Long Actions speak louder than words Poems

Black. White. Blue. Pink. Orange. I'll blend in. Tall, short, cold, warm. I'll blend in. She likes to remain calm, she likes to scream or maybe even lean. I'll blend in. People always playing cautious...

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words Contest
Sponsor: Silent One

Why can't I sleep tonight? 

I can not stop thinking about our last fervid conversation.
Broken promises of a long lost love affair between the cores of two fleshly...

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Flustered, but I’m moving on from here
I can’t wait to hold you oh so dear
Haunted by the forgettable dreams I’ve been having lately
Taunted by the chorus of voices in my head 
Losing control due to...

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I'm not crazy about political poetry
Because politics feel a bit ... soiled to me
But as a requirement for the contest
I will say the following, as a humble opinion ONLY ...

I do not know the man
I...

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February 13th, 2023 - old man winter gave a one...two punch

Overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
would make laughingstock of forecasting
how Jack Frost...

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She fakes a smile 
Then turns away
Silent tears fall down her face
As words of hate fill her ears 
The voices of loved ones,
Friends, and people she just met.
create scars on her heart
New scars appear every...

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the game you play
the act you are
your familiar mistake
get away with murder

you blame all the wrong people for your society
you dont do anything right
angry minds

Freedom of speach can be taken away
may as well soak it...

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soulbound prayers
i am my own worst nightmare
caught in the middle of misfortune
fathertime
with ladyluck i do not care to share
my body is seperate of my mind
what i say and do
is different than what i wish to...

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the new renaissance
pushed the envelope too far
actions speak louder than words
under my thumb from your torture
I must confess im obsessed
cant stop thinking about you
for one day

No need for us to buy records or movies
just disgusting
disgusting
couldn't...

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overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
     would make laughingstock of forecasting
     how Jack Frost...

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Cradling my dreams

Tossing and turning

The words so eloquently hanging in space

Are consequently just as they were described

Words

Filled with fluff and not enough substance
I want to give you the world

Mine

And everything that fills those cracks in...

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A Doll’s House

Those walls we built ended up not meaning a thing,
Baby don’t call it love, like, passion call it a fling
You controlled my life, my mind even my heart
We wasted so much time, look...

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Hi. Hello. How are you? I know you don't like me but listen to me. Please listen. 
Look into my eyes and tell me what you see. You know I like you so why are...

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By Dana Redricks
April 11, 2020

Persuading people of their need for Salvation is difficult sometimes, but it is we, do the planting, and God who does the harvesting."Remember that God does not call the equipped; He...

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TO CIARA: RULES FOR LOVING

			Little dark haired one, don’t fall
			for the first boy to give you attention
			or pay you a compliment. Don’t fall
			for the first boy who says he is
			‘the leader of a hundred men’;...

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Pay for your sins in life to live
At checkout (death)
Remember to pay the full bill
You won't be admitted further until you do so
Don't you think?
So I believe...

Remember:
Everything must be paid for
Every ounce of life has...

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Actions speak louder than words, it's true.
Folks may doubt what you say but they'll always believe what you do.

Don't let the best you have done in the past be the standard for the rest of...

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There’s this curse
if you end up 
with as much money 
as the richest man on earth. 

You’ll start to forget—
—forget about your fellow person,
and the one inside you. 

Your brain, once full of wisdom
and kindness,...

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Into Words by Kenny Davis

With the privilege of knowing you
I have been cursed with a curse
Because all that I feel for you
I find hard to put it into words

When I want to say something on...

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game of love
You were a treasure yet sold at a bargain's price.
You were not appreciated. Yet you stayed. 
 A disconnection called, but you hesitated, in the name of love.
 you knew it was fake....

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for the peace I hope to gain in the future there's a lot of Pain i need to remove from my past 
I used to be ashamed of my scars, but I'm now proud of...

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Don't count your days, make your days count for lost time is never again found.
If you want to see rainbows don't stare at the ground.

When everyone else walks out a friend will be first to...

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Angry shouts echo off of plaster walls,
Painting them sickening shades of despair.
She tries to block the noise out;
But nobody seems to care.
The words aren’t meant for her ears,
She is not the one who the barbs...

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Why should I repeat myself 
I made myself perfectly 
clear the first and last time 
what is this?
an express line
when it's convenient I'm needed 
but that's the deception behind it 
but as I continue to...

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words


Actions versus words
Actions speak louder
Louder is figurative
Louder is expressive
Figurative language is effective
Figurative does not truly speak
Effective is deeply important
Effective is walking the talk
Important lessons must be demonstrated
Important lessons show you don’t...

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