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Best Poems Written by Jenna Barber

Below are the all-time best Jenna Barber poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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The Roughness of the Ocean

How my mind slips away
My words I can’t convey
My time is delayed
I try to meet myself halfway
The trees around me fall
The sounds not sweet at all
The leaves trickle off
That’s when I takeoff
I leave the scene behind me
I cross the deep sea
As I watch the debris
Fall all around me
I feel lost in this strange land
I just want to withstand
The hurricanes and storms
The pain that this forms
And hope that I transform
When the rain comes down to meet me
I blink clearly able to see
Changes guarantee
I’ll find life’s key
The hidden answer lies out there
I can’t find it anywhere
I search and search but life falls around me
I try to swim as I musee
The thoughts are not clear
From life I float in fear
That the debris will take me down
If the answer is not found
I call out to Mother Nature for help and guidance
She says there must be a balance
Of love of hate of fear of being brave
She says I must pave
The way for a new day
I must learn how to say not what to say
I must not be the cliche or disobey
For she watches everyday
I learned that all the debris hitting me
We’re lessons I learned to see
The roughness was for me to foresee
The beauty inside of me 
I am the one who holds the key

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Follow Me

Follow me into the cave
In the dark that we both crave
The echoes come back at us
Like haunting cries we mistrust
Follow me into the ocean
Where the water feeds our emotion
So we can show our devotion
Call my name and I will follow
Look at me and I will swallow
Like the heavy mountain air
I get breathless when you stare
Follow me and I will show you
The sky’s hues the different colors
show you all the watercolors
Bring them down, give them to you
each and every deepest blue
Let you sink into me
So you can feel my sincerity
I will follow you anywhere
Because I love the way you care
Twirl my fingers through your hair
In your mind I love to share
Words they follow us around
When you sing I love that sound
Like following the great Devine
For this feeling I can’t define
Follow me all of our days
Stumble over the words I try to say
I’ll show you all I portray
The hidden maze inside myself
The old dust that’s on my shelf
Just hold my hand and I will follow
Sit with me so I won’t feel hollow
I’ll send you a message this way
For the love I want to display
But these words I’m scared to say

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Alone You Are Small

Hollow caves sit in my chest 
I shed a tear but you tell me “give it a rest”
I swallow the lump that forms in my throat 
I look around I’m somewhere remote.

With you in the shadows I am not safe 
Shovel in hand you’re digging my grave 
I sit straight up blank stare on my face 
No breaking down I’ll do this with grace 

You circle and circle and spit pure poison
Words trickle out but I don’t let the noise in 
I’m stoic as ever and let out a grin 
You scream in my face as if I have sinned 
Do as I’m told, then I’ll be skinned 

Down to the bone to redesign 
A shell of myself, but I’ll say I’m fine 
It’s a loneliness I can’t define. 
Alone in a castle, chained to a wall 
I want to run but then I stall 
Look at my bruises your words I recall 
“No one will save you, alone you are small.”

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Otherside

A moment in time 
No words I’m a mime 
Look all around 
Stare at the ground 
My face how it sinks
Tired eyes slowly blink 
I look down at my hands 
The bruises demand 
To find another fix 
My mind how it conflicts 
I see the train coming now 
The impact I allow 
I don’t see a way out 
Sink in my doubt 
The tears on the faces 
My mind how it races 
All I let go 
Because I know 
The battle was lost 
A bridge I can’t cross 
My problems they cost 
Every way I exhaust 
I curl in a ball 
Sink against a dirty wall
I cry and I call 
A small sliver of hope 
A slippery slope
I feel so far gone 
But there’s always a dawn 
A new day for me 
A new way to be 
Fixing the broken 
Making words not unspoken 
Taking a leap 
Straight down it’s so deep 
I let go and I open my eyes 
Somehow I’m on the other side

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Light Is Here To Stay

I am an ember in the night 
Something dark but seems right 
I am moss upon the tree
Someone soft, beautiful, but inside me 
There’s both dark and light 
Sometimes one will take my sight 

When the darkness takes over 
I am rolling like a boulder 
Courageous, dangerous, everything upon my shoulder 
I let it go but I’m the holder 

When the light shines down on me 
I see the gold inside of me 
I seek it often but it leaves 
When it does I grieve and grieve 

I’ll climb a mountain to find the answers 
But then my will becomes a cancer 
When the light shows my path 
I yell out and show my wrath 

The darkness folds into its cage 
When it opens out comes rage 
Lately light has come to stay
Tells me let go of my ways 
Shows me the beauty around me 
So much light I finally see

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Show Us

I wallow and sit
My heart a pit
A seedless thing
What do you bring
Can you change
How life is strange?
Can you show
How life will go?
Will you free
Me from the hatred I see?
Will you bind
And change my mind?
These little glimpses
That good accomplishes
A broken heart
Tore me apart
Love healed me so
Till I let go
Will you show
Me how to glow
To be the best
Leave the rest
Take my hand
Help me withstand
The changing tides
Both sides
With no divide
Inside
Show us now
So we can allow
To let love in
And begin
To be the best
Let go of the rest

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Like Glue

I looked at you with endearment
You looked at me like an adolescent 
Star crossed lovers talk with eyes 
Life is a beautiful disguise.

When you move I move too 
When you breathe it’s like glue 
Something past and present too 
We move as one under the sun 
Move as dancers, not two, it’s one 

This conversation that we have 
Because you are my other halve 

Nothing is broken when your near 
I wait for you to disappear 
But every time you reappear

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Immanent Yet Transcendent

It is a feeling, vibrational healing 
Emotion revealing ,pain dealing, karmic concealing 
It is touch, to heal the crutch, that holds one back 
Their skin will crack, Open wide 
To see another side 

Vibration thickens. Love stricken. Body condition 

The heat wave sparks. A quick remark 
You look at me, then you see 

My touch of gold, they told me so 
I am the healer. Chakra feeler

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Reiki

It is a feeling, vibrational healing 
Emotion revealing ,pain dealing, karmic concealing 
It is touch, to heal the crutch, that holds one back 
Their skin will crack, Open wide 
To see another side 

Vibration thickens. Love stricken. Body condition 

The heat wave sparks. A quick remark 
You look at me, then you see 

My touch of gold, they told me so 
I am the healer. Chakra feeler

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Recurring Dream

Darkness cold and heavy 
Sweat droplets on my face 
Eyes darting back and forth 
South to north 
Up and down 
I frown 
I stand colliding with a wall 
My hands don’t work at all
I fall 
Hold my knees to chest 
My breathe does the rest 
My anxiety creeps up 
Goes down just to buildup 
I’m stuck 
The shadows creep around 
The room is so still with no sound 
I crawl on the ground 
My knees make a scratching sound 
My eyes search all around 
The shadows start to surround
They reach down 
I scream so loud it hurts my ears 
This is my biggest fear 
My eyes pop open suddenly 
I look around uncertainly 
It was a dream mistakenly 
I still breathe unevenly 
I grab my covers 
And as I recover 
The dream plays in my head 
Something I dread 
Like something I said 
But there is nothing here 
The monster is gone, disappear 
I shake off the fear 
Hold my covers over my chest 
and lay back down to rest.