Submissions by RavenofSorrow
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
My name is joseph I discovered I was a poet in 09 and ive been writing ever since. I plan to get my poems published once I feel ive writen enough. I welcome comments and constructive criticism. Hope you enjoy!
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Jul 2016 2:32am
7th Jul 2016 2:32am
You're Only Scratching the Surface
I'm not here to tell you
The things you've heard before
To be another broken record that you just ignore
You seem to be addicted
To a pain that's self inflicted
You think that you have found a cure
But you've found another sickess
Some part of you is reaching out
From the deepest depths of you
The neglected side of life
Is trying to give you a clue
When will you begin to see
The knife is not your friend
Try to penetrate the dark
The scars run deeper than your skin
There is a deeper part of you
That serves a...
The things you've heard before
To be another broken record that you just ignore
You seem to be addicted
To a pain that's self inflicted
You think that you have found a cure
But you've found another sickess
Some part of you is reaching out
From the deepest depths of you
The neglected side of life
Is trying to give you a clue
When will you begin to see
The knife is not your friend
Try to penetrate the dark
The scars run deeper than your skin
There is a deeper part of you
That serves a...
783 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Jul 2015 7:06pm
1st Jul 2015 7:06pm
Today was Tomorrow, Yesterday
Tomorrow, yesterday will be today,
yesterday was today, tomorrow.
Tomorrow never came before
Yesterday still makes me sore
And all I have today is truly borrowed.
yesterday was today, tomorrow.
Tomorrow never came before
Yesterday still makes me sore
And all I have today is truly borrowed.
795 reads
3 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
3rd Feb 2015 5:34pm
3rd Feb 2015 5:34pm
Judge Not
Judge ye not
lest ye be judged
Cleanse your own filthiness
before you spot another's smudge
sow courtesy for those you meet
even bums that walk the street
They are not poor, young one, behold!
Each speck of dust is a mountain of gold!
Abhor ye not their tattered cloths
for they are the fabric of the cosmos!
When you walk past where they lay
Do not turn your head away
Know when you pass their makeshift bed
That you could have been there in their stead.
The rich are never satisfied
always blinded by their pride
If...
lest ye be judged
Cleanse your own filthiness
before you spot another's smudge
sow courtesy for those you meet
even bums that walk the street
They are not poor, young one, behold!
Each speck of dust is a mountain of gold!
Abhor ye not their tattered cloths
for they are the fabric of the cosmos!
When you walk past where they lay
Do not turn your head away
Know when you pass their makeshift bed
That you could have been there in their stead.
The rich are never satisfied
always blinded by their pride
If...
923 reads
3 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
29th Dec 2014 8:44am
29th Dec 2014 8:44am
As the Above
The light of a thousand lamps are one
The dewdrop contains the whole of the sun
The sum is reflected in all of it's parts
The fire is kindled in all of it's sparks
As the above
So the below
Connected through love
In love we all grow
And thus do we know
That the one is the all
And it's love that will free us from every flaw
The dewdrop contains the whole of the sun
The sum is reflected in all of it's parts
The fire is kindled in all of it's sparks
As the above
So the below
Connected through love
In love we all grow
And thus do we know
That the one is the all
And it's love that will free us from every flaw
869 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Dec 2014 7:41pm
10th Dec 2014 7:41pm
Depression
Depression is a choice we make
No one can inflict it upon us
Were fated to make the same mistakes
When failing to see what's beyond us
Emotions are the tools we have
They are not a part of our being
They are the masters of the ones
Who stumble through life without seeing
But if you could calm the seas
And not be moved by every breeze
Then youl cure your minds disease
And reach the center of your being
Thoughts may tug you here and there
And suddenly catch you unaware...
No one can inflict it upon us
Were fated to make the same mistakes
When failing to see what's beyond us
Emotions are the tools we have
They are not a part of our being
They are the masters of the ones
Who stumble through life without seeing
But if you could calm the seas
And not be moved by every breeze
Then youl cure your minds disease
And reach the center of your being
Thoughts may tug you here and there
And suddenly catch you unaware...
957 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
9th Jul 2014 8:19pm
9th Jul 2014 8:19pm
The Things That We Regret
Something's heavy on my soul
My heart it weighs a ton
Consequences take their toll
For a night of harmless fun
Ill be the one to face the truth
When all is said and done
For when your conscience comes for you
There's nowhere left to run
We don't know why we do the things
We wish we wouldn't do
We never stop to think about
The mess it turns into
All the answers that we seek
We haven't found them yet
They must be buried deep beneath
The things that we regret.
My heart it weighs a ton
Consequences take their toll
For a night of harmless fun
Ill be the one to face the truth
When all is said and done
For when your conscience comes for you
There's nowhere left to run
We don't know why we do the things
We wish we wouldn't do
We never stop to think about
The mess it turns into
All the answers that we seek
We haven't found them yet
They must be buried deep beneath
The things that we regret.
938 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
27th Feb 2014 10:07pm
27th Feb 2014 10:07pm
Love Spell
May the forces of nature be combined
Within this spell to make her mine
May our two hearts become entwined
And culminate a love divine
May my hopes and dreams manifest for me
Bound by the strings of destiny
To bring my Lover next to me
To be enjoined in ecstasy
Fire of passion
Winds of change
May love no longer be restrained
Water with care, this fertile soil
To bring forth the fruits of all my toil
Sweet as the smell of scented oil
Ever to blossom never to...
Within this spell to make her mine
May our two hearts become entwined
And culminate a love divine
May my hopes and dreams manifest for me
Bound by the strings of destiny
To bring my Lover next to me
To be enjoined in ecstasy
Fire of passion
Winds of change
May love no longer be restrained
Water with care, this fertile soil
To bring forth the fruits of all my toil
Sweet as the smell of scented oil
Ever to blossom never to...
3990 reads
21 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
14th Feb 2014 7:47pm
14th Feb 2014 7:47pm
A Fancy For A Wayside Fire
Kamadeva on colorful parrot wings
With flowers picked for him by Spring
Swoops down fast from up above
And casts on men a spell of love
As Kamadeva's arrows fly
In vain the mortals try to hide
The pain eternally resides
In those who cling to foolish pride
His bows are made of sugar cane
With a string of honey bees
When pierced it sets the heart aflame
And brings once proud men to their knees
Barbed with longing, winged with pain
Desire forms it's shaft
His arrows are sure to strike...
With flowers picked for him by Spring
Swoops down fast from up above
And casts on men a spell of love
As Kamadeva's arrows fly
In vain the mortals try to hide
The pain eternally resides
In those who cling to foolish pride
His bows are made of sugar cane
With a string of honey bees
When pierced it sets the heart aflame
And brings once proud men to their knees
Barbed with longing, winged with pain
Desire forms it's shaft
His arrows are sure to strike...
924 reads
3 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Jan 2014 10:14pm
30th Jan 2014 10:14pm
the itch
Sometimes life is such a bitch
that death comes along to scratch the itch
the one who from earthly life is unhitched
finds heaven in a six foot ditch
that death comes along to scratch the itch
the one who from earthly life is unhitched
finds heaven in a six foot ditch
962 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Jan 2014 9:53pm
30th Jan 2014 9:53pm
How many more times?
Maybe im wrong to love you
But do i want to be right?
Could it be that im a fool
To cling to you so tight?
How many more times must he hurt you?
Before you can give me a chance?
How many times must you give me the boot
Before you can give me your hand?
How many more time must i cry
As friends and family me watch me die?
By you, my earnest love denied
How many more times must i try?
Maybe i'm just being selfish
Wanting your total submission
But my dear i cant help it
My desire has clouded my vision
I guess i cant...
But do i want to be right?
Could it be that im a fool
To cling to you so tight?
How many more times must he hurt you?
Before you can give me a chance?
How many times must you give me the boot
Before you can give me your hand?
How many more time must i cry
As friends and family me watch me die?
By you, my earnest love denied
How many more times must i try?
Maybe i'm just being selfish
Wanting your total submission
But my dear i cant help it
My desire has clouded my vision
I guess i cant...
1107 reads
7 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Jan 2014 00:35am
30th Jan 2014 00:35am
The free will of destiny..
i was thinking about destiny and free will.. free will means that anything can happen... you can go right or left.. and destiny means that something is bound to happen and there's nothing you can do about it and you were meant to go left all along.. but that's a paradox really.. I mean.. if we have free will then nothing is predetermined.. but that would mean that everything that has happened or will happen is a complete accident that reality as we know it is completely meaningless. we shouldn't even exist.. But we have this inner sense of destiny.. we know this because the word destiny...
976 reads
10 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
1st Nov 2013 9:19pm
1st Nov 2013 9:19pm
Deserted Heart
What apparition is this, that appeareth to me
In this swelteringly hot desolation?
It appears that her face is a shining oasis
A poor lonely travelers' salvation
But do I risk becoming bones
Amongst these dry foreboding stones
For something that may not actually be
But product of insanity?
Or do I keep on heading east
Through the paths of ravenous beasts
Who's gaping mouths and sharpened jaws
Lie waiting for my slightest pause?
Or do I make my journey west
In my...
In this swelteringly hot desolation?
It appears that her face is a shining oasis
A poor lonely travelers' salvation
But do I risk becoming bones
Amongst these dry foreboding stones
For something that may not actually be
But product of insanity?
Or do I keep on heading east
Through the paths of ravenous beasts
Who's gaping mouths and sharpened jaws
Lie waiting for my slightest pause?
Or do I make my journey west
In my...
967 reads
4 Comments
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