"tryng" poems
I shake my head at you
Your eagerness is charming
Your willingness overpowering
You're much to eager
to jump in this world
Like a child cannon balling
into the Pool
creating ripples
whereever he goes
Your much to willinging
to participate
but you must walk
before you can run
so you don't trip and fall
Don't stumble on these words
that float easily to your head
Take a breath
Stand back for a few
and reevaluate
simplicity is a good thing
to much can ruin
don't think me scolding
don't think me cruel
I'm just tryng to help you
one writer
too another.
Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014 at 9:20 AM UTC
She stands before the bathroom mirror
Creating several different faces
Tryng to find the one that doesn’t
Make her look so tired and old.
Some of them make her look ill
A couple more look silly.
The one she finally settles on:
A wan and disappointed smile -
Accepted as least ugly of the bunch
It’s not the face she’d hoped to wear
In this the Autumn of her life.
She expected some small trace
Of former beauty to remain.
She tried to make a little sparkle
To liven up her somber eyes
And find the muscle in her cheek
That lifts her lips into a grin.
A sorry rictus of despair
Was all that effort brought her
So she gave up and threw the switch
And slipped away in darkness
ljm
Sep 26, 2022
Sep 26, 2022 at 10:45 AM UTC
I only wrote your ending
Because.
It.
TEARS.
Me.
To.
SHREDS.
To think about your beginning.
I BECAME ACCUSTOMED TO YOU RIDING YOUR
OLD, BANGED UP BIKE ALONG THE STREET TO SEE ME EVERY MORNING AT 7:15 BECAUSE YOU WERE ALWAYS APPROXIMATELY 10 MINUTES LATE.
I WAS SO ********* HAPPY ALL THOSE DAYS WHEN WE SAT IN THE SLIVER OF SHADE TRYNG SO HARD TO STEAL JUST A TINY BIT OF PEACE!
I WAS HAPPIER THAT DAY YOU GAVE ME A BANDAID AND TOLD ME IT WOULD ******* BE OKAY WHEN WE BOTH KNEW MY WORLD WAS CRUMBLING AROUND ME.
and I never even told you a thing.
BUT YOU KNEW YOU ALWAYS KNEW!
YOU WERE ALWAYS A STEP AHEAD OF ME!
always knew me a little bit better than everyone else that I loved.
But thats the secret.
I took you for granted then.
I NEVER DID THAT AGAIN.
I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE BEEN MORE CONTENT THAN THE DAY MY HAIR WAS YELLOW AND I WAS A BOTTLE OF SUNSHINE AND
Y O U WERE THE FROWN THAT POISONED MY PICTURE OF PERFECTION
and yet you smiled
you smiled for ME
you knew I was ******* happy and you smiled for me.
EVEN THOUGH YOU FELT LIKE ****
YOU SMILED FOR ME
Y O U
SMILED
FOR
M E
Just to keep me happy.
and I loved you for that.
I love you for that.
I.
LOVED.
The way
YOU.
ALWAYS!
SMILED TO ME
I NEVER!
EVEN!
LEARNED
that you,
YOU OF ALL PEOPLE
had
a dark side until it
kissed me goodbye
on that late july day.
YOU WAVED ME GOODBYE
and I ******* COLLAPSED IN UTTER SHOCK.
because I never thought you would let her go
I NEVER THOUGHT YOU
YOU!
you would let ME go...
thinking about you makes
me cry sometimes
AND. I. HATE. IT.
because for you, and for you alone
I
was
ALWAYS
strong.
YOU.
ONLY YOU.
taught
ME
to smile
and YOU
made ME
feel like
a bottle of sunshine
instead of a
rainy day in a glass
a thought of you is like an arrow,
it flies high but it hurts when it sinks in.
Oct 20, 2014
Oct 20, 2014 at 7:45 PM UTC
( o )
( ( //// • | ) )
( ( ( <> ) ) )
( ( ( ( ) ) ) )
/\
/\
#######
the trail leads thru the woods
high ahead are the sacred mountains
will we live ?
I guess so
••
we've heard of a healing Fountain there
///
we are young
we are tryng to be good
( we know we must be free )
•
The trail is one of memories
Of ancient myths and subtle dreams
/::/
I am glad you're by my side
I might of not come otherwise
///
the trail thru the woods
Dressed in green leaves woven fine
We
Shall live free unless we die
But we are together
So we are not afraid
Nov 9, 2014
Nov 9, 2014 at 2:58 PM UTC