Stumblers Collection - Hello Poetry

Aug 2013

Carl Joseph Roberts

Secret Of The Soul

Im opening up a window
In the center of my soul
So all the world can finally see
This secret that I hold

This secret that I share with you
Is precious to my heart
Hidden for so very long
That I dont know where to start

My secret tells a story
Of two soul's lost in time
And of a love that has been found
Between your heart and mine

A secret life of loving you
Hiding feeling deep inside
While knowing what I wanted most
Was to have you by my side

As tender mercy turns the page
I know now it is time
I will spend my future in your arms
And start a brand new life

So im openimg up a window
In the center of my soul
So all the world can finally see
This secret that I hold

Carl Joseph Roberts

This poem was written with the help and encouragement of Mike Hauser. He tried to break me out of my sappy love poems but apparently I am just a helpless romantic and fell back into my sure and true style..lol. Little changes Mike little changes and I break out in about one in ten poems. Also Bob Browning contributed a few changes in lines to make this more smooth. This is what I call asking for help and receiving it when you have a block and need a push. Great thanks to Mike and Bob for this help.

Aug 2013

Carl Joseph Roberts

Have You Ever Lost A Smile

Have You Ever Lost A Smile

Have you ever lost a smile
One you wished that you had back
A smile you lost freely
When a smile was all you had

Did you see the smile on their face
As they walked out of the room
Were you happy that you lost it
Because it changed their point of view

Have you ever lost a smile
That you gave to someone else
Did they take the smile and keep it
Or did they pass the smile around

A smile lost just may be found
If you look around the room
Someone else may have a smile
One that they dont mind you use

You can loose a smile every day
And still have one to loose
If you loose a smile to someone else
And a smile comes back to you

Smile

Carl Joseph Roberts

Aug 2013

Carl Joseph Roberts

I Saw Perfect

I Saw Perfect

Today I looked in
And I saw a perfect face
A smile that lit up the room
When others looked your way

There was this calm about you
As you looked around the room
Knowing just what you want
And who is right for you

You looked my way and smiled
And I wondered who you saw
Not realizing it was me
That you searched for all along

I felt this calming peace within
As your eyes peirced my soul
I saw the inner beauty
That I knew was there to hold

That perfect person in the room
Was there for all to see
For that perfect face that I saw
Was in a mirror in front of me

Carl Joseph Roberts

This poem is about finding yourself first. Seeing yourself differently and knowing that the way you see yourself, so will others. Believe that what you have to offer is what others want and others will want what you have to offer. (Wait I see a future poem in those last few words...lol)

Aug 2013

Carl Joseph Roberts

Test Of Time

Test Of Time

There is a feeling of excitement
As we start a brand new love
Not knowing what the other feels
And not wanting to mess up

So I try to show my best side
In a hope that they will see
The person that I really am
Not just the outer me

It takes some time to understand
What a person's really like
To see if what they are inside
Is more then meets the eye

That excitement of that someone new
Over time will fade away
It is only then that we will know
If the love was meant to stay

So I will not rush to fall in love
Or to call that person mine
For only then will true love grow
And stand the test of of time

Carl Joseph Roberts
August 2013

Aug 2013

Carl Joseph Roberts

I have to say goodbye today

I have to say Goodbye today.

I have to say goodbye today
For our love once strong has slipper away
The dreams of a future now in the past
For a love that I thought would forever last

I have to say goodbye today
To move forward, I must now turn away
No longer dream each night of you
I must heal my heart and find someone new

I have to say goodbye today
My heart's now healed and there is no more pain
My tears have dried as I start anew
Because today, today I say goodbye to you

Carl J. Roberts, February 2013

Aug 2013

Carl Joseph Roberts

I Got Nothing, (Suicide)

I Got Nothing (suicide)

I got nothing
Nothing else inside
Nothing else to speak about
Nothing else to hide

I got nothing
Nothing to call mine
Nothing to make me smile
Nothing to leave behind

I got nothing
Nothing to ease the pain
Nothing to protect me
Nothing to guide the way

I got nothing
Nothing else to give
Nothing else to hope for
Nothing to make me live

I Got Nothing

Carl Joseph Roberts

Just a poem, not how I fee at alll. Just how I think others feel.

Aug 2013

Carl Joseph Roberts

The Dotted Line

The Dotted Line

I thought the pain was over
Time has made our love so cold
But now the house where we once lived
Is in contract to be sold

Its been two years since I saw you
And no longer are you mine
But they say we both must be there now
To sign the dotted line

I couldn't help but feel the pain
As you walked into the room
The silence was so very loud
As I stopped and looked at you

They put the forms in front of us
And pointed where to sign
To the left I signed my name in bold
Just below the dotted line

To the right I saw a new name
One I didnt recognize
For you took his name a year ago
And left my name behind

That house where we once planned our life
Has now been sold to someone new
I watched as they received the keys
And hid my sadness from your view

This is the last I'll see you
The final ending of our time
For today we signed two different names
Just above the dotted line

Carl Joseph Roberts

Well this one is just for me, A way of release and I hope it brought you in to feel the story.

Aug 2013

Carl Joseph Roberts

Today

Today

Today I do this just for me
I start to care for what I need
Listen to what I feel inside
And allow myself a better life

Today I decide to change my mind
Leave old habits far behind
Realize what was plain to see
That we were never meant to be

Today I let go the past
Find new love and make it last
Allow my soul to be renewed
And give my heart to someone new

Today move forward and never back
I embrace the future and leave the past
The memory of you I now let go
Today I wanted you to know
Today

Carl Joseph Roberts

Aug 2013

TinaMarie

Divested Proposal

Grandiosely bragging about what you would do
While gently pulling my hair, adding emphasis to
Such a desperate attempt just out of the blue
I had to shake my head and feel sorry for you.

How very little you must think of yourself
To offer your body and withhold your mind
To quickly entangle and even faster unwind
Leaving countless diminished beings behind.

My sympathy should lie with every woman
That has welcomed your nothingness on chance
That has been lured by your lustful glance
To later be dismissed when they seek to advance.

All I see is a scared little boy, trying to hide
In superficial exploits because you're void inside
Casting lines of bait with all feelings aside
Giving no thought to others cause your soul has died.

© Tina Thompson

Aug 2013

TinaMarie

Forward Looking

One day...

You will not be remembered
     I will not reminisce
Nor analyze the "What if"

I will not think of you
     Nor speak of you
A stranger to my consciousness

No signs of you will exist
     All traces removed
Extinguished from my reality.

But...

     Just...

          Not...

               Today.

©Tina Thompson 2012

Aug 2013

TinaMarie

"It's a Trap"

I found out the hard way

Love is not
a miracle cure
pharmaceutical antidote
or herbal healing.

Love does not
guarantee happiness
deliver peacefulness
or reciprocal feelings

Love will only
confound beliefs
bastardize truth
and beguile dealings

Love is
an incessant languish
an immobile reality
and repentantly appealing

Love is a trap

With you.

Aug 2013

TinaMarie

LOVE

I love being in Love
     Love seeing you, breathing you, tasting you

I love being in Love
     Love planning my days around you
     Love doing new things with you
     Love sharing my life with you

I love being in Love
     Love watching you, touching you, knowing you

I love being in Love
     Love loving you
     Love Love with you
     Love you

©Tina Thompson 2004

Aug 2013

TinaMarie

In your Arms

The pressures of the day dissipate
     Worries of tomorrow retreat.
Tensions take flight in the stratosphere
     Vaporized by the heat in the air.
Psychological armor melts away
     Veils and covers are kept at Bay.
The frigid world begins to thaw
     Threatening crisis withdraw.

All from the warmth of your arms.

© Tina Thompson