Kelly Catherine: Poems

1.8k · Feb 2014

Bullets

Kelly Catherine Feb 2014

Bullets

The blood spilling from my torso
Is composed of many things
Maybe not leukocytes, erythrocytes,
Fibrinogen, or plasma

but

Fear
for the future

Regret
for what might have been

Sadness
for dear friends in pain

Pride
in a long journey and hard work

But if I am shot again tomorrow
What will it be made of then?

1.5k · Feb 2014

DNA

Kelly Catherine Feb 2014

DNA

He had a round face
Dark features
And a look in his eye
that told you all of who he was

I saw it in the front cover of a book

The next volume had a dedication
In his name

I'm about to open the next chapter of a different book
But I haven't scheduled my appointment

The only thing I'm afraid of
Is not for me to repeat the past
But for my father to relive it

1922-1971

1.2k · Feb 2014

The Draw

Kelly Catherine Feb 2014

The Draw

I've always been the lucky one
My life was never changed for the worse by fate
Only for the better

I was not the one in the boat when it hit the rock amongst the rapids

I was not the forest floor being burned by the flames

I was not the one who fell from my grace during the cool mornings

I was not the one whose clothes were covered in ***** and mind ablur

But my fate is no longer in my hands,
And I don't know what I would do
If I could never again have the opportunity
to make those mistakes

772 · May 2014

Happy Place

Kelly Catherine May 2014

Happy Place

Docks
Forest
Smiling faces

Cicadas
Rustling sails
Laughing children

Sunscreen
Pine trees
Bonfires

Sandwiches
Bug spray
Clean air

Ropes
Paddles
Hands

Happy
Peaceful
Loved

tried to use the 5 senses, but words can hardly describe my love for camp

746 · Mar 2014

Paris in Spring

Kelly Catherine Mar 2014

Paris in Spring

The most interesting thing
About Paris in spring
Is watching locals strutting around

The most inspiring thing
About Paris in spring
Are the daffodils waking from the ground

The most astonishing thing
About Paris in spring
Is the architecture, Notre Dame to Bastille

But the saddest thing
About Paris in spring
Is wishing you could admire it with me

Paris was amazing, I miss it so much already

673 · Feb 2014

Tied Down

Kelly Catherine Feb 2014

Tied Down

The first day we arrived
you gave us all a piece of faded yellow rope
"Keep this on your person at all times"

Day in, day out

Alpine butterfly
(Secure the canoe so it won't fall off the trailer)
Reef, figure eight
(Simple stuff, multipurpose; the kids do this)
Sheet bend
(Connect two ropes with different diameters)
Double fisherman
(Kept it around my ankle so it wouldn't get lost)

But thank god
That the last knot I tied
Before I left
Was the one I was best at

Bowline
(Attached my heart to the sailing docks)

I've edited this so many times, probably will edit it a few more

604 · Jun 2014

Blindfolded

Kelly Catherine Jun 2014

Blindfolded

It's been two years
I'd never really thought much about it
Until you were the last thing I saw
Before the scarf was tied over my eyes

I fumbled around in the dark
Bumping into everything from disgust to hope
And even when I found your smooth hands
I was still lost
You guided me in circles
While whispering a thousand things in my ear

And when we stopped and I took the blindfold off
I blinked furiously in the light
All I felt was a sense of longing
And all I could see were blue shadows cast upon your lips

486 · Feb 2014

Clinomania

Kelly Catherine Feb 2014

Clinomania

trust me
i don't want to be this way
what addict does?

flashback
ages 4 through 13
i spent at least an hour
each night
staring into the dark
wishing it were in my head

here I am now
busy
exciting life
stressful
but filled with activity
exhaustion

it's an escape from
family
friends
responsibility
where my thoughts can drift
lazily through my mind
euphoria

it's relaxation
my body still
at total peace
nothing but breathing

i'm trying to run
but at all the wrong times
and i'm not staying at the right ones

it's destroying me

i know that this all my own fault
because i'm still letting it

I am not sad, simply too happy where I am.

437 · Mar 2014

My name is not Alice and we are far from Wonderland

Kelly Catherine Mar 2014

My name is not Alice and we are far from Wonderland

My thoughts stir around my head
like a lulling chaos
They dare not scream
only whispering in my ear
all about the same thing
Forty different people
pointing in all directions
telling me which path to follow
The one thing they have in common
is that these people
seem to share the same name:
Yours

423 · Feb 2014

Heaven, Earth, and Hell (Part One)

Kelly Catherine Feb 2014

Heaven, Earth, and Hell (Part One)

It's been five years
Since I first saw you
Goofing around
with your two best friends
By the basketball net.
At that time
All I knew was:
You had a nice laugh
A charming smile
And that she loved you.
I don't know
If she ever told you
But I haven't seen her since.

it's likely that i'll never post the rest of this

324 · Mar 2014

Untitled

Kelly Catherine Mar 2014

Untitled

they always told me "mind over matter"
well, what if "mind" can't find a ladder?

322 · Feb 2014

Step Back

Kelly Catherine Feb 2014

Step Back