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Below are the all-time best Hannah Hockaday poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Fire Is Eternal

The wind whispered loudly,
Screaming through the trees

Every leaf emerald and alive,
The height of fertile spring

All the cattle lowing,
As the bright fire stronger burns

Maidens pale and glistening,
Thunder-round and turn

Wolfish warriors circle,
Blood thirsty for the chase

The willows moan in longing,
To rest before  blistering days

The stones stay true to silence,
Praying for summers break

And though through midnight a cold wind blows,
The fire eternal stays

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Seeing Her

I have been there, and seen her
The darkest parts of myself which hide in the caves of my soul

I have been elsewhere, and seen her too
The most joyous thought covered in dreams and filled with hope

I have been everywhere, and seen her
The deepest darkest yearnings of my heart

I have seen all of her, yet I am lost to her
The viscous gnashing of self consciousness

I have seen all of her, yet I am confused by her
The over gracious application of mercy

I have seen all of her, and I know her
The heart that overflows with empathy

I have seen her
I know her
I am her



15 lines of poetry
1/6/2023
Contest: ‘2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 24’
Sponsor: Mark Toney

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In Bloom

The sparrows praised the morning sun,
He hugged the forest in his warm- outreached arms
The sun cascaded and grazed his fingers through every crisp leaf,
Over every sleepy tenant- illuminating their curiosity for each other

And the breeze laughed- happy to be alive
She laughed as she ruffed every tree,
All now fully dressed
She cackled down from the clouds and into every burrow

The family of trees just stood by watching the neighborhood awaken
Cousins rubbing elbows- Fathers shading their sproutlings
Creaking in quiet protest to the construction worker woodpeckers
Just happy at the turn of the weather

And the early blooming lilies gossiped to themselves
About the underdressed daisies
And the breeze disturbing their groomed leaves
And how the sun was too hot so early

The sky watching them all rejoicing,
For she wasn't alone anymore,
Left with bleeding ears from the squirrels complaints of the cold
Landlord to to all she welcomed them back to her care
In bloom was it all, and all was in bloom


March 1, 2023
In bloom poetry contest
Joseph May

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You

It was you
From the first day of sixth grade
When I was scared and awkward and pimplily

It was you
The next two years 
Through braces and glasses and first my first period

It was you 
Freshman year when you stole all the girls hearts
But sometimes I wondered if you'd rather give yours to me instead

It was you 
The rest of high school when we only grew closer
But I finally blossomed and was a heartbreaker too

It was you
After graduation when when be both questioned it out loud
Even after you shattered my heart because you couldn't follow through

It's still you now
With your stupid flirty jokes
With the pain I burry deep down behind smiling eyes

It’s still you now
As your new girl friends keep coming
And my old boyfriends keep going

It’s still  you now
While I scream internally every second I’m with you
And the way I crave your touch far beyond a goodbye hug


It's always you
In between all the heart breaks
After one to many drinks when you lean in a little too close

It’s just you
And I can't let that go no matter how hard I try
And I don’t want to

Because it’s you

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I Died

The first day we met
The first time you touched me
The first time you made me cry
The first time you said you loved me

I died

And I die everytime you look into my eyes still
Because I've imagined what dying in your arms one night might be like
I know your deepest desires and I hope I might be a secret one

So from now until the last day with you, I die

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I Only Live To Love You

It seems we are at an impasse
That no matter what it has always been you-
And despite my futile affray it always will be

I don’t want to simply be in the background to you-
I want you to remember me dancing on your kitchen table-
And the way your arm felt around me while the band played to loud
But if all I could ever be to you is she and not her then I’ll take it

I’ll take all the times that I was the one you chose to call with tear filled eyes
And all the times my eyes were filled with tears because of you
I'll cherish the way you tell me you love me-
No matter the infinity for which you feel that way

Burned into my mind all the awkward double dates
The way you stared at me hopelessly and overstimulated
And I stared back-
While she stared at you staring at me 
But you never really seemed to see them like you do me

No matter the title given to the space between us
I only live to love you 
Because your more than just my sunshine or my rain
Or the object or all my desires or the bane of my existence
You have an unreleasable choke hold on me

And even if we never have that talk
Even if neither of us have the courage to say it out loud
You own my heart in a way that terrifies me
So I’ll go on down the trail you travel
And maybe one day you’ll admit you only live to love me too

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The Death of a Loved One

Rotting in the ground under my feet
The greatest love who made my heart beat
But her bodies dead six feet down 
And instead of my arms the worms have her now

Her soul though, I see in my dreams
A bright amethyst light among the galaxies
And I know but still pray that God has her now 
Because on my darkest day her aurora still surrounds

I grieved for her once a time ago
Quickly realizing that the grief was simply mine alone
Screaming for her memory, crying for her soul
She’s gone just gone no way to console

Sometimes I gasp when I realize she's not there
Chest heaving as I pull out my hair
And my deepest desire is to have her home with me
But sometimes I think home really is where she might be

So for now at dawn I’ll continue to cry
And pray that we'll meet again when my body too dies
For in my mind I paint her dancing down streets of gold
But until we reunite my sorrow will I hold

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Impossible

Believe,
After every single unfathomable action-
Every tear-
Every lie-
Every attempted gas light-
Every knife in my back.

In love,
When my heart is just dust blown away in the breeze-
When I can't even look at you without the urge for murder or suicide-
When I’m not sure I even think love exists anymore-
When I can’t really even tell what I look like now-
When your words are absolutely worthless.

Impossible.
Because your money is dirt and your time is gold-
And I’m filthy poor-
And I have no more sleepless nights to lose to you-
And I don’t think anyone deserves to be trusted you least of all-
And I can not comprehend ever giving anyone that power over me again.



4/12/2023

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Screams

Bitter and corrosive
Not like lemon juice-or vinegar
Like battery acid

Consumptive
Skin falling off bone
Glass house dreams crunching under haste

Consuming 
Bone evaporating  to ash
Notions of forever lost on the wind 

Anger and dread
All encompassing 
Screams trapped in lungs

Torment
Because they never loved you after all 
And maybe- just maybe
No one is capable of loving you the way you love
And your sentenced to a life of loneliness

And it's like drowning, and burning, and falling-
And suffocating and imploding
And it just is and isn't,
A burning question-
Probably better unanswered

But you ask it anyway
And the thoughts and emotions do summersaults-
And have fists fights in your mind
Scratching at the steel bars on your brain trying to get out
But if they escaped you wouldn't have anything to keep you up at night

Salty and sour 
Not like tears dripping in your mouth
Like a fist full of dead sea salt

Fragile
A heart that couldn't break any longer 
Just a pile of dust

Gone
Giving yourself to the darkness
The skeletons sitting in the living room instead of hidden in the closet

Heart ache 
All encompassing 
Screams trapped in lungs

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If I Were Your Love

Our fingers would endlessly be intertwined
My favorite sensation would be your breath on the back of my neck
That is if I was your love
But you are wrapped around her little finger
And when you breath fans me my blood runs cold

I would be breath taken by you beauty as nothing earthly compares
Sleeping softly as I knew you would dance across my dreams
That is if I was your love
But your not my beauty to behold 
And my dreams of you are haunting

I would memorize every inch of your skin
Happiness only awarded by being by your side
That is if I was your love
But I’m tormented in wanting to know the unknown of you
And your welcomes burn me

Oh if I was your love