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Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
Humans are fragile
Believing they cannot break
Love says otherwise
My 2nd try at a haiku
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
The beat of my heart
Syncs with every breath you take
In soft harmony
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
We may burn to dust
But we can rise from the ash
To ascend once more
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
The waves break onshore
As does my heart crash and pour
For your love once more
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
Strength comes from within
None can douse your flame but you
Burn bright like the stars
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
As rose petals fall
Gentle winds whisper your name
Encasing my heart
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
Love. *Hate. Four Letters
Cake* has four letters as well
I love it. Do you?
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
Is it you I love?
Or is it the idea
Of being the loved?
Shannon Jeffery Sep 2014
Ink upon the canvas
Embedded in harmony
Each stroke a note of
A Graceful  symphony
Shannon Jeffery Apr 2014
Heart filled melody
Artistically flowing like
Rivers under
Moonlight, transcendence  
Of our souls in the
Night peacefully
Y**earning for serenity
Shannon Jeffery Apr 2014
I have a message
For you haters
You're the wreckage
Your words like razors

No longer shall I keel
To your decimating attitude
I have an intransigent zeal
Of undeniable magnitude

Your reign of terror
Now a speck in the past
Your puppet strings I sever
Now free I feel, at last

I dare you, I dare you
Try to cut me down
But be warned, I will strew
Your face all over the ground

No longer am i afraid.
All the hated, it's time to stand
All the haters, it's time to be repaid
No more worries, just grains of sand

The tides now change
Deny them their satisfaction
Their power has no range
Haters, this is your termination
Sick of all the people who think they are better and put others down. Time to stand up.
Shannon Jeffery Feb 2015
The heart
Is only as strong
As what it has
To fight for
Shannon Jeffery May 2014
Diamonds trickle down my face
She accepts my hearts embrace
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
To be

B             O                  
          R          K     E
                                           N


Is the only way
To feel

**WHOLE
Shannon Jeffery Jul 2014
Horrific desires
Eternally ravaging the
Life from
Lacquered black hearts
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
Tired now,
Wanting to read more.
Hello Poetry please,
My eyes are getting sore.

Full of amazing poets
But it's 3:22 am.
I need my beauty sleep,
Drawn in "just another ten"

Ten what?
Ten minutes
Or ten poems?
When does it end?

I guess sometime
My brain will shutdown.
Hopefully I wake up in time
To see the daily poem crowned!
Hehe love you all too much I think
Shannon Jeffery May 2014
Garden of beauty
Is where you lay
Trapped on the outside
Is where I stay

Your heart full of roses
And your soul of tulips too
Your eyes the diamond river
A glorious beauty is true

My heart beats for two
But locked out i am from you
Untouchable serenity
Mind stirring insanity

I lay here expiring
Watching you through a glass window
To your garden of eden
I dream to go
Shannon Jeffery Mar 2016
I just want to say hey
how are you
and if you don't mind
could I get to know you

It seems today's
not the day
my heart just sways
and then runs away

I wish I could be
right beside you
but I'm too scared
don't know what to do

I just want to say hey
how are you
and if you don't mind
could I get to know you

maybe tomorrow
i'll get the chance
but will my heart shake
or dance the dance
Trying something slightly different then normal, I have a rythm in mind and trying to form it into a song. Order may be bad, but definitely want to work on this one. Any tips would be very welcome

The chorus probably pretty obvious is:

"I just want to say hey, how are you, and if you don't mind, could I get to know you"

Thanks again :)
Shannon Jeffery May 2014
Protection from reality
Leaving no immunity
From a cauterizing society
Shannon Jeffery May 2014
You think you understand me
But the truth you do not see
You think I'm full of happiness
But intact I'm just full of stress

You ask me if I'm okay
"I'm feeling great today"
LIE, deep inside I'm holding pains
My heart and soul covered in stains

I put on my masquerade
A smile of a soul that fades
No one knows what lurks beneath
You have no clue for what I sheathe

My soul cauterized inside out
My heart seeping from all my doubt
I put a smile for which you ask
My disturbed hollow mask
Shannon Jeffery Apr 2015
Rolling tides of thunder
Howl across our shattered world
Scattering hopes and dreams
Of lost, withered souls
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
To love oneself
Is the act of
Opening ones heart
Shannon Jeffery Aug 2014
You see me as something different
And the fact is true to that
Each and every one of us
Is as unique as every other

So when you say I'm quirky
Remember your just the same
We all have our traits
And our quirky other sides

So just remember one
I am who I am and you who you are
So see me from close
Not from afar

We are just the same
Unique like every other
All differences alike
With our own view on life
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
Eating ice cream
When your sad
To send yourself into shivers
Matching the ice cold quaking
Of your ruptured heart
Shannon Jeffery Mar 2016
If i gave you my eyes
Would you show me the way
Or would you leave me blind
And tuck them away

If i gave you my lips
Would you softly caress
Or stitch them together
Like that of your dress

If i gave you my hand
Would we soar atop clouds
Or would you let go
Buried deep below ground

If I gave you my heart
And gave you my soul
Would you hold me close
Or shatter me whole
Shannon Jeffery Apr 2014
I'd like to tell you a secret

Lying here all I think of is you
Of you I dream so frequent
Venturing deep I do
Envious of your gracious heart

Your gorgeous enigmatic soul
Oh. Your style, a stunning art
U**nending beauty, my heart you stole
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
I miss the ink flowing
Freely from my pores
The harmonies which bellow
Transcending chords

I miss the meadows
Of pure emotions
The calling of my name
Over vibrant oceans

I miss the galleries
Of crystal reflections
The soul piercing
Tides of torn inception
I miss being able to enter worlds and write. Im so lost at the moment without them
Shannon Jeffery May 2014
Once upon a time
You would never cross my mind
Every second of the day
In my head you settle and lay

My heart you cause to hasten
And yet my love is a wastin
For you never acknowledge me
My eyes only for one, can't you see

Why do I continue to love you
When you treat me as if I'm from a zoo
To you I'm just a ghost
Nevertheless I still love you most
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
Stars above
Twinkle bright.
Through a dark
Silent night

When downcast
Know your worth
Stand up strong
Love your life
Shannon Jeffery Feb 2015
They ask me to let them in
To see what is going on in my mind
But all I can do I stare
And ask myself
That exact same question

*What is going on in my mind?
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
Don't Let The
Tide Inside Divide.
Don't Hide, Lets Ride
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
When inspiration kisses
It's like striking
A match
To fireworks
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
My inspiration
has gone walkabouts
My imagination
cleared right up

Each step I've taken
through inked meadows
Every wave I've surfed
of rhythmic flows

Did I take a wrong turn
or have I reached an end
Does my flame no longer burn
and will it ever mend

I look to my left
I look to my right
Only blankess to ingest
An empty night

I turn each page
Blank, unwritten
No where to engage
Inspiration has hidden
So hard to write, I miss writing but nothing inspiring me :(
Shannon Jeffery Feb 2015
Hello everyone :)
I would like to welcome a poet to HP, Inspired2Inspire is an amazing poet.
If you could take the time to check out his poems http://hellopoetry.com/andrew-leparski/
would be great.
Awesome Poet
Shannon Jeffery Feb 2015
My demons
Ignite my sight
Inviting all
Which is frightening

Pulsating through your veins
Sending me insane
A scent
For which I am bent

I yearn
for your blood
to burn
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
As the night sings its lullaby
To those in their sleep
Somewhere in the world
A starving child curls and weeps

Wake up now from dreaming time
Birds are singing, sun shining bright
But as the night turned on over
That starving child lost their light
Don't take what you have for granted
Shannon Jeffery Sep 2014
When times are tough
And things get rough
Remember your story
You've fought for glory

Your moment is never over
You are your own four-leaf clover
No matter how hard or how far
Your journey may be, you're still a star

just do your best
And time will do the rest
Enjoy each moment
For only one life you are sent
Just be yourself and remember you're the star of your own life
Shannon Jeffery Mar 2015
When evil evades
The light inside
It begins to persuade
Until you've died

Say your prayer
For death is in the air
No one will care
Your life stripped bare

No heart
No soul
Torn apart
Left a black hole
Shannon Jeffery Feb 2015
I wish I could write
All day and all night

I wish sleep i did not need
For upon my daydreams I could feed

I wish I had the power
To bloom more than just one flower

I wish I could be a real poet
So I could say "ye, I am and I know it"

I wish wishes came true
Like a genie giving three wishes, I'd only need two

I wish there was more to me.....
But it's time to return to reality
Shannon Jeffery Feb 2015
We all live
In a world
Of crazy

So who's to justify
A definition of normality?
No one is "normal", so when you call someone weird or odd think about what one might say about you.
Shannon Jeffery Jul 2014
Glass carapace invites in rays
Upon my face radiant warmth lays
Cracks form on my lips edge
Standing upon dreams ledge

Eyes draw slowly open
Adjust to the blooming entrant
Embrace the suns warm kiss
A vibrant new day not to miss

Clouds paint the shining sky
Birds sing and soar ever high
Grass soft between the toes
Massaging my feet in the wind as it flows

Enjoy every grasping moment
Achieve anything no matter the distant
Don't live in sorrow
For there maybe no tomorrow
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
I dream of a day
When im not alone
A day where I smile
A memory set in stone

I wish for a moment
That let's my heart sing
Just a moment I'll remember
All I ask is that one thing

But for now
Each day I'll cry
Hoping for my wish
Before the day I die
Shannon Jeffery Mar 2015
I need somethin to set me in motion
Somethin which will electrify my emotions
My life is so dull, no commotion
I want somethin to happen, a life no longer frozen

Is this some sort of lesson
My body's just stressin
I got nothin to be confessin
Just bored and depressin

Wish it was just over
Life threw me over the border
Got nothin, just getting colder
****
Give me somethin to look back on when I'm older
Shannon Jeffery Oct 2014
There's an expanding rift inside my chest
As I hear you take your last breath
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
A leaky heart
With every beat
Hastens its own end
Shannon Jeffery Feb 2015
You can't build a home
With bricks of cracked stone
Shannon Jeffery Apr 2014
I'm faced with an issue
For which I do not need a tissue
It's a little complicated
Makes me feel intoxicated

I have some life choices
But I need to follow the right voices
I wish I could just stand back
Autopilot through the right track

Three main choices have arisen
All three I can envision
For one I need self confidence
At the loss of my moral conscience

Or I can keep my heart and adore
But have a life that I bore
Be laid back and loving, never to explore
But would I trade this for the loss of my core

Or I can just stay this way
The way I am today and everyday
My brain and heart stuck in a conundrum
I wish the answer would just come

All I can do is roll the dice
And hope luck is ever so nice
Picks for me one which is right
I shall think on this one overnight
Shannon Jeffery Mar 2014
Pain, sorrow, fear
continue to ring in your ear
Life will bring the bad
we know how it is to be sad
But we have the ability
to rise against the stupidity
Of which we bind
our emotions allowing it to grind
We can stand and fight
for what is truly right
Our happiness is key
please just hear this plea
For if we stand tall
and rise above all
We can cause these pains to begone
Because....Life....Goes... On
Shannon Jeffery Sep 2014
My life is a raft out at sea
Smooth motions shimmer under me
Until the storms crash
Engulfed by tyrannic oceans I smash

To be swept ashore
And be built once more
Ocean peaks I shall climb
Weathering the sands of time
Shannon Jeffery Aug 2014
A remote control
That's all I need
My life would be simple
To change times speed

I could fast forward
The times of dislike
I could pause
And go on a life strike

And that one special button
If I get into trouble
And I need sound gone
I can mute on the double

What does this button do
The big red one at the top
Maybe I'll get a better view
It seems I was wrong, for life just stopped
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