
You don’t miss your boyfriend anymore
You miss your best friend.
 Aug 2014 anna
Adam Johnson
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 Aug 2014 anna
Adam Johnson
I need a change of scene, I'm tired of everything just being green.
Why not purple why not red why not even orange instead.
The world after a while gets so dull and plain and I can't take the fact that it just stays the same.
Day after day, night after night.
I don't know how I'm gonna win this fight.
The fight called life, that's the one thats tough. And everyday just gets more and more rough.
 Aug 2014 anna
Adam Johnson
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 Aug 2014 anna
Adam Johnson
When the lights go down and the crowd goes home when the night rolls out and the demons come. Will you hold me through the storm? ..until the peace at dawn.
 Aug 2014 anna
Adam Johnson
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 Aug 2014 anna
Adam Johnson
Everyday I walk around.
With this pain in my heart.
And if you ask me why I'm hurting. Well I wouldn't know where to start.
You see you did something to me that changed me through and through.

And if you asked me why I am who I am today the answer would be you.
So you see it's hard to drive to the places we use to go.
Because inside you're always there.
And no one really knows.
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