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1.9k · Feb 2011
Four Letter Word
Hannah Ripps Feb 2011
Never a word I’ve feared more.
Never needed a label for adore.
Never a word I’ve desired for.
Never needed a word to make my heart sore.

This four letter word that strikes fear.
A four letter word that I desire to hear.
This four letter word that can burn and sear.
A four letter word that’s always held dear.

What a four letter word can do to the soul.
What it can do to a heart of solid coal.
What a four letter that people extoll.
What is this L-O-V-E that we try to control?
1.5k · Feb 2011
Sneaky Love
Hannah Ripps Feb 2011
Love struck right through my chest.
And there it planted a seed.
No matter how much I protest,
It crept up and grew like a ****.

It walked up when my back was turned.
How very unkind how very impolite,
It leads me only to get spurned.
And brings with it lonely a night.

Oh why did love do such a thing?
It likes to pick on me, love does.
Did it have to pluck each heart string?
But for the best it truly was.

For if love had decided not to creep at all,
I might have decidedly turned away,
I might never’ve taken down my wall.
Sneaky love has given me a chance today.
1.2k · Feb 2011
For Sins
Hannah Ripps Feb 2011
“For who can bear the whips and scorns of time?
The pangs of despised love?”

For sins the soul lays pray
To the vultures hovering above.

The body’s insides left to melt
In the sun’s tenacious heat.

While the heart aches from pain dealt
And barely keeps a beat.
Hannah Ripps May 2010
I know you gave me chances
I know I wasted time
I don’t even deserve
To make my feelings rhyme

I'm not so good with words
But I will keep on trying
Even though
You always keep
Me up at night still sighing

I know I hurt you badly
That day I left my heart
I don't know why I did it
When I loved you from the start

Even if another chance
Cannot be given this time
In my next life when I meet you
I  will fix my awful crime
785 · May 2010
Allay My Fear
Hannah Ripps May 2010
As I go about my day
I think about the way
I stumble and studder
And my heart starts to flutter
Whenever he comes near
I forget about my fear
that he should ever go away.
756 · May 2010
Orange Grove
Hannah Ripps May 2010
The hollow wings of birds that carry through the air
Gliding cross skies that glow golden at dusk
The falling light in its final hours caresses the branches
Of trees in a distant grove where a scent
Lifts to the cloud-filled heavens
With faint aromas sweet.
636 · Feb 2011
A Dream
Hannah Ripps Feb 2011
A desperate, silent scream
Makes restless, waking sleep
A night scarred by a dream
That my open brain did reap.

You were there and everywhere
The flowers were to bloom
On the breeze and through air
Shedding sweet perfume.


But then the sun, it went away
And I saw what must be true
The clouds rolled in to my dismay
I saw you’d left me too.
572 · Feb 2011
Valentine
Hannah Ripps Feb 2011
Why not give me your heart in exchange for mine?
Then, by next month, I’ll be your Valentine.
It’s just like something from a book,
Where I melt with just one look.

Why should I see the rain fall and not feel it?
My heart is unguarded so please just steal it.
There’s really no need for a key.
Why not just ask? I’ll give my heart willingly.

My heart skips a boom at that feeling,
And makes my dreams look super appealing.
Unbearable thoughts rage like an infection,
And I’m waiting for the antidote connection.

If I don’t want to risk the chance of rain,
How am I going to get a rainbow?
So let’s go for walk and you will see,
That where you really belong is with me.
544 · Feb 2011
World I Hate
Hannah Ripps Feb 2011
If the whole world rains
It’s gonna kick you when you’re down.
How do you stick to it through the pain,
When the ****’s so high you’re gonna drown?

There must be something wrong
When these thoughts tend to circulate.
And every second the list grows long,
It gets harder for me to concentrate

And you still wipe away my tears,
‘*** you know it’s really the world I hate.
Your touch leaves no room for fears,
And then you carry some of my weight

When you’re that trapped, you can’t run.
Buried underneath it gets easy to hide.
I never take help from no one.
When someone asks, I find I lied.

I promise I’ll try to get better,
But how could I really guarantee?
Way ahead, I see bad weather.
I’ll have to remember you are with me.

So would you please stay,
To wipe my tears away?
Because you know it makes the world
So much harder to hate.
540 · Feb 2011
Playing With Words
Hannah Ripps Feb 2011
Play with words
And you’ll be tricked.
Write them down
And they will run.
Speak them
And they will slip.
Admire them
And they will sing.
507 · Feb 2011
Outside Of Eden
Hannah Ripps Feb 2011
I picked a poison apple, and knowingly took a bite,
Only to find it made me wise.

Kind of a twisted Cinderella- or was it Sleeping Beauty?
What was the story again?

I can’t quite remember- whatever.
The point is, I don’t need saving.

That tasty morsel gave me a choice
To be with or without Eden.

The choice was to leave my fins
For the freedom of feet on land.

— The End —