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OUR ORIGINAL POETRY: Share It Here

slayteralmighty January 16th, 2015

Hello there everyone!

If you're reading this it means that you probably are quite fond of poetry and writing it to. This is a thread to post all and any poetry that you may have, be it happy, sad, angry or just silly. All styles are welcome (free verse, couplets, slam) and it would be great to have at least one poem up a day for all of us to enjoy together!!smiley

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Kuruhi June 3rd, 2015

Your Story

I'd much rather cry for you
'Cause my story is too painful to share
I'd much rather smile for you
'Cause my story is too painful to bare

So come here and I'll wrap my arms around you
Come here and I'll let your story shine
But after you share your story
Please don't ask me about mine

If only I could play the violin
I'd share my past through sorrowful chords
Vibrato on strings would be my voice
Fighting my demons with imaginary swords

Although I'm limited to words on paper
And the words aren't sung by a beautiful voice
These words make my story into a song
And this song confronts you with a choice

You can close your eyes
And pretend this is a fairytale
Pretend it's a meaningless story
That was never once true

Or you can open your eyes
And realise deep down
That the story isn't just about me
That you're the main character too

If you don't want to tell your story
As it is, spoken word to word
Turn your art into your voice
And you will always be heard

A picture speaks a thousand words
And music helps you through
If these words come to help me cope
Then they can help you too

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Raylen June 4th, 2015

It'sbeautiful and deep , really it's excellent </3

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Kuruhi June 4th, 2015

Thank you very much!

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Annie June 7th, 2015

Dear@Kuruhi, this is BEAUTIFUL!! Ithas a lilting rhythm that feels like a song. A great song. I love it.

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IloveHumanity June 4th, 2015

FixedPlease,Please stop,Look at me,Look at us,What have we done,With our lives?Look around,What do you see?You see the world that used to be.Its all gone,Every smile,Every tear,Feelings, wiped away.Hey, look at me.What do you see?An empty soul,Living as a prisoner in my own skin,Is that normal?Is it normal to kill?To destroy?To enjoy someone's misery?Look, look at youWho are you exactlyWhen your not who they want you to be?Its our mistake.Our grief.But it can be fixed.Don't live in disbelief.If you try,And the person next to you,We can make it better.Believe me when i say,You can be fixed to.

IloveHumanity June 4th, 2015

Fixed its a poem about helping the world and the people and the problems that are the reason we need help.

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Please,

Please stop,

Look at me,

Look at us,

What have we done,

With our lives?

Look around,

What do you see?

You see the world that used to be.

Its all gone,

Every smile,

Every tear,

Feelings, wiped away.

Hey, look at me.

What do you see?

An empty soul,

Living as a prisoner in my own skin,

Is that normal?

Is it normal to kill?

To destroy?

To enjoy someones misery?

Look, look at you

Who are you exatly

When your not who they want you to be?

Its our mistake.

Our grief.

But it can be fixed.

Dont live in disbelief.

If you try,

And the person next to you,

We can make it better.

Belive me when i say,

You can be fixed to.

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enlightenedSun June 17th, 2015

@ILoveHumanity

Very true. Very moving.

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Raylen June 4th, 2015

It takes a huge effort,

To do the smallest things,

And trust me it doesn't make it any better,

When you force me to answer the door when it rings,

All this, ain't an act, I don't want attention,

I'm just tired of all people who expect perfection,

But I'm just a little girl, who's broken,

With a lot of words I left unspoken.

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Annie June 12th, 2015

@Raylen, I like this! it feels like the lyrics to a song.heart

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Brielle224 June 12th, 2015

Wow amazing! You are so talented :)

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Raylen June 12th, 2015

Thank youuu ! It means a lot !

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funnyMango399 June 13th, 2015

this is wonderful. <3

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alexeesan9 June 7th, 2015

Hello x3 When I saw the title of this thread I had to click on it because poetry is yes and I'm the president of the poetry slam club at my high school and this thread reminded me of that and the happy memories of the clubOuO Anyway sorry enough about me I just got excited and reminded of that :"D Carry on and keep writing poetry in your lives if you do so x3

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Annie July 10th, 2015

@alexeesan9, I hope you'll post some of your work here, and encourage your club members to post here, too.heart

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Samuraifuu20 June 7th, 2015

Happy? Scribbling, writing phrases I wish I could give you a bouquet of sweet adjectives complementing your sweet smile and gentle hands. But Im no one. Just a troll underneath this bridge scaring all who pass by waiting, just waiting for you to visit. You found your happiness. I wait under this bridge. Under the rain of my own tears under the thunder of my own anger I wish I could be happy, for you, but Im not that good of a person.

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enlightenedSun June 13th, 2015

@samuraifuu20 Nice work!Especially drawn to the opening lines about the "bouquest of sweet adjectives" -- love that!

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Aliluvsmcr15 June 7th, 2015

Lately I've been having trouble sleeping and my parents think that I'm ill but the only disease I possess is the sickening thought of you and the symptoms aren't at what you think. If I have a sore throat it's only from screaming your name in the dead of night and if I have a piercing headache it's only of tearing my hair out in hopes of seeing you attached to the ends and if I have a runny nose it's only due to the tears I've shed into the sink at school because I saw you in the hall. But when I'm thinking of you, I'm consumed in emotions that don't just crawl through my blood vessels or sit upon my bones and tendons, but that bounce off of my nerves and lodge themselves into my every cell until every sensation I feel and every tiny piece that makes up my body is overcome by you and that half smile you wear around like your favorite shirt and laugh that hits people like a kid with a pita and your breath in folds of my ear, and it isn't just that I can't sleep, it's that my cells can't function and my body can't rest until the memory of you meets the physical you and you float from my brain to my heart, through my arteries into my fingertips, and escape back from my skin into yours and you take back every sleepless night and every bag that hides behind its artificial skin but god that's the thing, i don't want you gone I want you here. I want you in every corner of my life and every fraction of every atom in my body. I want you in the Air I breath and words I speak. I want you running circles in my irises until your all I see when i close my eyes. I WANT YOU,YOU I JUST WANT YOU HERE AND YOUR NOT AND ITS ALL MY FAULT AND IM SORRY ..

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Annie June 12th, 2015

Dear @aliluvsmcr15

I love the images you create especially the ones involving the human body --and I love the headlong energy and passion in this poem. Some of my favorite passages are:

. . .emotions that don't just crawl

through my blood vessels or

sit upon my bones and tendons, but that

bounce off of my nerves and

lodge themselves into my every cell until every

sensation I feel and every tiny piece that

makes up my body is overcome by you

and that half smile you wear around like your favorite shirt and

laugh that hits people like a kid with a pita

and your breath in folds of my ear

* * *

it's that my cells can't function and

my body can't rest until the

memory of you meets the physical you

and you float from my brain to my heart,

through my arteries into my fingertips, and

escape back from my skin into yours and you

take back every sleepless night

* * *

I want you running circles in my irises

until you?re all I see . . .

This is a marvelous, beautiful piece of work. Thank you for sharing it.heart

brightEyes8025 June 13th, 2015

this is so incredible oh my god.

you're so talented; the way you string your words together, it's almost poetic, or songlike, but in such a raw way. i don't even know how to explain it to you. this is so good. wow. thank you.

funnyMango399 June 13th, 2015

this is so so so good. i can totally imagine this as a spoken word poem! <3

SlimShady8ball June 20th, 2015

I want you running circles in my irises 'til you're all I see

This is haunting me. It's beautiful

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SamRosen June 8th, 2015

This is so great that 7 Cups of Tea has this forum! I'm gonnashare some stuff on it.

SamRosen June 8th, 2015

The Asexual?s Twilight Zone

By: Sam Rosen


If cuddling is a compulsion to comfort?s obsession,

I must be the motor powering disorder loops.

I wasn?t asking commitment or status,

just to know, hold and be held

by coconut smell sticking clothes

like aftershave necks. Now your scent

is all I smell as I sleep in my own bed

hugging a comforter pretending it?s your hips.

I slick thick hair back with grease

just to feel your tropical neck against my forehead.

Now, the oils saturate my pores enough to cry coconut leaves.

Your Twilight Zone television screen scares me

enough to constantly pat your stomach

before your body vanishes beneath my head.

Dread wrings out my lungs as I leave your room.

Lungs forming black holes for cigarettes I avoid smoking

by flooring car?s gas past each BP.

I?ve smoked my last Newport lover down to his filter,

and refuse to flick the butt from my fingers.

I keep sleepwalking to your room:

down pit stairs through summit door,

bungee cords suffocating waist. Elastic snaps me

back to bedside reality constant crickets twisting legs

outside my bedroom window; a reminder:

The moon sleeps alone too.

She just never complains about it.

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Annie June 8th, 2015

Dear @SamRosen, whatamarvelous poem!The images of the bungie cord, the lungs, the cigarette,and the tautlanguage -- so powerful andsophisticated. And the lines at the end about the moon? WONDERFUL!

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SamRosen June 8th, 2015

Thank you so much for this comment! It really makes my day!

SamRosen June 8th, 2015

Thank you @annie

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Monarda June 10th, 2015

This poem sends the reader into a deep journey that is truly captivating. I loved your choice of words, they created amazing imagery and emphasized the rhythm of the poem. Wonderfuljob, @SamRosen, I love this poem.

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SamRosen June 10th, 2015

@Monadra. Thank you so much for your feedback. All these comments are making me happy :)

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Amy1160 June 12th, 2015

Its memories you say , in a dream like place , longing of love ,the feel of comfort , To describe them in words, Which take my breath away ........

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SamRosen June 15th, 2015

Thank you so much for this comment. I really put my all into writing this

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Poetrylover14 June 9th, 2015

She walks through this maze called life--one with walls of lust--paths to nowhere--walls of disgust--through which she tears--for she's a fighter--or so she dreams...--in the battle--of life and death--she's all over that ring--no stopping her now--ding ding--to her death she awakes--she's a fighter--not a quitter--but that's not all it takes--she's quits so she can fight--in dying to herself, humility she creates--she'll find the light--the light that shall guide her to her happiest state--from this place she may come and go--but with this light the path home she'll always know--time to quit --time to fight--to the ring she goes--of her hope may she never lose sight

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Annie July 10th, 2015

@PoetryLover14, I love the energy of this poem, and the vivid portrayal of struggle toward light. Thank you for sharing this!

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