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Shawn B Feb 2017
I'm not a poet

So, Wake up?
I don't feel like it but I know I should...
...And when I get up I know I want to be.
Each day is new
I choose to live, but I don't now exactly how.
Exactly? Or at all I think.
O.k. now I know! Love, Focus, Follow...

...The ocean comes in, my heart awakes, I see God, He invites me in and I swallow, "I don't fear You," I say, "I fear myself, I offend you, I know I do, that book You wrote says I do."
"No it doesn't."
I look around...
...Listen.
Silence.

Nothing but quiet and gold in my belly,
The ocean tide slips away,
I'm left with my breakfast.

Cheerios, plain ones.

I eat my breakfast and go out the door.
Remember.
The poem I wrote to apply to Hello Poetry.
SB (version luckily saved for me, Ijust didn't know it :P :) . )
Shawn B Feb 2017
Eye
The eye dost see and so do two
So see the eye that looks at you
But not the eye itself alone
But what it shows inside someone

The eye
This is an old one I wrote when I was a teenager.
I think of Avatar now when I read it.. :)
Shawn B Feb 2017
The heart
Is a muscle
Pumping blood
In and out

We all know that

Our heart is an instrument
A receptor and a conductor
Keep in or out

We all do that

This heart is a cushion
Crash into me
With pins or with hugs

I'll do that

My heart is a springboard
I'll let you land
Or bounce you out

I will do that

Your heart is your home again
And you may do the same
Fly in or fly out

Hello
Goodbye
Relationships may stay or go, some last forever some just a little while. This poem is just a tribute to a first moment, or maybe recurring connection. I am usually pretty stand-offish. I hope you like this little poem however you roll.
Shawn B Jan 2017
I'm not a poet
I don't even look like one
I forgot the poem I wrote to get here

So: here's a 'nother one

I am a poet

Some times words are cheep
Most times
So why write?
Not to be cheep I guess.
To reveal
In a way that doesn't hurt
Or at least hurt too bad.
I don't mind hurt
It's fine
But I'm not exactly perfect
(at least not yet)
Or in some
Most
Peoples eyes
So I'll hurt you too
Or back
By mistake

So hurt me please if you may
So I don't feel so bad
Since I hurt you that day
to come

Sorry if I break you

Sorry if I'm broken

Break me fine
I'm just a clay ***
Stick me in a *** of brown sugar
shard by shard
Then I'm not a ***

I'm a poet

Sorry when I break you
But frankly
You're made of glass

you must be an artist
I couldn't remember the one I originally submitted, I made it up, so I made this one up. You can probably tell. Bye for now. SB

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