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!!
Why can't profession have compassion?
Why can't businessmen, who rely so much on customer's emotions
Be more compassionate?
The world, the world, is a confusing place.
If you want to be successful in life,
You must appear appealing and compassionate to sell,
But ruthless and cold so as not to be fooled with negotiations.
Profit is lost if we care, Profit is gained if we "show" we care.
Don't mix the two up, kid. You need to be a pro. and Pros are not weak.
Pros should know that kindness is fake in this area of life.
Leave true compassion on the personal side....to "charity" as we call it in finances.
Have two faces, you can't just have one, people like you are a waste of space, money and time.
I'm lost.
Sometimes I'm convinced as an artist I'm scum of the earth.
I sell stuff you really have no decent use for but to look at.
I request money out of my hard work, and sometimes it's an amount of money that I think people in hard labor deserve more.
I don't know what else to do, it's the only way I know how to live.
To paint things that serve no purpose but to be looked at.
To write things, and comics, to be read for a while -- probably while in the toilet.
I just produce useless things.
Just like how the corporate world also produce the same useless things, mass producing them, and feel entitled or deserving that they contribute such a good job to the world.
I should feel the same, but why do I feel guilt all the time with everything I do?
@weepingartist
I've spent a lot of time in the business world. And one thing that I've seen is that all the corporations and firms are made up of people. People.
What happens to people as they get older and start to lose their youthful ideals? What happens to people when they are at work and thinking about performance stats and budgets and profit?
Your poem raises interesting questions . . . .
I love how you pose the contradictions.
@Annie thank you......up until now I still ask myself this question haha.
@Annie thank you......up until now I still ask myself this question haha.
Sometimes
Sometimes it feels like life is passing by
but I'm asleep.
So busy with trying to become
the girl they tell me to be.
And maybe a little moment a day
I dare to stop and see
The beauty of the miracles
that happen around me.
Sometimes it feels like the world flies by
but I am standing still.
And nothing has changed, oh nothing changes
and nothing, nothing will.
And maybe every now and then
I dare to turn around
To face the things that I can't fix,
the things that make me drown...
@glassmarble
Thoughtful and beautiful. Thank you for sharing this!
UNTIL
im doing alright w myself/ doing my own thing
something I always wanted/ hustling all night and day
im all good, all good
UNTIL you came/ pushing me away
as if I'm doing nothing but nonsense/ pricking every corner of my strength
harassing inch by inch of my weakness/ brainwashing my good into bad
i tried so hard to compromise/ to make you feel at ease
pushed myself to please you/ and do the things your way
i let go of the things that I like/ just to make you happy and all that
i keep quiet/ for you to have the spotlight
i didn't argue/ for you to have the last word
i played lesser/ for you to become greater
i didn't struggle w you/ but I'm struggling inside of me
UNTIL I came back to my own
understand that my home is ain't you
I'm done, I'm done, I'm done
im not gonna replace myself just for you
not even be like you, oh no please
I don't want to be like you
atleast I know who to become
and how to treat people around me
That's the opposite of what you did to me
Struck on those eyes
my heart once again
that love that fear
that care that innocence
was all again the same
just like another me
sitting in front of me
all those emotions were
half hidden half bare
superman to butterflies
remote cars to video games
its an another me
sitting in front of me again
I wish that love for me
and that care for me to gain
no fear no tear
just a laugh to begin
with you being another me
sitting in front of me.
@ResilientLucky
Powerful and moving.
Superman to butterflies -- wonderful!
I have tread on by myself
for so long
that I do not know
how to match my pace
to that of another.
Please be patient
as I learn the gait of your stride,
the rhythm of your feet,
the swing of your arms.
I have carried this weight
for as long as I can remember.
When I handed it off to another
I got it back with more piled atop.
So please smile at me,
and let me hand you pieces slowly
as we journey on together.
Accept them and offer your own back to me
so that our steps fall together
under the combined weight.
Im not really sure where I want to go
so point out new paths,
explore the unknown with me.
Convince my cautious mind
that it is not a risk,
but rather an adventure.
@CourageDearHeart
There is so much truth here. I love the speaker's vulnerability and sweet requests for a way of journeying with a new love. There is a gentle wisdom that I adore.
More, please!
A different home:
Home is where the heart is
But what If it not at your home
How can you call it a home?
A different home with strangers
That you get closer to than your own
They fill the gaps, where there were holes
It becomes your home
The strings in your heart become torn
Because you can't understand your love
How do you chose
Without being untrue
You do anything to stay at that home
Even if you gotta lose more of your own
To stay at a different home
Thanks guys! Hope you like. :)
Tell me if i should write more and what to work on.
@placidPineapple63
Definitely keep writing! This is complex and questing. It is so true that we sometimes find more of a real home with people who appreciate us and give us real warmth, than with our original family.
I can't think of anything to work on -- just keep sharing your thoughts! I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.
THE LAST ONE STANDING
The last one standing
Would bend and break it all
If only the last one standing
Could still stand tall.
For the last one standing
Either wins or loses all
Till he's the last one standing
Between me and my wall.
Dear @Duff26
It's nice to see your work again. I've been away for a while.
I really like what you've done with the concept of "the last one standing."
[TRIGGER WARNING: SELF HARM]
9 Nov 2015
I long for the days
When it didnt matter
Why I was crying or
Why I feel sad
There didnt have to
Be a reason
I could simply say
I dont know why Im crying
And there were arms
To hold me tight
Lips to kiss away the tears
Love to make me forget.
9 nov 2015
I take my blade in one hand
Wrap a rubberband around the other
Soon the veins pop up
Nice and blue
Theyve never looked
More appealing or
Inviting, almost begging me
To press down
Hard enough to release
The blood from its constricted
Home, to let it run free
16 Nov 2015
With the blade in one hand
And one slit of the wrist
My pain will drip away
Like the blood upon my wrist
The wrist inflicted with cuts and scars
That I enjoyed way too quickly but
Soon reminds me of everyday pain
A simple slit to the wrist
Clears my thoughts steadys my hands
And helps me cope
But its taking more and more
Cuts to get lost in the darkness
That has soothed and comforted for
so long
@jewelsashes
Oh, my . . . so vivid. And moving.
And technically skillful in the rhythms and images, I thought.
I wanted you and
Those feelings left me in the dark
I loved you and
Loving you left a hole in my heart
I needed you but
Needing you left my arms feeling lonely
I would have done anything for you
Those feelings would have allowed me
To commit suicide
I was in love with you but
That left me feeling a lot of hurt and pain
Now I am listening to a song I gave you
I gave it to you from my heart
And I put my heart on my sleeve
So everybody could rape me of my feelings
Because truly deep inside
You could never face your own
Yeah sure
A teardrop falls now and then
But I put them where
The other thousands of tears have fell
Put them in my heart
Where the place of you is no longer there
And make out of each and every one of them
Every tear
A beautiful palace
A palace where your memory
Can live on forever
@jewelsashes
This packed a punch.
The concepts of the public pain contrasted to the private suffering are strong. And the building of a palace of tears where the memory lives on forever. Wow.
Beware of boys with silver tongues, that play guitar and beat the drums. He'll use his voice for evil deeds,
His mind will change at lightning speeds.
His songs will whisper inside your head,
resonating until you're dead.
They'll make you laugh but cause you tears
When he sings to another's ears.
He'll pluck your heartstrings like a guitar
Convince you that you're going far
You'll think that he may be the one
Special, loving, and so much fun.
You'll love that he smiles and holds you hand
When really you're just another fan
So when he serenades you take care, take care
Singer sounds like liar and I'm telling you beware
@Raindroplyfe
Powerful imagery of music and musicians, combined with strong rhythms. Very cool.