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Sitting In the Dark

As I'm sitting in the dark,
I'm wondering.
'bout what lies ahead of me,
'bout what I'll be doing 10 years from now.

As I'm sitting in the dark,
I'm laughing.
'bout all the good times with my friends,
'bout all the stupid things that I've done.

As I'm sitting in the dark,
I'm crying.
'bout my best friend leaving me,
'bout all these people dying.

As I'm sitting in the dark,
I'm writing.
'bout all of what I'm thinking,
'bout everything that's going on.

I'm sittin', thinkin' of my life and,
what has become of it and,
what it shall become.

I'm just sitting in the dark.

Copyright © Katherine Haskins | Year Posted 2007



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Why They Happen

Things don't just happen.
They happen just.

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Everything and More

Everything you are to me,
Even more than all the world,
You are all I've thought I'd never have.

But as I wait for you and think,
I know that this is real,
And my heart forever beats for you.

I will never let you fall,
always standing by your side,
For I'd never want to let you go.

Now that we have talked,
And know each other's heart,
Maybe now we can move on.

Copyright © Katherine Haskins | Year Posted 2007

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Leaving My Mark

Miss. Glanz's voice ringing in my ear,
Repeating over again saying,
25 cents going once, 25 cents going twice, sold for 25 cents.
Yes! I got it!
I'm happy about getting my tube of orange glue.

Trying to open my prize,
Wendy Wold helping me,
Me holding the tube of glue,
Her pulling on the top,
About three minutes go by and still working on the top.

Pop!
Off goes the top flying above Wendy's head,
Up wend half the container of that orange glue onto the ceiling,
The whole class bursting with laughter,
Miss. Glanze saying, "Shh, lets not tell anyone it's there."

Later on that year
Leaving my friends,
And all my wonderful memories,
But that one memory I remember most,
Is stuck on the ceiling of Room 12

After seven years away,
I open my treasure chest of memories,
Then smiling, thinking back on that day,
And how I made my mark.

Copyright © Katherine Haskins | Year Posted 2007

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Fighting Like Wolfs

For many years we've been at each other's throats
Like two wolfs fighting over leadership.
Yet neither one of us wins.
I've tried to let go and talk things over but it is no use.
You always seem to have a death grip on me.
You keep digging your fangs deeper,
And deeper without realizing,
Just how close to death I am.
I'm giving up on you, fighting back this time.
I'm not going to let you hold me down any longer.
You're the leader and supposivly,
You're wise and know what's best.
But you've been too blind from feary to see,
Just how much you're taring me apart.
Why can't we settle this like humans,
Rather than dogs?
Do you realize just how much I hate you right now?
The funny thing of all of it is,
How much I also still love you.
Your are my family,
My leader of the pack.
But I'm becoming my own leader now,
And it's your turn to lossen your grip.

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The Little One

The buzz running in your head seems to control your mind.  But what about me?  
The one with your blood flowing through its veins?  It should matter, but it 
doesn't’t.  Why don’t you care for the little one that depends on you?  Was she a 
mistake?  Was I too much of a burden for you?

For nine months it grew in you, using your nutrients, using your oxygen.  You even 
took the pain for it to take its first breath.  But as it grew older and made silly 
mistakes, so did you.

There were no lights.  There was no water.  There were things in my hair that I 
just couldn't’t itch away.  As for you, you didn't’t need to be itched away.  You did 
that on your own, leaving another kid to watch a baby as you had your fun and joy.

And when that awful night happened-yeah, I remember-you didn't’t know how to 
protect me.  As her little legs ran as far as they knew how, her little heart had just 
double clutched.  She is lost.

Now as that little one grows into a woman, she wanders back down that path 
and asks herself, why?  The little one had been found and brought to her king’s 
castle, filled with love, care, and joy.  But there’s still that hole waiting to be filled.  
And as that young woman is wondering, she also asks herself why couldn’t her 
old shack have been made into a castle, and why had her queen left the throne?

This older little one will always wonder, but she will find her way.  Her way around 
the world and finally be a queen someday herself.  No thanks to you, the only 
buzz in her mind will be the buzz of knowledge, faith, love, care, and happiness.

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Over Whelmed

Finally, everything in the open, 
My heart revealed to you and yours to mine.
But I did not realize until it was too late.
Many times you held me behind closed eyes,
And many of times we kissed.
But, those were only dreams,
They could not be real.
The one chance they could and I have ruined it.
I’m trapped in happiness with someone that makes me sad.
 You’re the one I want.
The one I’ve always wanted.
I don’t want to be curl and hatred to him.
I do find true happiness with him,
But, my true heart lies with you.
I cry because I love you so.
Oh, why did this have to happen this way?
You are my always, he is just for now.
Please know that when I speak of him I think of you more.
There are no words to tell you how much I love you so.
If I do get a taste of your love on my lips,
Know that it will be sweeter than those before.
I love you my Angel,
And one day, soon enough, I will fly with you.

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My Angel

Your face shinning like the sun,
Keeping my spirits flying,
Soaring higher and higher,
Taking me to a place I've come to know and love.
In this place I am joyful, peaceful.
I can always count on you to take me ther.
You know, it's almost a funny thing,
It doesn't take much to get me to flutter my wings anymore.
It's almost as if I'm always there now,
And who knows what will happen years from now.
But one thing I do know,
You'll still be here by my side flying with me.
The one thing I hope for,
Is that you'll always know,
Know that I'll be here when you need help keeping your spirits flying.
The one thing I don't know,
Is how I'll ever thank you.
You are my best friend, my angel.

Copyright © Katherine Haskins | Year Posted 2007

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One Question

You're every breath I take.  
And you're every thought I think.  
I take everything you are in everything I am.

I can't control my breathing.
And I can't control my thoughts.
It's because of you I sleep with a smile upon my lips.

I can't figure out this chaos you're causing in my head.
I don't think I want to.
I just want you and me to finally be as one.

The strength of your hugs.  
The smoothness of your skin.
Maybe someday I'll taste the sweetness of your kiss.

I know someone else has stolen your heart and the same has happened to me.
But, the deeper I breathe the more my heart beats for you.
Could the same possibly be happening to you?

I try to concentrate, but you flood my mind, forcing me to drain the image of you in 
order to get anything done.

Maybe this is a new begining to a new ending.  
A new begining to an ending that might brighten my future.

Do you think you could dare to try just once for me?
Open that warm, beating heart of yours to the love I'm willing to give?

Maybe if we put the past in the past  then our futures will finally come together.
We can learn from the past and always remember,
never forgetting the pain and agony those in the past have caused.
We can also learn to love again.
And with that, I'm willing and ready to try and open my heart to you.

Only one question linger among us...
       ~Are you willing and ready to do the same?

Copyright © Katherine Haskins | Year Posted 2007

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My Blessing

You were leaving and I didn't know what to do.  Many times you said that this was 
going to be the day, and many times it turned out not.  I almost didn't believe you.  
It was like a dream and at any moment I would wake up and still have you next to 
me.

Now that you are gone, I wish you back.  At first I didn't cry and then it hit me.  You 
were gone, and gone for good.  Would we talk again?  See each other again?  Or 
would this be when we would go our seperate ways?  Once it hit me I cried for 
days and nights, remembering all our memories we shared together.  I ended up 
crying so much I cried myself dry.

Here we are now, a little over a year since you left and we still talk, and we'll be 
seeing each other soon.  July to be exact.  Oh, how I long for that day to come.  
Will we always be in each other's lives?  Oh...I believe so.  I can't picture my life 
without you.  Remember?  You are my angel, my best friend, BFFE?

It's kind of funny how we've come all this way.  Me liking you, and you me, but both 
in denial.  Then me liking you, and then you liking me.  And now just friends.  
We'll always be that no matter what happens between us.  Do you think there 
ever will be more?  We talked about it once before.  Remember?  When  I was 
dating Jared?

Everytime I think of you, so many emotions happen all at once.  First I'm happy, 
and then I'm sad.  Then I'm wholesome, and then I'm lonesome.  You're the one 
that changes my bad days into my good days and my good days into my even 
better days.

I sometimes wonder where I stand with you, but I think I know.  Heck!  I guess I'm 
not all that bad if you've put up with me for three or four years.  And you know in 
that one poem I wrote, "...you are my bestest friend now, what a blessing I 
take.."?  Well, that's for sure.  You are a blessing to me and this blessing I shall 
surely take.

Copyright © Katherine Haskins | Year Posted 2007

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