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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.
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
03 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in April 2014, poetry Tags: emotions, help, life, reaching, surviving
Reaching out for a hand
to hold as we fall
hoping it will save
wishing, knowing not at all
What if the hand’s not there
how then do we survive
when we are all that’s left to hold
do we remain alive
Is there any way to tell
what tomorrow brings
will we awake
when the alarm bell rings
We keep reaching
looking to find hope
just tie a knot
at the end of your rope
27 Dec 2013 Leave a comment
in December 2013, poetry Tags: emotions, life, stress
How easily each stress
becomes a mountain
pushed every higher
each passing day
can start small
a grain of sand
inevitably growing larger
we make it so
small hill larger hill
small mountain larger mountain
what we allow it to be
make it become
added to every day
few more feet tall
until all we are
is a dot in the shadows
26 Dec 2013 Leave a comment
in December 2013, poetry Tags: emotions, games, life
All fun and games
until someone gets hurt
played well and badly
both without thinking
Manipulations and machinations
taking turns
roll of the dice
chance or choice
Everybody plays
some better than others
winners losers
no in between
twists turns
always something new
questions no answers
just games
Every day starts anew
begin again
all fun and games
until someone gets hurt
22 Dec 2013 Leave a comment
in December 2013, poetry Tags: emotions, holidays, life
Such a sap
cry so easy
with every holiday
commercial
Each song
and scene
bringing tears
back again
Tender heart
soft soul
spirit open
emotions broken
Such a sap
little things
touch the heart
tears fall
CocaCola bears
Apple Christmas videos
stories of magical
holiday cheer
Music plays
scenes fill the screen
once again
such a sap
21 Dec 2013 Leave a comment
in December 2013, poetry Tags: emotions, life, relationships
From far away
it seems okay
but up close it’s
a big old mess
Lives of others seem
from far away
much more perfect
than is true
From afar they appear
beautifully put together
something to be
envied
Closer inspection reveals
true brush strokes
mashed together
and messy
Even closer looks
become blurs of
noise and color
and truth
Perfect from afar
others lives but
up close just a
full on Monet
02 Dec 2013 3 Comments
in December 2013, poetry Tags: emotions, life, pain
Ever there
from where
I know not
never leaving
pain
Easing now
and then
I know not
why
pain
Waking sleeping
no difference
the cause
I know not
pain
less more
always present
how long
I know not
pain
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
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)
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