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Should Know Better Poems - Poems about Should Know Better

Too Much
... I have always been too much. Too loud when silence was sacred, too soft when the world begged for steel. Too eager, too open, too full of something that spilled out in all the wrong places. ......

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Categories: should know better, bullying, hurt, writing,
Form: Free verse
Dreamer, Go After Your Wishes
...Loneliness is confinement rather that fear, a need to suppress reality; how dreadful is to live daily in a closed box without sunshine and air! Was there a constant voice whispering, " Go after ......

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Categories: should know better, anger, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Time and Distant
...Time and distance—speed and time—allow us to see the good in most people. I strive to recognize the goodness in others, even when hope seems endless. They bid for my love, and my boomerang-addicted h......

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Categories: should know better, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
Ides of March
... Named for the God of War but trickster is your nature. Each year you bring the prospect of spring. Yet your deceit hides that promise under your cloak of white. I should know better, but you unders......

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Categories: should know better, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Department Meeting
...As we did the month preceding This the next department meeting Time and time without a reason To be present or to listen For there’s nothing on the floor Beneath us different than before It......

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Categories: should know better, student, teacher,
Form: Rhyme



SILHOUETTE
...Somethings that are broken Can never be fixed If one breaks something Many times it is better It stays that way Secrets of the old Shadows of the past Buried by lips shut tight in death They ......

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Categories: should know better, africa, confusion, fear, writing,
Form: Free verse
Paranoia Fighting the Light
...in silence in to the deep dark night a voice arises from within you should : you should not you are doing things so wrong that little voice peak from nine to five so much going on so mu......

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Categories: should know better, confusion, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flagging
...Shook up shaking the bigot tree loose nuts crushing they them me crosses bashing crosshair fit I should know better but I just can’t quit.......

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Categories: should know better, angst, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They Are Trans
...Dapper Dorothy pushes the envelope to the edge of the canyon she should know better being from a small town in the Midwest Some of the meaner hicks say She is trans someone whispers What is th......

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Categories: should know better, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Captured Flowers Suffering
...And then the snow came whispering “Death to all fragile things in root!” Brute force aided by ice ages legacy Fall to the place where zeros go To war zeros plunge far below barometers March of......

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Categories: should know better, age, flower, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rhyme and Pun Ishment
...i would love to have the chance to ask the dog star are you Sirius? John Tirious won't tell people his daughter's name it's Miss Tirious if i were fuzzy wuzzy and lost all my hair ......

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Categories: should know better, humor,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Ice Covered Roads Get the Best of Us
...January has pocketed frosted dreams Firmly tucked away, hidden under her black ice Her treacherous blizzards torment the foolhardy Many driving too fast on her hills should know better In a hea......

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Categories: should know better, car, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Something Old, Something New
...People leave like seasons change Followed by grief and sadness Tears flow, a chaotic scene Reminding myself of the madness Wrenched away in the nick of time Loving this hard and this much Is ......

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Categories: should know better, change, loss, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Only One Cared
...The dilapidated chapel tolled its dirge. Inside an old woman lay in a coffin. No mourners came to pay their respects. So easily forgotten by those Who needed her most in days of old, All relat......

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Categories: should know better, celebration, sad,
Form: Verse
Could It Be True Or 2 Good 2 Be
...Could it possibly be real For once in my life Me my luck be in In the right place at the right time Or just another false dawn of hope 2 good 2 be true This is after all Me i am ......

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Categories: should know better, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

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