forum POEMS post 'em here my friends!

Started February 07, 2019 by @ember-chan-will-never-forget-you

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tw for emotional abuse and parent stuff

house=/= home

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Okay, so I don't think I'm that good at writing poems, but here's one I wrote a while ago.

Life is something that everyone lives.
No matter who you are,
you have a life.
And that life can shatter and break into a million pieces.
Or it can be filled with happiness and stability.

Nobody’s perfect.
Nobody’s life is perfect.
Nothing is ever perfect,
even if it seems like it is,
Nothing will ever be absolutely perfect.
Not even you.
Not even me.
Nobody.

And that’s okay.
Because people will always be there,
to catch you when you fall.
Even when you think they won’t.

Hope is important.
Without it, people wouldn’t have anything left.
Hope is what keeps us alive,
and without it, many people would surely perish.

Or would they?
Do most people just live on hope?
Maybe, maybe not.
But hope is important to many.

(So what do you think?)

Wow… Both of those are very good!

I really like your poem, you know, like a liar!

In general i really like it, it's very powerful, thank you for sharing it.

And i figured out how to do the spoiler tag, at the end of paragraphs, instead of just doing < spoiler >, use < / spoiler > (without all of the spaces of course)

And @ShadowNights, i really like the thoughts that went into your poem :)

Thanks. I worked really hard on it. It's nice to know that you liked it.

thanks yo <3

Artemis

You tell her you know only one phrase in japanese
I fiddle
Anticipate
Warm eyes
Ghost in my direction
You say
'Skidayo'
Smile
My way
I shiver
She asks if you know what it means

'I love you'
You announce it
Proudly
The ground catches my eye
I dont need to look at the sun directly
To be blinded
By its glow

She says
'Its not the love type of love
But its also used
Platonically'
I wonder again at the limits of english
Where there are synonyms for everything under the sun
And yet there is no words that differentiate between
Eros
And agape

And while my mind stumbles along tangents
My eyes follow the cracks between cobblestones
You ask her how
You would say
I love you
To people who are
More than just friends

I mindlessly trace right angles in the lines below and
Remember the pythagorean theorem
How a2=b2+c2
Can be used and applied almost anywhere
If only you can find a right angle
And i miss her telling you
That in japan
You say
Aishteru
I knew anyways

You nudge my shoulder
Say my name
Mumble
'Ash.. Teru'
I swallow
Parallel lines have no right angles
Theyre never meant to touch
Or even be
Connected

I look up
Warm eyes
'You're going to have to work on the conviction
For that to work
On someone
Someday
Lets go get dinner'

Later
I think about how
Artemis only ever had a brother
Never a lover
About how
As a huntress
You shouldnt pity the prey
For falling into your trap
And yet somehow you do want it to have
A dignified, painless end
About how
The moon always has a dark side no matter how the sun shines
And about how
Easily the earth can separate
The moon from the sun
An while an eclipse is a rare event
It is all the more beautiful
For how the
Moon slowly begins to weep red
Until it is swallowed by darkness completely
Artemis the huntress, goddess of the moon
Virgin
Deadly predator
Sister of the sun
Not lover

Later
You ask if i want to share your fries
I tell you I'm too hungry to share
Thats the first time
I see the smile crumble a bit at the edges
No pity for prey
I remind myself
And turn away

i cant quite grasp the meaning of this but i love it

(inspired by the anime Shiki. 4 1/2 of these lines are quotes. W A T C H I T )

This is MY justice. Where's yours?

Justice varies from person to person
A blessing from one easily turns to cursing
A twitch of the lips seems quite fair to one
But can cause rage in another, and it can't be undone
The cold tears of a vampire, whose body is without warmth
Fall onto the ground, spread and go forth
To dazzle one human and frighten another
For one person to dry and to be drunk by the other
I've been dead for a long time, and I will die again
The worst part about this is neither side wins
I just want it to stop, and though it might seem cold
Killing others is never just, no matter what kind of noble cause one upholds!

No life is so little to give up, to think: "I don't care when I die."

well that was Wild it's gr8

i cant quite grasp the meaning of this but i love it

Thank you!
As a bit of an explanation:
It's basically about someone who wants love and sees this amazing person that might like them back, but because of outside circumstances/personal issues they can't enter a relationship. The whole poem can basically be summed up to mean 'I wish I could let you love me but you're just going to get hurt.'

i cant quite grasp the meaning of this but i love it

Thank you!
As a bit of an explanation:
It's basically about someone who wants love and sees this amazing person that might like them back, but because of outside circumstances/personal issues they can't enter a relationship. The whole poem can basically be summed up to mean 'I wish I could let you love me but you're just going to get hurt.'

oof i feel that

Imagination

I thought
I heard you
Call my name?
Turned and looked
Just a bunch of kids
Looked really hard
Really really hard
Nothing, no hands waving
Faces smiling
Eyes focusing on me
So I kept walking
I didn't want to look like I was staring
But I turned my head to look back again
I just just
thought
I heard someone shout my name
Imagination
Can be
A nasty little liar.

Wow thats amazing

Everyone's poetry is amazing! How can you write such long ones? I'm so impressed mine are always so short.

I'm not good, so I would love some feedback on how I can improve!

Imagination

I thought
I heard you
Call my name?
Turned and looked
Just a bunch of kids
Looked really hard
Really really hard
Nothing, no hands waving
Faces smiling
Eyes focusing on me
So I kept walking
I didn't want to look like I was staring
But I turned my head to look back again
I just just
thought
I heard someone shout my name
Imagination
Can be
A nasty little liar.

this is. very unsettling but also very very good

This is one of my longer ones, but any feedback helps!

I clamp down my teeth
Struggling to breathe
Trying to keep my tears beneath
My eyes as they pool
Like small, salty lakes
My heart pounds
As it breaks
From the sheer force
Of crying
I bite down
On my blanket
To stop the pound
My heart makes
As it shatters
Taking every ounce I have
Away from my embrace
Till' I feel empty
As my heart
Shatters into a million pieces

Here's a vent poem that I wrote yesterday when my thoughts were too much

Rain
Tapping on my window
Sadness even though there shouldn't be
A feeling with depth but no meaning
No actual reason
Powerful like that rain
I'm trying to fight it
I can't
That refresh button like a drug
Others problems to cover my own
Helping by breaking my own soul
Over and over again
Cause I'm gold but he wants silver
And I need to be okay with that
I can't
Slipping through my fingers like sand
I should have grabbed it
At least tried to catch it
I didn't
And now I just have to pay the price
That feeling
Spreading black ink through my heart
Infiltrating my veins
Mixing with my blood and dripping out as I break
Into a thousand pieces
It's not like I can help it
The ink does what the ink wants
Black tears, black blood, black everything
Filling my brain
I can't think clearly anymore
Thoughts poisoned
Silence have never been so lonely before
Everything is poisoned by
His ink
Drawing a fake world in front of my eyes
Scenarios that excist only in my head
Only to slowly break me down
Blurring my vision from what's real
Making me miss something that I never had
Darkness is evil
Because it doesn't come as grey
It's evil because it kills all the light
It's always there and it never leaves
Keeps you company
Even though you're alone
But I don't wanna be alone any more
The happy ones are sometimes the saddest
The sadness takes breaks
But it never ever
Actually
Leaves

Coal black cat

Tiptoe crawling through the night
I didn’t mean to give you fright
Through the dark alleys I creep
I’m too scared to get much sleep
Hungry, I go to your mat
It’s just me, the coal black cat

Once again I’m shooed away
I hope to live another day
The calico, the Siamese
Unlike me, to you, they please
Is it because my furs so black
Is this why you don’t love me back

The sun will rise, another day
The little girls go out to play
They’re smiles and laughter from above
Why can’t these girls show me some love
A girl pets me, it’s just one pat
Because she loves the coal black cat

My 7th grade poetry competition poem

Hateful

Can we go now?
I've got better things to do
Like vandalize nice people's things
Or explode for no reason in particular
Or make promises I can't keep
I hate this place
Are you done yet?
I'm just going to stare at your mouth until it stops moving
I don't have time to listen to you
Come on, hurry up
You're wasting my time here, mom
I hate this world
I know I don't have you forever
Someday everyone I know will die
But I'll think about that later
I can't think right now, man
Let's just go to bed and think a little less, okay?
I hate these people
So many times I've lied
I can't control my mouth so I just shut up
I wish I could stop listening, get away
You slimy little whisperers won't just
Leave me ALONE
I hate being alone