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 May 2015
Judy Ponceby
To think and wish what ifs...

To look to the past for what might have beens...

To gaze upon what once was and what could have come to past.....

Leaves one's heart tender and aching

Until you realize, what is

Is good and true and joyous

In its own right.
 May 2015
Innocent
Can you hear me
Can you see me
I am flying
I am smiling

We traveled through the universe
On our magic carpet
Weaving a taspstry of tales
Leaving explosions of urban myths in our wake

Can you feel me
Can you touch
I am trying
I am dying

We've fallen down the rabbit hole
The heat stirs our souls
Our destination still unknown
Strangers in this foreign time zone

Can you hold me
Can you love me
I am sinking
I am disappearing

We have come to the end of the earth
Buried in death, lies and rebirth
So long to the fairytales and lullabies
 May 2015
WendyStarry Eyes
Sorrow comes in many different shapes and sizes
To fill the heart, to fill the mind
To keep you up with things you've done
And the state of mankind

Sorrow sets your mind back into the past you've left behind
As if it's building pressure awaiting the ultimate storm
If you let the sorrow overwhelm
The darkness may forever realm

As we live with the sorrow of regret
Over what's been done or what's been said
With no place to lay your head
In that you have made your own bed

Lift your mind from past regrets
Do not let sorrow consume your life with threats
Learn lessons from all sorrow you face
Move forward, soon you will see
The knowledge you've consumed from
Mistakes in life may set you free!!!
THIS HAS BEEN A FUN JOINT VENTURE WITH MIKE HAUSER!
:)THANKS MIKE :)
 May 2015
niamh
A disease
That rots from the inside
Out.
Turns a beautiful
Smile
Into a poisonous sneer.
Makes foes
Out of
Reluctant friends
And turns
Towers of strength
To crumbling ruins.
Flows through your
Bloodstream
Like poison,
And seeps from
Your pores
To taint everything
Around you
With shades
Of virulent green.
A useless emotion
That makes you wish
You couldn't
Feel
At all.
 May 2015
niamh
Here,
Let me pass you a knife
That you may
Make a clean cut
Instead of the
Thousand razor cuts
That your words
Leave on my heart
 May 2015
SøułSurvivør
---

i was sitting out
on the porch
of our old historic
home this morning

the beauty of
the desert all around me

birds were making
their early waking
shower songs
the sun having just
arrived in from
the east

the temperature
is perfect
all is right with
the world

right?

WRONG

i was obsessing
about a relationship

i've just had a
breakup

i was thinking
over and over again
about what HE had done

my parents are ill
i was obsessing about that

i am ill
that took a huge part
of my attention

how many times
have i done this?
burned a wide swath
through my
neuropathways
OBSESSING

not on good things

on the
BAD

we always complain
about the way we
ALWAYS
remember
the bad stuff

is this not
what we
OBSESS OVER
?

OUR
NEUROPATHWAYS
ARE SEARED
BY THE

NEGATIVE!!!

and so often we
take the positive

FOR GRANTED


honestly

how much
mental air time
do we give

a glorious sunset
a great time at the beach
a walk in the rain
a lovely flower

A BEAUTIFUL MORNING
?

our brains get
wired
for the
negative

right then and there
i started to
THANK GOD
for the beauty around me

i started to
notice things

a flower that was just opening
the exact color of
the pearleceant sky
(a kind of peachy lavender)

a silly
coyote
his coat
russet and shining
heading down
the alleyways!

IF I'D BEEN
OBSESSING OVER THE PAST
I GUARANTEE
I WOULD NEVER
HAVE
NOTICED

HIM!

i had to smile

and smiling is something
i have not done

IN A LONG TIME

♡♥♡

Catherine
Don't let the negative
burn a pathway
through your
neurotransmittors
on its way to your
SOUL
and into your
SPIRIT

NOTICE SOMETHING
BEAUTIFUL
TODAY
 May 2015
Kailey Brown
Our love faded away like the summer fades to fall.
The warmth that was once there isn't there at all.
Just as the leaves fall from the trees,
My feelings for you are no longer seen.

Like the landscape in late fall, our beauty has turned grey.
There was nothing that anyone could do and nothing to say.
I tried everything I could to stop my freezing heart,
But my love for you still froze and quickly fell apart.

I imagine that you are Fall and I am Winter
Because your love is the growing tree and mine is a splinter.
I imagine that Winter is sorry for Fall,
because she takes everything from him, after all.

I am the cold dark winter, I am sorry to say.
There is nothing Fall can do to make that go away.
Winter may be cold, and it may be lonely,
But that isn't as bad as her feeling so sorry.

It is not on purpose that Winter harms Fall.
There was no intention that she can recall.
Because Winter loves Fall, despite what he thinks.
But her need for him to stay was gone in a blink.
I'm sorry, but sometimes I have to do what's best for myself. Even if it may not seem to be best for you...
 May 2015
Phil Lindsey
One tree frog singing
A thousand join the chorus
Soon silence returns
 May 2015
Joel Frye
Thinking your feelings?
Try tasting with your earlobe...
wrong ***** is used.
 May 2015
bones
Like a
crooked
tooth
she played
on his
mind
just
enough
to keep
him
from
smiling...
 May 2015
Marshal Gebbie
But to pass from beige to puce to rose
bequeathes a choice, I do suppose,
A choice of whence thy shall or shan't
corral thy name or curse thy can't.
Hold it high or cast it out
Regardless, LET-THY-LOUD-VOICE-SHOUT !
....For he who wears his mantle thin
Forever then, be clad in sin.
M.
Pondering Wint's remarkable poem "A New Name"
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