Best Attached Poems
Someone special died because you drink and drive
Dear drunk driver I want you to know
Forgiveness is a fire enlight save souls
Maybe you live
Maybe you are deceased
Maybe you forgive
Maybe you are hurting
Blue you blue drink
Driving reckless quicker
Lives are linked
cause you can’t handle liquor
You didn’t care
You knew you were drunk
Car a weapon killing daughter or son
What if it was your mama
Or your daddy
Broken and bleeding
Screaming and crying
Wrapped around a tree
Or on the highway
What if your wife and child
Died that day?
Someone special died because you drink and drive.
Every day and holiday a family sighs
No more birthdays or 4th of Julys
No more phone calls or smiles from bright eyes
Victims who died because you drink and drive
Those who survive have hard work to do
Physically, therapy, or creating life new
advocating for cause for spiritual mending
Creating a bridge from tragedy to winning
this song has music
Categories:
attached, addiction, appreciation, bereavement,
Form:
Lyric
a gaze felt softly
pulling on wistful heartstrings…
your puppeteer eyes
Categories:
attached, desire, longing,
Form:
Senryu
Carved from tree.
Perfect
dreamy face, sadness not a trace.
A wood carver dreams of having child.
A spirit wistful running wild.
A hand to hold, a mouth that smiles.
He sits there thinking for a while.
Each piece of wood he cuts away,
one step further from that day.
Strings attached to arms head and back,
the image perfect only a soul he lacks.
He looks at his puppet and sheds a tear,
if only he had a real boy here.
No Fairy Godmother to hear his plea.
A dream unfullfilled will never be.
A carved puppet with little button nose,
perfectly formed fingers and little toes.
He looks at the puppet hangs him high.
Takes a deep breath wipes his eyes.
All his hopes cut away with a knife.
Cancer took the dream from him and his wife.
Debbie Guzzi's
Dream On Contest
July 24th, 2013
Categories:
attached, devotion, fantasy, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
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lately i have become aware
i was wrong thinking i am just me
there are lines above my head, a pair
someone's controlling me for a fee
the marketers with their advertising machines
run us all, apparently and do so continually
they do so on walls or surfaces using screens
everything we think is fed to us intentionally
no matter what your cause is it's them pulling the strings
wether you are for or against or anywhere in between
they write all of the scripts and the conflict that it brings
if you like oil, the cash it makes or chose to be green
trust me you're their puppet your speaking from their script
it has been ingrained in your brain since your first day
give them a child 'till he's five he's theirs he's been snipped
even at the park - slide, swing or climb it's their way
not you! right?somehow they missed your unique behind
you're wrong they got you too, always no matter where you sit
no one escapes the adjustment made to their mind
the world is a stage and we merely the puppets on it
26~12~2014
Sponsor: John lawless
Contest Name: PUPPETS
Categories:
attached, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
"To get what you desperately covet, you must go the extra mile!' - quote by poet
Let me tell you a story
About a tween mama's boy.
One fine day, unasked,
He suddenly started
Trimming all the hedges
On the front porch, a first.
It's a job always delegated
To his older brothers.
Mom looks on with amazement;
Pleasantly surprised.
She gives her youngest son
A kiss on the cheek
And says to him,
"Thank you, baby. You're doing a great job!"
After finishing the task,
Mom wraps her son in a snug embrace.
Then came the moment of truth.
"Mom?"
"Yes, hon," she replies.
"Could you please buy me an Xbox headset?"
Form N - Narrative - New Poems Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France
Theme Chosen: Funny
Date written: 04/16/2022
Categories:
attached, appreciation, desire, humor, mother
Form:
Narrative
The countryside is ablaze with colour
But leaves fall when the winds get gustier
Causing much work
We pay for this quirk
With permanently attached leaves I'd be much happier
© Jack Ellison 2015
Categories:
attached, funny,
Form:
Limerick
https://soundcloud.com/user-927728032/somesorrowsjustdontdrown2-by-markhallidayx
Sometimes I’m so sad,
Other times I’m just raging mad.
The gal that said she would love me forever
Went and left me for another.
I just hate to say
That I feel like a damn cliché.
She double-crossed me like a low-down traitor.
As much as I would like to amputate her,
I just can’t bring myself to hate her.
(Chorus)
Got too much time to think,
But not enough to drink.
Some sorrows just don’t drown.
Some sorrows just don’t drown.
Some sorrows just don’t drown. (pause)
They just won’t drown.
(Bridge)
I didn’t cheat her, I never beat her, I always treated her kind.
I took her dancing, never quit romancing; was she out of her mind?
Thinking one love’s true
One day could be the end of you.
I smell like stale beer and yesterday’s sweat;
Caught in a whirlpool of regret.
(Repeat Chorus)
They just won't drown!
They just won't drown!
They just won't drown!!!
One more late Friday.
I’ll probably drink-off Saturday.
If sober Sunday, I’ll go see the pastor
To help me get through this disaster.
(Repeat Chorus)
Categories:
attached, anger, betrayal, drink, lost
Form:
Lyric
Wind blows my hat off
Telling me to let go of
Things I think I need
Categories:
attached,
Form:
Haiku
A Blunderbirds fan Knows E Parker
Had christened his yappy pup Harker
Neighbours caused a riot
Cos it’s never was quiet
With hindsight it's name should be Barker
Categories:
attached, childhood, tribute,
Form:
Limerick
An overwhelming sorrow,
no escape, not even in sleep,
only undying pain,
only overwhelming endurance.
Hot tears fall easily,
but I must exist;
it is your dictate,
it is your wish,
I cannot but obey
and bear the sacrifice.
No insanity for me,
no easy escape
I scream at night
in love and pain
for you know well
the art of sex.
I love and grieve,
yet it is clear,
your vision of me:
no strings attached.
Categories:
attached, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Before i loved you
I broke the strings
I love you, yes!
No strings attached
The songs you sing
A melody so sweet
Can it e'er be heard?
The strings broke
Love like i do
Love with no strings attached
For the people you love
May not love you back
What you so care about
Might fade out
love not becouse you're loved
love without reason
love with care,
love dosen't scare
Categories:
attached, caregiving, computer-internet, love,
Form:
Free verse
Down by those tracks,
You silly astronaut.
Its an Odyssey,
I'll admit
That I ever survived.
Fluids, moans
and Cries thereafter
Were undoubtedly
Where this
Masochist was
Born.
I promised to
Prevail, but
Salt in the wound
Sent me down an
Unending Spiral
Categories:
attached, angst, loneliness, lonely, sad,
Form:
Free verse
leaving here on a midnight run
my energy nervous for no reason
i think about the free breakfast that will probably be the nastiest thing i ever ate
i am walking the floor over the next set of plans
when the next day comes, my eyes are heavier than a working man's graveyard plans
yet and still a drive on inspired by the next anecdote and the next listening ear
arriving there on a midday monorail
Categories:
attached, change,
Form:
Free verse
Wrapped in the sheets,
Her scent all around me.
I listen to my heart beat,
Wishing my dreams hadn't become reality
Her quiet whispers echo in my ears.
The promises, the lies
The birth of my fears
All started with my one night stand.
Drunken courage, daring approaches
All intent towards a night of no strings
No attachments, no commitment
Been through to much
To get close again
But here we are
I'm tied to you
Forever yours
and as you whispered you love me
and said we'd never part
the only words that came to my lips we're
"what beautiful words for such a cynical heart"
I'm trapped in your lies
But I'm blind, playing off
the pain and fear as butterflies
Don't get attached
It's the repeating mantra
in my head
But I'll go
where I'm lead
Following your voice
like the drug you've become.
Categories:
attached, angst, loss, love, sadwords,
Form:
One year ago today since you passed
I want to write the perfect words, but maybe there's no such thing as that
I'd give anything to be able to bring you back
One year ago today my angel got her wings attached
I'll raise this glass of brandy to the sky in memory of you
I know you're watching over me and will always help me to get through
I'm sorry for shedding tears as I write this on the page
But nothing I ever write for you will be good enough or powerful enough to bring you back from the grave
You know I've always been the quiet guy and this year I've somehow spoken less
I keep you in my memory, but I don't know how to get over the death
I could always talk to you without any judgement or complications
I wish we could have just one more conversation
You started off as my mum's neighbour but became so much more
an elder friend to me, a kind of friendship I'd never had before
I'd go to the shop for you daily and I remember your shopping list still
I've moved since you passed, because seeing your house without someone else in it made me feel ill
You respected that any trouble that came my way I would go out of my way to avoid it
You never judged me for partying and having different girlfriends, you told me I'm young and should enjoy it
Your advice and our conversations I replay often and the words still hold dear
Please make it rain from heaven today so no one can see my tears
One day we're here, the next we're not, but I still can't believe you're gone
I'd give anything to bring you back
One year ago today my angel got her wings attached
I love and miss you Pauline, and I'll see you again when my time comes
Categories:
attached, death, death of a
Form:
Free verse