wolkenfuehlen

Well, I know there once was a thread for Poetry. I can't seem to find it, so I guess it's gone [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

A short poem I had to write in school. It deals with war.

The End of the World

Soldiers approach.
We hear screams, see civilians cry.
Why?
They grab my arm, drag me away.
From home.
Numb, of pain, of fear.
Numb as realization hits me.
We'll die, they'll die.
Civilisation come to an end as
The first bombs hit the ground.

Silversun

Good idea to resurrect the thread Wolke. I like your poem. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

wolkenfuehlen

Thanks [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Starless Night 20

Good idea! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I've written a million and one poems, but only saved a few. And I only think that a few are even good enough to be posted or publicized. LOL.

Here's one that I wrote about this guy, Denis, who I still have feelings for...even though he has moved on and has a girlfriend. [img]smilies/pout.gif[/img]

Let Me Be

Fair blue eyes,
Sting through me like ice.
They tell me that you love me,
But you say you’ve had enough of me.
Do you know how much I’ve yearned?
But I guess you haven’t learned
That I breathe because you breathe,
I’m me because you tell me to be.
Two years gone by yet I still love you,
Even after all we haven’t been through.

Release me please,
God, just let me be.
I can’t move on with you here,
Angelic words ring through my ears.
Your memory, your face,
They still linger in this place.
Ghosts of you never leave,
God, please
Just let me be.

I can still recall the day we met,
I’m regretting things I never said.
I know I shouldn’t have let you go,
If only I had known.
If only I had the courage to tell you then,
Before the last day when you left.
God, please save me.
Let me go and set me free.
I can’t look at you now,
I can’t stop you from walking out.

Release me please,
God, just let me be.
I can’t move on with you here,
Angelic words ring through my ears.
Your memory, your face,
They still linger in this place.
Ghosts of you never leave,
God, please
Just let me be.
Let me be.

And then here's one I wrote today, in five minutes, because I needed to write it for a poetry contest that my entire English class is entering. The theme was friendship, and could be about the loss of, the gaining of, or just related in general.

Deception

Cold air circulating,
Wriggling and slipping in between looks of confusion.
Silent whispers begin to satisfy the lack of
Spoken words between us.
Abuse I never should have taken,
All crammed within this fragile frame of mine.

What words could not describe
Was detailed through silence.
And what passions I felt
Were asphyxiated by the madness within.
I sat shrouded in stillness,
Concealing words that stumbled on my tongue.

Caught inside,
These words seized my throat.
And when their time came to plummet,
They profusely refused.
I could not seem to tell you
What I truly felt burning inside of me.

When my delicate core felt itself
Bursting at the seams,
I could take it no longer.
Warnings had been stated,
A chance for redemption prior to this...
All forgotten in a gust of pain.

And as your apologies cascaded
Like rivulets of blood off your tongue,
I could do nothing but chuckle.
The degree to which you thought I'd bend,
The way you thought I'd falter,
All figments of your mind lost long ago.

No more.

Hope you enjoyed them [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Comments are appreciated.

Silversun

I liked both your poems Burnination101, but especially the second one. There was some really striking imagery in there. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I used to write a few songs, and this is one of them:

Tetragrammaton

Numb for far too long
Tired enough to smile alone
Meaningless the beautiful
Meaningless the life I know
Ruined again my love

Time will scrape
Until you break
What's good is true is what we'll waste

Breathe in the aching, swallow the faults
What I adored I cannot recall
How I wish I had the stars
How I wish I have a god
In anything I'll believe

Time will scrape
Until you break
What's good is true is what we'll waste

It's the truth that can't be spoken
The words passed over in silence
We can't lose what we never had
So we're all safe with our souls

Starless Night 20

Silversun Thank you! I'm going to write another poetry about friendship, but this time, the lighter side. I'll post it here. I've been debating on which one to enter into the contest. Once I've written the happier one, you can help me decide. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

And I loved your song! Very, very good!!

**SuperGirl**

I love all of your peoms. Yours too MA. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Write a happy one. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

~*Cubby*~

I love all your poems!
okay I have to admit Im just a beginner at writing poetry, just recently I have taken a interest in Poetry. So here one I wrote, nothing special lol

Losing Myself

Everyday is all the same
But Im always faced with a different pain
I try to fight back
I just can't seem to get back on track
Of how my life use to be
Why couldn't you all just see
That I wanted to be alone
So you wouldn't have to hear me b*tch and groan
About how life was unfair
And that it was all too much to bare
But its seems that all I do is whine
And tell myself its not all gonna be fine
I just wish I could live for one day
Where I don't have to portray
To be someone what others want me to be
But to true and just be me.

Cold-Blooded Piece of Toast

end of the road
broken glass
at my feet
head pounding
headache baring
its claws
there are girls
here
girls with beautiful
forms
thin
long limbs and
perfect hands

they're hanging

heads lolling mouths
gray with death
ropes stretched around
their necks
on on their wrists there
are symbols etched
in brown black gaping
wounds that leer
drooled blood dried
into crusts

these are the girls that
wished so hard to
be perfect that
they shrank into skeletons
when they met thin
at the end of the road
she offfered them a sharp
smile and a razor blade
always a foot
a yard
a mile away
they would never touch her
cool pale skin and
never taste the bitterness
of her lips

the blood squishes underneath
her high heeled shoes
and still she beckons
other girls on
has wooed some young
men
(teasing them)
hands them their ropes
and points to a branch
from the dead trees
that litter the end of
the road

i'm going to hang today

maybe then i will feel the
brush of her hair against
my cheek

---

Gabrielle

Silversun

That's a powerful poem Gabrielle, it's raw and painful, and incredibly moving.

I was wondering, though, about certain line breaks, such as has wooed some young/men and girls with beautiful/forms. Was there any particular reason why you broke the phrases up there? I think I see that the line breaks help with the form of the poem, but I can't really figure out why these two in particular were used - they seem a little arbitrary. I'm really sorry if I'm missing your point. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

~*Cubby*~ - thanks for sharing your poem. Maybe you could make it into a song! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[ 02-12-2004: Message edited Silversun ]

Starless Night 20

Kara [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Thanks. I know. The happy one's coming.

Gabrielle Wow. Just...wow. That was absolutely amazing. Beautiful use of symbolism. And the way you wrote it made me get chills. Absolutely fantastic.

Cubby Very, very good!
I just wish I could live for one day
Where I don't have to portray
To be someone what others want me to be
But to true and just be me.
Is my favorite part of your poem. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I identify with it very much.

This is the poem that I wrote with a happier connotation. I wrote it with my best friend, Christie, in mind. I've known her since I was seven months old. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] This is the one my English teacher selected out of the two for the contest. Enjoy.

Lullaby

Endless labyrinths of shadow and death
Are all that lie before these naked feet.
Once a choice is finally made,
I seep through the cracks of my existence again,
And the beginning of this journey
Is where I belong.

Through fog and confusion,
My feet stumble before me.
My path is hidden from me.
Darkness envelops me,
Hope escapes my flimsy soul.
So willing to break,
So willing to expire.

Bright lights invade my body,
Tearing away all that
Had once distraught me.
Seraphim scatter above me,
Declaring the name of the one
Who is lauded.

Mystified judgments soon shatter
Into oblivion.
The darkened road that lay ahead
Is no longer cloaked in shadow.
And my bewilderment
Has destroyed itself.

And while my newly formed
Mind and body
Search for what has made this so,
My soul can only grin,
And my heart can only laugh.
For they have known said seraph
All along.

It was you,
My rescue, guardian, and friend.
With a simple word,
The dusk that blinded me was gone.
And the loneliness that conquered inside
Knew nothing but amity.

onionroach

Hi. I'm mainly a lurker around here but I decided to drop in here since I write poems, fanfic and otherwise.

Cubby, you got your sentiment across. It's very relatable.

Gabrielle, love your poem. I love how you broke it up. I love your choice of words and sounds. Each stanza evokes different emotions.

Burnination, lyrical. I was trying to write a poem about a dear friend for her birthday and I just couldn't find the words. I hope your friend likes the poem.

A Kiss (from the scene in Underworld)

It was only a kiss
Warm and soft, cold and smooth
--a brushing of lips, a gliding of sorts

It was only a kiss
His silent exhalation, her soft inhale
--a mingling of air, a touching of souls

It was only a kiss
An instant in time, an eternity of emotion
--too short for anyone to fall

Memory (an original)

You came into my life--a summer rain
on a parched day, washing away the dust.
And like a thirsty man, I drank of you.
And like the rain, you moved on leaving the
bright, dewy colors of life behind as
your footprint in my path.

I hope you guys don't mind me intruding, but I love sharing and discussing and critiquing poems. Poetry is life sustaining.

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Silversun

[img]smilies/wave.gif[/img] Welcome onionroach! Of course you're not intruding, it's great to see some more activity on this thread. I really like your poems, especially Memory. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Tina

Yay! Poetry thread is back! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Here's two of mine...

-Untitled-

I stare off into the distance.
I feel your eyes observing me.
I know you’re there.
I see you there.
I feel you near me.
I feel your breath on my skin.
I feel your touch on my face.

I turn. I look.
There’s nothing there or was there?

* * *

-Dying Reflection-

I see her.
She’s standing there,
leaning forward.
Looking at her dying reflection.
Dark circles under her eyes,
hadn't slept for days.
Mascara running down with the tears,
she unleashed.

She takes one more look at herself,
and walks away.
Leaving her life behind.

I think I may post more later! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Age-a-licious

I wrote this on a whim...one of my male hating poems.

"My Mr. Right?"



When I first met you, you weren't my type
I just knew you couldn't be my "mr. right"
But then a few days went by and you started looking 'aiight'. With your brown eyes and soft skin, I wanted us to be so tight.

You made me believe that love could happen at first sight. I wanted to believe it so bad, I tried to ignore every single fight. That is until I started waking up with certain bruises. Ones that hurt me so bad, I thought I was going to lose it

I went to the doctors, they said you gave me a disease
I thought about dumping you, my mother said "please!"
I still can't believe you gave me herpes. But Hey, I guess you're just like every other sleaze