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 Feb 2016 Ryan Cripps
poetryfree
Not all monsters are evil
and protected hearts have keyholes

To one monster cutting was cutting
Didn’t matter if it saves or kills
To the other finding god and her maker was a goal
And man or machine died in her path

The monsters met
They laughed
They killed
They saved
They loved
They lost each other

One was captured
And god’s avatar turned over the world pursuing revenge
There were other deities now
Ones that played with the little people

The monster that was the first ones avatar did all she could
Burned the world pursing her love
And lost her god along the way
Her god chose to sacrifice herself for the monster
Because people are not interchangeable
And even monsters have hearts.

(c)Mottelz
I see you in my tea,
Because before you would be here, sipping and smiling with me.
And I see you in the flowers,
Because we'd sit amongst the poppies for hours, speaking  over the breeze.
Oh, I see you in the forest,
Because your eyes, they stole their colour from the trees.
Melancholy memories.
The snow keeps falling
And it's too dangerous
To drive on the roads.

Everyone else is going
Home early from school
But I have to sit in this
Wretched classroom.

The roads are getting
Slippery and cars are
Getting in accidents but
I'm still stuck at school.

Don't they know that it's
Dangerous out there and
Getting worse each minute
They wait to let me leave?

So I’ll sit at this stupid desk
In this bland room and watch
The snow hit the window,
Dreaming of my bed.
 Feb 2016 Ryan Cripps
Pixievic
I'm trying to love
Myself

To put me above
The rest
I truly deserve
The best
If I continue hate
Myself
I will forever wait
For love
For someone else
To say
That I've made
Their day
I don't need
This ****
But I'm so used
To it
I fall into
This hole
Where I give up
My soul
The pain
I feel
It's horribly
Real
I'm so insecure
From years
Of not facing
My fears
And being alone
Out here
On my own
Out here
I don't know
Anymore
What you want
Me for
I pick you up
Off the floor
And come back
For more
I don't think
You'll be
Ever here
For me
It's hard to
Know
Should I stay
Or go

So

I'm trying hard
To love
And put
Me
Above

You*

(C) Pixievic 2016
Written for someone who is no longer part of my life - fortunately!
A bubble appears
Small and smooth
Symmetrical
Transparent
Hued in pink and blue
Harmless
Our instinct is to pop
Amused by its bursting
Why?
It will explode as it lands softly to the ground.
Why not let it be?
Admire it's beauty
Floating in purity.
Clear and delicate
A free spirit
Until it hits the ground
Pop!
It vanishes

© Jl 2016
I was taking a shower one morning, and saw this bubble floating. My initial instinct was to pop it, then realized... Why?
I pondered about cruelty, wars, destroying nature,  and how our human instinct to destroy still exist. But why?  Haven't we evolved from our hunter and gatherer days... Or have we?
 Feb 2016 Ryan Cripps
grace
Almost
 Feb 2016 Ryan Cripps
grace
What could've been
What should've been
What we were.

You were something
Yet I was nothing
At least, to you.
 Feb 2016 Ryan Cripps
b r e n
You used to tell me that I spoke beautifully
but maybe it was just the words that I wrote down at 4am
because those 4am nights were seemingly becoming a thing
and I needed time to process you
and do all I could to put you on paper
so I said that you fit me nicely.
But since then I haven't heard from you much
and it seems that you've taken my beautiful words
and turned them into the ground and planted yourself a future
and you've given yourself hope that maybe you'll hold something beautiful someday.
But rainy days pass
and you've hidden your sun away
and I'm starting to think that I might not be a part of your beautiful future
so I won't suffocate you with the words you've stolen from my tongue
cause I can still taste them on my lips
inches from where yours used to be when you told me
you'd stay forever.

*spinningheads-andmessybeds
 Feb 2016 Ryan Cripps
Pixievic
I long to tell you all my dreams
And hear yours in return
Oblivious to the world outside
As we surround ourselves with words

I long to hear your lilting voice
As you whisper thoughts of love
Captured inside this moment
In which there is nothing else

I long to kiss you goodnight
And run my fingers through your hair
To watch your eyelids close
Eyelashes soft against your cheek

I long to hold you in my arms
Our limbs entwined with passion
To feel your strength inside me
Protecting me from myself

I long to share my world with you
To dance amongst the stars
As I sink into your rhapsody
I entrust my soul to you*

(C) Pixievic 2016
Don't get exited there's no new love - just a piece I dug out that I've been procrastinating about!!
Each winter it happens again,
deepening its way into my bones.

Light, lengthening the days, even as
cold plummets to colder.

Gentle, promising colour of sun in
an angle that warms the wall.

Sneaking up from behind to give
heat to my back, you were paler,
even unavailable, until today.
©Elisa Maria Argiro
 Feb 2016 Ryan Cripps
nobody
If you can be poor with someone, you are rich.
If your well is dry, you are the bridge.
If you can go with them with nothing, you are something.
If together you chase your true calling, you can stop running.

-Gloraeanna
My husband and I don't have much money anymore, but somehow it has made us closer. I guess our struggle is the same so we know eachothers pain. No matter what we don't have we will always have eachother. That's all that matters...anymore.
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