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Michael Ryan Dec 2017
Even my poems
do not speak eloquence
or a personal soliloquy--
my words lack the lush
and brazen must
that all else seem to speak.

To hold a pearl
is something to behold
a precious mistake
bore into beauty.

I speak muzzled
ideas that are simply
monologues; meant
to only hinge
ideas together.

They do not
let you understand me,
but give a soft or bleak
ensemble of demenor
of someone I've been trying to find.
Do you know who you are? Or even, who am I.
Kewayne Wadley Dec 2017
And there began our oral history.
Removed from text, living and breathing.
Passed back and forth between lips.
I myself a promise, her oath.
The anxious lump that hesitates in the back of the throat.
The inner most of courage exchanged in deep sigh.
Finding it impossible to hold on to my own words.
I hold on to hers, and it is within this freedom am I truly free.
Without confines to anything, other than ourself.
That we find influence from events current and past. 
Well dressed in each others lips.
We both fold the page.
In exception to our next breath
Francis Rowell Nov 2017
I swallow my words,  but I'm allergic and it's all I can do not to ***** them back up.
"Do not go gentle into that good night." -Dylan Thomas
MARK RIORDAN Nov 2017
WHY HAS PRESIDENT TRUMP
GIVEN ME SO MUCH MATERIAL
THE POEMS I CAN COMPOSE
BECOME REALLY VERY SATIRICAL



THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
SHOULD HAVE CLASS STYLE AND POISE
NOT CONTINUALLY TWEETING OUT LOUD
AND PRODUCING A LOT OF HOT NOISE



A LEADER TODAY SHOULD LEAD
WITH DIGNITY STRENGTH AND CLASS
NOT TALKING AND YELLING
AND SPEAKING OUT OF HIS ***
PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD THINK BEFORE HE SPEAKS
Tori Oct 2017
I want to be your friend
but I'm too timid to speak out now
I rather think I don't know how
To utter a word not penned.

And my spoken words are like feathers
Weightless and floating about in the air,
They carry expression and meaning and care,
But they sink to the earth silently.
Not my best work. This is just a little something that came to me in class. Often social anxiety will prevent me from initiating conversations.
Sarah Elizabeth Sep 2017
Standing behind a friend I used to have
Wanting to make conversation
But I can't
Not quite
Able to
Open my mouth
Not quite
Able to
Make my tongue form letters
From a suddenly foreign language I can't seem to figure out
English
Is somehow my best subject
But speaking
Only serves
To be the most difficult skill
I have yet to learn
Oskar Erikson Jun 2017
my words are capped. Over
with.
half-started sentences.
they just get cut
into somebody else.
they just get -
- -body else.

and i want to ------
Oskar Erikson May 2017
You are poetry spoken in tongues.**
I do not know how to understand you
I do not know if I'd like too
I'd love the sounds all the same;
regardless if
the meaning escapes me.
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