All Poetry You Write That You Really Like

Jul 2016

Chris Thomas

I am the sunlight
That causes your pupils to contract
I am the parade in your iris
Postponed by chance of cataract

I am within one of your senses
For the first time in leisurely years
I take form and travel down your cheek
Wiped away swiftly, lest I interfere

Drowning in double vision
Only one of me is real
I am the glimpse of reality in this fantasy
I am the love you close eyes to conceal

Jul 2016

Elisa Maria Argiro

Cavern of My Heart, My Womb of Truth

From deep within the cavern of my heart
a stream of truth is rising.

Like clear water rising through
the rock of ages
it flows.

It caresses the rock
softening its edges, leaving it
still strong and sure.

From deep within the womb of my body
a seed of truth is rising, warming to
the sweetness of a newly radiant heart.

From deep within the jewel of my heart
the light of love is shining.

Vast is the one unbounded space
within me, all around me.

Vast is the one lovely moment
which is right here,
and which is right now.

©Elisa Maria Argiro

#truth #heart #light #now #lovely #womb

Jul 2016

Adrian Newman

I Took A Sip Of You

You’re a drug, you kept me soaring and crashing
I’m over your tripping cos baby you’re fine

But I can still be happy
I can still feel fine
The memories of you are all in my mind.

I took a sip of you and I still felt dry
My throat’s been sore for how many times
I’ve screamed your name for nothing

But I can still be happy
I can still feel fine
The memories of you are all in my mind.

Baby you said I can’t complete this song without you
But for once I did and it didn’t feel fine

But I can still be happy
I can still feel fine
The memories of you are all in my mind.

Memories don't hurt if you think about how you were FEELING in those particular memories, not thinking too much about the memory itself ^
Enjoy :)

#love #peace #girl #happiness #relationship #emotion #dating #guy

Jul 2016

Emily B

wonder

Don't tell me how it works, sir,
I like to watch
And be amazed at the display.
The inner workings, wiring, switches,
all, are unnecessary details.
Miracles deflated.
Don't explain the rainbow,
or the sunshine,
or brain waves.
Child-like
in my comprehension
I want to smile
and clap my hands
at the wonder
of it all.

Jul 2016

Paul Butters

Silence

When slapped by raving rants
Or flamed with insults.
When slurred by sarcastic sneers.
I know your blood will boil,
And someone will say,
“Are you going to stand for that?”

Ignore that person.
Calm yourself.
Smile (if face to face)
Or take up Poker Mode.
Show annoyance and the enemy has scored.
Do not respond with anger.

If appropriate, try to reason with him, her or them.
Should they not reason, say no more.
Turn it into a joke whenever you can,
Even belittling yourself in an ironic way.

Never retaliate in kind.
Never feed the flamers and trolls,
Either online or in real life.

I see around me arguments go on
And on and on and on…
When will the listen?
Don’t feed the trolls!
How many times must folk be told?
When under attack
That old cliché applies:
Silence is Golden
(And so Powerful).

Paul Butters

Stop Arguing! Don't feed the flamers and trolls.

#humanity #conflict #web #arguments #social-skills #trolls

Jul 2016

Colten Sorrells

Wall-Breaker/Soul-Taker

Was so afraid to love again
from times that I've been hurt

somehow I knew that the next time
would surely be the worst

she fought her way past all the guards
and blasted through the walls

she stripped away my foolish pride
and then she changed it all

and by the time she finished up
I was a different man

I'm 6 weeks sober, in good shape
but don't know who I am

I gave up all my secrets, too
she kept her mystery

and in disgust, she turned away
from my dark history

she pointed out what I did wrong
and left me in the night

when I had given up my past
and started doing things "right"

#loss #obsession #control #suffering #submission #nothingness

Jul 2016

Randolph Llewellyn Wilson

Old Barns ...

Old barns with 'See Rock City' painted
on clapboard sides
'White washed' antique 'Smokehouses' with hand dug Water-wells are monuments celebrating another time
Pole barns with RC Cola thermometers -
and Red Man chewing tobacco signs , tin -
roofs and dirt floors with hay lofts and -
old John Deere tractors inside

Jul 2016

Colten Sorrells

Incomplete

Cold-hearted, discarded

unwanted, unloved

it doesn't matter what I do

it's never good enough

I'm left again without the one

I just can't live without

I wanted so much to believe

but still, I had my doubts

I cauterized the wound

but I can't seem to stop the pain

it's eating at my insides now

it's driving me insane

all my faith I put in you

I viewed you as my savior

there's nothing that I wouldn't do

to try and win your favor

although the distance seemed too vast

you felt like coming home

but it don't really matter now

forever I'm alone

Despite the state lines I really, truly thought that we could be together someday, but now it seems that day will never come. I seen a very bright future for the both of us, but now it seems there never really was an "us".

And no, I'm not going to go looking for anybody to replace you, because I don't really want anybody else. I want you, I ******* need you in my life.

But hey, if nothing else, you have opened my eyes to my true potential, and you have set me on the right path. And I will always be thankful for that. I just really wish that I could've somehow walked that path with you.

But at this point I'm sure that you hate me more than you ever have, which is really ****** up, because finally, I'm on the right track. I'm finally doing the right thing. I finally finished putting my past behind me, and I came out clean on the other side, STD-free and 6 weeks sober.

I just don't get it. Why now?