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- all my love, all my life at allpoetry
The hours pass quickly and colors slip past me I wander the stairs and travel - japan at allpoetry
it's only been three days, but I miss him - the bottom line at allpoetry
you get back from the trip and suddenly, you realize your life is lacking something. - for a friend in the asylum at allpoetry
Matthew, I loved you. - you were the quiet one in the midst of all my screaming at allpoetry
you are the worst to have said you loved all my little insecurities, - fail at allpoetry
There is no forgiveness after this, no saving prayer fragrantly offered up - blemished at allpoetry
I want to make you last because I like you more every time - Column: Off to England at allpoetry
trip - my words; your pictures. at allpoetry
I want to leave with you on a long travel to a place where there are no mirrors, - to the friends who leave at allpoetry
This is not a good-bye- though you are leaving and I already miss you, - Will I live another year? at allpoetry
I've spent my life at school. I thought it would be done by now... - fears at allpoetry
I go to my confessional with a private paper to confide in, - a song at allpoetry
I believe in the light Cascading through your hair, - written about you, friend at allpoetry
You remind me to be rooted in myself in spite of what I'm wearing. - paying the bills at allpoetry
I watched you walk in black. I even drove you around Portland once, - At Last. at allpoetry
(Given up and I want none of you; you are all the same now.) - a year ago, I was with you at allpoetry
You were a dark-haired phantom walking towards the bleachers. Was it fate that we were both stuck there? - 4/17/08 I never met your mother at allpoetry
Conclusions leave only shivers - So why stay? Why stay? You do not love me. at allpoetry
There are lines that you cross every day with her as your friend, - 2 AM whining at allpoetry
what used to relieve no longer works; it just colors my hands - You would scold me for this at allpoetry
you are so predictable. you bounce between clouds, so we can only look up and glimpse - envy at allpoetry
Today I saw it; I witnessed - mine at allpoetry
. You are my drug - my affinity to love you at allpoetry
you're never too hard to find... under my mattress here - not a poem. just a stanza to be used later at allpoetry
you're never too hard to find... under my mattress here - I hate him, I hate him, I hate him at allpoetry
1. Do you honestly remember the first air that escaped me, to your ear- - reason at allpoetry
I love you for that sever inside you- your father rudely - Dear Robyn's Countdown at allpoetry
I loved him in a week, in April. 14 months till I see him, - a repetition in my mind at allpoetry
. Things - I want to hold your hand. at allpoetry
I believe in the light cascading down through the strands of your hair and the shadows - the sleep you bring. at allpoetry
I feel a tingling in my joints and in the base of my brain- - the nights of walking at allpoetry
I remember all winter, through march, they tried to coax me out of bed. So worried - you rain. at allpoetry
You avoid my voice. (te pregunto si vas a llamarme para mi cumpleaños? - away from me at allpoetry
very short - tiny whispers at allpoetry
I'll climb under forever - for you. for us. For Them. at allpoetry
I lay in bed. I cannot breathe. - pebble at allpoetry
Once I no longer laid in your arms, I wanted to be a volcano huge - Where I've been all along at allpoetry
I piece together the alphabet with childish phrases, that don't stand for anything but messy scribbles on a page - limbo at allpoetry
I picture my body swinging from a tree, blowing in the breeze... - You. at allpoetry
You are in my locker I put you in there on the first day of school - Sm at allpoetry
There are plenty of other girls to go for, with absent fathers or apathetic mothers. - for bethany; poor bethany at allpoetry
yesterday you told me you needed him crackling voice like water on a heated stove - a children's game at allpoetry
The Holidays will pass; No more niece to distract. - quotation collage at allpoetry
He keeps asking me what's going to happen, expecting the world to switch its axis, - Column: try #1 revised [please read, I need advise on how to make it better.... or maybe there's no hope for it?] at allpoetry
for a writing group, "Women's Literary Union," we have to write something (3-5 pages) on the topic of whether or not good/bad experiences are created by our point of view.
there are many different aspects to the topic, and I've started writing li - prisoner at allpoetry
this winter has hardly even begun, yet it feels colder - to my parents at allpoetry
It feels like you don't understand what it's like. - stop touching what you don't want to hold at allpoetry
you really think it's something to be glamorized? a display of sad clowns to make the people feel guilty for laughing at the jokes? - release collage at allpoetry
split end which number? - parade at allpoetry
I moved through feeling, stripped of shelter, I stepped beyond despair - Column: jotting down stuff.... not finished or edited... horrible... needs critiquing. at allpoetry
I've added to it.
I need to edit it insanely, but first I needed to get it off the scraps of loose-leaf paper and onto a computer screen where I can look at it clearly. - freight train at allpoetry
I'm shaking with anger (like he was with cold and self-control that night spent on the roof) the adrenaline drowns me - the insatiable years at allpoetry
It is as though the fifteen years prior were only preparation- a holding-on waiting period - the swing of it at allpoetry
at the top of the pendulum I have the longest fall to shatter; to teeter. - Column: try #3 at allpoetry
outline:
story of him
show possible ways to view the whole experience
- Column: try #2 [outline] at allpoetry
refer to try #1 "initial blurb"
- Column: try #1... [rough draft, not finished...] at allpoetry
for a writing group, "Women's Literary Union," we have to write something (3-5 pages) on the topic of whether or not good/bad experiences are created by our point of view.
there are many different aspects to the topic, and I've started writing li - flying in make-believe at allpoetry
I soar to levels I haven't caught glimpse of for months and I dance - inevitable at allpoetry
I brush aside the dust to watch the scabs slowly seeping as I press them; - Breathing or dead. at allpoetry
The languages I learn can't help me explain the smoke worming inside me. I don't know how I let you gain all control or why it keeps biting every time I've begun to ignore. I curled up in your skin and mirrored it to - fire II. at allpoetry
with a burn, I don't cry I curve my straight line - fire I. at allpoetry
I crawl back behind the sun, smelling my own breath there is no crying for empty ears to run from - reach at allpoetry
there is no handle to flush the things repeating, forming landscapes like the curls - gravitational breakfast at allpoetry
. . - mother, I let him in... and he will never come back out at allpoetry
My eyes form double zeros like the sizes of your friends' jeans - I think I may even at allpoetry
Sleeping with him again inside my glazed mind, I fear I may finish this long paragraph of mine - unfinished at allpoetry
he gave comfort and worshiped me, so with him I could sleep, - el coche at allpoetry
we had the same twinkle you went out to play; the cops sent word at 10-1 - aire at allpoetry
I need to write you down, to place you out on paper but when I think, I throw up on the page - qué será será at allpoetry
if it's supposed to be, will it just fall into place? or do I need to be proactive - understanding what it feels like at allpoetry
...because I stare at pictures until my eyes ache because I speak like a two-year-old. - sin ti at allpoetry
I want you to show interest and to care just a fraction the amount - failure at allpoetry
I thought "this time..." I'd be able to do it: go longer than three months - insecure at allpoetry
If you say I'm okay, I'll know you're a liar, because insecurity is an understatement. - navy blue at allpoetry
(I.) I tried to wake myself up in mid-dream last night to spare my soul from sinking lower, - all the best, and I wish I were better at allpoetry
I hope you get done all you had to do and that when the day is through, she'll be there with you - 1/2 Black, 50% Mexican at allpoetry
I can't say I never think about you, and I'd be lying to myself if I thought I could be clean ever again, - nosotros at allpoetry
you'll be my bottle of wine and i'll press my lips to you cold - You take one step, and I'll walk the rest. at allpoetry
I'm frantic and can't sit still anymore as the heat from the computer swarms around the room - musician at allpoetry
I wish I could compose a song One for us ranging from major key to minor - murderer at allpoetry
I miss every fragment of simplicity we had. It wasn't much, but compared to now, it's a heaven. The kind you experience in a dream, and upon waking, immediately regret ever opening your eyes. - universal garden at allpoetry
Le Jardin Fruitier - moon lady at allpoetry
You struck me flat tonight; sent me into convulsions- - glutton at allpoetry
a little ditty - monster at allpoetry
You're not the only one who turns me into a monster, but you are the one I can't shout at - saturated at allpoetry
I am a tree: a great big fat one that is merely nothing more than wood and dry roots, - first-class at allpoetry
a family with a baby; it wails. - rockslide at allpoetry
Every day, as it slowly fades into night; approaches then passes the hours you're at home, - quitter II: wishes at allpoetry
qutter--- light, personal, & over-all-retarded. - quitter I : all things good and bad at allpoetry
It's getting worse and worse; harder and harder to get out of bed after - upon hating how I react to everything at allpoetry
I didn't know I could still be thrown over the edge - grating fingernails on a photograph at allpoetry
that picture represented all the kisses given when my back was facing, - God at allpoetry
Self-infliction - a birthday present at allpoetry
It's almost your birthday, and I'm debating whether or not to give you a present. - relishing your knowledge of me at allpoetry
I have never told anyone which part on my body I like the most, - symbol (written for lady gaia) at allpoetry
I feel different today; I knew excitement when we found out, - remind me at allpoetry
a voice against my ear costing twice my age
per minute. - separation anxiety [prose] at allpoetry
the sky begins to lighten from black to navy to gray to white - a sickening let-down at allpoetry
I get dizzy, my arms join my feet, - feminine emotion at allpoetry
heat circulating up up through my fingers and shoulders - the screaming in my chest at allpoetry
a very long rambling with the occasional swearword. - anti-social at allpoetry
I go to bed in the early hours of the morning with plans for bettering myself - a thought. at allpoetry
. . - Today I practiced being your wife at allpoetry
Today I practiced being your wife. I shaved my legs in the shower - sucely at allpoetry
dust made me shades darker, - poets at allpoetry
I forgot the words - el cielo at allpoetry
Cuándo el cielo sonrió hacia abajo en nosotros, - I think about it at allpoetry
I break my promise to never waste another second / and I / think about it. / I'd like to say I saw it coming, / was prepared / and expectant-- on top of everything, / but I still feel the burning i - diary II at allpoetry
I don't even know what to say-- / you make me smile / and my teeth don't permit negativity / to penetrate through them / to you - - diary at allpoetry
I'm falling backwards too quickly to breathe and / I can't find anything to slow me or anything to distract me / to ease my mind. / my vision is diminishing / with nothing wet to soothe the ache / yet it's not dry - ocean at allpoetry
some say blue / others, green / clear, / or gray / but water is its own color / eliminating mother and father, / and it slid over us / colliding / twisting / his dark skin / with / my tre - the doubts about fame at allpoetry
Do I have to wait for something extraordinary to happen- / maybe a death? / Or maybe I'd have to come from a fruitless beginning / to make a name for myself. / Will I be a tragic escapee writing letters to the pu - a rebuke for giving us our reputation at allpoetry
All it takes for you to crumble, / slink back into shadows with infants carrying the face / of the enemy / is a stern look- / a muttered word, / or a name thrown. / So you win a back-handed kiss - home education at allpoetry
Your alarm sounds and a light wakes up, / bringing two strong hands, a warm chest, / maybe a nipple to suck on / or a dry set of clothes. / Humming. / You'll close your eyes f - good morning sun at allpoetry
I woke up and my parents were gone-- / my mother shopping for food; / my father running miles in his running shoes. / [I'm my mother's daughter.] / My sister kissed me on the cheek-- / coming from work, / on - empty at allpoetry
I'd do almost anything / to feel your facial hair brush against the skin under my nose. / have you scoop me up and hold me / - / a brace around my chest bones; / keeping me together. / Hear your breath in my - sexist at allpoetry
not many men write; / not many would know what to say because / most don't think anything on their own. / Like animals, they do what they must to survive / and they perform their tasks like robots / and in - my limbs ache at allpoetry
My chin in my hand, / a bird crows / the grass grows / still I sit / I stare, I think. / the dog whines / my family eats, I don't taste / I wait. / the phone rings, it / isn't you / I sit. - the mother of my mother at allpoetry
In a word, you are life / in all its color, with meaning, but genuine. / You radiate / with honest emotions / but descriptions don't weigh anything / until / introductions are made, / so - oh to just disappear: II at allpoetry
I sat down / the location unimportant and began to / experience / what a deer must feel / when he hears the crack of a stick behind him / jolts of some electric punch coursed / from my shoulders to my hand - oh to just disappear: I at allpoetry
No, it's neither sunny nor dark; / it is / its own forecast / with some navy and fog, / mostly a gray place / too far to see or predict, / but so close / it tickles / - letter to a baby: to the peddler inside my sister's stomach at allpoetry
I knew you / before you had time to grip oxygen on your own. / A precious stone cocooned in a body / more delicate. / Your arrival has been like that of a train far away on the tracks, / when it - wish: wish at allpoetry
You make it a whole lot harder than I'm used to / because your name comes up / and I remember how long it took me to prounounce it correctly, / but you didn't get tired of coaching. / And your accent still makes me gi - Column: gone for a bit at allpoetry
- of fat and skinny and [I'm everything] in-between. at allpoetry
I see a girl every day / with large calf muscles / to steady the weight between her hips and ribs. / with wide eyes, I asked her / when she'd be due. / "-but, / I'm not pregnant.." / we both answered i - art at allpoetry
beauty and life, / but can ink draw breaths-- / roam freely from page to mouth? / can lines form the shapes / in the back of my eye-sockets / hiding under layers / of mucus and microscop - what i hear at allpoetry
. / questioning / and disappointment.. / and let-downs lead to more questions. - premature mother & child at allpoetry
I felt you crawl, / tinier than the pinprick they used to subdue me; / and I remember how I had felt happy at first / but later / the sledge hammers cracked their weight into my skull, / and my - all i ever wanted was to leave. at allpoetry
Disappointment / and hanging around, and / I don't want to stay here / cleaning my room to destroy it and I'm ambitious / but lose interest, / and I'm here still, / swallowing my hateful words / and eating - a new dimmension at allpoetry
I sing beauty and you're my inspiration as / I lie on my spine, / an upside-down tree waves to me / through a tinted window / and the sky doesn't try to hide its shadowed face / when I grasp it - becoming my biggest fear at allpoetry
when will it stop? / when I'm twelve times my worth? / so they can accept the label my mind has been / Screaming out / for years? / So I can walk in the daylight to a store / and purchase the pills I us - [ I've accumulated ] at allpoetry
I've accumulated / a few years and the burden of coaxing my mouth to open for inhales, / but sometimes I wonder / if I should keep myself shut forever / and if it would be so bad / if my name were written on a list - indifference at allpoetry
my hair tickles my back for the first time in years, / with a new reaction, / and I don't show my mother-- / my head stretched back. / She has eyes and can see for herself, like she discovered everything else. - the most elusive pronoun at allpoetry
1.i / he was a whole bed set, straight from the dryer / and inviting me in / 2.i / he was made of metal, / and magnets grew through my skin / 1.ii / I fell off the cliff, / a - boulders tied to my feet at allpoetry
hope is the thing with feathers / flying out of view / casting shadows I can't escape from / belly-down, / and I stay put. / - - time at allpoetry
first night away from home and I feel like I am choking / on the realization that can only occur / after such a night / as all last week's. / 8 days and scrapes are healing. / Denying how the roo - worship at allpoetry
I smelled nice and had thoughts / that drove me to where / I used to have no hair. / Before Y's I had two X'es and I've / grown some, but remain. / I was aware / before I knew the name and eve - new beginning at allpoetry
Oh, / to believe in reincarnation.. / to have / second chances or delay the inevitable. / what can she whisper / if nothing will come close? will we / still see her / when the sky mo - whim at allpoetry
well / i find myself in doorways / never making up my mind, never dishing / the correct excuse. / but master, it gets hard to follow / ---yes. / and sir, I can't breathe / can't speak too w - Column: excuse. at allpoetry
read my friends - I could hear myself slipping at allpoetry
I can hear myself slipping, / my breath drifting even further / away and out of my own; / there was / is / no way to prepare for something inevitable like this. / Waiting / for the - plane at allpoetry
I'm able / and I accept / the correct allottment of spoonfuls / without numbering / or crying. / I leave my eyelashes blonde, / and my eyes without night; / the color / of milk. / - I wish you my boyfriend at allpoetry
I / wish you smile reflections / and arm hair close enough to tickle your stomach. / I wish you foot rubs / and twice your body heat under the covers / and after you've been taken, I wish - por fin, la verdad. at allpoetry
You'll never know what I've done- / to others / with others / what I've dreamt of- / who I've / encountered; / completed / destroyed / abandoned / How I've grown / a - smoke at allpoetry
. / I am a / room with no doors / a fire / never catching / yet / collapsing / and deflating / till I may / become air and / take myself away... - I've matured since then. at allpoetry
I used to sit a slave / to my fellow Royalty-- / Casting out demons, / but the log blurred our vision; / until they, / my loathed lovers, / strutted in a duel / a - II. secretos at allpoetry
toes / could whisper / if our lips tingled back to sleep / your soft, / tan / with my scar-pink-- / Barefoot; / and / I never knew where to go.. - I. language-barrier at allpoetry
los ojos / me miran y no puedo poner / este / beauty into words... - Oh to be spotless. (the red, white and blue) at allpoetry
Oh, / to be spotless for longer / than fourteen days / for the first time since age twelve; / Helium feigned replacement / until heavy urine / transformed the brooding red / to a more dreaded - 13 times at allpoetry
God loves a cheerful giver; / [bum. bum. bum.] / you looked pretty gleeful to me / dishing out / consequential responsibilities. / And regret is sin's - rat's nest at allpoetry
well I hope you feel / like a rat in a sewer: / floating around with your fellow garbage / and urine; / you never deserved a second glance / to identify you as the shape / lur - cilica at allpoetry
he polluted me / until I disintegrated down / to shell fragments / / / littering the beach for you to find / and scour your teeth with. - Quad Me Nutrit, Me Destruit at allpoetry
Syringes full of failed attempts / and locked plexiglass windows / [drips insignificance in nutrition labels] / / I'm swimming in my paper gown again, / sitting on cold metal / as they test my reflexes to fight b - venetian blinds at allpoetry
today someone asked me / a question I can't answer / and it sliced through the blinds, / exposing stains / and it crawled / like a tick / undiscovered / behind my ear-- attaching itself - my lover, as a spider at allpoetry
My lover, as a spider / sits in limbo; / lays in silence / waiting for me. / And I wonder as my shoe / sinks deeper, / where did all this anger come from? / - I hate humor at allpoetry
I hate meter, / and I hate verse; / To rhyme like this / is a deadly curse. / / Gouge out my eyes / before I read, / Another poem like this / that sows the seed / / Of anger in my brain. / I can't sus - powder at allpoetry
The paint on the shed is old, cracked / and flaking / just like the skin which still / billows out around me like the / pancaked gelatin they present us with / on identical spoons, - balancing act at allpoetry
Our friendship / is a top-heavy, tower on wheels / that won't resurrect legs because / all forms of growth hormones got destroyed / when I finally realized I don't need / your permission - 3 cities on a hill. at allpoetry
I. / / I stand here with only one foot covered, / like even my socks couldn't decide / whether or not to leave, / / and my skin inhales steam every other day, / but the dirt I call makeup never completely - reward at allpoetry
I keep my cunt clean and polished / / every time I present / my face to the public / / -- / / just in case a boy, / or girl, / or man, / or woman / / calls me pretty. / / / / / / - in another lifetime at allpoetry
I wonder what it would be like / if the baby had your eyes / / when he, or she, / finally arrives; / / and if I'd think of you / in the last throws when / my husband enters through me. / / / Will - running. at allpoetry
from airborn to impact / shattering through / my toes, / / heels, / / knees, / / lungs expand but can't grow / like my reflection / / / hands in loose fists / awkwardly aid momentum / / - I'll decide- whether or not I'll be tied down. at allpoetry
Well I wouldn't mind if I never talked to you again, / because as long as things are wrong, / I'll have a fresh poem on my tongue, / and I don't stay down / since I learned --on my own / how to appe - The storm results in calm, for me. at allpoetry
I have always been / the calm before the storm / gently cooing those I reach to / with hints / and glimpses / at the puncture wounds / that polished wood / s - 17 at allpoetry
Eventually, / / everything breaks- / / Like the cup you dropped / / when my jaw did. / / / .. - "I'm sad, but I pray that I'll see you again." at allpoetry
I'm scared--
because I can't see any further than my nose, - victory at allpoetry
well I find myself
making up excuses to hate you-- - the food on his plate at allpoetry
he sliced
the meat to invisibility-- - blanket at allpoetry
all the times - Column: my trip... at allpoetry
I'll be gone for a little over a week - bench for thinking. at allpoetry
do I scare you?
am I the bully - attention deprivation at allpoetry
}:] - suspended at allpoetry
Last night I
debated whether it was worth it or not-- - baby through a droplet. at allpoetry
i.
water balloon - cause & infect at allpoetry
bunch of rambles........ - crash & burn at allpoetry
. - mono mindset at allpoetry
the hatred, rage, jealousy, anger,
hurt - it scared me to have power at allpoetry
last night
I dreamt you couldn't walk. - you'd place roses at my chin...but i like daisies better. at allpoetry
so much for sleeping---
I Knew it'd be You - take my breath away. at allpoetry
i
. - ballad of a big nothing. at allpoetry
it's lonelier
wherever I turn up- - I'm in this by myself. at allpoetry
so this is what
boxers must feel like-- - [ oh my-- ] at allpoetry
oh my--
what large hands you have. - sensation that I get. at allpoetry
while I sit at my desk,
cool creeps into; - comedian, you. at allpoetry
anyone that claims to "love"
me, - and I'm probably the latter tonight.. at allpoetry
.
and I either - never good enough. at allpoetry
topic= society - one-girl parade at allpoetry
long.... - Red Skelton at allpoetry
. - keep a tight reign on your tongue. at allpoetry
leave the white- the girl has come-
is gone; - my manic. at allpoetry
throw out all my dandelion seeds
I wished too long on- - lung cancer at allpoetry
. - my tiny wrists vs. strong fists. at allpoetry
wishing for color on the other side,
my toes drank of the Red Sea, - dirty fingernails at allpoetry
You promised to help me stand,
but silly me died - spotless mind at allpoetry
. - zip-code. at allpoetry
. - zodiac at allpoetry
. - yak.( n. a stocky, shaggy-haired wild ox) at allpoetry
. - colored me too green. at allpoetry
green--
like my face - crashing at allpoetry
Spiral--
brain has been jostled.
