#texting poems on Hello Poetry

unwritten May 2014

hey
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we haven’t talked in a while
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weeks
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maybe even months, actually
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truth is, i can’t remember the last time we talked
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and, wow this going to sound crazy, but
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i saved our last conversation. i keep reading over it, trying to figure out where i went wrong
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but i can never find it
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i can never find that one place where i ******* up, where i said something wrong, where i did something to tear us apart, or make you hate me.
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and it *****, it really does.
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matter of fact, “*****” isn’t a strong enough word to describe how awful it is
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or how awful i feel
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hurt
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betrayed
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used
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and do you want to know what the worst part is?
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the worst part, aside from the fact that i can’t figure out where i went wrong, is that, even after all of this
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i still love you
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i have loved you, i love you now, and i’m pretty **** sure i will love you in the future.
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and i guess that’s half of what i came here to say.
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but it’s obvious that you don’t feel the same.
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and so i suppose that the other half of what i came here to say
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is goodbye.
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and though i’m sure that all your love for me has faded
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and that my name hasn’t slipped off your ******* long time
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all i ask of you is one thing
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just don’t forget me.
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okay so i've wanted to do a poem like this for a while now, and i absolutely love how it turned out. thoughts or feedback?

#love #sad #life #pain #loss #hurt #texting #text

Katy Kodrich May 2014

This doesn't mean come back.

How do you send a text without it sounding like come back
How do you send one when the words your itching to say are
"Hey I know we haven't talked in months but it's the anniversary of your mothers death and I'm beginning to realize that this will be the first year in 4 that I'm not the one to swallow your sorrow as you cry over something you never had the chance to have"

How do you send a text without it sounding like come back when just the mere thought of him reminds you of the day he kissed you beside the train tracks and you could have sworn you'd been hit.

How do you send a text without it sounding like come back when every time you begin your fingers change the words to how long it's been since you've felt his fingers and how even your skin craves him.

How do you send a text without it sounding like come back when every text begins with "this doesn't mean come back" and ends with "but please do"

This is my first posting, don't hate ):

#love #texting #lostlove #exboyfriend #comeback #howto

- Apr 2014

texting

i know i put too much meaning into things but--
you texted me first
asking how my day was
who does that without ulterior motives?
hidden intents?
unless you're a saint, you want something to do with me.
i know i give too much meaning into things
*but you texted me first

#love #romance #crush #texting #lesbian #adolescence #sexuality

R K Hodge Mar 2014

I'm glad that you don't text anymore.

I wish I felt like clarity and nothingness, or that intangible vapour like stuff which comes off of a power washer at a car wash
in a dark car park
the car's owner absent, away shopping

You were the one who put your fingers in my mouth
I'm supposed to be embarrassed and disappointed
I am both

I suspect you are a good person
you have a sister
who you love
I bet you are different when you go home
I bet you are nice
I hope they know what you do
You are a classical easy ****

But I'm just syllables and escort clothing
For a while I quite liked that
In fact I'm proud
My friends find it funny

You liked the smell of my hair
And gradually I'm piecing these notes together
I think that if I had more crushed up note pages grinding into your back
You would have remembered me

I'm pretending that if you taste that scent again, you'll know
I still have some of you attached to the garments at the bottom of a full laundry basket

#remember #fingers #hair #texting #dissapointment #notes #scent #clarity #absent #nothingness #texts #clothing #embarrasment #carpark #garments

Sol Mendez Apr 2014

32 minutes and 54 seconds

I’ll check on you 2378 clicks a day
I’m not obsessed
I really like that glow on your face
The glow you get from your screen
when you’re talking to me

I’m sorry that I cannot teleport to your room each time I think of you
I’m sorry that I ask Siri
every 2 hours
“Does she love me?”
Only to hear—
“I’m afraid I cannot answer that.”

I’ve memorized all our old messages like a script
I say I love you
you say you love me too
I say I love you more you say
you love me more than the most

We were the lead actors…
The stars of an unexplainable love-story
Gliding on a red carpet
Bright red
as the hearts that bubbled above us each time I rested my lips on your lips
except it was no act

When I’m typing on my phone
every thought is about how my fingers used to touch that skin of yours
Type type type
“I miss you”
Don’t send.
Type type
Delete.

I’ve called you about 13 times
The ringing in my ears has become my new favorite soundtrack.
It’s just a lovely piece it goes from 5 rings to: “please leave a message after the beep” and that’s when I shed a tear

I ask
why did I meet you at this time when technology is taking over true contact?
Where did I go wrong?
why us?
Will our love ever exist again?
Can our ****** technology tell me the future?

"I’m sorry but the answer to your question is not available please hang up or try again…. Goodbye."

The message has been running for 32 minutes and 54 seconds
I’ll hang up
I’ll try again
Goodbye

A poem I wrote last night. I wasn't really aiming for this genre but I know it can be a relatable subject!

#love #broken #fear #sad #heart #goodbye #desperation #texting #youth #phone

PrttyBrd Mar 2014

Not Created Equal

A call with intention
A voice with inflection
≠
electric words

10w
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#love #word #10w #voice #texting #call #phone #intention #ten

Charlotte Kennedy Feb 2014

In My Head

Jumbled thoughts running through my head, and I think that I’d be better off dead. I think about all the things I used to do, like walking, running and hugging you. Now all I can do; day in and day out is stare at the ceiling and want to shout. Not being able to move my legs or arms, I never thought texting could cause such harm. I remember that night driving in my car, just sending a message and then seeing stars. Not stars, but headlights coming at me, and I thought briefly "How could this be?" I don’t know what happened next: all from just sending a text. I recall slowly opening my eyes and all of my family starting to cry. It seems I was in a coma for weeks and from what the doctor said my outlook was bleak. He said I’ll never walk or hug again as the tears started gathering on my chin. I couldn’t even wipe them away; it was the most terrifying day. Just one little text was all it took; just a glance down, one small look. Now I’ll never move up off this bed and thoughts of dying fill my head. I’ll never have kids or someone to love me; days filled with loneliness are all I see. I wish I could go back to that night and change it all to make things right. I can’t even **** myself; it’s what I wish I could do, all over sending that text to you.

#pain #texting #accident

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