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Apr 2014 · 1.3k
Option
Bad mood? Feel guilty?
Be like Christ, righteous anger
Start flipping tables.
Apr 2014 · 449
Michael Barnes
Apr 2014 · 634
True
If dreams still came true
Or maybe they do
Or they won't
Or can't

But if they came true
For me, for you

What kind of people
would we be?
Blessed, rich,
happy?

Would we
count the
days we
had
Or would we
number
times we'd
had?

Would we learn life lessons
Or would we think
That we could build a Titanic
Built not to sink?

Who would I be
Tell me
Who
If all my dreams
All
came true?
Apr 2014 · 504
Sadness
Sadness is when
You see someone beautiful
But they don't see it
They hate the body God made
They run from themselves.

Sadness is when
The world is full of beauty
But they don't notice
The earth is singing God's praise
And only the earth.

Sadness is when
I try to be someone good
With my own niceness
But I don't depend on God
To help me, and fail.

Sadness is when
I try to impress others
By the way I dress
Or by the makeup I hate
When they love me now.

Peace, it is when
I want to tell of heaven
But I have not words
They only scratch the surface
And I'm unworthy.
Apr 2014 · 13.2k
Heartbreak
Excuse me sir, but
"Heartbreak" isn't metaphor
It's physical pain.
Apr 2014 · 1.8k
Icicle
Fear an icicle
Love a swiftly beating heart
Frost spread in my chest.
Apr 2014 · 1.0k
Hot and Cold
Why is it that my hands are hot
And my feet are freezing cold?
Could it be that a fleeting heart
Would be hesitant instead of bold?
Apr 2014 · 3.7k
“Friends”
They meet me in a few hours
And call us best friends right away
Excuse me, but I really thought
It took months, and not just a day.
You think you know me, but you don't.
Apr 2014 · 7.8k
Scared
He scared her badly
And the way she looked at him
Was never the same.
Apr 2014 · 23.0k
Blue
Why is the sky blue
When the earth is brown and grey
And black and so dark?
Apr 2014 · 5.3k
Wounds
I wanted to sing
So badly, but it only
Opened my closed wounds.
Apr 2014 · 1.2k
Impossible
Made me want to scream
When I knew I wanted it
The impossible.
It made me want to scream,
The way I /knew/ that it was what I had wanted for /all these long months/
But it was impossible to achieve.

Not anymore. >:)
Apr 2014 · 653
Philippians 1:3,4
Every time I pray
For you, I thank God so much
For our strong friendship.
3 Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God. 4 Whenever I pray, I make my requests for all of you with joy.
Apr 2014 · 1.2k
Released
It's out, it's out,
It's finally out!
The song that I've been waiting for;

Owl City
Lets me download for free
But I'm on my iPod, so I have to wait for the morn.
Apr 2014 · 3.5k
Stuck
Song, you are so stuck
In my head, that I wish you
Were stuck in theirs, too.
Apr 2014 · 647
Out
Out
Last night I stayed up,
Thinking I'd be fine today:
I was out of it.
Apr 2014 · 693
Wonder
With almost exactly the same number
Of followers and haikus,
I wonder if I'll reach 1000 hearts,
60 followers, and 250 poems at the same time.
I'm not superstitious xD but I would be if I didn't know the truth. :) It's fun to imagine things all happening at once, especially with numbers. >:D
Apr 2014 · 1.8k
Visit
I used to daydream
That you had a TARDIS, and
You could really come.
Apr 2014 · 1.7k
Circles
Tired
I can't explain it any other way
Not sure what's going on around me
I'm in a cloud today

Frustrated
That's what I am
I can't seem to do anything right
And I don't like where I stand

Deceptively calm
That's how I seem
But if you pushed me too far
I might start to act mean

Angry at myself
That's all I'll ever be
Nothing that I feel inside
Can affect anyone but me.

Exhausted
My raging emotions do this
I just can't see why I run
When it's for peace I truly wish

Tired
I'm back where I began
I'm sick of trying to do it all right
So from my knees I will stand.
Apr 2014 · 750
But No »not a poem«
This may not rhyme  
But look closer, maybe      
You will see that the shape            
Intertwines around
And adds shape you never saw                    
Perhaps it is centered on the right                        
And perhaps it's really on the left                        
You don't really care, just like                              
You shouldn't care what I say                              
Early in the morning before I think                      
Very well about anything      
  I think it's a better idea    
To wait until after lunch    
When I can think well
Or, at least, better than  
Very, very early in the morn.          
Be confused.  Be very confused.      
I wish I could play piano better.      
               But the four or five pieces that I used to know
Are difficult to remember sometimes
             Especially when I don't have the sheet music
                         And I just wish I was better than I am.
                           Lines wrap around the crafted words
                                             And I wonder if I'm crazy
                                                 But I obviously am not
                      Because crazy people don't feel like this
                                 If I was crazy, would you know?
                                                           Would you care?
                                                           ­               The degradation of a soul
                                          Slowly
           ­                                                          My Ctrl key gets stuck
                            Maybe that's my problem in life, do you think?
              I thought it would be easier, but it's not
                         I really thought I'd know better once I arrived
                  But it feels like I've never been here before
               Maybe the times before were not as bad
        And the 'experience' I thought I had
Isn't doing me any good at all.
It's getting better though, you know          
And maybe it would have started being easier                            
A long time ago, if I had been polite          
And sensible in the way I treated you            
As it is, all I've done today is rant    
And I'm not sure if it has anything to do                
With you.                                                             ­     
      

But no.
Apr 2014 · 1.9k
Weapons
If I had lived in
Medieval times, I'd be one
Who carried a sword.
Weapons just feel cool.  I'd never use it, except to look cool.  And threaten people jokingly xD
Apr 2014 · 337
What If? »not a poem«
Horace Mann in my history class
Lived from 1796 to 1859

He was born three hundred years before me
And lived to be sixty-three

What if I died in 2059?
I don't want to die that soon.

I won't even get to see the year 2100!
I've never thought of that before.

I'd have to live to one-hundred and four
And that is highly improbable.

So maybe I'll live to 2076
That's if I get to be eighty

But even then...what if it comes
What if I'm dying, and I have regrets?

What if I'm eighty years old
And I'm lying there thinking

And wishing I had witnessed to those kids in highschool
Wishing I'd taken advantage of having grown up overseas

What if I'm lying there wishing
That I had more time

Wishing I didn't have to go
Feeling like I'm not ready yet?

I don't want that to happen!!
I don't want to die with regrets!!

No!! I still have 63 years
Until I'm eighty, that's enough, isn't it?

But.....that's only assuming
That I'll die of old age

What if I got cancer
Or what if there was a school shooting

Or what if another country set off nukes
Or what if I was on a plane and the plane crashed

What if I died before I got married?
What if I died before I got my love life straightened out?

What if I died without forgiving people
What if I died without forgiving myself?

What if I died without telling my parents
How much I appreciated and loved them?

What if I died without ever finishing a story?
I'd never be a famous (but dead) author.

What if no one remembered me,
Or missed me, or thought of things I'd done?

What if I never did anything worthy of remembrance?
What if it took me before I was ready?

What if
             I died
                      *tomorrow?
Apr 2014 · 2.8k
Understand
I can't understand
Why people don't like the things
That God made special.
Something I hold onto
To help me let it go
Something that changes
To keep the status quo

Fuzzy lines and pointed questions
They get the worst of me
Maybe to forget what I remember
I need the memory

Color drains and drips from your face
Skies turn to grey and say “I’m sorry”
And as the rain falls it’s a sure thing
The lightning overhead lights up around me

Knees bent and face to the ground
What was I running from?
Don’t need to understand to believe
What else to do when He says “Come”?

Don’t hold your breath
Expectations always fail
What we thought we knew
Was anything but true in the end of the tale

We’re all searching for life
When it’s right here in Him
So many miss the mark
When it’s right there; it’s Him

Answers need questioning
We solved the mysteries before 
Before the world opened wider 
Afraid to step through the door

The things that are easiest to say
Are hardest to do
The things we do so easily
Are hardest to say.
Blast from the past, emotional rant
January 26, 2013
Apr 2014 · 1.1k
Demise
You were a roped noose
I was a heart-shaped dagger
We were our demise.
Apr 2014 · 404
Nine
If crush is a pumpkin pie
Then I'm just taking a tiny bite
Against my will, and it tastes sour.

If love is an ocean's eye
Then I've lived in a desert dry
With mirages I believed.

If truth is the color of the sky
Then I'm green asking why
My yellow is fading away.
Apr 2014 · 7.4k
Die
Die
Sometimes I feel like
Every time, I die; but it
Makes me more alive.
Apr 2014 · 682
57/224=25.4%
I found out just now
One fourth of my poems here
Are all haikus. Cool.
Apr 2014 · 2.7k
Clarity
Dark, but suddenly
The moment your eyes open
New clarity sparks.
Apr 2014 · 763
Charge Cord
There seems to be a shortage
Of iPod charge cords at my house.

I'm pretty sure we have four,
But one's in the car,
       one's in my room,
        one's in the kitchen,
         one's in my brother's room.
Couldn't there be just one more?
I need one for the office. xP
Apr 2014 · 26.9k
Popcorn & Coffee
A little coffee
And a whole lot of popcorn
Makes homework better.
Apr 2014 · 2.4k
Pockets
I really wish that
You had sewn in pockets. Why?
'Cause I love pockets!
Apr 2014 · 531
Shone
Moon was bright that night
Stars shone and wheeled over us
How could we go wrong?
Apr 2014 · 1.1k
Stop
Oh, I gotta stop
Because feelings can get strong
And that would be bad.
Apr 2014 · 10.0k
Seashore
I feel like I'm walking on the seashore
Some ground firm, some not anymore

Reality's clear when I don't think of you
But when my mind slips, I lose that good view.

It seems that I wallow in sand to my knees
When all I am doing is aiming to please

But when I look to what God asks
It's easier than struggling to fulfill my own tasks.

I feel like I'm walking on the seashore
And a lot of what fazed me can't anymore.
Apr 2014 · 5.3k
Control
Uncontrollable
Is how I describe feelings
But not my actions.
Apr 2014 · 2.2k
Ow
Ow
Got soap in my eyes
Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow
It really hurts! Ow!
Apr 2014 · 365
Twelve
Twelve hours of sleep 
Feels exquisitely lovely 
When I can get it.
Apr 2014 · 24.5k
Laugh
It was just perfect
And then you laughed at her joke
It was beautiful.
Apr 2014 · 963
Uncertainty
It just makes me sick
Inside where no words will come
And nothing makes sense.
Apr 2014 · 8.2k
Afraid
I'm afraid of you
Because I shouldn't, and then
Because you want me to.
Apr 2014 · 8.8k
Wind
The wind blows on the prairie
The wind blows on the moor
The wind blows in the ferry
None compare to your speech before.
Apr 2014 · 8.0k
Regret
I'm just kind of filled
With regret, every time
I think about you.
Apr 2014 · 756
Sheer
I'm not really sure
What you expect me to do
With this, but wow. Wow.
I want someone who can laugh at himself
I want someone who can be shy about being cute
I want someone who has been waiting for me, and honestly keeping himself only mine

I want someone who can stand up for what's right and stand up! stand up for Jesus!
I want someone who can sing and play 
I want someone whose heart is as musically intertwined as mine is

I want someone that's absolutely crazy
I want someone so crazy that I can love him to death and it won't drive him nuts
I want someone who is prepared for life and knows where his path is headed

I want someone with confidence
I want someone who wouldn't ever make me feel uncomfortable 
I want someone with compassion and passion and with the past behind him

I want someone who could ****** his nose just by stepping on a pencil but who can be tough as steel about ripping off bandaids
I want someone who could be that one dad that all the other kids wish was their dad because he's so much fun
I want someone that isn't looking for me at this age
I want someone who can wait if I need him to

I want someone who wears black when he's depressed
               white when he's fine
                                and green when he feels epic

I want someone who can pray hard when he needs something
I want someone who can be serious when he needs to be
I want someone who wants this as much as me.
Apr 2014 · 11.4k
Mistakes
I almost died, and
Then realized at long last
That no one noticed
Apr 2014 · 780
Whoosh
Then she really looked
And it was like she'd never
Seen his eyes before.
Apr 2014 · 1.2k
Sneaky
There comes a time when I give up
The charade I've been trying to lead
I lean over and raise eyebrows
And they just laugh. Oh please.
Apr 2014 · 2.0k
Brilliant
It wasn't fair! No!
You were wonderful, and yet
She couldn't have you.
Apr 2014 · 995
Stage Eyes
Sharp, scraping across
The lines of black and of grey
Removing makeup.
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