forum POEMS post 'em here my friends!

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

tune

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I made a writing prompt in poem form I suppose

these 3 kind of go together

Abandoned

Last night
I dreamed I was a modern knight
And one needed me
So I came and rescued her
As we were escaping, she was crying
Tears of gratitude, spilling and
Glimmering on armor
When we got back, she
Just left
Parents came to pick her up like it was nothing
Red-eyed glance out the back window
And I was left
Just standing there
In dust and ashes, heart still burning
Abandoned
She still thought about me, though she tried to forget
She knew I was true
She almost
Missed me,
almost.
But not enough
She put a crack through
My waking heart,
Two mirrors,
And what could have been, if she had tried again,
Fixed

In The Dark

Last night I looked up
And saw the man in the moon
And I swear
He looked like he was sobbing so hard
He couldn't breathe
Because he looks down and sees us
The men on the earth
And unlike us
He looks up
And sees no light
Nor other stars
Even the sun avoids him
God left the moon in the dark
Because if he tries to step in the light
The earth casts him in darkness

Like You

Last night I tried again
To be someone
I prayed hard
I held my breath and closed my eyes
Like I could switch places
I laid out schemes and plans
A dream to not dream
A plea for an explanation because
I shouldn't be here
I feel like a foreigner, prisoner, liar
I
Have the wrong thoughts sometimes
The wrong words
Wrong wrong beliefs
I want to help
You
I can't help being toxic
A bug from another country,
Forced overseas
A disease-carrying prisoner,
Chained alongside helpless others
Who sees through your blinding eyes and bears all your fictional masks
But whose misplaced heart will
Never be like you

sighs why is there so much school in the world

Drown the way out

do it
do it
do it do it do it
Sick of waiting by the widow in my bed
Patiently gnawing in the back of my head
Bones getting thinner every day
Waiting for someone to look up but zombies don't pray
Tears on my pillowcase remind me of my nightmares
Which are a simple summary of my days spent between my ears
Which are distant dreams of someone coming to find me
Which reminds me again of the present catastrophe:
An ocean of nothing resting inside my pillow
That my head is pressed against, and drifting in through the closed window
That no light gets through, only moldy muteness
That highlights trains of thought, bloody noses , running wrists
Run
Run
Run run run
Pale as a ghost who saw the living
Shaking from every small attempt at surviving
Believe I'll be able to wake up in normal blankets
But really if I do I'll starve without layers of our abyss
Water rolling down my nose lips face
From the black cold wet spraying of that place
Defining epitomes and repeating thoughts
Because I'd rather not learn what I've taught
Stars do shine from below sometimes
But they all go out each time I die
"I'm gonna let it shine!" remember?
But my light went out sometime last winter
Out
Out
Out out out
So I sing sing sing, write write write
Because it brings the end in sight
And what's behind it, rescued souls
Makes it seem like this place isn't too cold
Makes it seem like I can help, get help, get away
But always always I start to feel drops of rain
Because now I'm thinking about how that end would be
If paradise is drowned by my infinite sea
Said the devil will die and be thrown in the lake
But the lake's in everything I make
I'd die for some justice but the devil can't drown
So maybe I should do it

@hollow-boned I love it! it's so descriptive and very creepy, and it really takes me into the poem. I can't really pick a part I liked best, it was very solid all around, you keep the mood in every word, nothing seems like it doesn't fit.

im so late but ty!!

Soooooo I'm no good at poems but… here is my thing. It's shitty and really fucking long but…

"Burning the Ships"

Weigh anchor
Set sail
The ships are leaving harbor.

Trim the topsails
Set the course, and
Lookout in the Crow's nest crying
"We're off!"

The first few days are
Nice.
They are
Sunny.
They are
Perfect.

Then comes a
Storm.
Sails are furled, it's
"All hands on deck!"
The captain roars orders as
The masts sway.

The waves throw the ships
Like little toy boats.
They care nothing for the sailors
Aboard those small ships.

The winds rage
And the storm smashes about
Those little small ships,
Foundering.

Then with a groan, the timbers
Give way.
The first ship
Has sunk.
The first dream
Is gone.

The storm
Ends.
It's wrath
Extinguished.
Blown out like a
Candle.

The valiant little ships
Limp to harbor.
The sailors
Write home.
The captain writes
To command.

The bells clang
And the sailors return
To those gallant
Proud ships.

The captain gives his orders,
And those proud little ships
Must be burned.

The powder is laid
The oil dripping from masts
That did no wrong
Flowing into a hull that only
Did her duty.
And the captain gives the order:
"Light them up."

And we are burning
The ships.
No more shall these
Valiant boats bear
Men across the ocean.

Because the ships
Are burning,
Having done
No wrong.

Like the first,
They founder and
Sink.

The last dreams
Are
Gone.

that's really interesting???

Thanks! I think i was tryna go for some sort of metaphor but like…it didn't end up being a metaphor XD

I can kind of see it. Either way, it's epic.

Lol. Thank you!

Uncertainty

Ashes cool,
Suns set,
But I don’t want to
leave just yet.

Stars will die,
Flesh leaves bone,
and when I go
you’ll be alone.

Seasons change,
Truth leaves doubt,
but I will stay
when the fire burns out.

wow that's awesome!

You know what they say!
They say 'follow your dreams!'
But just who are 'They'?
And what do they mean?

First question's first,
Who is the 'they'?
Who has the power
To decide what we say?

The noble and rich?
The famous and wise?
I don't think I can answer
A question this size!

I don't have an answer
To question one.
But follow your dreams?
That doesn't sound fun!

I once had a dream
About Scooby-Doo.
But it was so weird,
I don't want it to come true!

Maybe 'follow your passions'
Is what should be said,
'Cause no one wants visions
That came with bedhead!

And what about nightmares?
Are those to be chased?
How do I know
which I shouldn't waste?

I hope that I helped,
But now it's time to go.
I suppose there are answers
that you shouldn't know!

Dude that reads like Dr Suess. No offense, it was amazing!! But very similar rhyme scheme to Dr Suess

It does sorta read like Dr Seuss. I really like it, though!

Duuude why would I be offended at being compared to Dr. Suess himself?

…..

Love

“I think I love you.”
That’s what he said,
But I know it’s not true.
With his wandering gaze
And his touch that just barely
Passes outside of a hug
That makes me want to drink chlorine
Rather than say
“I love you too.”
In practice, he had me so distracted
I forgot to hold back
To stay in the middle of the heat,
And I won the race.
Even beating the guys without
The disadvantage of curves.
But then the coach told me
“Good job.
You’re getting better.”
And he didn’t understand
Why I started to cry.

Angel in Disguise
He liked the curly haired girl
But not my straight haired cut
He liked the one with blue eyes
But mine are chestnut
He liked her freckles
But I have none
He liked how tall she was
But I’m below 5’1”
He laughed at all her jokes
But when I say them they are sad
He even loved her braces
But now that I have them, they suddenly look bad
She never liked him back
But I crushed on him for years
He’s still pining after her
But I’m done with all these tears
She’s one of my best friends
I’m nothing but a face to him
He compares her to the sun
And standing next to her I’m dim
She holds her head up high
When I just hang mine down
She floats about the clouds
When I’m trapped in the crowd
He thinks she an angel
When I know otherwise
She’s secretly a devil
I’m an angel in disguise

I tried….

mine is a bit short but here we go,

Amelia ate the alphabet
I think I saw her do it so
and now she's a to z
instead of head to toe.

(I wrote this in third grade so if it's not perfect, that's why)

me too

By the way, @EllieGrace-is-angsty I love your poem. It's much better than anything I have ever written.

this one's abt y'all lonely fucks (i'm lonely fucks) who are either single, in unrequited love, or in an ldr

peak loneliness (which mitski song is this?)

it's peak loneliness to do this.
kids, try this when you're home
alone,
because, inevitably, it'll make you cry.
i push my right hand into
my left,
tender, tender,
with all the gentleness
i can muster.
brains are stupid -
i am looking at them as i'm doing this,
yet my left hand feels like it's being held
and my right hand feels like it's holding
someone else's,
and my mirror-touch synesthesia's jumping in
and multiplying the whole
damn thing
by its empty-shell self.
well, whatever.
it helps the knot in my chest dislodge and
melt.
kids, please don't forget
it's not the real thing -
only a ghost, a gateway drug
to the real deal.
honestly, kids,
don't try this at all.

smiling and crying at the same time

pretty much the mood i had while writing it

Alrighty so I have a song about suicide that I wrote last night and I’m warning you it’s really sad so don’t read it if you can’t handle any more pain atm. (I also split it up into pieces just in case you were second guessing finishing the whole thing