#standards poems on Hello Poetry

Xiao - SparKticas Sep 2015

I'm just me...
An expectation by royal decree,
Why should you ask for so much,
Knowing I could never please you as such?

Set the bar high
So I know my place
When you were wanting to die
I was left as nothing but a disgrace

Set the bar low
So I know your trust
When you were wanting to go
I was left to nothing but rust

Set the bar fair
So I know of chance
When you were wanting to be happy my dear
I was left as a puppet to dance

Set the bar high
So I know how it feels
When you were wanting to break down and cry
I was left alone as my heart reels

Set the bar low
So I know where to fall
When you were wanting answers I didnt know
I was left with nothing at all

Set the bar fair
So I know you love me
When you were wanting everything to be square
*I was left patiently waiting to see

I dont know... Im bad with ABAB and with rhymes. This is stupid...sorry

#pain #expectations #failure #bar #heartache #standards #subordinate

emma jane Aug 2015

Pretty

Do not call me pretty.
Flowers are pretty.
And if pretty is what you're buying,
my heart is not refundable, when you find thorns.
I would think that because you said you loved me,
that maybe would would have realized that I am more the five letters.
Do not call me pretty.

short, rough, but meaningful. Ladies please do not let the opinions of men define you.
Writing has been weird lately i have had lots of ideas but have not been able to make them flow. any suggestions on how to get out of a writers block?

#love #flowers #women #pretty #standards

Sammie Aug 2015

Standards

What have I come to be?
Living by predetermined standards
Set by people other than me
What will I come to see?
Myself through the eyes of the ungrateful breed

What will I proceed to be?
Forgetting the standards set by greed
Living a life only I foresee
What have I yet to perceive?
A kindred untouched by the hateful seed

#poetry #life #thoughts #standards

Angela G Jul 2015

Dandelion

Yellow petals open wide,
Listen to my plea.
Here I stand, a dandelion.
They say I'm just a ****.

Maybe that's what I am.

#depression #society #rejection #invisible #confidence #worthless #selfworth #standards

Tapiwa Individualist Jul 2015

•_•

Living like everything is all right,
Accepting the wrong as the norm,
Being controlled by beings with no good principles,
Life under total moral decay,
Very saddening,
But we as individuals can make a difference by starting with ourselves,living rightly hence inspiring others,
Nothing is too small to be rewarded with great results.

#life #standards #principles

Amber Rush May 2015

Where did I go ?

The higher the standards the harder the fall
The lower the standards your already face down on the ground several months in wondering how in the hell did I get here.

Well it probably started out something like this.
We were friends in the Beginning
Then I wanted more.
I got curious.
I got attached
Now I'm stuck in some fantasy world
It's a nightmare called reality
The feelings too hard to shake
I can't breath, almost suffocating
My mind is frozen with visions of you dancing around in my head. You're nothing but a blur and I'm stuck in this high
Slap me please, snap out of it!

Where did I go?
Must of stepped out and let love take over

#love #life #fall #hurt #emotion #like #stuck #standards

Dat Boi May 2015

People Will

People will hate you
People will rate you
And compare you to others
They will try to smother your light
With their blankets of lies
And hatred

But you have to remember,
That it isn't up to them what you are,
Who you are,
What you can do.

And you have to remember,
That you are a red rose,
Beautiful and strong.
Whoever you are,

**Wherever you are

love yourself/and love others/don't spread *******

#good #society #people #stop #no #for #self-love #hating #standards

Stephanie White May 2015

Society Vs Your Health

I don't understand, according to society, the new look is your ribs poking out of your chest and having a thigh gap as wide as the grand canyon. Do people not realize that isn't healthy! I want to see curves, not the curvature of your bones! You don't need to lose a meal in hopes of being pretty, you don't need to cake your face with make up. Beauty is all about who you are, not about your skeleton or the brand of makeup you use. Beauty isn't forcing yourself to throw up, it's eating more healthy food and saying a big "*******!" to the few who try to call you otherwise. **** society, make your own standards.

#society #standards #mostlyaboutwoman

Daron Bigby May 2015

Life's Manual

This life didn't come with a manual
We're forced to manually go through its ups and downs
Getting spun around on society's notion of how to live
You see, society works like a model T factory
Trying to put us down a conveyor belt
Place us in a mold and push us out like that's really how we're supposed to be
They told me I need to graduate high school at 18 Finish college at 22
Then go to work wearing a tie in a cubicle
They told me I need to provide for a wife and two kids
Bring home the bread in the form of 5-6 figures
But here's what they didn't tell me
They didn't tell me what to do when college tuition was raised again
I mean I'm already eating three square meals of ramen noodles just to make the payments
They didn't tell me that the one class I need to graduate is no longer offered
So I came all this way just pick another major
They also didn't tell me that they only hire people with experience
Now I'm stuck with a piece of paper and mountain of debt
And it's one of the best kept secrets that society tried to hide the horror
That I paid 100 grand to say can I take your order
They also didn't tell me that it's hard to find my queen
In the sea of self-entitled princesses that only want my money
They want relations, they don't want relationships
They crave the attention but none of the commitment that comes with it
Society is so focused on creating a perfect standard of living
That they forgot to tell me what to do when it perfectly unravels in front of me
And they continue to push people out of the factory
While I'm swimming in the byproduct they conveniently left me
This life didn't come with a manual
So society can't fool me by creating rules on how to live
Because racial divides say we stereotypically live differently
Yet they continually expect us to live equally
I dared to be different and chose to live for me
I was sick of living vicariously through the rules of society
And decided I am the pilot to my own destination
Flying to my own creation of life
After all, this life didn't come with a manual

#life #society #standards #manual

K Apr 2015

The Normal Ones

The thought of being normal sounds terrifying
you have to do certain things that should reach standards
beyond the rules are completely insane
and theres limitations in accordance to your flight of ideas
How can you lock yourself?
Why are you doing this?
And then after many years...
Youll regret most of your life decisions
and imagine the what-ifs that should be done.

#life #imagination #normal #decisions #insane #ideas #standards #limitations