Pearls of Life - Hello Poetry

Aug 2017

Melissa S

I am stronger than I ever knew
I have found thanks to you
Change keeps coming at me
and I just let it blow right on through
I've made bad mistakes
but I don't have to admit defeat
To fight fear we must first take that leap
I might not have won the fight just yet
but I will never just lie down with regret
Change can be scary...
but do you know what's scarier?
Allowing fear to hold you back
No more expectations....
**I am responsible
for my own happiness :)

Jul 2017

Ashly Kocher

Mood

Someone else's ****** mood
Won't bring me down
Smile and be happy
For the day had just begun
Change your mood
Love the day
Take a step back
Be grateful for you are alive

Jul 2017

Willow-Anne

Severence

"Always put you're own needs first"
That's what you've always said
For if you attempt to help everyone
Too thin, you'll soon be spread

But I chose not to listen
Which is really nothing new
I wore my heart upon my sleeve
And into danger, I flew

Building other people up
Was always worth it in the end
No matter how many times they fell
My hand would always extend

But I started to feel that weight
Pulling me every-which-way
And with my own world crumbling around me
I soon fell into dismay.

I guess in some ways you were right
I should have made sure to care for me
So I tried to make that change in life
And listen to my own heart's plea

I took a little time alone
And focused on my own needs
But when I spoke of that choice to you
You disapproved of all those deeds.

You said my choices were selfish
And that my actions had all turned rude
Since I no longer blindly followed the plan
You and I began to feud

I was left completely baffled
For I had done just as you said
I took the time I needed
And did things to clear my head

And that is when I realized
What those words had really meant
It wasn't so much a piece of advice
But ideals you followed a hundred percent

"Always put your own needs first"
That is exactly what you did.
I wish I'd listened a little closer
To the truth you never hid

Because when it comes down to it
That's really what you believe
And now that I have finally seen the truth
I fear, I've no choice..but to leave

"But that's the problem with putting others first. You've taught them that you come second.

Jul 2017

Gidgette

To Be The Honeysuckle

I was driving home last eve
She said,"Ma! Look! Tee hee! They
love
each other!"
To the left of the single lane,
in the tall golden hay,
sat a couple
She sat with her back to him,
between his legs
He, held her in his arms
as the sun sliced the sky
I stopped,
right on the road
Honey suckle blowing in the late breeze
I watched them,
We watched them
for just a bit
They loved each other

And all I wanted
was to be the honeysuckle

Oh wow! The daily! Thank you! I love you all<3<3

Jul 2017

SG Holter

...to be spoiled and still kissing

Looking at this world. If
You have burned even
One frozen pizza in your
Lifetime, every tear you ever
Spilled on your own
Behalf is
Sandbox.

The best place to hide a
Needle is still within a
Haystack. So we forget, and
Let our strings be pulled.
Love? A scratch scratched.
Now count grains.
Crusts uneaten.

Jul 2017

Ruzica Matic

our winters

pigeons still
wait for meals
by that bench
where Sun once grew
in tufts of gold

girls skipping classes
to window shop
their scarves wild
and their nails chipped

tough boys go out and smoke
and cough and dance
and act brave
and cut their hair
in the dark

and words of a new language
tumble down our tongues
head over heels
tasting strange
but falling into place
after all

#youth #nostalgia #girls #boys

Jul 2017

CK Baker

The Reach at Buckle Bay

hickory nuts
and wind trees
are keeping
at the old buckle bay
light house corners and
shaker church craft
slip anchor on the southern tip

secret legions
and phenolic board
tuck in at gout dock
bands and nations
and miracle speak
fill in the center hall

sand hooks
and water domes
cover wharf road
***** bay toppers
and seven horse chugs
scatter the swollen upper deck

packards and pushers
and rusty back rails
skirt the night
lanterns and sterns
and navy gulls
steady on task

sand cakes
and drift wood
held tight on
the mystery tour
yellow tails
and tide pools
flat line
at royal reach

paddles
and cables
find ripples way
smugglers and smitties
take cover
from a
northern gale

down on
pocket shoal
there’s a graceful hue
~ they’re serving up
belons and xan…
it's time to get in
for a fill

sunshinecoast porpoisebay sechelt

Jun 2017

Melissa S

New Moon

The light had gone from this woman
Her days now became lonely and dark
She would go to the shoreline
To repair what had been torn apart
She would shout out to the shoreline
O please bring me a new light, a new moon
I am tired of feeling lonely and dark
Will you please bring it to me soon
Just like that the gilded clouds did part
to reveal to her a new moon
Time for this woman to have light again
Time for her to be swooned
This new moon was most welcoming
with his arms open wide
Lit up this beautiful woman again
and brought out the pearl we knew was inside

Jun 2017

The Poetic Architect

Ipinag-isang Tatlong mga Bituin

061217

Hayaan **** makisabay ang iyong kagaanan sa himpapawid
Nang ang bawat hibla'y makatikim ng tagumpay.
Pagkat ang iyong baluti'y sagisag ng pagkakaisa
At ika'y titingalain sa iyong pagliyad
Patungo sa pinakataas-taasang bughaw naming kalangitan.

Balutin mo ng dunong ang moog na salinlahi
At ika'y gumayak
Kasabay ng pagkurap ng haring araw.
Wag **** itikom ang panaghoy sa katotohanan
Habang ang bulong mo noo'y
Maging hayag na sa pitong libong pinagmanahan
At maraang mapagyaman ang Perlas ng Silanganan.

Ipag-isa mo ang tatlong bituing ipinaglihis ng kadiliman
Hindi bilang isang taksil sa lipunang mapanghasik ng lagim.
Igapos mo ang kabuuan na tila isang dalisay na karagatan
At iyong tabunan ang mga patak ng dugo
Sa tigang at umaalingasaw na sistema ng bayan.

Sa iyong lubid, kami'y kakapit
Habang ang himagsika'y sing-bagsik ng leong
May matalim na pangil sa pakikipaglaban.
Ang kamandag mo'y tagos sa puso't kaluluwa,
Dugtong sa bituka ng kasaysayang may bantog na pag-alala.

At sa bawat pintig at pag-indayog ng iyong himig,
Ang lahat ay magpakumbaba.
Gisingin mo ang diwang nahimbing sa kababalaghan
Siyang dulot ng sakim na mekanismo't maitim na pamamaraan.

Lapag sa puso at sa sahig ay papagpag ng paninindigan
Taas-noo ang aming pagpapatirapa para sa nag-iisang sandigan.
Ikaw ang bakas ng aming pinagmulan,
Ang ugat ng lakas, dunong at prinsipyo
Ng mga supling mo, o Inang Bayan.

#independence #pilipinas #tagalog

Jun 2017

ryn

His Tale

He stares long into the mirror
Only to see a tattered old book
Every page bears little he's proud of
Every morn he sees but dares not look

He's afraid of the stories
His memories would tell
He's ashamed of the scars
He'd known too well

Everyday he would only dress quickly
Before his demons would sing their claim
Everyday he'd battle the relentless sun
He'd persevere the day only night could tame

#hellopoetry107 #histale

Jun 2017

Pradip Chattopadhyay

Once upon an absurd time

Where the river abandons herself to the creek
and the mudbank is cratered with crabclaws
waits the old man.

He doesn't know his years
but his ears are a sonic gift
catching the tonal variations of tides
seemingly for eons
evolving with the mangrove map
into a flawless tracker
of how far the moon would recline
for ***** to be holed out
and what shoreline the water would touch
before the shrimps starlight driven
make a beeline for the net.

I encountered him once
in the absurdity of a time
when I was high
and he lowly crouching
was making art by the creek.

Who was the poet
I could never tell.