Best Hear What I Say Poems
Don’t try to love me…
Please...walk away
Love someone else
Just….hear what I say…..
My love is sunshine
My love is rain
My love brings pleasure
My love gives pain
My love is darkness
My love is light
My love is weakness
My love is might
My love knows anger
My love knows peace
My love brings madness
My love brings release
My love is life
My love is death
My love suffocates
My love gives breath
My love is violent
My love is calm
My love is poison
My love is balm
No two days alike
Not even two minutes
One minute it’s serious
The next it’s a game
You bask in my glow
You hide from my sting
But you want me more…
More than...anything
Don’t love me, Baby
Don’t hold on to me
Say your sweet goodbyes
And set your heart free
Eileen Manassian
What Col. William Barrett Travis might have said to the defenders
of the Alamo on March 5, 1836, the twelfth day of the siege.
Remember the Alamo
My fellow Texians hear what I say
your courage inspires and leaves me in awe;
as I humbly stand before you today
your gallantry from which my strength I draw.
Sant’ Anna’s troops surround this mission’s walls,
and from this bout we face, there’s no escape;
we’ll fight to death until the last man falls,
and with the blood we shed, the fates we’ll shape.
For friends and fam’lies our lives will avow
the future hopes and freedoms they’ll attain,
and when the final man has made his bow,
please know that we will not have died in vain.
Our deeds here will forever write their scripts
when “Remember the Alamo” leaves their lips.
September 18, 2020
A quivering heart beats deep in my chest
I have a soul that will not rest
Until I save my damsel distressed
From the life that holds her repressed
Her love is shadowed with sorrow and pain
Her flower of life is feeling so drained
Her petals are dripping like tears in the rain
And her stem is bending from strain
I want to be the light of her day
The soft, gentle breeze that makes her sway
And pushes the clouds of her worries away
I want her to hear what I say
I want to stroke her soft, silky hair
And wipe away her deepened despair
To shine above her through unclouded air
And help her to know that I care
Rockman :-)
I can't promise to understand
the ways of the mind
and the ways we're entwined
with the people we love
There's a vine, so divine
It is there, if we want it~
It extends far beyond what we've known
There are people who claim
they can talk to the dead
Who have climbed through the haze
to find them~
There are people we've loved
who are no longer here
but they still warm our hearts, from above
They carry our burdens, and lighten our loads
They soften our sorrows, and straighten our roads
There are people we've loved
who are no longer here
who will help us see brighter
tomorrows~
Some things are entwined,
but they can't be explained,
yet proven times over, again
We are woven in life
by the strongest of vines
It is made out of love that has grown
It can climb to the stars
where our loved ones have gone~
Not a thing that you say
can deny it away
You may scoff, and not hear what I say
But a vine made of love
from my heart to the stars
is the one that I'll climb…..when I go~
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2//13/16 Contest: "Entwined"
Sponsored by Broken Wings
I Lay in bed
coffee
smoke
My dreams didn’t start
till the moment I woke
I’ve been awake
wash
eat
I dressed for work
but just couldn’t leave
you brush a hand across my chest
unaware of my restlessness
fluttering eyes
dream
lay
your ears are uncovered
do you hear what I say
whisper love
touch
purr
a kiss to your breast
a naked stir
you brush a hand across my chest
unaware of my restlessness
covers removed
deep
arc
I trace the spine
to the back of your heart
close my eyes
tongue
lips
I make a line
to curve of your hips
you brush a hand across my chest
unaware of my restlessness
stir and stretch
stretch
yawn
you open your eyes
to find I was gone
you Lay in bed
coffee
smoke
your dreams didn’t start
till the moment I woke
We have a new diet created each day
With many saying you need to hear what I say
If we could cut out these foods
It might put all in better moods
A diet to conform to your body type
Why not jump on this train of hype
Are we more focused on the outside
Then what's being drawn in by the tide
We learn of foods that are good and bad
Without one are the other makes one sad
Get rid of the toxins unto fasting
To help the body evermore lasting
Many know in this poem for fun
I care more about how you look under the sun
How do we see and recognize foods that harm
And seek fresh food off the farm
But ,yet do not see what is out to destroy the soul
For the truth is in the scroll
Learning to fast from this world of destruction
While the inside is under construction
In quietness and standing still
With unblemished water to fill
Unto, God is given all glory
For , this is truth placed within not a story
To recognize the evil around us
That keeps many in division and fuss
We have been given access to defeat
With a new light unto thy feet
That in a world of chaos and sin
A newfound peace love and joy is there to win
?Isaiah 58:6 NIV?
[6] “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:16 NIV
Am I who I am
or all the people I was
Do you discard me now
just simply because
I’m not pretty no more
handsome or spry
I don’t wear fancy clothes
a suit and a tie
Now that I’m older
You don’t hear what I say
So I will just listen
as I slowly fade away
Remember who you are
won’t be the person you’ll be
In the end it will be different
one day you’ll be me
Old is a kinda condition
That’s what younger ones think
Wisdom is easily ignored
from that pool they don’t drink
Try looking into my eyes
No reason but because
Answers to unasked questions
revealed in who I once was.
Dedicated to my Buddy David Gebhart
Good morning says the frog
Sitting on the log
Talking to my dog
How was your day
What do you have to say
It was ruff
Oh that is tough
Says the frog
Sitting on the log
Next to the ledge
By the waters edge
Your nose is cold
You must feel bold
Sticking your nose on me
Curious as can be
It is not every day
Someone can hear what I say
Stumbling across such as I
Sitting here enjoying the sun in the sky
Eating this fly
Nothing better to do
Than talk to you
This is how I spend my days
Love it in so many ways
Will stay here
Without fear
Says the frog
Sitting on the log
Talking to my dog
Sit here till the summer starts getting old
Nights starts getting cold
Then I sleep
Do not weep
I will be back
I have flies to attack
Says the frog
Sitting on the log
Talking to my dog
To stop and ask just who I am
Is very hard indeed
For everyone I've ever been
Is locked inside of me
Too much for self to understand
The silent screams I hear
Oh help me please, won't someone help
Are pleas for just my ears
Which one of me is slipping past
My ego there intact
To make me let my weakness show
And disintegrate my act
Head held high, shoulders back
Make-up and fancy clothes
Are all a part of this game I play
I'm the cast and the star of the show
I ask myself what's real in life
And this answer keeps coming to me
You fool, you fool; just look around
And reality you will see
Someone inside is trying to get through
And I know I cannot defend
My ego and all that possesses me
For I am my only friend
I hurt, I'm sick, I can't bear any more
I can't live in this world like I am
For there's no one to care, no one to share
No one to take my hand
A voice deep inside says it's easy to leave
Choose this gun and go into a sleep
My ego cries out; yes let's do it right now
Before someone changes your mind
As I pick up the gun I know I have failed
I am sorry for the others inside
But they are too weak to carry me through
And so I must say good-by
A moment has passed and out of the depths
Comes a fragment of something I know
A voice strong and clear
Fills my heart and my ears
And says; wait it's not your time to go
Take a minute, that's all; you can wait just one more
To hear what I say, please don't close the door
Close your eyes and your ears and listen to me
For I am the truth and the light
I died don't you know
In a way that was cruel
So in your life you might be free
If you'll look deep inside you'll certainly see
One of God's greatest miracles of all
For it's really no secret just misunderstood
It's love in the purest form
I shake and I'm weak
I fall to the floor
My heart is ceasing to beat
For when I looked in I knew right away
One of God's greatest miracles was me
I’m afraid of dying young
Of leaving things yet undone
I’m afraid I’ll leave this place
Yet not leave a single trace
I’m afraid I haven’t said
All that lives inside my head
I’m afraid I’ll disappear
And no one will hold me dear.
I’m afraid I’ve yet to touch
The hearts of those I love so much
I’m afraid I’ll never see
Who it is I’m meant to be
I’m afraid, for can’t you see?
Not much time is left for me.
I’m afraid, oh, I’m afraid
Soon I’ll lie silent in my grave…
With my stories yet untold
With my dreams yet to unfold
With my songs yet unsung
With my words yet on my tongue
With my passion tucked away
With no more prayers left to pray
I’m afraid……
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Don't be afraid of dying young
of leaving things as yet undone
for don't you know that fear will kill
and you'll be left without the thrill
of living life, that's full and free
and making dreams your destiny
Don't be afraid of things unsaid
but rather fear not having bled
it's true once said, the words can sting
but then perhaps, much joy they'll bring
Then find the strength to give them voice
your life will bloom, by will, by choice.
Don't be afraid to reach and touch
the one you love....so very much
for though rejection be the price
just take that chance and roll the dice
A touch might turn to an embrace
and kisses then may grace your face.
Don't be afraid to dream your dreams
For heaven then much closer seems
And death is but a little sleep
while you yet live, why do you weep?
Don't be afraid of dying, dear
then you won't live because of fear
So spread your wings and take to flight
Soar high above, towards the light
Listen close, to one like me
You can be all you're meant to be
So do not fear the silent grave
Live life today, be strong and brave
There's nothing worse than living...dead
Because there's fear inside your head
So live each day up to the brim
follow each wish, each dream, each whim
and you will chase the fear away
Oh, little one, hear what I say.....
Don't ever be afraid......
For Silent One's Response to First Poem Contest
September 28, 2015
Have I told you yet that I love you today
Love how you laugh in your own silly way
I go through lifes motions only to find
That for all this time you've been on my mind
I am the clouds, you're the sun breaking through
For no one shines brighter than beautiful you
Not only my love but my best freaking friend
No matter how many daft emails I send
But you should be honoured for you are the one
That I turn to whenever lifes going all wrong
Or if I'm so happy I swear I could burst
Despite the emotion its you I tell first
And you know, in the mornings and last thing at night
When all of my senses merge and unite
You fill every one, even my sick sense
Invasions of you leaves no evidence
That you're even real or can hear what I say
Have I told you yet that I love you today?
Down on my knees praying to you
My heart now broken, the world is askew
I am sad and confused and tears fill my eyes
As I watch the news I’m beginning to despise
I hear nothing of good only of evil
I fear our world is in major upheaval
When four little babies six, four, two and one
Found in such filth, damage has been done
Imagine their life where love comes from drugs
With only cold hard facts and no lovely snuggs.
No bed to sleep in , no comfort to be found
Sleeping in a closet with feces all around
How can a mother let her babies be abused
In such a sad, sad manner, this can’t be excused.
My heart is so heavy and totally confused
How could you let these babies be so misused.
I pray to you Jesus, I pray every day
That this evil I see will all go away.
Yet continue the murders, the abuse and the crime
I’m beginning to think we are about out of time.
Do you hear me Lord Jesus, do you hear what I say
Our world is now crazy and full of decay.
I need you Lord Jesus, and others need you to
To fight this evil that is steering them from you.
So give us your strength to guide us in peace
For this evil we see has got to cease.
Lord Jesus I pray, I pray to you today
Lift up our spirits and help us find a way.
FACING TOMORROW TODAY
It’s a long way from the cotton field to the White House---
like journeying to the moon and safely making it back.
So they made fun of us as if we were Mickey Mouse---
Huge white eyes, tap dancing shoes and ears big and black
Political gains have proven not to bring much power---
merely got the vote as a historical footnote.
If new gains bring us no flowing economic shower,
we’re headed for the bowels of a speedy space slave boat.
Over the decades wonderful strides have been made;
and in many arenas we’ve gained our rightful place;
but while segregation waned, degradation hung tight and stayed;
and though we came in first we still lag behind in the human race.
So to get to the coveted place where we know we ought to be,
we must meet today’s challenge with a new methodology.
So listen children and hear what I say:
tomorrow belongs to those---getting it together today.
Hello
Do you hear me ?
Do you hear what I say ?
Do you understand my logic ?
Of how games people play
Do you ever wonder
Why people live and die ?
Have you ever helped the homeless ?
Or seen a child cry ?
Ever looked into sorrow
And seen emptiness
Have you looked into tomorrow
And cared less and less
I say this to you
And hope you will confess
To the feelings that I have
For people everywhere
And to say one simple thing..........
I care
Eric (and sometimes not)
Well....... Here we are , we have finally reached that day,
When you and I would finally be parting our ways ,
I believe little brother it has come way to soon ,
Aways thought it would be me and it turned out to be you.
This is something that we could have nevber known,
Just never doubted it would be me that was first to go.
Forget all your troubles and all the reason's why ,
And all the times we had when you were alive.
Saying our goodbyes for the very last time ,
Makes it hard for me to hold back the tears in my eyes.
Soar with the wings that were made from your Dreams,
Say goodbye to your worries and troubles just enjoy being.
When you get there open your eyes will you please,
And when you get there will you hug Mama for me.
My thoughts will be with you for the rest of my days,
I will always stand tall please hear what I say .
When you get there.
Tac.