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211 · Oct 2019
A Do-Not-Do List
Olivia A Keaton Oct 2019
don't you dare
-touch her
-look at her
-speak down at her
-yell at her
-degrade her
-ruin her
-break her

and
don't you even THINK
of crossing me
stupid stupid stupid abuser
210 · Apr 2017
The Storm Within
Olivia A Keaton Apr 2017
no
you most certainly can not
you can not calm this storm
you my dearest can indeed
calm yourself
after that, i do promise
the storm will pass
O.K
210 · Jan 2020
Stung (past tense)
Olivia A Keaton Jan 2020
People need to realize that
their words sting almost as badly
as the salt in one's tears.
Quickly before "sting" becomes past tense.
210 · Oct 2016
Awkward
Olivia A Keaton Oct 2016
You ever have those awkward moments?
Well my friend, don't feel bad.
The one I just had was guaranteed to be much worse.
I'm shaking it was so bad. Oh dear. It's kinda comical though.
209 · May 2017
color me free
Olivia A Keaton May 2017
how can i be myself
if all i want is a different canvas
to paint on for once?

the voice in my head
is rude to me.
how can i get the tears to stop
from going all the way down my face?

this song says to
count to fifty
but how can i get there if i can't
get to 40?
This poem is not my best but again, more song inspired writing. I love this artist, I can honestly apply his lyrics to my life :)
O.K
209 · Mar 2019
The Budding Willow
Olivia A Keaton Mar 2019
You saw me
I am a willow tree
Swaying my branches
Caressing the breeze.
You saw me sad
As the winter consumed
But you waited for my flowers
Happiness resumed.
All I needed was a hug of warmth
A glimpse of happy spring
So now I’m budding
Because that’s what you bring.
O.K
209 · May 2016
lies
Olivia A Keaton May 2016
lies
When I believe them
I like the idea of them
Then it's not true
And I fall *
apart
209 · Jul 2018
unintended
Olivia A Keaton Jul 2018
do you think I meant to fall for him?

no. but I don’t necessarily want to stand back up.
O.K
208 · Oct 2016
Faulty
Olivia A Keaton Oct 2016
How can I be so
faulted?

When I say things and
trip
over my words.

When I try and make poems but my
writers block
gets in the way.

When I try and think
my thoughts
make Pandora's box's contents seem not so violent.
Tøp reference there ;)
207 · Jul 2017
but for what?
Olivia A Keaton Jul 2017
it grows colder in a small room with a fan.
she grabs and holds on to a pillow, as if it were him. as if it were anyone, hugging her back and offering warmth and safety. the artist's lyrics charm her like a snake, and she cant escape them. her nails are chipped and her face is wet. shes still searching.
O.K
last night's thoughts
206 · Oct 2019
His Perspective
Olivia A Keaton Oct 2019
I must be strong when she shakes
do it for her, (she's fragile, she breaks)

Swallow the tears and dismiss them from my voice
though the pill(s) may be bitter, it isn't her choice

Hold her because your arms are sometimes stronger than the heart
hold her as she mumbles and cries (you keep her from falling apart)

Love her for the good times, be there for the bad
don't let it fool you (you're not why she's sad)
205 · Oct 2018
asleep
Olivia A Keaton Oct 2018
A sleep,
like death,
but without commitment.

It's my time,
my life,
who cares how I spend it?

Falling in love to the beat of a song,
a lullaby,
because you were asleep all along.
O.K
205 · Oct 2016
The Sound Of Silence
Olivia A Keaton Oct 2016
the sound of silence
A sound heard often by me
Biting my tongue
When I just want to scream

The pain rises to the very edge of my lips
Just wanting to shout even though I can't
Because that's not what I'm about
But it boils inside me, the words, like demons wanting out

the sound of silence
Can you hear it ringing?
The pain of staying quiet
When all you need to do to relieve it is simply
**scream
Prompt: write about having to stay quiet when you want to scream
204 · Jul 2018
Untitled
Olivia A Keaton Jul 2018
you caught me.
I’m hooked.
O.K
204 · Feb 2018
sleep
Olivia A Keaton Feb 2018
I’ve gotten so used to seeing your sleepy smile before I drift away, that tonight will be difficult.

I miss you, but I won’t force it.
You’re perfect, I love you. In a perfect world we could cuddle our problems away. I know we would both love that.

O.K
203 · Jul 2017
stardusted tears
Olivia A Keaton Jul 2017
you put the stardust in my eyes,
but you also made them cry.
O.K
203 · May 2017
get away
Olivia A Keaton May 2017
I'm running faster and faster
and I end up getting nowhere
everyone thinks I have this simple life
oh please.
O.K
202 · Jun 2020
fires
Olivia A Keaton Jun 2020
When someone asks what 5 or 10 things you would grab if your house was on fire,
you never really consider that your house could catch fire.
202 · Jun 2017
quiet moments
Olivia A Keaton Jun 2017
we're staring at
the pretty silence
O.K
202 · Nov 2017
Untitled
Olivia A Keaton Nov 2017
and after a game of waiting I’m finally, once and for all, 100% over you
O.K
202 · Sep 2016
A Thousand Ways
Olivia A Keaton Sep 2016
je t'aime*
one way of a thousand ways to say I love you
*because I do
202 · Oct 2016
The Ocean
Olivia A Keaton Oct 2016
The Ocean Blue
Salty like the tears of you
To restore my love what can I do?
For a cloud soars over the deep
*O' I weep
O' I weep!
Just a poem I came up with today
201 · Dec 2019
Seasonal Depression
Olivia A Keaton Dec 2019
My stripped body greeted the hot water that it had so desperately craved with a snarl.
My lungs hissed and heaved, struggling under the weight of the steam, or maybe they struggled because of the other invisible weights on my chest.

But still, as all of this happened, my body relaxed its familiar tense appearance.
Because for a moment, it was hiding from the dead cold that resided outside.
201 · Sep 2018
A Letter Perfectly Adressed
Olivia A Keaton Sep 2018
to you, lovely.

She told me
Today
You’re through.
You. Her.
Done.
I’m sorry that
Isn’t what you want to hear.
But
Maybe it’s what you need to?
O.K
200 · Nov 2017
threes that I stole
Olivia A Keaton Nov 2017
I’m counting, let me be
1.2.3.
He just looked at me.
1.2.3.
I’m dying can’t you see?
1.2.3.
Pardon my three O.C.D.
1.2.3.

Several thirds of a whole
these are threes that I stole.
O.K
I like to count in threes
apparently it’s a side effect of OCD
200 · Sep 2018
I like flowers
Olivia A Keaton Sep 2018
I fell in love too hard, too long.
A little girl, a too sad song.

I like flowers, that much is true.
I’ve picked a bouquet of oopsie daisies,
because that’s what it’s like loving you.
O.K
200 · May 2017
quiet
Olivia A Keaton May 2017
shhh
do you hear that?
muffled voices and my own thoughts
it cuts through my mind like a knife
honestly anything would hurt less than the quiet.

guns locking and loading
ready to fire
without my consent
yet the quiet is still more deadly.
Nothing like a little song inspired poetry.
O.K
199 · Jun 2017
euphoria
Olivia A Keaton Jun 2017
the delight of emotional rhythms
in a song that explains everything
the feeling of choking
but in a way of pleasure
from reading some article of writing
that jerks more happy tears than sad
the magnetic pull to someone
that equally balances your life
*this is my euphoria
O.K
198 · Apr 2017
|This much|
Olivia A Keaton Apr 2017
darling how I love you
t h i s   m u c h
but oh how much I hate to
~O.K
197 · Sep 2018
...
Olivia A Keaton Sep 2018
...
When it rains, darling it pours.
My broken spirit is a lot like yours.
Two people couldn’t meet,
and their hearts, both were weak.
But here we are, this is true.
You’re in front of me, I in front of you.
What could happen?
Magic! you say.
All I know is that you’re the best part,
the very best part of my day.
O.K
197 · Oct 2019
we've all "failed"
Olivia A Keaton Oct 2019
42,43,44
***** phospholipids
we won't do them anymore
197 · Oct 2016
Lost Loves
Olivia A Keaton Oct 2016
love flies through the night
the night
the night
the love it fills me with fright

it flies like an ebony raven
the raven
the raven
the flight is love's safe haven

love is lost in a dark cave
the cave
the cave
the raven will carry the love message in which to it I gave

upon arrival in the darkest dark
the darkest dark
the darkest dark
on the raven my love will embark
I don't even know where my inspiration is.
Olivia A Keaton Dec 2019
My twin flame!
My burning heart's passion!
Dance with me and strike this fire back to life.
Touch and caress me with your burning, desiring hands.
Burn holes into my skin with your fire-lit eyes
and maybe for a second, I become shy,
starting to flicker out.
Then kiss me with the force of an uproar of engulfing flames,
making us the comfortable type of warm once again.
Explore me and fill me with your heated passion,
use me for my warmth as I use you for yours.

Give me this fire of passion
allow me to be swallowed up in the flames
but do it quickly please,
before I flicker out.
Fire, a beautiful thing, isn't it?
196 · Jul 2020
messily
Olivia A Keaton Jul 2020
our love is like trying to keep long, free hair
from tickling your face.

our love, darling, is like the stickiness of dough sticking to your fingers before you make your baked treat.

our love is messy, yes. crazy at times? absolutely.
but it yields the most beautiful and fun amazing moments.
196 · Nov 2019
Basic Rules of Math
Olivia A Keaton Nov 2019
I hope you've been taught
1+1 is 2
but I noticed something today that made me think of you.
We always see the angles, not for what they are,
but better yet we look inside them to identify them.
Why can't we look into each other's souls
to really see who we are
instead of judging everyone by the outside?
196 · Sep 2018
A slap on the wrist
Olivia A Keaton Sep 2018
All I want to do
is talk to you.

but I have to scold myself
because

I know it’s no good.
O.K
195 · Apr 2018
caught it!
Olivia A Keaton Apr 2018
I’ve caught the kiss that was flying through the air. I caught it, held it to my heart, and told it to stay there.
O.K
194 · May 2017
morning clothes
Olivia A Keaton May 2017
"Goodmorning"
they say
"Oh what a wonderful day?"
but when i just reply
"morning"
they dont even notice the
frown im wearing
O.K
194 · Jul 2018
picking daisies
Olivia A Keaton Jul 2018
I find myself plucking petals from a sun,
a game once played by a young girl,
singing sing song words just for fun.

Today I’m picking daisies,
and going crazy.

Asking myself rather he loves me or not,
destroying poor flowers,
in hopes to fill my heart spot.
O.K
Olivia A Keaton Sep 2018
“I would never leave someone so amazing”

You already did,
when you left him,

only for me to catch him
     and never want to let go.
O.K
But you’ll never understand what he means to me, neither will he. I really wish things would work out.
193 · Apr 2018
but that doesn’t matter
Olivia A Keaton Apr 2018
I’m laying in bed, that much is true.

But my mind keeps on runnin, I’m thinking of you.
O.K
193 · Jun 2017
paused
Olivia A Keaton Jun 2017
i want to put life on hold
for one word
one kiss, so bold

never wanted harm
a scar on the heart
or the arm

a quick rewind
just for a while
breathing in time
O.K
a poem that makes sense to me
193 · Oct 2016
Walking in the Rain
Olivia A Keaton Oct 2016
When I take a stroll
Down the street
From my thoughts I take a toll
My walk in the rain
It helps
It erases the pain
Washes away; my soul it cleans
A lot of people wonder why I love rain so much
They don't know what to me; it truly means.
I love rain so much.
Olivia A Keaton May 2017
hope
it's over come my other emotions
it's built up
only to be broken down by fools.

hope is awful
it burns my heart and brain
like a bonfire lit with gasoline.
O.K
193 · Mar 2017
Complexity At It's Finest
Olivia A Keaton Mar 2017
Life's trials and tribulations have actually taught me a little something.
It taught me that my heart's capacity is large enough to withstand both joy and sorrow. And that my mind is strong enough to bring in chaos and peace. It just all makes perfect sense.

It's not about wanting to be  something
it's about excepting  everything
And maybe finally I don't want to be her:
"Perfect"
but maybe I want to revel in my own complexity.
this is English class so poetry is allowed right?
Olivia A Keaton Apr 2018
It is never the gun that shoots itself,
therefore it is the
lover
and not the
love
that hurts us all.
O.K
Just a thought about gun control and love. Arguably the two most difficult situations.
192 · Nov 2016
Fun
Olivia A Keaton Nov 2016
Fun
i like to swing on creaky swings
go outside, lie down in the grass and listen to the birds sing.
I like to take walks in the woods and spend time in the sun
I guess this is just my kind of fun.
Now it's getting chilly
and my lack of fun is really quite silly.

I still enjoy the fun
And I know,
that when every day is done
another sunrise
makes me love life so.
191 · Mar 2017
Hours
Olivia A Keaton Mar 2017
hours of power outages
hours of holding on
hours of grieving
and only seconds to survive.
190 · Aug 2018
sleepy sweetness
Olivia A Keaton Aug 2018
as I wrap myself in a sea of roses,
     when you think dreams have taken me,
you still whisper sweetness you think I’ll never hear.
O.K
190 · Mar 2017
Prayers Unspoken
Olivia A Keaton Mar 2017
Some of my most heart filled prayers and wishes
are the ones I most forget to say.
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