Any truth
is better than
infinite doubt
Knowing is
always better than
the supposed
Facts are
infinitely more comforting
than worry
Reality can
calm the mind
over fear
Infinite doubt
is far worse
than truth
Truth
10 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: truth doubt knowing facts worry reality fear infinite emotions
Jealousy
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: jealous monster transformer jealousy life love emotions
Jealousy
is a strange transformer
of characters
Turning
the seemingly kindest
into monsters
Twisting
friendships long held
until destroyed
Causing
no end of drama
flowing constantly
Strange
transformer of characters
this jealousy
Little
08 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: little things important small things life love needs wants
The little things are
infinitely
the most
important
Overlooked
taken for granted
unnoticed
often forgotten
Existing for only
the briefest of time
seemingly
insignificant
The wish I had’s
or could have done’s
what we want most
when they’re gone
In the end
little things
are infinitely
the most important
Stranger
07 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: stranger life invent mind national poetry month
Life is infinitely stranger
than anything which the mind
of man could invent
infinitely stranger
Horrors worries wonders
the mind can create
but life in all its glory
is infinitely stranger
Some seen some unseen
yet still there
slowly creeping by
gone at warp speed
Light or dark places
where the mind is not
life is infinitely
stranger
Imagination
06 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: imagination horror mind imagined
Where this is no
imagination
there is no
horror
For it is the things
imagined
that bring the most
terror
Those that dwell in
imagination
dark corners hidden spaces
of the mind
Horror in complete
reality
truly ever exists only in
imagination
Lunatics
05 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in April 2015, poetry Tags: lunatics crazy life dull insanity
There are always
some lunatics about
not very far away
either
Those that walk
beside us
in front or behind us
about
Lunatics
inside us
concealed yet let out
always some
Keeping us entertained
somewhat crazy
it would be a dull world
without them
Alone
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
Obvious
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
Sentiment
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
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Never a moment
just to be
you must have the
feels
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Emotional overflow
life colored by emotions
at every turn
sentiment
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If only you knew
that sentiment is
a chemical defect found
on the losing side.
Burn
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
Deborah Horton Writing 