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Best Poems Written by Lacey Petty

Below are the all-time best Lacey Petty poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Cupid Doesn'T Care

Remembering that Valentine’s
Is just an off kilter lie
And love is cruel and hateful
A salted drink splashed in your eye

Perhaps you will live your life
For no one else’s fame 
Clutching for no other’s gaze
Far ways from the game

But no, you want to fall in love
Just like all the rest
Through warning friends will say to you
Alone is for the best

Gods look down and laugh at us
Like a sitcom, only real
And so they grin and snicker
And let their laugher out in peels

Hope is all we try to keep
When love just isn’t fair
There’s just no help for us you see
‘Cause Cupid doesn’t care

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Dream You'Ll Never Mention

Tell me
Have you ever had a dream
A dream where your own blood fell upon blue roses
And you fell through the ground as petals floated on the wind
Tangling in your hair
Red and blue rotting jewels 
The thick smell of old blood at the bottom of your own well
A dream where your heart felt the impact before the rest of you
And stopped for just a moment
Cold in your chest with the realization of death
And woke up
And then you cried
It didn’t change your life or the way you acted
It did not make you stop your closed door ritual 
Or throw your kit away
It scared you so bad, and yet
You never told another soul about your dream
Or what lies just beneath you tattered sleeves and ragged jeans
You want and do not want to be saved, for someone to know
Tell me
Have you ever lived a nightmare
You didn’t know how to escape?

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Respect Our Good Neighbors

I saw a light on the side of the road
Shining like a star in the dirt
Dusty diamonds in the rough
Cosmic talcum in the night
Fey child
Old little Good Neighbor lost to this time
Will-o-the-wisp in the gravel
She backed into the grass as I walked up
Wings to the wall, one might say
With a fallen whimpering mew
A secretive look fell into my eyes
And I left sugar-water and milk by the road.

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Magic

It is a mirage
It can not be real, you see
But it’s on the wind

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The Wild Girls

Under the moon light we dance, complete
We, the chaotic, who seldom sleep,

Sauntering strangely the way between,
Compelled by only our wildest dreams,

The wind is whipping through my hair,
Reminding me that I wish you were there, 

But I keep on dancing with the dream brood,
Partaking of the sweetest elaisian food,

But, though we are so wild and free,
I find myself missing a part of me,

You remain home, as I walk this line,
And I now return to find you’re still mine.

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Elephant-Girl

Suddenly,
Heartbeat trumpeting in my throat,
Her presence,
It does that to me, sometimes,
I force myself to
To neutrality, absurdity, mask,
We talk,
I remain, the elephant in the room,
I talk,
No one mentions that I am the elephant in the room,
I remain,
Iron cored neutrality,
Masked girl,
Forever masquerade,
Questions set me grasping for straws at the end,
Each day,
Best friends, always,
My heart still beating in its cage.

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Wicked Heart

Wicked beat
She’s all the light in my foggy mornings
My day is never complete
Without a gleeful embrace and those over-dyed ringlets
She is sunshine wrapped in black and camo
And I am lost
What am I to do with this wicked heart of mine
To feel these things and be so unseen
She just fell into my life
With interests and opinions alike to mine
And eyes the will never fall upon me
But I shall follow always
With a tray of cookies and a bag full of books
And a wicked, wicked heart
A cruel and masochistic heart
A wicked, wicked heart
Full of love

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Breathe In Two Voices

Help me to breathe
When the heat pulls me down
Help me to breathe
When no hope can be found
Help me to breathe
Force a new breath down my throat
Help me to breathe
You are my only hope

When my voice is iced up solid
And the whole world is gone
And all the faith you put in me
Seems to be undone
When I’m suffocating under
All the things I’ve done
Help me to breathe
Help me to breathe
Help me to breathe so I can run


I’ll help you breathe
When you’re burning up again
I’ll help you breathe
When you’re broken on the ground
I’ll help you breathe
Drawn miasma from your throat
I’ll help you breathe
When you think you’ve lost all hope

When you’re quite and so cold
And all the people disappear
When you try to push me away
Because you’re over come with fear
When the pain comes back to haunt you
And your heart comes undone
I’ll help you breathe
I’ll help you breathe
I’ll help you breathe so you can run

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Bad Luck Birds

A blood-red owl and a pale white raven
Sit on my shoulder all through the night
The sun rises and they won’t let me be
The day, what now, I thought they’d leave with the light

Plague my mind 

Ever and for still the night

Yet I dye easy as hearts always fall

Falling farther and I can’t make this right.

Little deaths are breaking me down
It’s killing me inside so I can’t hear the sound
Of her eyes calling me away 
There’s nothing left to say, I can’t keep you around,

Toes curl at the owl’s screech in the night

The sun setting and I turn away

I can’t stand the sight

I just lost another day.

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Jury-Rigged

My heart doesn’t beat like yours any more
It’s held together with duct tape and string
Balloons pump my blood and gears turn the beat
Paper clips hold everything in place
I’ve noticed no one notices
Though I’m patched and stitched in places
And the seams stretch and pull and tear
They still feel open half the time
You see, I still work just fine
My limbs, they move, my mind, it thinks
Yes function over form, I still work just fine
Though the buzzing noise in a bit odd
And the paper clips often bend and break
Many pieces ought to be replaced
But I just can’t afford it now
Good hearts cost much more than what I make
And like I said, it works just fine
Most of the time, when the bits don’t break