#traits poems on Hello Poetry

Ashlee Reyes Feb 2016

There were different pinks blues oranges and yellow,
Her feelings were depicted in the sky.

She remembered that time you counted off the stars
With her; the ones so neatly aligned.

She was as lost and mesmerized
As she was in your eyes..
The set with different blues and yellows
She hated to admit it but you had her at hello.

#love #poem #eyes #relationship #stars #space #sky #astronomy #traits

Stella Cleere Nov 2015

Dragon's Tail

I must ask,
did the breaker of your nose
ever imagine
that it could form so permanent a fixture in my mind?

Did they ever think
that this feature,
so proudly crooked
would come to define a man?

The same man who bites his nails
who commands rooms with voice alone
whose shirt lays against his chest
just so.

#love #observation #traits

Cori MacNaughton Sep 2015

When I Gaze Into the Mirror

When I gaze into the mirror
my mother's eyes peer out
on the first day with a twinkle
on the next a wistful pout
Though our eyes are different colors
more alike we are then no
still her thoughts to me a mystery
she may never choose to show

The mirror on another day
my grandmother becomes
watching birds at breakfast
saving them the finest crumbs
Formidable and frightening
she could also often be
all too human and imperfect
still she helped to make me me

Great-grandmother another day
the mirror then became
though much lighter of complexion
now the eyes were much the same
Though a humorous and honest soul
emotions quite repressed
she affects me still more deeply
than I ever would have guessed

Today within the looking glass
the only face I see
is the youngest culmination
of these elder women three
And I see them all within me
in my talents and my quirks
still I wish that they had taught me
how to stay away from jerks.

Originally written 14 April 1999; posted today in response to a poem and subsequent conversation with Bill Hughes.

I have read this poem in public, but this is the first time it appears in print.

#family #mirror #child #grandparent #parent #ancestors #traits #resemblance #great-grandparent #inherited

Whitney Jade Aug 2015

Curls

Curls.
Lengthened, stretching
Auburn curls.
Winding around the delicacies
Of profound life.
Growing incandescently
In a newfound, unsound method.
Vibrant with innovation,
Yet in the same instance, arid.

Questionable.
Irresistible.
Undefinable.
Desirable.
Allegorical.
Many are awe-struck by this oracle --

She loathes her curls.

#lost #human #self-loathing #traits #undesirable #qualities

Leigh Jun 2015

Family Tree [10W]

.
It doesn't fall far but it falls hard --
Bruised fruit
.

.
.

#thoughts #family #bruises #shared #traits

Nicole Dawn May 2015

I am Human

My heart pumps
My lungs expand and contract
My veins move blood

I am alive

I am fast
I am strong
I am tall

I am athletic

I am lonely
I am sad
I am struggling

I am depressed

I am proud
I keep going
I never give up

I am strong

I am compassionate
I get panicked
I love to write

I am all of these things,
And many more,
But above all else,

**I am human

#life #alive #human #different #personality #traits

Mike Essig Apr 2015

A Few Things I Enjoy In A Woman

~ just the short list.*

Her words, her voice,
the way she articulates
her soul's depths.
Creativity, curiosity,
the things she needs to know.
Smiles and giggles,
a vivid sense of humor.
A mind that devours
what it needs to grow.
Jeans and T-shirts;
sundresses and sandals.
That she appreciates
what it means to be naked
and doesn't flinch.
The desire to touch
and to be touched, often.
The way she can
walk into any room
and fill it up with light.
The mystery of why
she chose me.
Her sense of possibility.
The way she is content
with just who she is.
~mce

Of course, this could go on and on...

#traits

Meagan Jan 2013

Signs Of Sun~>

~ Beaming with radiance, confident with a luminous glow
   Full of life, your high spirits will continuously grow
~ Your optimism shows like a great beam of light
   Filled with positive energy, your mind and soul are bright
~ Versatility mixed with eagerness, you’ll never be without
   Simply travel and explore whenever faced with great doubt
~ Your honest spirit keeps you balanced, and your mind outspoken
   Not worried about what the people see, you keep your mind open
~ The tolerance you acquire is a trait to be remembered
   It may be confused with appearing judgmental
~ Always entertained, with your creative outlook on life
   If things don’t go as planned, you continue on with your night
~ While restless at times, every atmosphere stays positive
   Through consequences due to risks you take, you always stay confident
~ Never let the consequences impact you with negativity
   Adventures are meant to be made, throughout each and every vicinity
     ~Meagan Williams
      1.21.13

Your a sign of a sun, from the sun, for a sun.
For Adam.

#sun #optimism #glow #confidence #tolerance #adventures #energy #bright #traits #consequences

Raquel Butler Jul 2014

People are not

People are not flat and uninteresting,
they are more than their sexuality,
more than their race or ethnicity,
they are more then their diseases and their disorders,
a person should not be judged based on a single factor of their lives,
they shouldn't be hated for loving a show or finding comfort in reading something you may not particularly care for at all,
people are more than their singular qualities,
People are complex,
People are beautifully and undeniably complex in a thousand bound and unbound wires that knot and twist and turn to form a being,
People are not these things at all,
People are these things as a whole.

forgive me i was crying writing this

#sadness #happiness #people #humans #disorders #sexuality #traits #diseases #qualities