Placeholder Poems - Poems about Placeholder

I’m not the girl You fall hopelessly, Madly, irrevocably In love with. I’m the girl Who holds her place. You won’t fall In love with me At first sight. You won’t get That meet cute, The one you’ll have With her. I’m the girl You have to be Friends with. I’m the one You think you love; The one you Want to be true Because I’m too good For you...

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Placeholder By Michelle Morris 07/04/2023 Did you ever feel like a placeholder In someone else's story? That you were expedient And not worthy of true effort? It can be disheartening When you are used in love It can cause trauma But you can still be whole Put yourself first In a kind and decent way Know your limitations And create boundaries that stay Life is for the living Your best authentic...

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Testing this site, to learn how the poem appears, I hope the result will assuage my fears....

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lightning struck and a sparrow fell into the nurturing arms of the great oak the branches grew and grew and it built a home. and eighteen years of fair weather blessed the bond built in the roots so deep, so strong in every vesicle, a memory. but one fowl storm and the branches gave way to drop the sparrow in its sleep. trust is earned but life is...

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for Hidipo Hamutenya 1939-2016 At the end of this hard road Spider webs adorn the graveyards Of all those who reach freedom By intellectual decree. The tears of the fallen Are not anywhere to be found, In the eyes of the surviving. You lay in the casket displayed on thorns With the nation's cosmetics painted on, And exile sounds and exile thoughts Were banished from you by...

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