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Jack Jenkins Jun 2016
Lately I'm finding it difficult to
Coerce words into flowering poetry
My mind's cracked foundation
Yields nothing in inspiration
Or creativity.

Vibrations shift thoughts about
Darting and fluttering around
You would see my world has
Lost it's stunning brightness
Buried deep.

Certainly I am a nomad under my skin
Finding it harder to survive this drought
So my fractured wings will carry me
Over the grim landscape I live in
Cast away.
Jack Jenkins Jun 2016
The depths of your heart,
  Which I have so valiantly besieged.
Holds such beauty without limit,
  Overwhelming love overflowing.

Could your heart be mine?
  I would give you my life, gladly.
Jack Jenkins Jun 2016
Watching weary travelers on the beaten path,
Dirt kicked up with every step and dissipates,
Just like the weary travelers with their beaten lives.
Just a little three lines poem. :)
Jack Jenkins Jun 2016
Maybe it will be nice
To cross my legs and sit at the water's edge
Breathe in... Breathe out
Let the water surrounded me
Surrender myself to the rising tide
And let all the thoughts I have of you
All the feelings swirling in my heart
Wash away in the force of the ocean
Every sea creature mourn with me
And my ghost seen on the full moon
Legendary broken heart foretold
For all generations
Jack Jenkins Jun 2016
If you've lost your love
If you've lost your hope
And everyday drags on
And you were wishing you were gone

Cuz your heart is wounded
And the scars run deep
Cryin' in the night
Where nobody can hear
And nobody will care

Laying in your bed
You look up at the stars
And you count them off
One by one
You start to feel
Droplets of peace in your heart

Would you dance with me
In the night?
Under the moonlight
Over the dew drops
Would you dance with me
In the night?
Forget about life
And all its strife

Because you
Are
Beau-ti-ful
Beau-ti-ful

Laying in your bed
Look up to the stars
And remember us
Remember your beauty
Writing this for someone very special who's going through some rough times. More of a song than a poem, but I hope it works. :)
Jack Jenkins Jun 2016
I appear to have lost all inspiration,
When I lost you.
I knew you were my drive,
My muse.
And this heart is naught,
But hollow.
I love you and miss you,
You're long gone...
Yup... can't really write poetry right now.
Jack Jenkins Jun 2016
Misfit, misshapen, misplaced
Not fitting in anywhere
I'm a pariah, a loner, a coyote
Stalking the fringes of society
Never seen, never heard, never felt
Only dreamed, and imagined, and feared

If only I had a place to be
A person to see
Maybe
Maybe
I'll see brighter days ahead
And love like a dove

I am alone because I am unique
I am myself, alone, nobody else
A drop in an ocean of faces
Yet an ocean in a world of drops
Always okay, always broken
Never whole, never fractured
A contradiction of opposites
A unity of abnormality
Jack Jenkins Jun 2016
A poem... to give you... is it enough?

As my heart yields to your wounds, you have given me five hundred scars to wear; I will gladly bear another five hundred for you! Is it enough?

I have snatched away five hundred stars from the firmament above, slaying five hundred angels who guarded their celestial light! Is it enough?

Would five hundred days make any difference to you? To set my heels in the clay and march forward step by step to you until you saw my perseverance, is it enough?

Five hundred souls you have sifted through to discover just how inadequate they are for you. I ask you: is it enough?

**My heart is yours... is it enough?
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails...
Jack Jenkins May 2016
Deserted island, just me and the waves.
  Driftwood washing ashore, lies are no more.
Palm trees encircled all around the shore,
  Skull and crossbones adorn my lonesome home.

Nothing to do with my adequate time,
  But to build sand kingdoms and,
Watch them crumble with shifting tides.
  Oh, what a blight to be me!

Passing ships glide over starlight's gaze,
  Nothing but laughter from their crowded   decks.
The only friend I have is a coconut;
  To eat or to talk? A tough decision...
Been feeling really depressed for the last couple of weeks. Just feel cut off from everything.
Kathleen M May 2016
He's got those lingering lips
Tripping over my prercipis
Tell you hes jack o forest
Tell you he's running for it

She's got wild eyes
She swallowed  bee hive
Much stinging inside
Believes she can't die

Juggles knives with steel finger tips
Says your gonna pay for this
I've died nine times
I've lived many lives
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