OUR ORIGINAL POETRY: Share It Here

@pluckystrawberries, I like this a lot. It's . . . truthful.

It's a good reminder.

Yeah! N thnx💞💕

Get u.

This poem is kind of a bunch of inner thought of a good girl who fell for a 'badboy' kind of guy and he changed her without meaning to.

Light and dark
So different
never able to meet
Never able to love

Dark and Light
how you never mix
why not change
and be together

Light not dark
gentle and sweet
all that is good
why not let in the chaos

Dark not light
troublesome fun
rules get broken
lips apart that meet at last

Light is dark
some shadow
hidden behind the certain
always fighting to remain

Dark isn't light
chaos
never control
why not

Light becomes dark
no more care
freedom that consumes
danger that developes

Dark consumes light
the candle flickers
one last time before it becomes
no more than a memory

Now dark controls
no longer forbidden
yet i still miss it
when I was your only light

@Gypsiwillow

The conflict is portrayed so movingly. Very beautiful and touching poem!

The girl in black sits quietly still

When she looks back her stare could kill

People wonder at her history

Questioning perhaps a tragedy

But no one really knows the secrets inside of her soul

No tragedy in her past

No outward pain to see

Just the monster speaking fast

She just wants to be free

To eat means pain

So she must refrain

She's crying out to God

Fighting against the odds

She cries as she fights

Hand shakes as she eats

Breathes fast and light

Things must be neat

Dear @TheSirenCalledLorelei,

This poem is so intense and heartfelt. Amazing portrayal of a desperate state of mind.

Thank you @Annie I wrote it during a moment of hope in my eating disorder recovery. I actually put it to a melody kind of :)

@TheSirenCalledLorelei, I really loved your poem. It was profound and deep and genuine. Your words moved me to tears. I'm in recovery, as well. Not from an eating disorder, but from self harm. The tone of the poem and some of the phrases you used just really resonated with me. Thank you so much for sharing this. I feel less alone.

Stay strong, don't give up hope, and definitely keep writing. I wish you all the best in your recovery.

Lies,

U kept me in the dark.

As time flies,

The more i'm losing these sparks,

So many times have i told u,

But in the end i'm a fool.

U have left me for her,

And i still stayed to be heard,

Our love faded,

And tears were shed,

She could never love u the why i want to,

But it's the end of these i love yous,

U left, i break

U left, i died

U left, i cried

I just want ur happy ending,

but greed had taken over my wishing,

I want u

To hold u as u sleep

And embrace u as u break

Now all thats left r shattered pieces of something used to be whole

It was u who filled the empty space i dread

Now u left and im empty once again

I lost my wish of a happy ending

I love u

u just dont know ..

How much i break for u

i want u back in my arms

Leave that girl who stole u from me

Ur heart is mine

She wont ever love u like i do

My dear love

fix my broken heart

and break it once and for all

@nothingbutsilence, this poem expresses so much heartfelt human pain. I hear you. (been there done that)

Far between these hidden thoughts,

I long to call, to be caught

In your trap, in your snare,

To look deep into your kind eternal glare.

You made me strong, you made me believe,

You made me do what I could never conceive,

The time we spent, the laughs we had.

Just now I realise it was just a fad.

We may stay friends, we may stay strong,

But your face will always be the red hot prong

I want you to stay, I don't want to forget

I dread goodbyes, this Russian roulette,

Today however that chapter has closed.

I beg, please don't stay enclosed.

@AndrewBPayn The poems you have shared here are beautiful, and moving. Thank you. I truly hope you continue to share more of your work here.

Thank you so much, it means a lot to hear things like that. Thank you :)

@AndrewBPayn You are welcome, and I meant every word of it

Thoughts ...

Feelings ...

Always nice to put them

Somewhere

Where no one

Knows you ...

and no one

will judge.

@iwillbefine,

This is beautiful!. And so SO TRUE.

I love that it's true as well about the 1-1 chats with listeners, and true about the forum posts. That's one of the great things that makes 7 Cups of Tea so helpful -- it's anonymous and confidential.

I will be fine.

I will be just fine . . .

I can feel it in my bones . . .

Every road has its end . . .

@iwillbefine

I love this poem.

I love its simplicity

I love its hope for the future. (At first, I thought the statement "I am fine" was going to be meant ironically, but then it turned out to be filled with HOPE! (I'm a diehard Pollyanna and adore a poem with a positive theme.)

Uh-Oh.

Wait a minute. Sometimes the reader's interpretation . . . is different from the meaning intended by the poet.

Hmmmm, I was thinking along the lines of Shakespeare's Sonnet 30 ("All losses are restored, and sorrows end.")

But maybe the poet intended a different "end." Could be . . . .

Anyway, I'm a big fan of this simple, spare style. Love it!

Should i stay or should i go ... i wanna share ... but then i rather not.

Dear @iwillbefine,

Oh, please visit often! Pleeeeeease!!

Your poems are a delight, and so are you.

Thank you for sharing your poetry and your self with us.

Keep smiling.

Keep smiling i said to myself . . .

Yeah, keep smiling

like an idiot . . . .

@iwillbefine

Smile - it will either piss people off or make them smile too

Either way you win :)

@midniteAngel, have I told you lately how WONDERFUL YOU ARE?!

I love how positive and fun you are here!

@Annie and have I told you how amazing you are? You're beyond fabulous, a true inspiration for all of us.

Let my cries of war be deafening
And the mere sight of my unceasing anguish
Set fire to your eyes
For I shouted and I painted
For all to hear and see

Yet you didn't hear
You didn't see

No canvas will portray my crusade
No lute shall bring forth the ballad of this war
The cosmos will not be stirred or marked
By the melancholy of one

Oh, my lieutenants
You've proven to be true
Yet though I hoped my despair
Would ever live on
Through your remembrance
I now understand that you too
Will forget

For one of you will leech to virgin sorrow
Whilst the other keeps on dancing

Oh, my apologies, I just wanted it to be red, not huge...

I love it.

@Overdrive, I fixed the font for you.

And I must say, you knocked this one out of the park!

It's both heartfelt and stylish.

It has an amazing persona, strong and brave and noble.

It has grandeur and gravitas. It's like one of the Romans or Greeks or Trojans is speaking in a classic play. It's like Henry exhorting his men in HENRY V. It's just plain amazing.

I adore it.

@NewRomantic677 @Annie : Thank you for your kind words ; always delightful to reach someone with mere words :) Thanks for editing the lay-out as well

"Forget."

I'm behind a closed door

livid.

i find myself feeling

A creeping

Crawling

Sense of disappointment

Dissatisfaction

Angry at myself

For my mind's overreactions.

But I look in the calendar and start to regret

The day I knew that you would

forget.

@NewRomantic677 I really enjoyed "Forget." Thank you for sharing it here. I truly hope to read more of your work here, too.

Love this one as well!

@Lilylistens @Overdrive thanks guys, I appreciate it :)

@NewRomantic677, ME THREE!! This is fantastic!

🌿I am Fighting alone......🌂

& being depressed is an everyday 🌸fight.⚡

⛅I am tired of being sad now......

Trust me... 🌾Nothing feels right!🍁🍃😫😞

Thank Heaven!! The crisis..🍂

The danger is past!🌿

&lingering illness...🎋

Is over at last!.🎉

& the fever called "living"🎈

Is conquered at last!🎆🍃🌈

@PluckyStrawberries3154, I like this poem very much! The rhymes are interesting, and I love the image of "the fever" of living.

Trigger Warning (suicide)

Life isn't worth

The fight i fight

Every day.

I want you

To know

But I can't say.

My arm bleeds,

My mind is

killing me.

I'm just so tired

Of being what

I can't be.

I want to be free

From judging faces,

I want to fly.

Escape this painful

Reality,

I want to die.

Suicide does not

mean there

Was no killer.

It just means

He didn't

Pull the triger.