From Rose to Rosewood
...Pigtails sat tightly on her head
Curls poking through
And framing her face.
The bear kept her company,
Sat close by her head.
The dolls sat carefully placed
Drinking tea around the table.
Her ...
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Categories:
closing off, emotions, flower, goodbye, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Waves of Hope, Oceans of Despair
...They're children of the sand, sand in an hourglass
Sands of time running out, running from their past
Desert winds howl, howl like hungry ghosts
Howling louder than bombs and tyrannical hosts
L...
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Categories:
closing off, children, heartbroken, horror, longing,
Form: Free verse
the gardener
...soil turned with tiller
she digs the hole for new seed
and covers her tracks
closing off garden
keeping it from animals
waiting for bounty...
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Categories:
closing off, garden,
Form: Haiku
Little Dark Age
...She has flourished into a flower that has bled,
Far along from a sprout who desired protection from the soil bed
Petals soft and bright deceives the eye,
Ahead a winter that shall let it die
Lo...
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Categories:
closing off, 12th grade, age, childhood,
Form: I do not know?
Peace
...What others think of it
It doesn't care at all.
It's not the absence of thoughts
but the presence of mind
It's not the carefree attitude
Regardless, the caring nature
It is not the unconsciousn...
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Categories:
closing off, confusion, emotions, peace, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Long Road
...Softly moans the blowing wind
crossing over bright glittering crystals
endless darkness lies black beneath
swirling dancing blowing white
soft as feathers downy white
soft drifts flowing so...
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Categories:
closing off, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fog Envelops
...The fog enveloped early morning
Coating it with a silvery mist
Even the golden leaves 'pon the magnolia
Knew they had been sweetly kissed
Bright sunlight tried to peek through
But the clou...
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Categories:
closing off, beauty, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Too Dark the Night
...Too dark the night its blackness slipping in
closing off the light;
shutting out the world
its hustle and bustle busyness.
Too cold the winter its harsh white rapture
blanketing the ea...
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Categories:
closing off, christmas, holiday, hope,
Form: Free verse
Strong As a Hearts Resistance
...Stone partitions
stretching somewhere in the distance
borders beckon cross not here
as strong as a hearts resistance
though intentions are most sincere
cobweb covered disappointments
when trust like...
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Categories:
closing off, moving on, trust,
Form: Rhyme
Cheated
...Having a life doesnt matter,
It seems an awful like death.
Why does this seem so?
I walk through life,
Watching people pass me by.
Why does this seem so?
People come in and out of my life,
I...
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Categories:
closing off,
Form: Verse
Apathy For the Apathetic
...can't point your finger of blame at me if its broken right
so would you like a broken finger or rib?
can't die from the joke your not telling that is killing you
would you like a broken rib or bro...
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Categories:
closing off, politicalprayer, me,
Form: Free verse
Her Secret's Hard To Keep
...Her tears stain the pillow
As she lays down to sleep
Dying from within
Her secret’s hard to keep
Violated by one trusted
Betrayed by those she loves
Left alone to suffer
Only wanting to be ...
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Categories:
closing off, depression, life
Form: Quatrain
To Those
...To those who made me who I am
By hate or love you gave me strength
To those who knocked me down you taught
What's worth the fight is worth defeat
To those who gave a helping hand
Who didn't know...
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Categories:
closing off, introspection, love, philosophyme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Just Listen
...JUST LISTEN
As I lay myself gently down,
I hear the water caressing the rocks, leaping, splashing.
I hear the hawk above me, cawing, screaming.
I hear the woodpecker knocking, tat, tat, tat...
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Categories:
closing off, faith, hope, inspirational, upliftingme,
Form: Free verse
Dna
...Life under a microscope dissected piece by piece
peering into cells with x-ray eyes and brain scans
of behavior set in DNA Strands spreading out like veins in disease
contagious in toxic vir...
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Categories:
closing off, life
Form: I do not know?
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