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537 · May 2012
Mother's Day Haiku
Melissa S May 2012
Heaven has blessed me
Looking into those blue eyes
Is the ultimate prize
535 · Aug 2011
Rock and Hard Place
Melissa S Aug 2011
It sure is dark in here...
I look up and all I see is rock all around
My **** is killing me from sitting on this hard place on the ground

I sure am stuck as you can see
wonder when this rock and hard place will set me free?
531 · Oct 2014
Love Notes
Melissa S Oct 2014
We all fall in love or lust many times and there should be times we will actually know the difference. I'm glad I am not still that shy girl who totally messed up her first kiss by sneezing on the poor fella. Now I consider myself to be **** for the most part and now able to tell my man what I want him to do to me with confidence.
Love comes in all forms and shapes and with that comes heart break. We can lose the love of our life or we can lose a loved one from death. The latter is the worst and it is where the heart cannot be repaired.  When my Mom died my heart broke into a million zillion different pieces and when I tried to fit them back together there were actual missing holes. When the love of our life is lost it does hurt but the pieces can still fit back together. The pieces might not fit back the same way but that is because something has changed. Perhaps this something is a change inside of us!  From now on my heart will be tethered to me that way it will not be given away so easily.
531 · May 2019
Woman is her Name
Melissa S May 2019
Strong like a foundation
Rock solid in every way
Her skin is soft as velvet
God built her this very way
She hides most of her fears
Wears all her hats like a boss
She flows against the stream
and is the calm in the chaos
A beautiful mystery to unravel
One layer at at time
Only people close to her
Know the thoughts of her mind
Her eyes show compassion
and fierceness just the same
From the ashes she will rise again
and Woman is her name
This is a re-post but wanted to share again since Mother's Day is coming up.
I miss my mother everyday but I know she is still with me in some ways.
Love and Blessings to you all
529 · Nov 2016
Writing a Poem
Melissa S Nov 2016
I feel it on the tip of my tongue
I feel almost giddy
It's like a secret that I just remembered
I want to get the wording just right
but it's too fuzzy to get the full details
So I try to focus on what I can
I try and write what I see
What I feel
What I hear or taste
I close my eyes
Lean my head back
Then the paddles hit me and bring me out of my dream state
The thoughts vanish in thin air
and I just know I was on the verge of something magic
It could have been a good one
Maybe in those few moments before waking from a dream
I can figure out what I want to say....
I feel like this about about a lot of poems that I never finish
I just know they could have been magic if only.....:)
525 · Aug 2014
Where the Wind Takes me
Melissa S Aug 2014
The Color of my world keeps changing
Reminds me of a kaleidoscope
One twist and the same pieces
are rearranged to create a different shape
a different color and different picture

Its like the kaleidoscope is my world
and I have mixed the paints to change
the pallet I call my heart.

Sometimes it has spun to color my world
red with dread

Other times it may be spun to color my world
happy with khaki

But regardless of what color has spun
My world will always keep changing  
I just try and go with the flow
Go where the wind takes me
524 · Nov 2011
Words
Melissa S Nov 2011
Can't take back what
Has already been
Detestably spewed out
492 · Dec 2014
No Rhyme or Reason
Melissa S Dec 2014
She hums to herself because she is an
unrivaled botcher of lyrics. Her yellow
butter hair swings buoyantly to her tune.
She smells of bubble gum and does not have
a care in the world. She likes to make up her
own words and her own set of rules. This girl
that thinks she has an answer for everything.
Inspired by Sean Critchfield ....(here on HP) This, the footnote under his poem "Poem by Chance" and Victoria (aslo here on HP) "No Reason"
'This is the product of an exercise. I was instructed to grab the 7th book on my shelf, turn to page 7, and use the 7th line as my first line. The poem was restricted to seven lines.'
486 · Sep 2015
Just A Thought
Melissa S Sep 2015
Is it just me or does anyone else think of their poems as
their kiddos??
We love and care for them pouring out our very souls to them
Even when they start taking over our lives
We feed them and nourish them taking care to only use
the very best words for them
Sometimes staying up very late or getting up very early
caring for their needs
Before we get them just right we may start to try and wean
them off but sometimes it is hard to let go
Then when it is time to send them off on their merry way
We hope for the very best...
We hope that when other people see them that they like them
That they get them and that they care for them too
Especially when they reach those milestones :)
Anyways, it is just a thought I had
482 · Oct 2015
What 20/20 Vision?
Melissa S Oct 2015
With your 20/20 perfect vision one would think you could see clearly
Just do not remember the last time you looked at me dearly
Please can you see...
Take out all those other distractions
And get back to you and me
467 · Sep 2012
Reflection on life
Melissa S Sep 2012
There is a continuity of life and death...there is no true end. The best way to describe it is as a circle. We may die in the physical sense but our love and memories move on with the people left behind. My mom may not be with me in the every day sort of life but she is in everything beautiful that surrounds me..everything that I love she is a part of and therefore a part of me that I carry always <3
461 · May 2014
The Beauty of the Sea
Melissa S May 2014
You are my one true confidant
and keep my secrets well
When touched by my salty diamonds
you never do tell


You swallow up the dark
and fill me with strength anew
Does not matter how much
dark blows through

Just throw it out
and it goes away with the tide
All can be healed
when you have the sea at your side
457 · Nov 2014
Let us Give Thanks
Melissa S Nov 2014
Let us give thanks for health and food, for family and friends and for us poets let us remember to always be grateful for paper and pen <3
449 · Mar 2019
Don’t Ask Granny :)
Melissa S Mar 2019
If you don’t want to really know
Then do not ask Granny
She will tell every little ailment
Every little story about what is
going on in her life. I used to be
embarrassed or irritated by it
But hey I was young and dumb.
Now I appreciate her honesty
She earned that right of telling
These stories and telling of what
ails her. She was an awesome mother
and grandmother who always gave
of herself to everyone.
I mean seriously...we are asking
How you doing? So why can’t she
really answer. I wish more people
were like this to tell you the truth.
Do not ask if you really
do not want to know.
I wish I could still ask her
How you doing Granny?
I would sit and listen for
hours if I needed to
I miss you Granny <3
Spend time with the ones you love
Because you cannot get that time back!!!
446 · Aug 2017
Vicious Cycle of Pain
Melissa S Aug 2017
Please sleep come to me tonight
Make my thoughts still
So maybe then I won't feel
Did I ask for too much? I think not
but nothing was exactly what I got
For he has taken my very heart
Stomped it and shred apart
This thing we call love
Feels more like a vicious cycle of pain
We love....We Hurt....We Forgive
Then it begins again
414 · Jan 2022
2021 and Life Lessons
Melissa S Jan 2022
Grief has to many phases and passages to name
In life we can take one path or many pathways
There are people who lie and then there are liars
People who are kind or people who show kindness
People can be great or they are grateful
People who feel safe then others who need a savior
We only have ourselves to blame and be held
accountable for our mistakes
     With knowledge and struggles comes strength
and
We are never truly alone...

405 · Dec 2019
Into Battle We Go
Melissa S Dec 2019
The enemy swarmed our gates again
around Mother's day last year.
We were unarmed and unprepared
we thought we fought them off the last time.
We thought our gates were impenetrable.
We are at full blown war now our weapons
are up and full armor is on.
We just take one day at a time
and just keep trying to figure out it's weakness.
We are trying to find out what pulls it down
just like it pulled us down.
We do not give up hope in finding this weakness
and we shut our eyes and ears to all the negativity.
The enemy we are fighting is cancer
and the gate it swarmed is our family, our sister.
We will never give up on fighting this!!!
388 · Jul 2017
Poetry ~ (10w)
Melissa S Jul 2017
Breathe you all in
Can't help myself
Get ****** in :)
I cannot get enough it seems :) Love to you all <3
387 · Feb 2019
I Need
Melissa S Feb 2019
Eyes that undress me and devour
that look upon me as a delectable flower

Lips that softly kiss and taste
greedily savoring my sweetness leaving not a trace

Hands that need no prompting or words
they just read my body and thoughts not heard

Arms wrapped tightly around me, skin on skin
making me feel loved on the outside as well as within
I wrote this poem six years ago today and it is still true.  We all need this!! I do not need any gifts for Valentine's Day just love
Happy Valentine's Day HP
370 · Jul 2020
My Tree By the Sea
Melissa S Jul 2020
Don't litter
my pretty tree
with ugly
truths for leaves
thorns that cut
like swords
with no
protective sheaths


Seeds of a deceiver
try to take
root
to *******
sweet and sticky
fruit
to grow into
choking vines
It's only purpose
is to bind
then confine


but my tree
is too strong
It has to be
I blow with the wind
that carries me
Down by the sea
Peaceful quiet
and fancy free
348 · Dec 2019
Gift of LO❤️E
Melissa S Dec 2019
Be nice
Smile
Help a Friend
~
Remember
Its not everyone’s most
Wonderful time of the year
327 · Mar 2019
Spring Cleaning
Melissa S Mar 2019
It feels so good to get rid of the unused things
and the clothes that are never worn
Cleaning out the cobwebs and the unused
junk has been therapeutic to say the least
So therapeutic I just cannot seem to stop myself
I have been clearing out people in my life too
The ones who are doing me no good to keep around
The users and abusers got to go
As well with the ones who bring me nothing but negativity
231 · Jun 2020
View of the World
Melissa S Jun 2020
This thing called life is a series of experience
that colors our lenses on how we view the world

The unique shades we look through shapes our
perspective and makes our beliefs unfurled

Though we cannot look with other eyes
we can still try and see and appreciate their view

Tolerance and understanding will go a long way in
making the changes for this to come true

We have no way of knowing what others have experienced
in their past and with their own journey's of life

But we can make a promise to do better with how we
view these lenses in this time of strife

— The End —