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Àŧùl Mar 2015
I can't guide an aimless arrow that has a brain of its own and doesn't want to hit the target...
Not a poem
Noah Stowe Mar 2015
dear                        lover
I think you          tried to use
Cupid's bow on m-  e, well I guess it
worked.  You hit me in the heart
We fell in love. We kissed. We
hugged. We put on a show
for our friends to laugh
at.  But then it
stopped
I
think
the poison
left my heart
and made realize
what a fool I was. You
hurt my heart, you didn't
heal it from the pain of the past
I hope you realize that instead of
pulling the arrow out gently, You let
it break inside of me. And now you want
my heart back?  No it's gone.  I put it on a higher
shelf for those who truly care. If you want my heart back
you'll need a taller chair.   My heart doesn't want you now

My
he-
art
ne-
eds
so-
me-
one
el-
se
th-
at
do-
es-
n't
ca­-
re
ab-
out
my
ug-
ly
st-
yle.
Oh
and
by
the
way
yo-
u'll
ne-
ed­
a
sh-
ar-
per
ar-
row
if
you
wa-
nt
to
pe-
ne
tr-
ate
my
sk-
in.­
'c-
au-
se
now
my
bo-
nes
are
so-
lid
go-
ld
for
on-
ly
th-
os-
­e
w-
**
me-
lt
my
he-
ar-
t.
so
dear
former lover
if you really care
find another person
who knows how to fall
for a heart breaker because
now I know w-        hy it's called
falling in lov-         e and why it's
called a crush.            I really hope you
find a lover who's            as gullible as you


love,
me
This is written from the point of view of a teen who has just broken up from a terrible relationship.
Mari Feb 2015
Tell me how it feels
to have your heart pierced by an arrow
not by one of Cupid's
but by betrayal

Tell me how it feels
when the poison leaked into your heart
when your heart turned black
how it withered away

Tell me how it feels
when the ashes were blown away
what stands in it's place
how do you live with the emptiness

Tell me how it feels
to know you can't piece it back together
how the cold spread through your limbs
the way your blood burned

Tell me how it feels
to give up
to hate the sun and all it's warmth
living under your rock

Tell me how it feels
when you felt the poison in your veins
and your heart disappeared
when the tears fell silently

Tell me how it feels
to know you will never live again
never love the light
to surrender all that you once were

So tell me how do you live like this
with this
surrounded by this
Infected by this poisonous arrow of betrayal
I have no clue as to what inspired this, it just kinda flew out of me.
Tom Pearson Jan 2015
You're just another name to the list
Of the times Cupid's arrow missed

Maybe Robin Hood could do more
He steals from the rich, gives to the poor
Green Arrow Dec 2014
What's there is not...

What's not there always was...

Where am I...

We'll I am what's not...
I was a single monkey      I drew him in my world
typing the opening of my Hamlet.     I write him in my lines.
different from all I had ever known     a love that will only die with me.
every atom belonging to me as good   the heart that keeps mine beating.
It belongs to her You were none
Her soul was beautiful      now you’re all.
and she kept it veiled     his swiftest blow,
lightly-laced humility and fear     we righted our mistakes
with a strangely aching heart      I trusted in his honest utterance.
I and this mystery, here we stand.     Oh blind cupidity! insane anger!
She went out like a firefly,       I never broke my faith
The heart hoards its thorns     my heart is always propped up
Just as the rose profligates.      in a field ready for the next arrow

**I wondered about you when you told me never to leave.
A collaborated collage poem between myself and Anna Skinner
Ottar Dec 2014
Stars that shine, that
blot out the distant spaces
between,

city lights above the streets, that
send shadows to find the dark, that
hides the obscene,

my eyes dim, not from age, that
once found wonder and dreamt in colours of hope, that
have all turned to grey, that

Prove
I was
living in, that
land of make believe.

Where one good turn deserves another,
Where a positive attitude made a difference,
Where you can say and have it received, "Love ya brother"

Where a little light shines,
Wherein the dark hides and pines,
to be released
Where there is a life that balances the scale,
yet I go pale,

in
this reality
that I was only
living in that, land of
Make Believe

Not for children only,
but All to let them create,
you may not see your gifting
you have been sifting
through the muck shifting,
globs from hand to hand
like combat,

like conflict,
like words that
burn like acid
scent of rancid.


Not of the Living
Not of  the Land
Not able to Make
your self Believe
In You.

Sorry for the fuss,
my life is a muss,
get back to your reality,
guess that lesson is lost on me,
just
like
the land
that land
of make
                

                                                            ....­..believe.
'stiltskin Nov 2014
A poem is a riven arrow, whistling through the banyan forest of words;
with deft flight it emerges swiftly from the confusion and with precision, strikes you deep in the heart...
Gusto kong higitan
ang kinang ng mga butuin
Baka sakali ako'y iyong mapansin
Nagtatago sa mga hibla ng ulap
Ang pag sinta ko sayo
Sa puso ko'y lumaganap
Tila apoy na nilalamon ang kaluluwang
Tigang sa pagibig
Ang simpleng hiling
Higitan ang mga butuin
At kung maaari kay Kupido bigkasin
Sana'y puso nya din ay panain



-Tula II, Margaret Austin Go
liz Nov 2014
I wasn't afraid of you, you know.
You had your team and your burning stares,
but I wasn't afraid.
Little did you know, I had my arrows pointed at you.
We all had the same passion-
In the beginning that is.
We all wanted something out of this experience.
But most importantly,
we all wanted to be on top.
So we started climbing the
cold, ragged, stormy mountain
to see who could make it to the there.
I was behind in the beginning,
invisible from their distance above.
A tiny ant that could be stomped upon,
an inconvenience.
But in the distance below,
through the evergreen trees
and the cold rustling wind,
I had my arrows pointed at you.
I started gaining up seed,
respect,
gratitude,
confidence.
I saw the looks of your faces as I was passing by you.
The defeat.
Looking into the those eyes,
I still had my arrows pointed at you.
And I reached the top.
With callused feet and sore muscles.
With an aching heart and an uneven chest.
I looked down below and then saw your laughs.
Your smiles.
I heard your words.
You had your fingers pointed to me.
They were now my demons,
haunting me in the light.
The were now scars on my heart,
locking myself further and further away.
But in the night and in the light of day,
I had my arrows pointed to you.
I’m dancing on this mountain,
at least for right now.
Because I’m at the top,
so why not enjoy it.
But my arrows are still like a live wire
between my fingers
pointed at you.
I saw you today.
I tried to look away,
to keep you and your heartless soul
in a distant memory stored away
like a forgotten childhood trait.
But you swerved your path and fell right into mine.
Intentionally.
You want me to be afraid.
You want me to regret the decisions I made.
You want me to be weak.
But darling,
you've got it all wrong.
Because when success seeps through my veins
and you’ll be forced to hear my name
every day- to you, like nails on a chalkboard-
remember this.
That I was never afraid.
I made the right decisions.
I was never weak.
Because my arrows were always pointed at you.
And now the fingers of life are the ones
that are letting these arrows target straight to your heart.
And like always,
I’ll always be at the top of that mountain with
With callused feet and sore muscles.
With an aching heart and an uneven chest.
But this time you won’t be laughing and smiling
and saying false words about me.
You’ll be afraid
because I’ll have my dignity
and my team of burning stares
with our arrows pointed at you
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