The Bravest - Hello Poetry

Mar 2015

Traveler

Deep in my psyche
Broken contacts spark
Faulty connections
Between my brain and heart

So many traumatic incidents
I somehow survived
Violent childhood
Prison life

Over and over
Throughout my life
Surrounded by thugs
With guns and knives

Losing my children
When they were quite small
Is the most traumatic
Experience of all

I fought to hold on
In the face of adversity
Prayed for death
To escape a grim reality

Then I discovered a switch within
A way to shut down and try to mend

Flip the switch of fear
And now you're brave
Flip the switch of emotional pain
And now my heart is lame

Unfortunately over many years
All that negative energy reappears
Shadows and voices
Paranoia and indecisive choices

It feels so good at first
Yet to switch it off
In the end is a curse...

Traveler Tim
re to 03-17

Mar 2015

Andrew Durst

Love,

don't
  be honest
       for
          their
              sake,

      be
         honest
               for
                 yours.

For a friend.

Mar 2015

Traveler

INTEGRATION OF SHADOWS

In a memory
That I had forgotten
A flash appeared
Of a long ago
Deed so very rotten

It took my breath
As I took to flight
I could find no justification
Trapped within eternal night

Funny how we suppress
The memories that threaten
Our integrity
And somehow pretend
That that was never me

Yet now I must integrate
That shadow hour
Somehow forgive myself
Before my hell devours...

Mar 2015

Poetic T

The Gate To.....

It just hung there, rusted shut
Black as coal
Cold
Vibrations
Feeling's
That was not meant to be. I seized
My limbs frozen as if blocked upon
There reach.
Inscriptions placed in tongue
Of old.
"signati inter stratis universi"
I took my camera
Photos where as if nothing seen
Static,
White,
Blank
Visions of a black that cant be disguised around
Blossom of pink delectably spread around.
But beauty often hides the thorns,
That which is perpetual
That which seeps unto this world
Old,
Malevolent,
Malignant
Darkness that is like a whisper
Permeating into this world.
It is a gate,
A portal to a place that light does
Not enter or exit from this place.
The gate to......
I walk away as if hurried from this moment,
Ushered with a momentary....
"Where the hell am I"
"I cant ****** remember the last few days"
"I sense a smell of blossom"
I fell heavy as they tell me
"It's temporary"
I had hit my head some place,
I'll get my memories back.
I open my back gate and my hand retreats
As if knowing of danger,
But I once again reach,
"Nothing"
My head aches,
As I sleep I dream of pink blossom
I see the gate...
They find me three days later
Fear distorted upon my features,
Scared to death, died in my sleep, finger frozen
Out of reach,Scratched into my headboard
"The gate is open"
"The blossom has fallen"
**"The gate, the gate the ga............"

#beauty #evil #old #horror #gate

Mar 2015

R

Untitled

It's hard to forget a year worth of love and memories, wouldn't you agree?

Mar 2015

raw with love

writer's curse

everyone i've written about
has left me.
so you must understand
why i will not immortalize you
with my words,
why i won't turn you
into a poem.

maybe this way
you'll stay.

Mar 2015

Arcassin B

"Howdy" (The Right Way Ep)

By Arcassin Burnham

We all need a light for our cigarettes,
With full regrets,
And misinterpreted,
Alot of problems in the society,
You better take the crown,
When its due,
Before you get evicted,
Everyone knows your secrets,
Secrets that you can't forget ,
Steady riding your horse,
You call her mickey,
Your friend,
Your sister,
More than a pet,
So when you see your bullies,
Say howdy , how's it goin,
So when you see your bullies,
Say howdy , how's it goin,
I see you true colors,
Yeah,
Your gray is showing,
Or I guess you must be feeling blue,
Is that why I'm the main concern to you,
Howdy , how's it goin.

10.

#western #ep #therightway

Mar 2015

Silence Screamz

We are insects

We are insects of our own demise
Scattering through the cracks in the pavement
Looking down with their bulging eyes
The giants await to squash our brains out
and crush our fragile bodies

The earth shakes with every black soul
We fear the evil that awaits
Decimated with no survivors
We are insects, no more!!

looking down at the lesser known of society, the people living on the streets and under the bridges, the trash can fires to keep them warm, what world awaits them as they try to survive

#the #survival #on #street #homeless #fragile #insects #squashed

Mar 2015

ryn

Freedom Pages

When gentle breezes turn into gale,
     remember that you will prevail.

       You may tear at these pages daily,
in search of peace and tranquillity.
   Planting hope and scattering wishes,
    Spilling blood in smears and blemishes...
       Flying out of the dark on
     wings of birds.
       Bridging the rippling void through
           severed words.

                Seeking...
             Reaching...
               Imploring...
            Writing...

     Be not wary of eyes that speak.
  Be not afraid of mouths that leak.

Know that our scribbles are only
   sacred to us.
       Emotions and thoughts we
           bind and truss.

  What we put forth, we owe it to ourselves...
     Bits of us we've kept hidden in the
darkest rooms; atop the highest shelves.

You...
      are wielder of your mighty pen.
You...
      determine how far or long your
         words would span.

   Your words... They're precious gold.
Many or little; be them new or old.

So let drip your ink with little reservation...
  Let us grow from strength to strength
     as life teaches its lessons.

   Rise up and live on in these here pages,
     For here exist only
         freedom;
               not cages.

Dedicated to writers here who are always apprehensive about posting or think very little of their writes.

Know that your words are gold. And the rest of us as readers are lucky enough be granted access into your mind, heart and life.

Keep the faith. Keep writing. Keep posting...
.

#hellopoetry107 #freedompages #donotbeafraidtopostwhatyouvewritten