#giving poems on Hello Poetry

Malia Jul 2023

Ajr inspired

So much all the time
I give so much all the time
I just want it back.

Inspired by the song “Karma” by AJR.

#karma #giving

Mark Toney May 2023

Taking Action

good to perceive a need - better to fulfill it with a deed

Mark Toney © 2023

5/15/2023 - Poetry form: Monoku

#monoku #giving #need #deed #fulfilling #happiness

Shofi Ahmed Mar 2023

A Giving Rosy Hand

Never shows the hand
but gives a rose.
Leaves up to you
with your views
with your thoughts!

#rose #hand #giving

Jade Wright Jan 2023

Giving

Playground duty, for my sins.

I catch you clawing at soil, your small
fingers tasting the earth.

You hand me a stone
you found in the muck
and tell me to keep it
because it’s special

it will keep me safe.

I can’t remember the last time I received such a thoughtful gift.

#giving #gifts #freeverse #newyearsday

My Dear Poet May 2022

Give me your eyes

You can take
every part
of my heart
the truth
and the lies
every page
from the start
but please
give me
your eyes

You can steal
my will
every seal
of my soul
every piece
of the whole
take my breath
and my sighs
but please
give me
your eyes

You can take
every chapter
for free
every part
you can see
what lives
and what dies
but leave
me your eyes
please

take all
you can find
from the lines
of my mind
to every piece
you can break
leave nothing
behind
so may I
for my sake
make your eyes
mine
I need you to see
every part of me
you take

#eyes #giving #surrender #offering

You've Been Timetabled Apr 2022

Fit

Where do you fit
Into my timetable
I want the attention
I need you to see me
But what I want
Doesn't matter
What matters most is that
You want to give it
Giving me the time of day
Make me part of your timetable

(Sounds a bit selfish...but I like it)

#time #giving #timetable #wants #needs

Mrs Timetable Mar 2022

Time only knows

Made for you
You didn't use it

Can't get it back
Gone forever

Always there...
Is it waiting for itself?

If you find out
Let me know

I need more...

Time keepers...do you really know how it was spent

#time #spent #wasted #keeping #giving #saving #fleeting

preston Dec 2021

witches

Breathtaking beauties, they all are..

Ha.. but They'll cut your ******'  heart out
if you ever turn to face them

Yet even with this  slice-n' diced
brokendown, blood-pump
I can still.. so very much, swear

that every single one of those gorgeous
little sunsabitches,

    were sent, directly  to me
    by the very hand of God

I am not afraid of you,  Loves..
Beautiful, singing sirens  from the beginning
and always always, cloaked within
your elaborately-contrived,   indirectness.

I don't know where my world  would be
without you

<3     .    .    .

a story:

I dreamed you, I saw your face
I cut my lifeline..
I went floating through space
And I saw an angel..  I saw my fate
I can only thank God it was not too late

Over mountains I floated away
Across an ocean I dreamed her name
I followed an angel down through the gates
I can only thank God it was not too late

Sing a little song of loneliness
Sing one to make me smile
Another round for everyone
I'm here for a little while

Now I'm walking this street on my own
But she's with me everywhere I go
Yeah I found an angel, I found my place
I can only thank God it was not too late
I can only thank God it was not too late
I can only thank God it was not too late

~Beautiful, Brother Tom
https://youtu.be/y82MPPn8AXA

#love #hiding #giving #receiving #madness #indirectness #elation #******* #eternity

My Dear Poet Nov 2021

Wishing Well

“I wish you well”
said the wishing well
to the old man with the coin
“Don’t wish for me
I’m old you see,
just a wistful wish for my boy.
My life is done
his, just begun
a wish for life and health.”

And with what’s left of his money
he flung his last penny
giving all for a son’s
wisdom and wealth

#life #giving #love #wishes

Isabella Oct 2021

Love

To love someone is to give them your all, I think. But most everyone doesn't see it like that, their love isn't real love.
How can you give someone else every piece of you without chipping yourself away?
How can you place boundaries in something as limitless as love?
How can you hold yourself back when you have so much more to give?
My love is real love. It is pure and it is everything to me but means nothing to anyone else.
My love is unhealthy, they tell me.
Too much, not enough.
I take it too far, they tell me.
Too big a heart, not small enough.
They tell me to love myself first before I give my love to someone else because it is special and deserves to be taken care of.
But a love so special, so all-consuming, deserves to go to the person who means the most to me, why would I waste it on myself?
I tear myself apart to rebuild the ones I love, and they would never do the same for me. Because their love is not real love.

a poem representing my unhealthy idea of love

#love #poem #unhealthy #giving