Hello Everyone, just thought I'd put up a few of my poems I found last night. As time goes on, I'll be writing a lot more with the intention of putting the words to music (hopefully with my band before they all desert me
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Some of these actually do incorperate rhyme (suprisingly) and I've chosen them as my favorites (for now). Tell me what you think and PLEASE don't be afraid to offer suggestions!
Cold
A cloud of hate engulfs us
There's nowhere left to turn
In this world of heavy choices
Where our hope's been snipped and shorn
Beyond our understanding is
Where spikes and spirals grow
In fields of black roses
That have only thorns to show
In fact this storn is moving
And growing as it may
A long and desprate needle
That pierces the everyday
This mass of heavy nothingness
Will leave you broken spined
Broken and bleeding
With scars as piece of mind
These Hands
From these hands
A form is born --
Sculpted from the gray.
A little pot
To hold a song
And endure well, it may.
In these hands
A heart is held
Delicate and free
Above the rubble
And the mess
For all the world to see.
To these hands,
A dream is dreamt
Though radical -- it's true
building upward
Through the wreck
To make the dream anew
Out of these hands,
A spirit flies--
A feather in the breeze.
An open spirit
That cannot land
For fear that it will freeze.
With these hands,
I touch your skin
Though clammy now, and cold.
I promise with
These very hands
To remember all you've told
With these hands,
I hold a hand
So tiny still -- but soft
A memory
Be sure to know
That love is never lost.
Rainbows
When little raincloud goes to bed
A rainbow wrops around her head
To keep her hair nice and neat
Until the next time that raindrops greet
When little breezes go to school
Rainbow tags along, all cool
Swaggering in her violet step
Hope held tight in cheery grip
Father Sunshine, Mother Moon,
Always end the fun too soon!
Swirling storms must putter out
and leave poor rainbow there to pout
Oh little rainbow, wait for me
Tie up my shoes, so gracefully
Give me a hopeful swagger too
Give me the courage to shine like you!
Best Friends
One has a laugh that can be hear,
From any corner of the world
And though there are many days
When hugs and whispers full of pain
Can block the simle we need so much
I still know I love her
Another's crazy to behold
With jokes that maybe
shouldn't be told
And sometimes we miss eachother
In the day so full of stuff
But I'll never stop tackling her in the hall
Just so she'll know I love her
The third's unique in every way
And with that said, what more can I say?
Sometimes I wonder how she works
And if I'll ever know
all of her quirks
But does it really matter? No --
Because Il'll always love her
We'll keep the secrets of the night
And never will we let a firght
Come between the bonds we've built.
Through thick and thin it will endure
Because we must keep on
Loving us
Other will come, in and out,
Over the years, without a doubt.
In fact, we may even grow apart,
Though, we try not to consider that.
But no matter where we go in life
I know I'll always love them.
last one!!
For My Daddy
Ever since that night, now so far removed
From my thoughts, that scare I remember
The details that would later rent me through
I have missed you
When I put on my make-up every morning,
I remember that you said
"Never forget that you don't need make-up
To be beautiful"
I remember how you taught me
To add hundreds tgether with out giving up
And how long I grinned when I finally got it.
Now I'm doing Calculus.
How many times did you tell me that
"Communication is the key"
and how many times has just talking
Saved me?
You said that if I walked ahead
Led the group up the trail,
That I'd always have time to sit
And just rest.
Do you know how many times I've lost your smile?
Or forgotten the way you tugged on my braid every morning?
Does the loss of me hurt you the way that
Loss has shattered me?
I wonder if you would still be proud
Though I've stumbled on the way
For making choices and finding
me --
It's required sacrifice
I wish you could still walk me to school,
I don't want to sit and drive.
And I cry to think how many times you'll miss
Me walking 'cross the stage
That night when, me so young,
Cancer took you far
Without warning you were gone
And left on me a scar
But life goes on, and Oh!
How I've loved you.