"soph" poems
Tissues and beers
My own tears
Wasted on you
Gas and yelling
My favorite perfume, so pretty smelling
Wasted on you
Friendships lost, my favorite socks
**** and TV and black flip flops
All wasted on you
I wasted myself on you
Nov 4, 2013
Nov 4, 2013 at 5:49 PM UTC
Here we are
After all these years
After all the laughter
And all the tears.
We’ve been Fresh Meat,
Soph-ies and Ickle Juniors.
But this year we were at the top,
Number 1 Seniors.
But that title’s over.
Now that our real lives begin.
We forever hold the title “Alumni”,
The class of 2010.
Sep 13, 2011
Sep 13, 2011 at 10:05 PM UTC
I remember the night before Philly.
I drove over a little too fast,
and waited outside a little too long so you wouldn’t notice.
Because I was always rushing for you
when you were trudging behind me.
To my small self of 16,
I couldn’t think of a better way to spend my summer days
but with you.
By summer days I mean nights,
and by nights I mean anytime after 10,
or sometimes one a.m.,
you know, the times that you would call me.
I remember helping you pack for college; the day seemed lonely
and you seemed free.
Your clothes were piled on top of boxes that would never be able to hold them.
But somehow you still managed to leave.
“So I’ll see you over break, I guess,” was all you had to say.
And somehow this stark simplicity justified my ways.
I only felt the insincerity of that brief phrase as I sat alone over break.
It played in my head as I pictured my hand hitting your face.
I don’t have time for guessing.
And I most definitely can sew up the time I left open for you.
You seemed so beautiful in the summer,
but maybe it was just the shine of the sun.
I felt alive driving to your house,
but maybe it was just the adventure of our run.
I realize now who I was to you.
It took five months, cities away and laughs so few.
But I was your designated driver,
your friend when you needed one,
your nap when you were tired.
I was your help-me-pack-for-college friend,
your, “Soph, grab me and Connor,” friend.
Your hungover coffee,
your fill in at tables set for two.
And now from Philadelphia,
I mean nothing to you.
Oct 19, 2012
Oct 19, 2012 at 3:10 PM UTC
I've decided
I don't care anymore
Hey Soph, wanna go
Kiss my boyfriend?
Have fun babe.
Hanna! Hey! Wanna call all my
Other friends worthless losers
To my face? Cool.
Lauren. Keep on spreading those rumors,
Knock yourself out.
Because
I
Don't
Give
A single
****
Anymore
Oh and sorry this isn't all rhymey and ****
Not everyone's creative
But everyone has problems
Oct 6, 2013
Oct 6, 2013 at 7:19 PM UTC
Sophie this is for you
Never met a girl as wild as me
I know you know it too
A heavy tolerance to match mine
The same devious brown eyes
Sit next to me, it'll be okay
Got sent away then
Few weeks into May when
Summer started in like five days and
I didn't believe her
Words soaked in sweetener
I took it lightly
Until I stopped getting chimes from her
Hey Calli, it's Sophie
I'm leavin today at two
I hope ill get a letter from you
Don't back down
Run that mouth
Be as crazy as you are when I'm around
Ill be back at the end of August
I promise
Sep 6, 2013
Sep 6, 2013 at 7:48 PM UTC
We party, we rage, ain't it all so great?
So much fun, so above
But now Sugey and Seb, they're both dead
And pretty Savannah is in a hospital bed
Wires and tubes, I think of me and you
How it coulda been us, under an unforgiving moon
The car on fire, hot with teen desire
To run around, don't come down
All alone all together in a masked- up city
But this time the morning after is way worse than ******
"You and me Soph, we got invited there"
And I had put on mascara and done my hair
So crazy, so surreal
And it happened so quick
Now pretty party-queen Savannah?
She has to live with it
Sep 28, 2013
Sep 28, 2013 at 7:49 PM UTC
NON SERVIAM
Even at 7
found Catholic transubstantiation
hard to swallow.
Much preferred the Protestant
metaphor better.
The priest exposing the host
in the monstrance
the congregation bowing
in veneration.
"Corpus Domini nostri..."
Now...holy cow
Jesus is leaping
from the tip of my tongue
Christ...clinging
to my palate hanging
on for dear life
before going to pieces
slipping down my...gulp
. . .oe... soph...a...gus .
". . .In vitam eternam. Amen."
The incense from the thurible
as it sways
making me feel so
si...aghhhhh...ck!
Me a little Lucifer
a lightbringer ...my own morning star.
Afraid I am
going to throw
Him up
the second coming
as I sit in my pew and stew
transubstantiation is
the pits.
Nov 9, 2016
Nov 9, 2016 at 1:30 PM UTC
I could never fight you, pretty
My co-first command
My right hand man
They couldn't catch us
You watch the door and I pick the lock,
Giggle and sip while he grinds his jaw
Clasp your hands together,
So I can step up
Split it in half so we'll both get enough
It's been a year
Still can't find us
May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 2:14 PM UTC
You think you crazy?
LIL GIRL GO BACK TO BED
Close your always open mouth for once,
You ain't seen insane yet
I'm sick, a candy sweet *****
You want another cavity?
Come take a lick
I'm right on the edge,
Shut up, you know what I said
So now you hard? I guess now you'd rather be than receive
I'm borderline like Marilyn, Anna and Britney
Angie, Amy, and baby Lindsay
You so worn out,
Won't survive another trip to the washing machine
This ain't a poem, it's a rap
And you bout to be my afternoon snack
Maybe not, I'm trying to watch my fat
Not that i eat too much anyway,
Watchin you taught me better than that
Sit down,
You're a ****** joke
It's all in the lines,
Your past says so
May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 10:11 PM UTC
I watch you as you do
we figure and I glue to it
small simples, lowly tries
as tears stream to break
and settles, wiley
pried open, the shopper lurks
products glow, seems too real
luster bursts and courts
to configure as topspin
directs, sets and disperses
this I see, selective
and the curse it churns
to pours so seeply.
Feb 19, 2021
Feb 19, 2021 at 2:37 PM UTC
NON SERVIAM
Even at 7
found Catholic transubstantiation
hard to swallow.
Much preferred the Protestant
metaphor better.
The priest exposing the host
in the monstrance
the congregation bowing
in veneration.
"Corpus Domini nostri..."
Now...holy cow
Jesus is leaping
from the tip of my tongue
Christ...clinging
to my palate hanging
on for dear life
before going to pieces
slipping down my...gulp
. . .oe... soph...a...gus .
". . .In vitam eternam. Amen."
The incense from the thurible
as it sways
making me feel so
si...aghhhhh...ck!
Me a little Lucifer
a lightbringer ...my own morning star.
Afraid I am
going to throw
Him up
the second coming
as I sit in my pew and stew
transubstantiation is
the pits.
Nov 9, 2018
Nov 9, 2018 at 3:41 PM UTC