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13 Oct 2013 Leave a comment
in October 2013, poetry Tags: alone, fear, help, lost, pain, weak
Cry out for help
but only you can hear
nothing remains
only the fear
Wanting the help
unable to speak
look for strength
only to be weak
Where is the help
searching not found
alone
in darkness bound
Cry out for help
speak through pains
perhaps someone
will save what remains
30 Aug 2013 Leave a comment
in August 2013, poetry Tags: equal, fairness, lies, life
Life is not fair
all are not even
no mortal can make it fair
that is just a lie
Mortals who pretend
to be gods
mouth words about
life being fair for all
Yet they cannot
make people smarter
keep them from dying
make them all wealthy
They cannot change
behaviors
karma
fate
Life cannot be
made fair for all
anyone who claims it can
is lying
19 Aug 2013 3 Comments
in August 2013, poetry Tags: grief, joy, life, loss, love
This talk of splendor in the grass
glory in the flower
grieving not
joy in what remains
so long have I waited
to allow it to be so
finally to let go
but joy I do not know
Grieving not
have I mastered
regret is not
part of me
Joy in what remains
in the life that is
or in the memory of what was
there is no joy in what was
Certainly there was not
splendor in the grass
nor glory in the flower
no joy in what remains
11 Aug 2013 1 Comment
in August 2013, poetry Tags: life, memories
The memories they linger
no matter how long it’s been
is it as hard as it seems
to make them go
Why do they stay
are the feelings still there
is it that the love refuses
to go
Or is it something else
guilt perhaps
and the unforgiven
who won’t go
Always in the mind
the first memories awake
or asleep
why don’t they go
Will they stay forever
is there no way to be free
still here
please go
02 Aug 2013 5 Comments
in August 2012, poetry Tags: eraser, life, memories
If only there were an eraser big enough
to wipe the memories clean
leave nothing behind
seen and unseen
Take away what will not leave
lingering ghosts of the past
maybe then the mind
could be free at last
Places, faces, feelings, choices
everything connected to you
back to when I believed
what was said was true
Every day they come
to bring the hurt anew
why can’t an eraser
wipe my mind of you
25 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in July 2013, poetry Tags: emotions, life, love, remedy
For all of my insanity
and all the things I’ve tried
it seems that only you
are my remedy
Everything about you
is only ever wrong
but my insanity
never stops
Quieting the madness
if only for a second
with all the choices
still you are my remedy
Try to let you go
not come back again
as the madness grows
I let you in
For all my insanity
nothing else will do
it still seems
my only remedy is you
10 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in July 2013, poetry Tags: alone, invisible, unseen, watching
Always here but they don’t see
looking at but right through me
standing beside them always near
never knowing what they should fear
Quietly watching all that they do
observing things that they never knew
always here but they don’t see
invisible me
Another Poetry Club poem https://www.facebook.com/BSHPoetryClub
28 Jun 2013 Leave a comment
in June 2013, poetry Tags: breathing, death, emotions, life
Slipping slowly down
trying not to drown
life’s troubles everywhere
no breath left to share
Waiting, longing just to be
a single breath for me
it never comes in time
and so I die within this rhyme
(Another Poetry Club poem)
25 Jun 2013 Leave a comment
in June 2013, poetry Tags: lies, poems, truth
Another of my Poetry Club poems:
I never tell the truth
and I care too much what people think
writing makes me sick
and reading is only a chore
I don’t believe in love
or that forever can exist
that you only live once
and life is just a bore
I don’t wish to be happy
and I never think I can succeed
but if you believe any of this poem
a mental readjustment is what you need
(The prompt for this poem was to write a poem about yourself in which nothing is true)
18 Jun 2013 Leave a comment
in July 2013, poetry Tags: borrowed poetry, poems, poetry
When I have fears that I may cease to be
and then I say when nothing is there
except silence, they have only cries and fears
no matter that alone am I
where screams may never cease
and longing to just be
(Written with the high school poetry club that I sponsor. I will be posting all the poems written with the club over the next few weeks)
Deborah Horton Writing 