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 Jan 2014 Emily
Violet
so many people
feel the pain
yet so little people
do not seem
to understand
even if
deep down inside
they really do
at least
they don't show it
 Jan 2014 Emily
Violet
denver
 Jan 2014 Emily
Violet
i missed you
when you died
you kept me
from feeling lonely
when i needed a friend
you were there
to lick my face
or wag your tail
your eyes tenderly
looking into mine
i miss you
or was this just
some bad nightmare?
a nightmare so alive
that i believed it was real?
no it wasn't
it was just cold reality
when death took you
away from me
leaving me alone
farewell to your
happy woofs
my dog Denver has been dead for two years now.
 Jan 2014 Emily
Breanna Legleiter
you will never understand my love for you
because it's deeper than the ocean blue
and it will always be there
unlike your old teddy bear
you see, why wouldn't I?
when you keep asking why?
just remember to never let your emotions
control your everyday actions
 Jan 2014 Emily
Morgan
migraine
 Jan 2014 Emily
Morgan
i dont have any passion left
it's all just an ache in my head
 Jan 2014 Emily
Morgan
unsaid
 Jan 2014 Emily
Morgan
you asked me what i was hiding
as i stood in your door way
naked
with my arms
wrapped around my ribs;

i smiled lightly and
dropped them to my sides

i know you thought

i was insecure
but i never told you
that i was just

trying
to feel my stomach
turning
or my heart racing,

warmth from my limbs

or a shortness of breath
from the tightening
of them-

any reassurance
that i hadn't
gone

completely

numb,

because that look in
your eyes
used to make

my palms
sweat
and my spine
straighten

but
lately
all i feel
is
this
eerie
exhaustion
 Jan 2014 Emily
Morgan
fuckfuckfuck
 Jan 2014 Emily
Morgan
i took the metal out of my face
but i couldnt carve the art out of my skin

i took the words and swallowed them
but i couldnt stop the thoughts from
strengthening

i lit a cigarette
but never smoked it
you said
you can take the
tobacco out of your
hands but not
the tar from your lungs

i looked in the mirror
so filled with regret
i felt it spilling out
of my pores
pulled the covers
over my face for days
woke up
and was the same

welllll,
nothing good ever
stays
but
i have a headache
that won't *******
go away
 Jan 2014 Emily
Mike Hauser
Some say I was only a carpenter
Some say a delusional madman
Some say one of the prophets
All a part of a great scam

Some say I am the beginning
Some say as well as the end
Some say the way to salvation
The last sacrificial lamb

Some say only a good man
Some say like all of the rest
Some say another figure in history
That is nothing more than the past

Some say I'm their reason for living
Some say this while down on their knees
Some say I'm at the heart of forgiving
Being their greatest need

Some say I'm a prop for the weakened
Some say for me there is no need
Some say a man made illusion
To keep the world from being free

Some say the Son of the Almighty
Some say to bring redemption to man
Some say life holds no meaning without me
*Who do you say that I am
Matthew 13:16
 Jan 2014 Emily
Nat Lipstadt
you are just girl enough,
to be a real man...

so stand by me,
be a, be my man-girl,
shave that leathery face,
close and tight,
so I can kiss it smooth,
in front of everybody.

Go off to war, Cyrano,
write me love letters of
incredible tenderness,
poems as yet undreamt
come to me raggedy-man whole,
just enough girl in my man,
to make us both,
deliriously,
weep publicly.

Go ahead man,
write your beloved,
songs of the wars that worry you so,
that you don't show,
you think, I don't know,
but I am tough man tough enough,
plenty~enough,
to be yours,
not just the
woman, but that woman,
your beloved.

that bulge in your rear pocket,
not your wallet,
it's just some pocket tissues
you've been saving
for our reunion.

if you are afraid,
be not, be relieved,
you are just
girl enough,
to be a real man,
and I,

*well, I am tough man tough enough,
plenty~enough,
to be yours,
not just the woman,
but that woman,
your beloved
For WDE- 40
The ranks of nature
placed us on top.
All on earth is too kind
as to continually permit our sights
to be graced with their splendour.
Everything in its season
manifests.
Every self in itself
is an image of its self.
In the capacity of our utility,
errors plague us
at their visitation.
Success power is all we can seize
to make us all at ease.
 Jan 2014 Emily
Mike Hauser
We come here every evening
Circle up our chairs
Like cowboys with their wagons
To explain the poets world out there

Our very words keep us on the outer edge
Always running through our minds
Not sure what cure it is we're looking for
Hoping that cure we never find

Yes, this is Poets Anonymous
We exclaim it one by one
Hi, my name is   "    "  and I'm a poet
On a journey that's never done

Searching for that masterpiece
That eludes us all the same
It's that one that keeps us digging deep
Every single minute of every single day

It's hidden in this pen somewhere
We're all sure of that fact
A lucky few have found it once
And go to great lengths to get it back

So here we huddle in our circle
All with the same curse that is at play
Poets Anonymous is for all of us
Where a poets suffering is our fate
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