OUR ORIGINAL POETRY: Share It Here
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!!
@pluckystrawberries, I like this a lot. It's . . . truthful.
It's a good reminder.
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
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 . . . .
@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
@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.
@Lilylistens @Overdrive thanks guys, I appreciate it :)
πΏI am Fighting alone......π
& being depressed is an everyday πΈfight.β‘
β I am tired of being sad now......
Trust me... πΎNothing feels right!πππ«π
Thank Heaven!! The crisis..π
The danger is past!πΏ
&lingering illness...π
Is over at last!.π
& the fever called "living"π
Is conquered at last!πππ
@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.