Feelings Personification Poems

There’s an old barn down the road from our house. It’s bent and bowed and one windy day away from completely succumbing to its aged...

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All your body's limbs
   obey your brain's commands
But the closest thing to YOU you've got
   are the fingers on your hands

You...

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Books, breaking their hearts,
face down and forgotten,
cast aside for the latest iphone....

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I reek havoc on my unsuspecting hosts
hitch a ride on the good cells, then fight 
start all sorts of insufferable symptoms 
watch them cough and...

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Let me be me
And share what I feel,
Let me be me
And know what I need…
Let me be angry
Let me grieve,
The pain is intense
Let me heave…
Let...

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I can't wait for the sun to set, but it's taking its sweet old time!
My master takes me hunting for raccoons after dark,
and I’m anxious...

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I am a lonely milkweed pod
No one is here to see my prettiness
No child has taken me to school
My seeds are almost ready to fly...

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Like a frowsy, dowdy
old housewife
I sit largely
unnoticed
stout and squat
a sort of kitchen sentry
rarely appreciated
until some minor crisis-

Cough, sniffle, stomachache
a particularly bad day
or fancy party...
then things...

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The pleasures of the night I crave at dawn,
as your sight steals the beauty of first light.
That lava shine infests my mind and brawn,
while scents...

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Your always there no matter what i do
It feels like i can never escape you
Your like a thorn in my side a sharp stabbing pain
Im...

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One last tear leaped from her eye-- in heroic slow-mo -- 
hesitant to dive down to the vast unknown... far below.

Long he had clung fast...

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Harland had had enough
Twenty-three years of racing
Twelve years of giving children rides on his back.
Today his master said there would be no more rides.
They were...

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A heart that speaks fluently
feelings sing aloquently
love 
love
becomes a hymn
eyes shaped like identical twins
the heart knows the melody
dancing
dancing
like a dove on its birthday:
coo
coo
loves vibration
it's a...

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Inlove,
I see not;
I need spectactles
because love veils it all
I'm unable to see
nor foresee
hail:
it's so dark
dark, I see no light 
love's shadow covers
this love is just...

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I see them clearly, although they try to remain hidden.
They laugh, and talk, flirting with each other.
Why can they not see I would like some...

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I wish that nightmares only happened in dreams
Or lives that were so tightly joined together, didn't burst at the seams
I wish that I could find...

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I'm always going to fight for what's right 
I'm always going to say how I feel 
I'm always going to choose to be kind 
...

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A man named Misery might call on you
when you are at your worst. He’ll quickly come
that minute that he hears you’re feeling blue.
The food he...

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Another word flashes in my mind
Another slash in this heart of mine
They say all good things come to an end
They don't tell you that you...

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Nightmares of the potential I wasted haunt me at night.
Repeats of the old me cut deeper than a sword.
And when I ask for help, I...

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