"wonderstruck" poems
i love the moon
wrapped around my neck
the small crescent moon bouncing happily on my heart
as we hold hands
that same beautiful moon
in which i trace with my fingers
feeling the smooth moonstone
be imprinted with my fingerprints
that same affectionate moon
as it glided on your chest when we gasped for more air
and you held me close to your heart
as the moonlight shined softly from the window
that same wonderstruck moon
we would fight under
tears that reflected the moonstone
always streaming down my face
that same gleaming moon
that you would wipe my tears
with the hands i had felt for years
and all i could do was look up and dream of
that same distant moon
where i had found out about your disloyalty
and i felt myself slipping into vast space
putting myself in front of asteroids just to feel something
that same sickening moon
taunting me with the way it just
stays up there, coming out only at night
only to observe and listen for chaos that reigns after dark
that same wicked moon
that was suffocating me in my sleep
when i would lie next to your empty shell
gasping for air as i wipe my moonstone tears
that same dreadful moon
as it watched me deteriorate in your arms
burning holes into my chest
dwindling my soul until it left me hollow
i... used to love the moon
when i knew that it was lovingly
wrapped around my neck by you
and you would feel the moonstone with your lips
i used to love the moon
until the last star died
and i ripped it off from my neck
and drove myself into a black hole
that same cynical moon
that you proclaimed your love to me too,
was the same ******* moon
that my entire being was shattered by you
...
i ******* hate the moon.
Jun 17, 2021
Jun 17, 2021 at 9:34 PM UTC
Uniformed in creative black
Marlboro scented
Wonderstruck
Deliberately
Deliberate
Random
Pixie haired
Angel eyed
& brave
Daring herself to be
Enchantingly urbane
Zeitgeisty
Considerably
Considered
Aware
Pale skinned
Quaintly styled
& risky
A portfolio perfectionist
Absorbing influences
Ferociously
Delicate
Delicately
Persuasive
Scarlet lipped
Crystal tipped
& scared
Feb 17, 2011
Feb 17, 2011 at 6:43 AM UTC
If I were a month, I’d be September.
If I were a day of the week, I’d be Thursday.
If I were a planet, I’d be Saturn.
If I were a sea animal, I’d be coral.
If I were a piece of furniture, I’d be a bookshelf.
If I were a gemstone, I’d be a sapphire.
If I were a flower, I’d be bougainvillea.
If I were a kind of weather, I’d be a crisp autumn wind.
If I were a color, I’d be auburn. (much like my hair)
If I were an emotion, I’d be wonderstruck.
If I were a fruit, I’d be a pomegranate.
If I were an element, I’d be air.
If I were a place, I’d be a field of wildflowers in Scandinavia or a bookshop in Northern Italy.
If I were a taste, I’d taste like sweet and bitter black tea.
If I were a scent, I’d be the smell of freshly baked goods.
If I were an object, I’d be a pencil sharpener.
If I were a body part, I’d be freckles.
If I were a song, I’d be Thoughts of Flight by Edmund.
If I were a pair of shoes, I’d be bright purple converse.
Jun 11, 2013
Jun 11, 2013 at 2:47 AM UTC
I am not who I was 3 months ago,
All short hair and wide eyes and wonderstruck brain,
Now my hair is longer but my eyes are just as wide and I still feel wonderstruck when you look at me but now it’s different
And I can’t shake the feeling that we’ve grown up a little.
I’m making myself slow down and breathe,
Grab life by the shoulders with two shaky hands and yell
SNAP
OUT
OF
IT
at the mirror until I can lay in bed at night and not shiver my way into sleep
But fall peacefully into my dreams.
I am withering away in your arms, like a flower that hasn’t been watered in awhile
And maybe one day you’ll stop telling me to eat because I feel sick every time
I just want to be enough for myself but I’m becoming less than enough for you with every
“No thank you, I’m not hungry”
That slips through my lips
But I love you and I love your mind and I love your hands on my hips when you’re telling me its all alright.
If my words could change the world
I would never stop speaking
But as it is my words do nothing
Except fill the silence
And make me wonder why I ever said “English major” out loud in a group.
You say my eyes are blue like oceans and I feel like they hold oceans in them
Oceans that spill over every once on awhile
When the cosmos in your soul temporarily forget how to line up with mine,
But it’s only temporary and we always find our way home by morning.
So hold on through the night,
And sleep off all the stress,
Because when the sun comes up,
I’ll be here like I was when it set,
I’ll be awake and waiting to kiss the sleep from your body,
And rattle your soul.
Apr 5, 2014
Apr 5, 2014 at 6:08 PM UTC
A little, shiny something,
in the distance,
caught her sight,
on she looked at it
with wide
wonderstruck eyes.
"Must be a precious gem,",
she thought,
"For it shines so bright.",
and kept gazing at it
come day, come night.
Curiosity
overcame her -
enthusiastic,
with eager eyes,
out she ventured
of her cocoon
and made her way towards It.
But, finding It nowhere,
she looked around
frantically,
and then saw...
...a bauble perched
in place of It -
her precious gem.
Oct 1, 2012
Oct 1, 2012 at 5:50 PM UTC
As the sun sets,
It gently caresses her face
And her freckles,
Mimic stars
With plenty of zodiacs to trace
All the while,
Her eyes entwine into galaxies
Infinite stories in place
And all I want to do
Is just stare in awe
Wonderstruck,
Sensing each and every heart beat race
Apr 16, 2018
Apr 16, 2018 at 7:58 AM UTC
*Your lips on my lips, burning, electrocuting.
My heart and your heart, magnetizing, welding.
My eyes locked on your eyes, scared, enraptured.
Your eyes on my eyes, intoxicated, gazing.
Your hands in my hair, tangled, ensnared.
My hands on you,
like a piano I am playing you,
they glide over you, capturing you in the moment.
Caught in the music,
wide-eyed and wonderstruck.
Boy do you want me like I want you?
And you whisper in my ear, "I love you too"
As your arms wrap around me and your smile pulls me in,
All I want is the night not to end.
And if it's sparks I feel, do you feel them too?
And tell me that the thoughts I think are shared by you.
We are silent giggles and words not said
We are messy hair and an unmade bed
We are not a beginning or an end
Less than foe and more than friend
We are ears that hear and eyes that see
I am you, and you are me.*
Mar 4, 2013
Mar 4, 2013 at 9:33 PM UTC
since the enchanted dream
In the night i saw
my insides are twitching
craving to draw
the exquisite meadow
luxuriant with wonders
cumulus clouds
narrowing in row
whence the water
Hastily sprang
hushing rapids
melodiously sang
prismatic reflection deceitfully shifts
the way the birds chanted in bliss
crimson sky
vibrant pattern it formed
beguiling wind
something it want
left me wonderstruck
rolling in stream
I glided the fall
ended the dream
Jun 24, 2013
Jun 24, 2013 at 8:58 AM UTC
I watched spiders make their webs
Four to five paces apart
North to south along the ficus hedge
Anchored nearest to the green wall
Each two knuckles wide
Street lamp orange undersides
Yellow tiny joints
Each moved quickly
Set to finish its trap before the night settled full
I discovered them while walking
Seeking familiar toxin
And found them
Masters of their craft
The first I saw caught that caught my sight
The furious movement of rear limbs
Catching the stream of silk
Guiding it on its way
Jagged plucking stemming a straight line
Then laying over a guiding wire
And moving on
From four o’clock to eight it went
Then back along the clock’s face
Its red underside patient but swiftly going and pulling along
Leading a tiny line of molten muted silver
Five to eight and back again
Pendulumous and measured geometry
Dancing back and forth
Then I saw the second
South I crept with knees bent low
Shrank a hand’s breadth
Swift and wonderstruck
And it too worked a masterful weave
So similar but when I looked back
I saw the difference
More than size of form between them
Slight as was their difference
Unique minutiae of brown fuzzy backs and brown fuzzy heads
Varying personalities and style
Artisans of the same renaissance
And soon I saw a third
South still and still different
Higher up to catch the light
Still giving light to its neighbor
Who lets the light reach her neighbor
A fourth’s stilled anchor
Taught and shining in the light
Beneath the indigo sky
Highest of them all
Largest of them all
If in the beginning of their dance
Drawing cracked windows in the sky
Nets or webs or sails
I might have seen them
Forming a rainbow arc
A fragment of such a thing
But I did not
My wonder and my mind
The first catch of the night
Dec 2, 2011
Dec 2, 2011 at 10:46 PM UTC
as i walk through the empty hallways
i fix my gaze on the worn floor
each footstep is heavy
and drags across the hardwood
the movements have become involuntary
a product of repetitiveness
not passion
i cannot raise my eyes to the photographs hanging on the wall
these black and white remnants
of what seems to be a life of mine
lived so long ago
that I cannot recall the details
but I remember
I remember the girl
who grew up learning hatred
so ashamed of what had been given to her
and so afraid of a life untouched
I wanted so desperately to give her the world
but she destroyed my heart
and left it black and blue
and I remember
I remember the boy
with wild black hair and a voice like honey
who told me everything I thought I wanted to hear
who pulled me in so quickly
but I drew away with little pause
and so I left him
because I am just a girl and cannot give you the world
I remember the boy
who I watched settle for anything
and everything that crossed his path
wondering if I too
was just a commodity
if his plans of seeing me in a white dress
were fixated on the dress
or the soul wearing it
so he destroyed my heart
and left it black and blue
and I remember the girl
who loved everything too much
who looked at me with wonderstruck eyes
and convinced me that I could be so much more
but the skies are never clear for long
and as the dark clouds rolled in
I learned that she hated the rain
as I watched her run inside
to someone new
as I stood amidst the raging storm
while she destroyed my heart
and left it black and blue
and I remember
I still remember the boy
who looked me expecting nothing
except me
the smoke envelopes me
whistling my name
and I move in closer
closer to this warmth
this all consuming
all encompassing fire
but I am scared
I am so scared of the thought of burning out
or becoming engulfed
only to discover
that these flames are not what I want
so I run
I run far away
to safe
monotonous
empty "love"
and as I watched him fall in love under the autumn leaves
tending my scorched soul
dragging my feet along these empty hallways
realizing I destroyed my own heart
and I left it black and blue
Oct 5, 2015
Oct 5, 2015 at 10:01 PM UTC
I miss us texting.
I miss us talking like we used to.
I miss you looking at me with those wonderstruck eyes filled with awe.
I miss the way you would let me use your arm to lay my head on in the car.
I miss when we would listen to music and just stare into each other’s eyes.
I miss us.
I miss you.
May 14, 2018
May 14, 2018 at 11:26 PM UTC
The little girl within me
The five year old that's crying
The ten year old that's star gazing
The fourteen year old trying to run away
They never let me go
Not for one day
My soul always knows
But my heart has gotten cold
I've felt the entire galaxy of emotions
I was too young
I had to be so strong
It was never fair
To let me wear
Every single
Piece of despair
I ran away
So to say
Lived my life
In every way
That would cause you
Shame
I became
The person to blame
I never wanted to tame
My name
The world broke me
Again
They hurt me
More than a friend
I became
Lost again
Broken and at
an end
Never to open
That little girl hiding
Me running
Never confiding
With her
I concur
She became such a blur
Empty with hints
stars and light
Soulless with a touch
love and fight
Searching for the spirit
That gave me flight
I fell so hard
Never wanting to feel
The pain that hurt her
The shame that killed her
The blame
The names
The broken and bruised
Lonely cursed
Hues
Without her
I was again
A blur
Everyday
Waking up afraid.
I didn't know
She still runs the show
She'll never let go
She's fighting
residing within
never dying
That girl who was always
Whining
Is still shining 🌟
The stars are blinding
Only to others
To me it's like love
Filled with the deepest of wonders
Wonderstruck
Wonderful
I feel her soul
In the simplest of times
She's fighting for her crimes
Never letting her dreams die
letting her hopes come true
And every time they do
I feel her heal
I feel her warmth
I feel the brightest smile
For galaxies and miles
Looking down on me
I twirl around the entire galaxy
Never a frown to be found
When her biggest dreams finally touch the ground
Sep 14, 2024
Sep 14, 2024 at 7:07 PM UTC
And on that first night,
In the movie theater
I cried because I knew
You'd break my bones
Crack my chest and tattoo
My little heart with a drawing
Of your neck.
And when we got stuck in the mud
Driving home from the show,
It was all wonderstruck dirt
Gravel hands and
I stood in front of your
Headlights - deliberate illusion,
Creating a vision that went without notice
It was my own fault, getting involved with anyone but a mortal.
Bite my fingertips till they callous
Or better yet, bleed.
And why don't we go walking on airplane wings?
Life is a death march, and we pass
The time making cave drawings.
Feb 6, 2017
Feb 6, 2017 at 9:24 PM UTC
I am a wailing infant swaddled in my crib,
warm with love.
I am a playful toddler lying on the pavement with scraped knees,
blind with tears.
I am a running child on the playground at noon,
breathless and free.
I am a defiant teen hunched over on the curb,
hopeless and broken.
I am a wonderstruck bride bathed with white,
full of life.
I am a lonesome wife curled up in an empty bed,
yearning for him.
I am a delighted mother watching my baby drive away,
proud beyond belief.
I am a sorrowful widow standing beside his grave,
abandoned and afraid.
I am a decaying woman holding her first great-grandbaby,
nostalgic but peaceful.
I am a dying elder slipping into the darkness beyond,
eager to rest.
I am
*crushed
love-struck
turbulent
shattered
passionate
fearful
euphoric
anguished
zealous
grief-stricken
victorious*
alive
Apr 18, 2014
Apr 18, 2014 at 11:50 AM UTC
I am wonderstruck by the offerings of Nature.
The birds that serenade with divine orchestration.
The brook with its dancing waters that cleanse.
The highways of land that caress my feet with grace.
I’m wonderstruck by the present of earths realm.
The gentle breeze that hugs inside love.
The welkin that carries rainbows of beauty.
The stones that vibrate as allies to heal.
I am wonderstruck by the gift of life.
The journey that holds grand adventure.
The vessel that experiences for the soul.
The breath that carries endless wisdom.
I am wonderstruck by my sacred heart.
The ticker that pumps both day and night.
The structure that expands for enlightenment.
The ***** that holds all my dreams.
I am wonderstruck by the mysteries of life.
The being who is a masterpiece of creation.
The spirit in human form who becomes a sage.
The human who is a walking being of love.
Jul 17, 2017
Jul 17, 2017 at 8:24 AM UTC
Nothing beats the
Bewilderment
The amazement
Being wonderstruck
From 500 thousand dandelions
In a field
Just me
Happy as can be
I'm rolling
I'm tumbling
The dandelions have taken hold of me
Behind a playground
Little ol me
Lost in the field
Momma's looking for me
Hours have passed
I'm not her daughter right now
I'm a fairie
And this is my land
My fun
My everything
The dandelions chose me
And nothing has the same beauty
As that sweet innocent bliss
From a simple thing
Like dandelions and me
Feeling free as a bee 🐝
Why can't I still be that happy
Jun 2, 2022
Jun 2, 2022 at 4:54 PM UTC
night is dark but lights are bright
fades away but your ice blue eyes
continue to haunt me all the way home
i stayed at the party way too late
but i was wonderstruck today
and i never wanted to be alone
i'd never wanted anyone except me
but after seeing what we could be
i realise exactly what i've been missing
i can't sleep when it's so soon
i turn around, look at the moon
are you too looking at the same thing?
my black eyes search the black night
but i am using them to search for light
there will be a way
i think i'm in love with you
it feels forward but it's true
i was wonderstruck today
Nov 12, 2020
Nov 12, 2020 at 1:33 AM UTC
From untouchable
To wonderstruck
From Xena and Gabrielle
To Damon and Elena
To looking at the stars
And breathing in the moon
From that's the way I loved you
To a thousand years
With laughter
And heart
Running away
To a jump start
Faith and hope
Everyone telling us
You are
The poems I always
Wrote
You are the love
I sought for
The wonderstruck
And enchanted
Dancing in the snow
Or breathing in October
You and me
Once drunk
Now sober
We are everything
My heart dreamed
Lying in a cold car
Singing wonderstruck songs
Playing along in my dreams
Never to be
Never to be
Yet here we are
More than I dreamed
More then I could know
Unselfish love
Innocent like a dove
Laughing and hugs
Simplicity and the whole **** sky above
We had red
We had blue
I have you
You have me
To pink
And gold
To all I ever want to know
To your heart
And my soul
To my best friend
My _lover_
Heaven always knew
It was destiny
It was meant to be
To Cinderella
And holding you
I'll keep your hoodie
You'll keep my
Sparkling shoe👠
Sep 18, 2024
Sep 18, 2024 at 11:39 PM UTC
A gust of autumn's wind.
And the leaves dance down.
So many at once.
Like a shower of
glimmering gold coins.
Falling to the earth.
I stare out my window.
At gusts
and
showers of gold.
And I am
wonderstruck.
(edited)
Sep 28, 2016
Sep 28, 2016 at 1:16 PM UTC
When the air hits my chest
it reminds me of the place
where you come to rest
when the rain strikes on my face
it misses your lost lips
that used to wander in daze
when the wind wipe my wrist
it recalls me of the place
where you used to call a bliss
awestruck, wonderstruck
was the only game
but now, dumbstruck
is the only known fame.
this is
the only lair for you
so I am not worried
if you lost your way.
Nov 27, 2017
Nov 27, 2017 at 7:41 PM UTC
I think we spend our days dreaming
Things bright, things whole, things bleeding
For something better than what we have now
We are wonderstruck by the sky
You better believe it's a beautiful sight
But then we think of ourselves
Stock us on shelves
That get old and dusty
But really, must we?
He calls us perfect
And we're so worth it
Do we ever know
How we're his pollema - his poem
In our eyes, he's written pretty rhymes
In our hair, there's beauty everywhere
In our souls, there's limericks that glows
He looks at the heart not at what people stare at
Sonnets, honest -ly you should see
How we are a masterpiece
Please note
How we are
God's Poem
Apr 7, 2018
Apr 7, 2018 at 7:00 PM UTC
Wonderstruck by snow in winter
like the season didn't hint her
plans to me when the sky grew grey,
the wind picked up, and what did it say?
"Expect snow to fall while you sleep.
It'll bury you three inches deep."
I remember the warning so crystal clear
and yet I'm surprised to see a deer
outside my window
playing in snow.
And when I went outside and inspected
the snow, it was cold, I don't know what I expected.
Jan 6, 2020
Jan 6, 2020 at 12:05 PM UTC