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  Jun 2017 Lettie
A Thomas Hawkins
Never fall in love with a poet
for their words are sometimes lies
on occasions they're a shield
on occasions a disguise

They will take you on a journey
upon which they bare their soul
in a bid to ease your burdens
in a bid to make you whole

But in every word they choose
for the stories that they tell
lies a little piece of heaven
and a little piece of hell

Tormented souls we poets are
sometimes quite broken and despaired
in search of lost expressions
missed by others who once cared

Never fall in love with a poet
unless you're prepared to share their pain
to hold them close on the darkest nights
over and again
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  Jun 2017 Lettie
The Writer
In need of a heart
of any kind
a beautiful heart
never broken before

In need of a heart
neither old nor wise
naive, like mine once was
until it aged with time

In need of a heart
bursting to the size
with love and laughter
not shriveled with tears

In need of a heart
filled with dreams not reality
brimming with ambition
to make the world a better place

In need of a heart
any heart at all
to replace this heart
that knows only emptiness
Lettie Jun 2017
I let you get aways with things
That is because my eyes has
My vision has favoured you
It chose you my fit buddy

Hours pass without word from you
How does this feel
it doesn't feel good or bad
My eyes lingeres to see
My digital longs to get signal
The signal from you

Do you see what you have done
Do you realise what you have done
Can you measure what you have done
Can you tell what you have done

Yes I said it
It feels not but in the head
It feels good when my digital
Connects you
It connects you to me
And my eyes sees
Sees what they long lingered for

You are my buddy buddy
You said so yourself
I don't know what future holds
What it holds for us buddies
But the current makes my eyes
My eyes continues lingering
Lingeres for my digital to connect
Yes to connect us
20170617 9:05pm
Lettie May 2017
Was I created by the same God
That created this beautiful creature?

I asked myself.

If she is a living being,
What does that make me?

I asked myself.

Her angelic features, substituted all
The perfect and precious pictures in my mind.
For a brief moment I thought
I was healed from being blind.

Touching her hips,
felt like kissing
Her juicy lips…
Her figures makes a
dumb person to
Shout “Jesus”
And I call them
“the figures of speech”

I call her buhle…

Her glittering eyes simulates the
Reflection of the sun in the
Skies and seas.
She is the most precious stone
In the entire galaxy.

And i call her buhle…

Yena muhle shame
Maaka a dirang
Her nose so sharp like it could
Scratch my brown skin when
We kiss and leave a lovely scar
Right next to my chin.

I could tell by just a sniff
She is heading my way when
She is still afar…

Her teeth so white as snow…
She makes me rush when I am slow…
Steering at her,
Feels like watching my favourite show…
For a matter of fact,
She is my favourite show…

I do not call her like they do
They call her…
Sweet lom’khuhlane
Some call her…
Seponono sa dikoti marameng
Mmago ditshaba, moferehla moikutlo.
Ke ra yena mma kgosi wa bokone
Bophirima legaeng la maswi le mamapo
A dinosi
The mother of all heavens on earth

But I call her Buhle
Makau Donald 20170531 08:33 am
Lettie May 2017
Yes it started as thoughts
Never pleasant thoughts
Uninvited thoughts
very hefty in me
This slowly yet very fast to consume

This creep in my mind
This thought are but of parting ways
My physical being has completed
and accepted its course of being defeated
What was left was but all in my mind

Slowly yet very fast to consume
It  feasted on me inside
There is nothing really inside
But the uncomfortable that came with it
made it impossible for me to exist

I fought this I promise
But the harder I fought
It struck with its sharpest swords
Whispering the words you lost

Day in day out with you
Was horrific
Yes with a forged smile on my face
But my inner was screaming repelling force

I never meant to shatter your heart
Yet I couldn’t love it
For your sake parting ways comes at bet
I hope my damaged soul will but
But not sink in with your precious one
20170529 01:20 pm
  May 2017 Lettie
Debanjana Saha
The process of
                                                     forgetting you
makes it more obvious fact
that I will keep
                                                         remembering you
while trying hard to forget
                                                          you & me!
After months of all these,
I arrive at a
                                          conclusion -
that I cannot forget you ever.
You inspire
                                           my universe.
And no matter how much it hurts
I cannot let go of
                                                your memories
which inspires &
rekindles me everyday
to be a
                                 part of you.
With tears in my eyes
but smile in my lips
I am
                                        more wise now.

Unconditional love of inspiration.
A ode to my beloved former lover.
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