i miss when i didnt have to worry,
i miss when i didn’t have to worry.
when getting dressed was about color and comfort,
not fear.
not calculating how much skin was too much.
not wondering if someone would call me a ****
just for wearing shorts in the summer.
i miss when i didn’t know
what it meant to be perceived.
when i could wear my hair up
without thinking about
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Categories:
didnt, body, girl,
Form: Free verse
I didnt use to
Ever since I was little you've been trying to fix me.. forcing the puzzle pieces to fit, only to break me more n more.
Building me up, just to tear me down over n over again... I didn't use to be insecure until you repeatedly told me I was over weight at age 13, and still
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Categories:
didnt, anxiety, depression, mom,
Form: Free verse
Things I should've learned in math class but didnt
There's a hole in the fabric of my universe
Sometimes I slip inside and zip it up
Time loses meaning here
no future, no past
The present in this space is only an imaginary playground between the two
Life isn't linear
Moments of laughter, moments of pain float around me in their bubbles
Feelings are relics stacked on shelves where I
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Categories:
didnt, art,
Form: Free verse
I didnt deserve That
I didn't deserve what you did to me,
what could I have done, to make you act the way you did,
I stayed. I should have run,
I didn't deserve the things you said, you know your words , they sting.
To hear no one will love you , while you were my everything.
All the years I gave
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Categories:
didnt, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Going Away Didnt Mean Forgetting
Going away didn’t mean forgetting
By Lady Arabella
Going away didn’t mean forgetting or that i would miss you less
Instead it was a way of putting your words to the test
And yet when it occurred you failed to maintain the things you said
To think once you consumed the thoughts inside my head
Going
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Categories:
didnt, extended metaphor, happiness, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
You Didnt Love Me
You didn’t love me
Loved the idea of me
I finally left.
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Categories:
didnt, emotions, feelings, for him,
Form: Haiku
Why Didnt You Use Cardinals
Why didn’t you use cardinals? Asked the one who is never pleased.
Her harsh words used to injure my feelings, take me to my knees.
Today I said, “bluebirds look so pretty with valentines, red.”
She did not make another comment, this non-artsy type, Ms. Fred.
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Categories:
didnt, women,
Form: Rhyme
I Didnt Say Anything
Fourth-grader, Leander had his hands down his pants.
Sitting on the rug, doing what people do but usually, in their sleep.
His young teacher said, "“Leander, please put your hands in the air!”
He said “I have to itch my junk.”
I smiled when she told me this. “What did you say?”
“I didn’t say anything. I don’t have junk,
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Categories:
didnt, teacher,
Form: Light Verse
I Didnt
I didn’t get the chance to really date her.
I didn’t get the chance to even know her.
Not really.
I got the piece of her that was left after that first heart break.
The part that said it, I’m good
Instead of who she was before she knew what love was
And what love isn’t.
I didn’t ...know...her.
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Categories:
didnt, break up, cute, cute
Form: Rhyme
Didnt Get the Memo
Public service announcements seem to not work any more.
The stress of our circumstances seem to confirm our righteousness.
We never listen to anybody but we listen to our pity.
We praise and glorify the same thing that families mourn over, and we only grieve when it directly affects us.
There’s no turning back from what you believe
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Categories:
didnt, allah, black african american,
Form: Free verse
The Bubble That Didnt Pop
Timmy blew some bubbles and he watched them Pop! Pop! Pop!
But one went higher than the trees and right over the top
That one big bubble floated high as though it couldn’t stop
And just before it reached the sky it then began to drop
Timmy stood and marvelled at the colours in its skin
How could skin so
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Categories:
didnt, boy, girl, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
I Didnt Want To
I didn't want to
I didn't want to
Do those things with you
But you persisted
Crushed my soul
Then enlisted
Now your off fighting a war
While I'm here feeling like a whore
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Categories:
didnt, dark,
Form: Free verse
What If I Didnt Meet You
My voice remains so low ,
Yet I try to reach you .
My head is all mixed with philosophies of the world in which
I mention you .
I cry out loud in the silence that I never longed for.
You saw me take that, which was not meant to be mine anymore .
Yet I think where
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Categories:
didnt, 12th grade, allusion, sad
Form: ABC
Why Didnt I
Why did I give in so easy
every time they came after me
and made me feel so powerless?
Every time they’d push, I would fall.
You’d think after the first time, I’d be strong.
Why didn’t I keep talking
even when I told somebody
and they weren’t listening?
Why didn’t I run away,
though beaten and weary,
and get myself to safety?
Maybe I’d
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Categories:
didnt, betrayal, emotions, stress,
Form: Free verse
Monoku I Didnt Plan On
planned to create monoku poem about time ending with a rhyme
Contest: When plans don’t go to plan
Sponsored by: Silent One
Date Created: 08/24/2020
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Categories:
didnt, poems,
Form: Monoku
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