Submissions by Her_sunshine
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Bound by concern
The first shall be the last
The last shall be the first
The middle will stay where they are
Just another person you will be perfectly happy
Knowing nothing about
I am the mediocre
I am the forgotten populace
I make things happen
While the rest of us worry.
The last shall be the first
The middle will stay where they are
Just another person you will be perfectly happy
Knowing nothing about
I am the mediocre
I am the forgotten populace
I make things happen
While the rest of us worry.
#anxiety
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Valley
A long sleepless night
Newly opened plum blossoms
Falling snow, petals
Newly opened plum blossoms
Falling snow, petals
#spring
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God is powerful
I came to write about my sorrows
I came to get it all out
As the thoughts turned to words
None of it seemed to matter
As if I hadn't a problem
When I was a boy
I could tell you my troubles in an effort
To elicit some comfort and love
Looking back they all seem surreal
Looking back I wonder how I could feel
Today is another day unending and rough
I just want to make it through
I was born in sin and godless
Uncultured upbringing
A pitiless person
As I carve away these chips of wood
I begin to...
I came to get it all out
As the thoughts turned to words
None of it seemed to matter
As if I hadn't a problem
When I was a boy
I could tell you my troubles in an effort
To elicit some comfort and love
Looking back they all seem surreal
Looking back I wonder how I could feel
Today is another day unending and rough
I just want to make it through
I was born in sin and godless
Uncultured upbringing
A pitiless person
As I carve away these chips of wood
I begin to...
#forest
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Bird's eye view
When I was younger
I had a certain crush
I would watch the sun set and
Hope, wish I could talk to her
She was
Someone who went to church
Believed all of it
Helped others and liked it
Growing up soon showed me
That's not who is for you
Never did I stop to think
The girl across the street from her
Is whom I'd love
Someone I never knew existed
Someone I
Ended up not being able to enjoy life
Without
She's everything I never hoped for
Never wished for
If only
I had a certain crush
I would watch the sun set and
Hope, wish I could talk to her
She was
Someone who went to church
Believed all of it
Helped others and liked it
Growing up soon showed me
That's not who is for you
Never did I stop to think
The girl across the street from her
Is whom I'd love
Someone I never knew existed
Someone I
Ended up not being able to enjoy life
Without
She's everything I never hoped for
Never wished for
If only
#learning
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Early
I never intended to
Chase us away
I didn't mean to
Drop all conversation
I'm sorry
I'm sor-
Now I'm repeating myself
I'm- -
These habits of mine
I wish they would go
Find a home
Far away from here
Things haven't been going so well.
Chase us away
I didn't mean to
Drop all conversation
I'm sorry
I'm sor-
Now I'm repeating myself
I'm- -
These habits of mine
I wish they would go
Find a home
Far away from here
Things haven't been going so well.
#morning
#devil
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Relief
After a long walk
Along the cliffside
Hurried by the breeze
Halted by the sunset
I pick up a stone
Rough in my cold had
As the sun dips below the horizon
I drop my gift into the dark depths
Even though no one saw the ripples
I knew somehow
As the stars shone slowly
My efforts were merely mistook
Along the cliffside
Hurried by the breeze
Halted by the sunset
I pick up a stone
Rough in my cold had
As the sun dips below the horizon
I drop my gift into the dark depths
Even though no one saw the ripples
I knew somehow
As the stars shone slowly
My efforts were merely mistook
#water
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Third wheel
I am here
I have things to tell you
Both of you
But I am not here
According to them
Ignore me
Don't laugh at my jokes
Change the subject I brought up
Ask me
Ask me when I will leave
Friends, family
Invisible through and through
I wish I could tell you
All of you
How I felt
But would you hear me?
If you did
Would you care.
I have things to tell you
Both of you
But I am not here
According to them
Ignore me
Don't laugh at my jokes
Change the subject I brought up
Ask me
Ask me when I will leave
Friends, family
Invisible through and through
I wish I could tell you
All of you
How I felt
But would you hear me?
If you did
Would you care.
#denial
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Death, or measuring spoons
This holy stone I hold
That I've plucked
From the
Banks of my shortcomings
As I beg for forgiveness
My tears flow to the ocean
To the bottom
Where they belong
Buried amongst my dead
Once, I had meant to be beyond this
Once is enough, perhaps
That I've plucked
From the
Banks of my shortcomings
As I beg for forgiveness
My tears flow to the ocean
To the bottom
Where they belong
Buried amongst my dead
Once, I had meant to be beyond this
Once is enough, perhaps
#fish
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Under the tree, where I slept.
While it has taken longer than
I would like to admit
The words seem to come slower and
Slower these days
I had a thought or feeling
Maybe an emotion I wanted to convey
Though as my fingers moved to flesh out these
Lines of words
Whatever I meant to say
Vanished
.
Don't listen to me
I only see windmills.
I would like to admit
The words seem to come slower and
Slower these days
I had a thought or feeling
Maybe an emotion I wanted to convey
Though as my fingers moved to flesh out these
Lines of words
Whatever I meant to say
Vanished
.
Don't listen to me
I only see windmills.
#sleep
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Pocket knife
I've moved across the country and back
A few times now though
I never did find what I lost
Thinking it would be in a drawer
In the closet
Under the bed
It took three years to remember where it was
I had left it with you
Didn't I?
On that last drunken night together
The one we didn't know would be our last
So.
Here I am
Unpacking these things I never wanted to look at
Think about
Or deal with again in my life
I finally admit to myself
I must let it go
All of it they tell me ...
A few times now though
I never did find what I lost
Thinking it would be in a drawer
In the closet
Under the bed
It took three years to remember where it was
I had left it with you
Didn't I?
On that last drunken night together
The one we didn't know would be our last
So.
Here I am
Unpacking these things I never wanted to look at
Think about
Or deal with again in my life
I finally admit to myself
I must let it go
All of it they tell me ...
#memories
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Wish
I keep telling myself
People seem happier when I'm not around
Laughter in another room
Silence when I'm there
I keep telling myself
Maybe they don't want you here
Maybe you should be doing something else
Maybe I will
I keep telling myself
Just go away
Go away
They don't want you
I'm sorry for troubling all of you
I'm sorry for where I'm going
People seem happier when I'm not around
Laughter in another room
Silence when I'm there
I keep telling myself
Maybe they don't want you here
Maybe you should be doing something else
Maybe I will
I keep telling myself
Just go away
Go away
They don't want you
I'm sorry for troubling all of you
I'm sorry for where I'm going
#depression
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Somewhere quiet
I want to go
On the coldest day
Where the snow has built up
Overnight
We'll sink knee deep
As we trudge along
I'll fall and sprain a wrist
You'll catch a small cold
Deep into the wood
For one afternoon
Just us
This winter chill
This cold pain
Insignificant in the moment
Deep into the wood
I've come to pay my respects and
You've come
To make sure I get
Home
On the coldest day
Where the snow has built up
Overnight
We'll sink knee deep
As we trudge along
I'll fall and sprain a wrist
You'll catch a small cold
Deep into the wood
For one afternoon
Just us
This winter chill
This cold pain
Insignificant in the moment
Deep into the wood
I've come to pay my respects and
You've come
To make sure I get
Home
#winter
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