How you feel (in prose or poetry)

[Dronee]

For those who just want to express themselves on the spot in a lyrical (or not) way. Can be rhymed or otherwise, doesn't really matter. Fair chance to wax lyrical or just vent yourself creatively!

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An awkward plant by the mower's lawn
Wilting, withered and worn
The creepers rose to smother
Little green sapling bowed down under

Rain of water that should have nurtured
Yet drowned and washed away
Foundations of clay
And would that it could cry
The teardrops would be drops amongst many
It is but one of many

As often as it would try to rise
To capture the searing sunlight
Photosynthesize and desensitize
A sad little tree whose sustenance is its poison
Sometimes it's just so hard to discern
Between bliss and blight

Still hollow roots find nothing
The leaves that should have stretched forth evergreen
Can only lie still dying and dreaming
Of verdant pastures with thriving trees
Swaying gently by the summer breeze
And an azure sky not red with fury

So pass away the little plant
And they gobbled its remains all triumphant
But in greed they had yet to pause in askance
Had they not once fed it poison?


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[Strange_Loner]

Sorrowful life, take me away…
Take me away from these thoughts that hound my tearful sleep.
Forgetting, never forgetting…. Memories___
Why you invade my mind so…
And you do it with such ease and accurate precision.
Let me be, set me free… Degauss me!* from your magnet grip.

I can’t get you out of my head________

(My own words)

 

[Alphasocket]

Something I came up with quickly for this thread:

Another bloody day, another bloody detriment.
Kennels keel over with their owners fading acumen.
Towers of meat breach the sky as hungry wolves sleep,
None is the signal for their cut noses to depend upon.
Entombed to resume this painful refrain,
From fleshy fumes abandoning the face of deaths tune.
From skulls scattering like dice from the heavens,
I wish they would awaken some time soon.

 

[Shygirl2011]

Alone?
by ~Mayoko442 (My deviantart screen name)

Someone please,
Look this way

See the girl
Who wants to play

Masked by darkness,
Scar and tears concealed

Crouched in a corner,
Hoping her secret fears are not soon revealed

She thought she was past this,
These demons long defeated

Shadows rise up within her
Taking her happiness once more like a common thief

The girl who began to start looking up
Found herself suddenly looking down

 

[Dronee]

Lots of talents in SPW! It's sad that most of us are usually feeling down...

 

[xmasterlaurx]

A lot of awesome poetry. Would love to read more

 

[spaghetti]

Fear is a pain too real
It’s a bear hug I cant escape
I can’t wait to live
I can’t wait to breathe
Happiness is a locked door, and my key ain’t workin
I need to grow
Grow strong enough to boot this door down

It’s a constant numbness
I don’t feel
I’m not here
I’m floating

It’ll find me
Or I’ll find it
Sooner rather than later would be nice

acceptance is a major part of life
Those who cannot accept cannot live
And life without living is not life, it’s just…waiting

It’s a seat at the dentist office
But the doc is never on time
It’s 20 after now, and I’m still waiting
tick tock, tick tock...

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It doesn’t feel right
It doesn’t look right
I’m told I need to do it more
Like I used to before
He’s taken a seat and Blanks his substitute
It’s not often he gets to see the court
And when he does his minutes are limited, maybe to two
his knees are worn, his back aches
I tried a trade, but nobody would take
Must be the salary cap...
To hear the name again would be a relief
and abandon this selfish grief
Not only to myself but to others
They say he looks good
Not me
He doesn’t fit
He used to
Fit…
He used to follow Joke
that’s a duo one not would provoke
a sleeping giant...
Someday
Someday his name’ll be called,
lights light like eyes, Joke’ll step up,
out of the gates, and onto the court he flys
Just like he used to
Just like they’d prayed…
Smile

 

[Alphasocket]

Forever Damned (Lyrics for a song I wrote)

Alien ways alienates
Seemingly permanent
Cost of self migrates
Trailing putrid scents
Always there, never where
Omnipresent grey
Omnipresent glare
Laugh it all away

What a man feels is what he understands
What a man steals is what burns his hand
What a man makes is what makes a man
When a man forsakes, he is forever damned

Charging the end
Relinquishing time
Covet the descent
Outcome of the crime
Delinquent of desire
Soaring each defeat
Lusting after fire
Pining for the heat

What a man concedes is what tastes grand
What a man bleeds is what makes him stand
What a man fakes is what looks less bland
When a man breaks, he is forever damned

Hiss at us, tender one
We have lost the battle you won
Guide us to the crashing shore
Diamond displays we truly adore
Rape us, take us, violence below
Merge us with their second undertow
Apple's gravity for your sun
Blazing south of the horizon

What a man sees is what he can't withstand
What a man leaves is what is no man's land
What a man stakes is what puts him on remand
When a man shakes, he is forever damned

101

Exceta under souls,
The migraine for homo-sapient.
Faultlines 'neath the famines,
Erupt to cease pollenation.
Vulgar acts of spreading arms,
Resolves lacking dignity.
Harvest AIDS, then gaze beyond,
The whore for all, wasn't she?
Wombs be loos to be misused,
Rats come pouring through.
Castles run to crown the cruel,
To aid them foil the truth.
Make lard the soap for youth,
Heal cuts with more lacerations.
As zippers plant into the soil,
We sell muzzles for emancipation.