Red: Favorites

Nov 2012 Red

Garrett Lydecker

Your eyes are full of
Sweet tides slanting timidly
Stylizing starry-eyed Soliloquies

Secretly stopping surrounding
Surveying

Nov 2012 Red

Terra Firma

Nov 2012 Red

Montana

Terra Firma

You told me I was your
terra firma
because you could always
count on me to be there
when even you
didn't want to be there

I relished the fact that you
would consider me your
anything
let alone something
that sounded so strong and
beautiful

Your extraplanetary misadventures
in love and lust and
all things fleeting
left your wobbly legs aching for
solid ground

But you should know
I'm here to hold you up
not for you to
walk all over

Nov 2012 Red

Palooza

Nov 2012 Red

Montana

Palooza

Let me simplify
what you can't justify
by saying
it's futile
and unimportant.
You're lackluster
and distorted.
This time is vacuous
And holds no meaning
So watch it play out
And quit your dreaming.

Nov 2012 Red

What do you think of me?

Nov 2012 Red

JL

What do you think of me?

You do not know me
And you did not see
You were not there
When we drank from
The flask and I said
Those words I now regret

You were not there
When the sky was dying
A red evening sky
I was alone with the fire

I want to learn how to be human
I want the old teachers to show me
How to hunt the hunter
How to seek that which cannot be found

If you tell me
Who I am
I will give you my share of crumbs from
Maximillion's table
If you tell me
Who I am
I will write you a thousand poems
Without using that word "because" even once

Nov 2012 Red

Cut away the pain

Nov 2012 Red

Katlyn Orthman

Cut away the pain

Welling inside
Facing mirrors
Surronded , no way to hide
Cold like the winter
I'm laying there
The white snow is stained
Red
By my blood
My tears freeze on my face
My vision becoming fuzzy
No one will miss me...
The trees are spinning above my head
If only the clouds above me could hold me
The blade against my skin
Had torn away from me
My emotions
I had bled
I had cried
Alone with myself
I can't lift my head
But I'm aware of the soft fluffy
Snowflakes falling new
Landing around me
Nature calling me to join
Nature asking for me to take away the pain
To stop my struggles
My heart beats in my chest
Heaving labored beats
I just need a little push
To go falling through the black
Open sky
Plummeting to the ground
Breaking through the empty sound
It's okay
They whisper
Nobodies around
I'm scared but I use my last bit
Of strength
To bring the blade
To my throat
I sob now
But I drag the blade across my throat
Anyways
The pain envolopes me
So wholely
Pulls me from reality
Into the dark
And then I'm falling
Through the endless sky

Oct 2012 Red

His Perfection; My Imperfection

Oct 2012 Red

Rose Letsinger

His Perfection; My Imperfection

I sit in bed
My head flooded with images of you
You

With your curly brown hair and gorgeous, deep eyes
With your love of coffee and adoration for music

How you play the guitar
How you'd always make me laugh

And last but certainly not least
That smile

I have fallen hard for you and I fear I will not escape the never ending pit

Yet I am not good enough
Not for you
I'm imperfect compared to your cheeky smiles and sense of humor

I'm nothing
Yet you are everything to me

I find myself, soft tears slowly exuding
Because I realize that what I speak is truth,
At least to me

I'm imperfect and you will never love me
I fear...

Every doubt tears me up inside and it's hard to control self deprecation
It takes over me

And I fall into a deep sleep

*Alone

Oct 2012 Red

Burnt Mistakes

Oct 2012 Red

Daughter

Burnt Mistakes

A heart does not deserve to Break
Nor feel a Winter's bite alone.
A heart is such a beautiful thing,
No harm to it shall I Condone.
Yet, sweet Lover, why must you bring such danger near?
Your heavy burdened mind and soul
bring me too much fear.

Why do you leave me one sole soul
When I am meant to be one of Two?
Why do you break apart our whole,
When I am meant to be a part of you?
You've harmed me close to my
beating life.
Please don't lone babe, I beg you no.
My beating heart beats one beat less.
You've killed me dear with your single blow.

Sep 2012 Red

Daddy

Sep 2012 Red

Jacquelyn

Daddy

When I watch you
smiling candidly on shiny paper
laughing, surrounded by the remaints
of your friend's cigarette smoke
or
when I watch you
in your old, worn-out-with-love Levi's
with the overused Adia's running shoes
standing, with me for your shoulders
like I was on top of the world
I say
when I watch you
you framed Kodak memory of a father
who used to be the handsome hero of my life
used to be my best friend
I smile
through your faded memory
I smile

Based on miss rosie by Lucille Clifton.
Read here: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15600