#potential poems on Hello Poetry

Shayma A Dec 2015

Dear potential lover*
When you fall in love with me

Make sure to love the way,
my face dulls on gloomy days;
like a rose in autumn.

And fall for my muddy brown eyes,
that take you to worlds with distant skies;
eyes like fields of adventure.

My stretch marks, scattered simultaneously,
like strokes of a brush set wild and free;
their colour of clouds with silver lining.

Fall for my unpainted nails, the plain sort
stubby, and cut almost too short;
nails made for playing in the soil.

  Love my tummy, un-flat and not so lean,
the kind you don’t see in magazines;
a tummy with gentle hills.

              Admire the way I look,
lost, snuggled up in a book;
the way I stare at the trees,
my fine hair playing with the breeze;
love my excessive day-dreaming
and my serenity on afternoon walks.

Dear potential lover:
Love all of me;
My perfections
and my imperfections
and my perfect imperfections.

Shayma.*                                                  .

#love #of #lover #me #all #potential #imperfections #perfections #afternoon #day-dreaming

Antonio Dec 2015

Clocks

Time, is gone, it never comes back, flies right past and knocks you on your ***, as you recover it flies by again, a vicious cycle that never ends. Falling and falling until we are dead.

What is life, its pretty pointless

#life #death #time #potential #wasted

Margo May Dec 2015

my eyes are opened (i see you)

we started out as barely friends
and now as time has passed
we've grown more than i thought we could
and now you are my first and last;

the first one on my mind when i wake
and the last one at the end of day
i can't help but wonder if maybe
you might think the same way.

i hope the thought of me
puts a smile on your face
and i hope that if true feelings exist
they will never be erased.

falling for you was unexpected
we're so different yet the same
for all the time we spend together
i pray this isn't a little game.

because i know you have so many
so many girls as friends
but is there anything that's caught your eye
to make me different?

you see i've discovered the truth
and i know how to follow my heart
i love every moment we are together
growing in fondness while we're apart.

i don't know how you feel for me
but i know how i feel about you
you've caused me to let go of silly things
and open my eyes to reality too.

my eyes are open and i see you
who you really are inside
for what you're capable of
as potential to be my partner and guide.

we could live a brilliant life
as we adventure side by side
with endless possibilities
we'll never know unless we try.

finally let go of the one i held onto for so long, because i've found a true friend who has opened my eyes.

#friendship #potential #unexpected

Thomas EG Dec 2015

What Could Have Been

I notice the symmetry in your face
You look in every direction but mine
We rush and crash through the night
Across traintracks, through tunnels

I admire the strong structures
Glowing beneath these festive lights
You are hiding insecurities behind
A temporary mask of excitement

Could-have-been tragedies
Become appreciative victories
We are mere trembling bodies
Amongst a crowd of confidence

Relief pours over us, flowing fast
Reducing our uncertainties
Reusing forgotten identities
Recycling mistreated potential

Relaxing, finally in tact...

03/12/15

#insecurities #admiration #confidence #potential #relief #symmetry #temporary #excitement #tragedies #victories

Denel Kessler Dec 2015

Choice

This brilliant morning
anything is possible

we are limited only
by rigid minds
whose fragile confines

can be vaporized
by choice alone.

#potential #freewill #unlimited

Lawan Nov 2015

Rough Around the Edges

I find that certain evasive
nobility missing in her character

She is a well polished diamond
that can never shine;
Abundant confidence, so little material

Wait, wait, wait you'll say
She'll wait wait
Then she'll fall in the end

#heartbreak #pain #sadness #fall #disappointment #diamond #potential #rough #fail #nobility

Jeni Nov 2015

Darling,

You can do anything darling, if you accept yourself.
Open your heart to possibilities
And accept yourself.
You can do anything darling, if you can accept yourself.

You can do anything darling, if you accept yourself.
Open your eyes to the sky
And accept yourself.
You can do anything darling, if you can accept yourself.

You can do anything darling, if you accept yourself.
So take a deep breath and wipe your tears away.
And smile because you know everything will be okay,
And accept yourself.

You can do anything darling, if you can accept yourself.

This is what's come of me trying to motivate myself... I was sitting in the dark narrating a story, a story that may have been about myself (but I'm not sure), in the company of a candle. I don't know how this word pattern came up... it just did.

#self #acceptance #potential #self-esteem #possibility #open #self-motivation

Ellie Geneve Oct 2015

We Are What We Perceive

Only people with potential
find potential in others.
For it takes a lot of potential
to admit in other people's competence.

#faith #perception #admit #potential #humility #competence

Aidan Sep 2015

Finding Peace in The German Tulips

They said i should not scream.
But, i had to learn now.
"teasing"
"teaching"
Tortured tongues caged in veneer jail bars,
yearning to walk free.
Let the ripe words of my ancestors dance up my throat
and fall,
fall flat into your hands pretending like it's an every day occurrence.

Recycling my words to new ears.
like you said,
you were "teaching"

#love #words #hands #potential #correction #recognize