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 Feb 2017 Madeline
Ann M Johnson
Opportunity gently knocks
  Whereas temptation demands to be let in
Can be applied to being on a diet, or other situations as well.
 Nov 2016 Madeline
Gwen Johnson
I've stopped searching
for my missing pieces
Not because I'm whole
but because
I finally
feel
alive
 Nov 2016 Madeline
Gwen Johnson
I am untold metaphors
that contradict each others existences
I am lightness
and darkness
and everything in between
I'm also the lack of the in between  
I'm the lack of existence
And existence itself
I am every extreme
but most importantly
no perfectly constructed poetry
can define me
and I wouldn't want it any other way
 Jun 2016 Madeline
Gwen Johnson
You
 Jun 2016 Madeline
Gwen Johnson
You
I want to ask
What reminds you of me?
But if you were to ask me back
I couldn't pick one thing
Because my mind likes to bring
Everything back to you
But then maybe my answer is
That I remind myself
Of you
 May 2016 Madeline
Gwen Johnson
I want to be creative
Correction
I want to have amazing streaks of imagination fill me
Until they flow out onto paper
And I want that everyday
I want the world to inspire me
I want to paint the world in a new perspective
To share it with you
 May 2016 Madeline
Gwen Johnson
You say you're not good at art
but I've seen you create things
on your hardest days
and it's a masterpiece
knowing that the world is still so bright to you
Even at its darkest
And you are darling in the way
That you try to pick something
You love about yourself each day
Because you know great artworks
Aren't always beautiful as a whole
I waned to challenge myself to write positive things about me, and I challenge everyone else to do the same. If anyone does follow my lead and write a love poem to themselves message me or comment on this poem telling me you did because I would love to check them out!
 Jan 2016 Madeline
Terry Jordan
I see no purpose in your poem
One commenter told me
That it somehow fell short
He just had to scold me

But that’s just the way I meant to
Leave the Reader wanting more
Not to mend a broken heart
Heal the sick or feed the poor

Or split apart an atom
Cause the sun to set or rise
Maybe yes, maybe no
Win a Pulitzer Prize?

My poems tell a story
In an epic or a wisp
Stands alone all on its own
Not conforming to your list

So I see no purpose in your comment
And just need to tell you
That poem of 17 syllables?
It’s a simple Haiku
This was not someone on HP, but he taught me to think before I critique anyone's work.
 Jan 2016 Madeline
Anna
11/26/15
 Jan 2016 Madeline
Anna
I want to take back everything
I've ever said to you.

I don't want you to know
anything about me anymore.
 Nov 2015 Madeline
Gwen Johnson
I'm not easy to manage
I have a storm in my mind
Trying to find its way out
And I will grip unto you
Like I've never seen sunlight
But you don't need to calm the storm
I just like to know there's still light
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