My heart is full of pain
Because I made you cry
I promised I never would
That turned out to be a lie
I'm grateful I couldn't see you
Or the pain on your face
I'll count that as a blessing
That God showed me grace
Everything I said just worsened
And I could feel my heart breaking
Now you are having doubts about
The path this marriage is taking
I knew those words would hurt you
They never should have left my head
I'd give anything I could to take back
Each and every word that I said
Those words, they were like venom
Into the phone, then your heart
The only thing that they accomplished
Was tearing this marriage apart
Will this love that we share
Ever again feel the same way?
Will you trust me with your heart
The same as you did before today?
Categories:
worsened, break up, divorce, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
The old concoction, over a century ago since it was first brewed. It transformed a man into a blood-thirsty wolf-beast. Killed those that it hunted, and haunted by killers, like that of Bruce Willis. The melee ritual continued bestilled, assisted by the moneyless workers who buried his victims in overnight cemeteries. Before the turn of the century, he has begotten an heir sharing the sinister trait. The continuity worsened as a few bitten, also carried the wolf trait. One affected Daddy Dearest and the calamity befelled his family. An overly protective mother shields her crying daughter. The daughter asks her, "What's wrong with daddy?" She tells her that her daddy is infected because he was bitten by a wild beast. So for a long while they are living in fear of constant exterior attacks by Daddy the Wolfman. In the final carnage they both died. She willed her daughter's care with a family member. He hears her laughing heartedly downstairs. He stops mid-flight and sees the girl twirling and being spun around in the air. He smiles with a tear of joy.
Categories:
worsened, animal, horror,
Form: Narrative
An email came from our hotel –
We’ve scratched your reservation.
We weren’t that surprised and took
The news with resignation.
The hurricane wreaked havoc there
And with the loss of power,
The chance of new accommodations
Worsened by the hour.
The canceling of flights came next,
A challenge while you’re driving,
But after much frustration,
Credits soon will be arriving.
We’ll unreserve the rental car
And once we get that cracking,
The only thing remaining is
Unfolding and unpacking.
Categories:
worsened, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Healed heart can still bleed
A little bit of peace is all it needs
The storm of pain which crossed the heart,
The torture which hit it hard,
The unknown torment which ruled it,
The ache which worsened it day by day,
has engraved the mark,the proof in the heart-
The scratches and wounds proves it all ;
Yes, healed heart can still bleed!
Healed heart can still bleed !
Some drops of gentle rain is all it need
To wash away those stains of blood.
The heart says - "Ah! Its hurts."
As it's too much to bear for oneself,
It's now time for the heart to restart itself.
Time passes, but the memories remains;
Good memories gives the heart peace,
Bad memories makes the heart bleed.
The only witness of our life is our heart and eye
when they bleed, we bleed too
Who shall stop this bleeding? - No one, but the heart itself;
All the scars heals gradually with time...
Oh! does it really heals? Or does it not?
but when those memories like bad omen hits hard,
Healed heart can still bleed !
Categories:
worsened, anxiety, break up, emotions,
Form: Blank verse
Living in the reservation
Must have been habitual
Colonization – segregation
This is so spiritual
I can’t bear this anymore
Yet I have to carry on
Doing things I did before
In the years long gone
But it’s not the same, it has
Worsened over measure
Set a picnic on the grass
Try some thoughtless pleasure
Read some poetry, accept
Someone’s deep insights
Anyway, I shall forget
Their spiritual heights
When the sun goes down, I go
To my secret place
There’s no secret in it, though
Just an old man’s face.
Categories:
worsened, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Pain pierces, like switch blades, within, I bleed,
Howls of dry weary lands, in mind, I heed;
Heart, haunted, endlessly hustles-bustles,
Sleep so sleepless; fright in fearful puzzles;
Love; its loss; its longing; long languishing,
My chalice is bitter; peace-vanishing...
I hate; yet, her face blows glows everywhere,
Like fallen angel; grayish grave mirror;
Broken into thousand cubes; she in each,
Smiling, laughing; crying; with breach and bleach;
Taunting, tearing, teasing abundantly,
Pain of this bitter chalice sores bluntly...
It's not like Jesus Christ choosing his cross,
Nor like Sisyphus with boulder did toss;
It’s a battle between me and my self,
Worsened with her entry, like tight-locked shelf;
Leave me, cheat, who, now, in another's hug,
I'll drink this cup; die in the grave I've dug...
24 January 2022
The Chalice of Night Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Chantelle Anne Cooke
Categories:
worsened, loneliness, longing, loss, lost
Form: Rhyme
CONFINED
round and round it goes
looking for an entrance
goldfish
STUD
mare on heat
retired racehorse
not interested
JANUARY
a new beginning
as cold as it can be
thick sweaters
SHOCK
positive scarlet
negative chocolate
electrocution
LIFE
troubled living
in sickness not in health
worse disease worsened cure
Categories:
worsened, life,
Form: Haiku
The Prisoner
(My Friend B.W.)
Written: by Miracle Man
1/2/2022
He never envisioned, life being that way,
Often he wondered how much more he could take.
Progressively it worsened each passing day,
he had lost his will to fight- about to break.
I once viewed this man among “the tough old birds,”
but today I say that’s no longer the case.
Stress had rendered those to be flattering words,
he’s just about ready to give up the chase.
It doesn’t always take bars
to make a man a prison.
Tom
Categories:
worsened, anxiety, death of a
Form: Lyric
The first smile, the perfection of a fantasy,
Conversation appears out of thin air, laughs endlessly fill the room,
The loneliest parts, the scars, the heartbreak, all fading away;
But are these feelings Forever?
The first ‘I love you,’ a time stopping connection,
The whisper of the tree, the flowing of the water,
Eyes set on each other, hearts racing, adoring smiles;
But maybe this can be Forever?
The first dance, the love, and safety of the stars,
Fingers laced together, two lost souls finally intertwined,
Clumsy, little stumbles, turns, and steps,
The comfort and warmth of a fairy tale;
But can’t this dance last Forever?
The first flinch, betrayal and violence ruining the memories,
Faces red, holes in walls, opposite sides shine through,
One mistake made into an epiphany of a sea of flaws,
Yells echo, tears burn, voices strain, scars reopen;
But should I still want this Forever?
The last hug, memories from their past filling her mind,
The lies, the sorrow, the agony,
It wasn’t worth the love, the trust, the time she gave him,
The walls of her heart burned to a crisp, the scars in her worsened;
I hope this doesn’t last Forever…
Categories:
worsened, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Steeple lit by lightning loud
Moon that's full peeks round a cloud
Trudging through the churchyard mud
Unwise shortcut: THUD, THUD, THUD!
The sound is muted ’neath my feet
No one there I wish to meet
Sodden hair and soaked to skin
Contemplate my every sin
Thunder, lightning, crackling air
Time to hightail out of there
Prickling skin: can’t hang around
Portentous skies and groaning ground
Slipping sliding progress thwarted
Planned escape at once aborted
Through the storm the church bells chime
Shadowed figure… asks the time
Where he came from I don’t know
Neither did I see him go
Stood alone in worsened shower
Still his voice enquires the hour
Flight, not fight my first reaction
Once my feet acquired traction
Reached the exit P.D.Q.
Asked the time by who knows who
Homeward through the icy rain
Darkness asks the time again
Local paper on the mat
Front page headline tells us that
Town remembers Howard Peak,
Funeral was held this week
Police have found no weapon nor
The watch that he was murdered for
Categories:
worsened, grave, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
**Since August 20th, our Goo had fallen sick,
And just starting Kindergarten, not long after her very first day.
First a sore throat, then testing positive for covid, now this "Croupe" cough, will not go away.
**But praise God, she finally started her steroid med,
On the road to recovery, getting back to herself once more.
I can't believe it's so contagious or I'd be holding her close instead,
I was certain she had it though, because she had previously caught it before.
**Though I couldn't help but notice that it worsened more at night,
I'm sure for her it was impossible, to try to get any amount of rest.
I have a feeling this medicine will help her finally be alright,
Neither could I imagine the pain that's been pulsating throughout her chest.
**So I'm glad I kept watch over our poor little Goo,
I just feel so horrible, my words cannot explain.
I didn't care if I lost sleep, I did what any loving parent would do,
For no one wants to see their child, suffer through so much pain.
Categories:
worsened, child, mother daughter, my
Form: Rhyme
The world unknowing, worsened when
In silence sits the poet's pen
What worth have words unwritten then
While fury fills the minds of men
8/30/21
Bite Size Poem No19 Poetry Contest
Categories:
worsened, poems, poetry, writing,
Form: Monorhyme
I like me better, when......
When I accept myself, fully as a poet.
Not hunting madly on my sparse comments shelf to know it.
I am a way older, lady than most of you.
You are young enough, to be my children, too.
I feel my great ideas are from the an outstanding, wildXXX past.
Now, I am slow as a turtle, so please understand, I cannot
comment to as many as I would like to, fast!
Typos are my specialty!I am not perfect.
Soup mail me these funky errors, please?
Do not embarass me or anyone in public post.
My vision worsened over 2 years here plus.
But not ready for the Retired Poets Bus,
Tom Cunnigham..forever telling me to go to bed))))
I have written so much poetry, I lost my head.
No, not one or two liners!
Will keep penning till God takes me home
To live in His golden poets palace, never more to roam.
Love, Pangie
Categories:
worsened, age, feelings, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Waste has worsened widespread.
World's oceans polluted.
Wonder throwaway mind
Wadded to poor beings
Wreckage of planes and trains
Wastage slash-and-burn seas
Worldbank work tackle trash
2nd place in the W Pleiades contest
Written: May 9, 2021
Pleiades W Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Merryman
Categories:
worsened, abuse, analogy, conflict, discrimination,
Form: Verse
In all the years I've had my stammer
no Doctor I've had has been as kind
as my present GP to truly understand
the needs I have help calm my mind
During one of my early appointments
he asked me what he do when I block
no Doctors had ever asked that before
felt real connection so easier to talk
Since then have felt real release
when I've had appointment to go and see
this GP, he so much made me at ease
even when cancer diagnosed felt so free
When stammer worsened after during treatment
he suggested therapy even though I not keen
so after persuasion I decided to have it
which initially at least progress was seen
Even in early days of Covid I had a cough
so got phone appointment for Dr to call
again felt at ease to speak with him
usually hate phone, speech no good at all
Such blessing to receive kindness
with understanding along the way
brings a peace deep inside
so tomorrow can be a better day!
(This is written to illuminate an experience I went through that showed me the kindness and compassion and warmth of my local GP.)
Categories:
worsened, health, spoken word, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
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