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Mar 2016 · 322
Little Love (shortened)
Bailey Mar 2016
What's your favorite thing to do on a rainy day?
We could laugh and talk about the things you'd never say
You could tell me all your secrets baby girl
You know I can keep them from the world
You say we ain't got nothing to do
I say we ain't got nothing to lose
Just say the word and we could do anything
What's your favorite thing to do on a rainy day?

What's your favorite thing to do on a stormy night?
We could have ourselves a nice little pillow fight
Dripping cocoa as I carry you down the stairs
Oh baby I'll let you cut my hair
You say we ain't got nothing to do
I say we ain't got nothing to lose
Just say the word and we could turn on the lights
What's your favorite thing to do on a stormy night?

What's your favorite thing to do on a sunny day?
We could stay here and relax in an orange haze
I could tell you I love you in every way
Or I could stare into your loving gaze
You say we ain't got nothing to do
I say we ain't got nothing to lose
Just say the word and I will feel okay
What's your favorite thing to do on a sunny day?
Yet another song but shortened for your poetry likings
Bailey Mar 2016
It's people in the halls wondering
what you're thinking about
then being shocked when
reading stanzas is how they really find out
It's getting 3rd when you should've gotten first place and it's
freshman year when you finally got to second base it's
wisdom and laughter and pain and disaster
it can put you in here times, before times or after
I don't just want you to be heard,
I want you to infect people with words
to permanently stain their premature brains
But how to put sense into something so dense?
Some are tasteless, lacking variety
not their faults, just the affects of society
Born in a world where creativity is judged
yeah leave that hand go hold a grudge
no
don't let them tell you you're incapable,
show them you're unbreakable
We don't let anything stop us
--sexuality, religion, race--
it's time for ambitions to take their rightful place
Keep looking up
take down their shrouds
When down here it's too loud
put your head in the clouds
We can escape corners by ripping the box off
by writing stuff that knocks Shakespeare's socks off
It's standing up in class and saying we shouldn't be in it
I knew I was wrong but I went and I did it
I remember my friends calling me crazy and wild but
I know I only did it 'cause since I was a child I
knew that one day
I'd get to speak out
And I knew if I spoke, it'd have to be loud
And if I spoke loud it'd be in front of a crowd
though crowds are what I fear most
And I never thought I'd become your host
and I'm wondering what you think of me now?
But I just want you to help me spread
to show other kids who are stuck in their heads
that contrary to what those naysayers have said--
poetry
is not dead

(here is link)
https://soundcloud.com/iguessimbaileymartin/poetry-is-not-dead
Spoken word but I figured I'd share. I wrote this initially when I was pres. of poetry club and wanted to express how much I feel about this lovely art form.
Mar 2016 · 632
Bad Puns( a haiku)
Bailey Mar 2016
I laugh to myself
Until others join in, too
I laugh forever
c:
Bailey Mar 2016
I need to fantasize, romanticize
the tragic things
before my eyes
'cause if I don't, I'll
surely fail
and then how will
I prevail?
Mar 2016 · 194
This Feeling
Bailey Mar 2016
This feeling
is like being little again
and calling out to my mom
with tears in my eyes
because for a second
I forgot that I have just been punished by her
The one who loves me
can't help me yet
not until my punishment is over
But the difference is
with him
there is no "yet"
my punishment will never be over.
Bailey Mar 2016
Today I saw a picture of me in your jacket
and my face fell down like rain
I just can't stop the racket
replaying in my brain
Thrown away
Thrown away
I'm not broken Daddy--please
Why did your love for me fade...
Nineteen days ago
I tore myself from you
Like the soft side of Velcro
Healthy enough to get a clue
Because you stopped calling me "baby"
You started to be grumpy
Didn't try to talk to me
All you did was touch me
In front of your friends like--
Like I was a prize
Which I sort of liked but
Then I realized
I became a body for you
Your way to accessorize
And now you're fine
Even when I said goodbye
My voice was shaking
Even after the news
Of you with her
Because I didn't want to hurt you
You were the boy who
Was better than the ones who bruised  me
And abused me
You used to hate the ones who used me
I don't know where your heart went
I held on so tight
But it slipped away
What didn't I do right?
I'm haunted by
The best memories of my life
I never thought you'd be added
To the faces that scare me at night
You protected  me
Scrubbed the dead skin off
'Til I was squeaky clean
And then you started making me feel *****
The worst part
Is that I feel guilty
Though you broke my heart
I'm just wilting
Like some stupid flower
You picked
Not because it was special
But because it was crying
Please leave me alone
Stop visiting me
I'm supposed to be safe at home
Please, please
I can't wait
Until the day
I stop loving you
And the things you say
Today I saw a picture of me in your jacket
And I wondered as I prayed
Why I deserve
The racket in my brain
This is about the ex love of my life.
Mar 2016 · 184
I'm different (a haiku)
Bailey Mar 2016
people don't like me
I make noises when I walk
but move when I talk
Mar 2016 · 239
For Joseph
Bailey Mar 2016
I'm not sleeping
Though I will be soon
And it's true you left a little wound
But even though your words are true
I'm still thinking about you too

When I pass by your house
Or see Colby in the halls
Or when I'm writing random crap that
Only you and I would get
On the bathroom stalls

I miss you,  you know?
And I would've said hi
But you seemed so upset
So I left  it at goodbye

To answer your question
I'm okay
No, we broke up
It's been sixteen days

So glad to hear from you
To know it's not the end
So glad to know
That you're still my friend.
Mar 2016 · 415
Synesthesia
Bailey Mar 2016
Since I was very young, I had a colorful mind.
Shapes, numbers, letters, sounds, memories
have colors
and personalities.
Triangle, 4, 7, and C are all light green,
9 is an evil wizard who turns numbers into 1 less that they want to be, while 10 is the good wizard who will make any little number a teen.
Yada yada.
My mom would say,
"Don't do it like that, just--just do the math!"
And I would say,
"Okay"
but the stories would replay in my head
still replay in my head.
"Mom, do you remember that wedding we went to?"
"Yes"
"That's orange now"
"Hmm?"
"It's been a while, so the memory turned orange"
"Ahhh, that's nice honey".
I grew up trying to figure out what I was
an alien?
an angel?
a monster?
just weird?
I now know that I have
S-Y-N-E-S-T-H-E-S-I-A
that's
black yellow yellow orange black brown red orange black white red
or
0 - - 3 0  10 8 3 0 1 8
something I have never shared before, and learned only a few months ago
Mar 2016 · 559
Meaning Of Life(10 W)
Bailey Mar 2016
~the meaning of life is the life behind all meanings~
Mar 2016 · 257
Stupid Dreams
Bailey Mar 2016
I prepare for the future by doing my homework, but the music in the background is the future I want.
"You're my little prodigy child"
"Still doing good in school, Bailey?"
Rivals
"Oh my god, you wrote that?"
"That sounds like it could be on the radio"
"Was that you singing in the stall? Keep it up!"
Guess which make me happier.
Guess which shouldn't.
Yep, they're the same.
Stupid dreams.
Mar 2016 · 1.1k
Childhood (a villanelle)
Bailey Mar 2016
A broken screen door creaks my name
An invitation my ***** ears know
The voices behind it all the same

The flickering lamp strives to stay
In this dusty, sleepy home
A broken screen door creaks my name

A memory in each carefree stain
At the rotting table where I eat
The voices behind it all the same

In the dead grass I play my games
Dirt clings like birthmarks to my feet
A broken screen door creaks my name

At night, on my shared bed I lay
Staring at the chipping door
The voices behind it all the same

Bug infested and near the shore
I don't know how to wish for more
A broken screen door creaks my name
The voices behind it all the same
Simpler times...
Mar 2016 · 367
Heart For Sale Or Rent
Bailey Mar 2016
yes, yes you can look through my heart just
just let me fall asleep first
and make sure
you tiptoe your way through
don't step on
those insults I've kept
don't trip over
those names sticking out like roots
you can walk around the pity if you want
but empathy is what you're walking on
you can't get away from that
neither can I
you can sit in the compassion chairs
everyone says they're so nice
please ignore the band aids on the walls
I'm supposed to get stitches someday
at least that's what mom says
that corner labeled "self love"
please stay away from that
I've worked so ******* it
and when you leave
please keep the door unlocked
I don't have a key
Mar 2016 · 204
Difference (10 w)
Bailey Mar 2016
I don't understand you
because you are so unlike me
to my 7 year old sister with sass and class
Mar 2016 · 562
Siren
Bailey Mar 2016
I meet them
I assess them
I then show off
the attributes I have
that remind me of them

I fill in
for what they need
I eat
their insecurities
like candy

I seem so perfect
and then there's...
that one thing
there's always
that one thing

That reason
for which I can't stay
and I've made them stronger
given them everything

But I've left
with the most
delicious part
their hearts
My much too raw poem, inspired by Spencer
Mar 2016 · 352
The True Story Of Diddle
Bailey Mar 2016
Well, little ****** had been caught in a maze
she married Mr. Cat in their honeymoon phase
On their little farm, a dish they would raise
but the cow and the dog, well they bet on days...

Little ****** knew about the Fiddle and the Cat
and she swore to herself that she would get them back
So, one night she popped up in the middle
and mean old Mr. Cat made a killer out of ******

"Woah! My perfect life!" She cried out with tears in her eyes
"Tell me, what I did wrong!" But a moo and a cackle interrupted her song

On the little farm
the dog and the cow
looked innocent as they lay on the ground
but ****** saw the cow jump to the moon
to see ****** **** the man that had made her swoon

The dog laughed and laughed 'til his face turned red
the cow paid in full as he had won the bet
The sound made ******
itch in the head
so she took a nearby ax and she
killed them dead

"Woah! My perfect life!" She cried out with tears in her eyes
"Tell me, what did I do?"
But she had no clue as to what would happen soon

Well little miss Dish was the talk of the town
Her and the Spoon had been forkin' around
When momma ****** tried to hunt them down
her baby Dish was nowhere to be found

"Woah! My perfect life! Shouldn't have been a mom or a wife"
So a traveler she became, making Goose her name
The towns had no idea of the words that they sang:

"Hey ****** ******, the Cat and the Fiddle
The cow
jumped over the moon
The little dog laughed to see such sport
and the Dish ran away with the Spoon"
it's actually a song I wrote the other day but here ya go
Mar 2016 · 227
Can You See Now?
Bailey Mar 2016
We were born with no sight,
We see danger, in no fight.
Our blindness is not clear of color,
But rather of mind, of action, of other.
Some do realize,
Their often loss of sight,
But as they lay down,
They dream of nothing at night.
When we go up into,
The so called 'blinding' sun,
We regain our strengths,
And sight is merely one.
So if seeing is believing,
And true sight comes in final chapters,
We should all be humbly grieving,
And asking wisdom now, not after.
Mar 2016 · 345
Stronger
Bailey Mar 2016
Give me bruises,
So I cherish my fair skin.
Give me headaches,
So I enjoy the silence.
Make me cry,
So I appreciate when I'm dry.
Put me down,
So I'll always be going up.
If I fall,
I guarantee I'll stand up proper.
If I break,
I'll fix everything else.
Give me horror, so that I recognize true beauty.
Give me sickness, so that I am grateful for health.
Give me sorrow, so that I smile the biggest at the opportunity.
Tell me I'm terrible,
So that I'll always try harder.
Give me all you've got. I want to be stronger.
Another old poem
Mar 2016 · 498
Concrete Velvet Need
Bailey Mar 2016
Dazzle down my vision,
My concrete velvet need.
I am a flower,
A flower which must bleed
slow colors over
a warm, wild secret.
As my petals drain to white,
I lose the strength to fight
I submit out of
this built in, beautiful necessity
and I wonder if you'll keep it.
I wear my heart on my sleeve but these mean Moth Boys eat away at it every time.
Mar 2016 · 359
Didn’t I Tell You?
Bailey Mar 2016
Didn't I tell you I was going to break free from this system of society? Didn't I tell you I would let the syllables escape from my lips that you just can’t bear? Didn't I tell you that you would struggle beneath the truth that I can’t cover? Didn't I tell you we were all doomed because we simply aren't a part of reality anymore? The world is swirling around us in brilliant colors of life and love and acceptance yet we CHOOSE to sit in our places we claim ours and we CHOOSE to try and escape from the gift of life by replacing it with artificial beauty and intelligence. It is not the world crashing around us that is the problem, it is us, stuck inside our own worlds. We somehow can’t escape ourselves yet we still destroy everything around us. Natural? No. This is humanity's CHOICE. Didn't I tell you? We're all wasting away in the garbage we've created.
When I remember that i wrote this in fifth grade I wonder about my head.
Mar 2016 · 411
Human
Bailey Mar 2016
Give an inch, we'll take a mile, steal a glimpse of a faded smile. Set a path, we'll make another, find where lies have taken cover. Minds never set in stone, we've created thoughts our own. Words lost, as time goes by, in the end they'll wonder why. Now that love's become outdated, you'll find the world that hate's created.
Mar 2016 · 189
Out
Bailey Mar 2016
Out
I am the chipping paint on the walls, I am the scenery. I am the abstract painting that others try to read, but need not a reason to me. I am the decoration to the soiree, admired but not touched. I am the controversial conversation, hated and loved. I am the quiet, the loud, the humble, the proud. I am me, slowly slinking out. I am the loner, the watcher in the crowd. I scream, without a sound. Snapping you into focus, yes, I'm slowly slipping out.
Mar 2016 · 1.9k
Our Bodies Are Poetry
Bailey Mar 2016
Our bodies are poetry
from soft to smooth to hard
our bodies are poetry
freckled, shaped and scarred

Our mouths are dancers
unchoreographed, with memory
our fingers are virgins
gentle and trembling

Our eyes, are passerbys
our noses, cuddling cubs
our arms, reconnecting friends
our knees buckle with every touch

Our bodies are poetry
fitting into every groove
our bodies are poetry
from hard to soft to smooth
Mar 2016 · 177
Signature
Bailey Mar 2016
All Were Bore On Different Days
All In Many Different Ways
One's Wit Is Like No Other
So Steal Away From Covet's Cover
Mar 2016 · 190
Here's A New One
Bailey Mar 2016
You have but one life,
Do not let it be torn by the harsh remembrance of your past,
But let those memories lead you along life's path.
To live in the past is barren.
To live in the future is to dismiss all you've got.
To live in the moment, is just to recreate what you forgot.
We can start a flame.
We can play with fire.
We can blow it out--our inner desires.
But if you let the embers glow, and die as they do, you'll find no fire, as bright as you.
So don't live in the past.
Don't live in the moment.
Don't live in the future.
But stay conscious, and let what comes, come.
Don't just give life all you've got.
Let life put you in the toughest spots.
Mar 2016 · 756
Natalie
Bailey Mar 2016
The way your eyes light up,
I can tell.
In your loving gaze,
I can tell.
The way you speak with so much care,
you’re a princess Natalie, you’re a princess, I swear.
Somewhere along the royal line,
a precious baby got left behind.
I followed your rays,
and somehow,
you came to be mine.
The way you smile so genuinely,
I can tell.
In your adorable rosy cheeks,
I can tell.
Your furrowed brow, your thoughtful stare,
you’re a princess Natalie, you’re a princess I swear.
I watched you from far away,
but now I have to be brave.
I’ll be a good knight,
because I can see,
you’re a princess,
you’re a princess,
you’re a princess, Natalie.
Mar 2016 · 1.4k
Dollar
Bailey Mar 2016
Dollar
If I had one dollar
for every time I loved you
I would still have one dollar
but it would be
a very
big
dollar

My love for you is alive and resting
Like the flickering flame of a candle
sheltered in the darkness
resting in its warmth
sparking at times
calm and swaying
beautiful and glowing

There are days where I wish
that I could love you
a second time
or a third

but the first was so perfect
I was clueless
you were clueless
we were both pretty stupid

If I had one cupcake for every time I kissed you
I would be very fat
But those cupcake kisses
are just little loves
in my big love for you

Maybe only loving you once is good
because it is not fat on cupcake kisses

I have never wanted to be rich
To have piles of filthy green paper
cluttering the space I call home

Maybe only loving you one perfect time
is good enough
because
if I had that many dollars
I would surely spend it on cupcakes

And if I had a love
for every dollar I had
I would be swimming
in worthless loves
when all I want
is you

Yes
loving you once
our only perfect once
our clueless once
our cupcake kissing once
our one dollar once
is so good

Because if I had a dollar
for every time I loved you
I would still have
one dollar
but it would be
a very
big
dollar.
A simple, silly poem I wrote last year in 3rd period :)
Mar 2016 · 218
Immortal Tendencies
Bailey Mar 2016
His accurate painting how it still haunts me, I can’t enjoy everlasting sleep , the people still see me half smiling and they’re waiting, while my main portrait is disintegrating. They watch me as I watch too and I stay still in every room. I feel myself being pulled out so, as more copies of me spread ‘round the globe. The people look but don’t see, as they still believe that I have died. But as you spread me around, I still live on in each of your minds. I am in museums all over the world and history and art classes seem to have need for me. I am on the internet, I am everywhere indeed. More and more copies made everyday, just when I think I'll finally wither away, another person remembers my face. My long dark hair that will never grey, my porcelain face that shall never age. The slight glimpse of my humble breast, and my arms positioned that will never rest. I am thought of everyday, I can feel it tug at my brain. The only thing I cannot feel is my long overdue heart, for it is not stretched or pulled or misplaced, it has been ripped apart. My body is nowhere but my soul is anywhere. Unless everyone decides to forget, sitting in front of Da Vinci, I will forever regret.
Signed,
Mona Lisa.
The idea for this poem came to me when I heard a rumor that we think of Abraham Lincoln at least once a day and I thought, "well he must get sick of being thought of".
Mar 2016 · 242
Boredom
Bailey Mar 2016
Boredom is a rabbit hole
that we walk around
day to day

Until we fall
and let out all
that routine hides away

Our minds are open and wanting
“Feed me, feed me now!”
so our desk-drawer minds
are rummaged inside
and flipped over
upside down

The piece of the conversation
that you overheard last vacation
turns into the song that
they sing along to
and makes you a hit sensation

What a mess this
success is
You’ve left them wanting more

So where’s your sound?
you climb out of the ground
and wait again ‘til you’re bored.

Boredom is a wet, white wall
you could wait until it’s dry
but if you lick
the paint that sticks the
fumes will get you high

Floating, floating
rock the boat we
sail on eggshell seas

‘Round off-white pass
this high won’t last
we reach for rainbow trees

The colors fill our irises
we’re left with small blank canvases

Blown out pupils
let the light in
four walls dry but
we’re high fiving
right out of this boring room
destined to return so soon.
A lot of people think I was on drugs while writing this:P but really I just appreciate boredom, because without it we wouldn't have creativity.
Bailey Mar 2016
If indeed I am sorrowful tonight,
my sorrow is much appreciated.
Sorrow works in true love to seem so right,
If I am ill now; later on I am elated.
Love is a path to take forever,
acts of love only lighten one’s damp soul.
Swimming in life’s outrageous endeavors,
it may take another to deem thee whole.
When vows are made; two persons become one,
both lives now mirroring one another.
One takes fault for what the other has done,
and when punishment come; both take cover.
For if your Love breathe thy very last breath,
Bare no grief; be merciful, say death.


Love is more than the creased hand could write down,
More than the blank chatter throughout the towns.
More than the kiss-bruised mouth could verbalize,
Much more than the watcher could idolize.
So much more than the dripping eye can see,
Miles more than the carpenter can measure.
Undoubtedly; Nothing could feel more free,
But locked in hearts of lovers forever.
It is the fresh droplet of morning dew,
That melts so lightly on your heavy tongue.
Yet; it's the ocean waiting to pull you,
Under the waves of burning compassion.
Love should not have Webster's recognition,
Because other than this simple sonnet,
Love has no definition.

— The End —