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04 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: alone protect national poetry month
Alone is what I have
Alone is what protects me
insular walls
insulated
My mind myself
imagination alone
always engaged
and alone
Voices speak to me
no one is there
they come from inside
alone is what I have
Visions of the past
the future
everything everyone
alone protects me
03 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry
The world is full of obvious things
which nobody by any chance ever observes
gliding by the invisibility
of it all
Unable to see the unseen
regardless of how obvious
it may be as they go on
obliviously
Consumed with self
it is as if their eyes
are unable to focus fully
on anything outside
Nobody by any chance ever
observes this world so completely
full of obvious things
obviously
02 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: emotions, feelings, feels, sentiment
All the feels
applied to everything
people places things
sentiment
Never a moment
just to be
you must have the
feels
Emotional overflow
life colored by emotions
at every turn
sentiment
If only you knew
that sentiment is
a chemical defect found
on the losing side.
01 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry
Twisting and turning
like a feather in the wind
in the palm of my hand
no escape
Manipulated and broken
as if clay
under my fingers
without a voice
Someday never comes
unable to get away
trapped inside
controlled
Wishing for tomorrow
nothing left now
as I burn the heart
out of you today
31 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry
Red skies in morning
sailors take warning
there’s an east wind coming
all the same
Calm and soft at dawn
red orange pink lights
coming through the trees
easy and peaceful
Lurking in the distance
east wind lies waiting
it’s time to come soon
peace to break
Coming all the same
it cannot be slowed
east wind blows
sailors take warning
03 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in March 2015, poetry Tags: doubters, goals, strength, voices
Hearing people say what you cannot do
too old, too late, too hard
voices that are constantly speaking
do not listen
Voices that doubt
no faith in who you are
in what you can do
make them silent
Murmuring failures
giving life to faults
foul breath covers you
turn away
Inside yourself others speak
strength, passion, ability
daily growing louder
drowning out the other voices
27 Feb 2015 1 Comment
in poetry Tags: Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock, Spock, Star Trek, Trekkies
Needs of many
outweighing needs of few
or one
Sacrifice neither vain
nor empty
Best of times
or worst
Far better place
to go
Soul was most
human
Would not presume
to debate
Lived long and
prospered
Have been and
always shall be
one
22 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in October 2014, poetry Tags: life, living, pressure, stress
It bears down on me
like so much pressure
pushing, ever pushing
never letting up.
School, work, family
always something to do
never any rest or peace
even in my dreams.
Overwhelming pressure
leaving dents
in my mind, my heart, my soul
getting deeper all the time.
Smothering, getting sick
no strength to push back
going under
and no one sees.
21 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in April 2014, poetry Tags: emotional icebergs, ignorance, instinct, self, selfish
Self preservation
selfishly existing
thoughts of oneself
instinct
Insulated ambiguity
emotional icebergs
feelings for none
instinct
Nothing shocking
without care
focused on you
helping none
feigning ignorance
they don’t matter
instinct
09 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in April 2014, poetry Tags: emotions, life, lost
So much gone
never to be found
not enough tomorrows
for the lost
Searching in vain
frantically running
seeking something
always lost
Plugging the holes
it never holds
over and over you try
still lost
No more tomorrows
time far gone
remaining empty
forever lost
Deborah Horton Writing 