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!
LOVE POEM
Published
26th Oct 2012 00:03am
26th Oct 2012 00:03am
Cupids Fool
Cruel Cupid with his arrows sharp,
Played my heartstrings like a harp.
It tickled him to see me fall
Into love's wide open jaws.
No greater torment can there be
Than to love, so desperately,
someone who will not love you back.
What could cause more pain than that?
I rue the day i first beheld
Her beauty as my spirit swelled
Within me. Turning me into
Another one of Cupids Fools!
Played my heartstrings like a harp.
It tickled him to see me fall
Into love's wide open jaws.
No greater torment can there be
Than to love, so desperately,
someone who will not love you back.
What could cause more pain than that?
I rue the day i first beheld
Her beauty as my spirit swelled
Within me. Turning me into
Another one of Cupids Fools!
874 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Oct 2012 11:12pm
19th Oct 2012 11:12pm
Cold Yesterdays
I am saying goodbye
To a bittersweet lie
As it leaves its lingering taste
Every moment of bliss
From a clandestine kiss
Snatched away by the fingers of fate
I will try to forget
And climb out of this pit
But i digged it deeper than hell
Where the brightness of day
Cannot reach where i lay
And the heavens cannot hear me yell
Someone toss me some rope
For the longer i mope
The more i am wasted away
When i breath the fresh air
I will no longer dare
To return to my cold yesterdays
To a bittersweet lie
As it leaves its lingering taste
Every moment of bliss
From a clandestine kiss
Snatched away by the fingers of fate
I will try to forget
And climb out of this pit
But i digged it deeper than hell
Where the brightness of day
Cannot reach where i lay
And the heavens cannot hear me yell
Someone toss me some rope
For the longer i mope
The more i am wasted away
When i breath the fresh air
I will no longer dare
To return to my cold yesterdays
759 reads
3 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
17th Oct 2012 11:13pm
17th Oct 2012 11:13pm
The Shade
When i look back now its not so bad
You cannot lose what you never had
And though ill miss those tricky days
Something placed within me stays
Something deep within me prays
That time would just erase her face
A counterfeit kiss is sweet somedays
But always leaves a bitter taste
The time you feed into a lie
Will always end up as a waste
Sometimes we have to say goodbye
To keep up with lifes quickening pace
We can laugh at the mistakes we made
When lemmons turn to lemonade
and when the battle scars all fade ...
You cannot lose what you never had
And though ill miss those tricky days
Something placed within me stays
Something deep within me prays
That time would just erase her face
A counterfeit kiss is sweet somedays
But always leaves a bitter taste
The time you feed into a lie
Will always end up as a waste
Sometimes we have to say goodbye
To keep up with lifes quickening pace
We can laugh at the mistakes we made
When lemmons turn to lemonade
and when the battle scars all fade ...
793 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
17th Oct 2012 10:54pm
17th Oct 2012 10:54pm
The Knife
I am one of the ones who fell in love
And never made it out alive
I fell into bed
And bumped my head
And only insanity survived
A ghost of what i was remained
Scince i crawled into your arms and died
Out of lust i built my grave
And with love i am revived
So now ill send you on your way
To snuff out someone elses life
Ill forge a new heart out of clay
The better to escape the knife
And never made it out alive
I fell into bed
And bumped my head
And only insanity survived
A ghost of what i was remained
Scince i crawled into your arms and died
Out of lust i built my grave
And with love i am revived
So now ill send you on your way
To snuff out someone elses life
Ill forge a new heart out of clay
The better to escape the knife
860 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
25th Jul 2012 9:28am
25th Jul 2012 9:28am
If Only
If only life were like a movie
Then i would have made her mine
I would have swept her off her feet
With a sweet poetic rhyme
i would have looked into her eyes
And told her how deeply i felt
And then she would reply
That my words caused her to melt
And then we would embrace
And share a passionate kiss
But the fact that i must face
Is that real life is not like this
In fact its quite contrary
It seems in movies love is real
But in real life imaginary
And sweet words go on ignored
By the one that i...
Then i would have made her mine
I would have swept her off her feet
With a sweet poetic rhyme
i would have looked into her eyes
And told her how deeply i felt
And then she would reply
That my words caused her to melt
And then we would embrace
And share a passionate kiss
But the fact that i must face
Is that real life is not like this
In fact its quite contrary
It seems in movies love is real
But in real life imaginary
And sweet words go on ignored
By the one that i...
1074 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Feb 2012 7:46pm
2nd Feb 2012 7:46pm
Waking Up Next To You
Waking up next to you..
Its like waking up from the best dream youve ever had only to discover it wasnt a dream at all. its real. youre real. I dont want to leave your side.Oh how dreadful the realization that I have to get up, take a shower, get dressed, brush my teeth, and leave for work.
If only i could bind the hands of time so that i could soak in the moment. hold on to it for as long as i can. breathing you in. Outside the air is cold. But you my love are warm like fresh towels out of the dryer.. so soft.. outside the cold jealous wind tries to steal the warmpth that you give...
Its like waking up from the best dream youve ever had only to discover it wasnt a dream at all. its real. youre real. I dont want to leave your side.Oh how dreadful the realization that I have to get up, take a shower, get dressed, brush my teeth, and leave for work.
If only i could bind the hands of time so that i could soak in the moment. hold on to it for as long as i can. breathing you in. Outside the air is cold. But you my love are warm like fresh towels out of the dryer.. so soft.. outside the cold jealous wind tries to steal the warmpth that you give...
16218 reads
5 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
2nd Feb 2012 4:41pm
2nd Feb 2012 4:41pm
What Im Talking About
Ive got the vision
Do i have the voice?
Ive got a dicision
Do i have a choice?
if a tree falls in the woods
does it make a noise?
can a soul ever return
from beyond the void?
contemplation turns to fustration as unfolding revelations hasten the devistation of a backwards nation for the desecration of all things sacred.
Segregation and degredation takes its toll
A curse on all creation
Every single thing you know
Red ties
White lies
Blue skies turn to gold
Dont try to swim back up the river
Just go on...
Do i have the voice?
Ive got a dicision
Do i have a choice?
if a tree falls in the woods
does it make a noise?
can a soul ever return
from beyond the void?
contemplation turns to fustration as unfolding revelations hasten the devistation of a backwards nation for the desecration of all things sacred.
Segregation and degredation takes its toll
A curse on all creation
Every single thing you know
Red ties
White lies
Blue skies turn to gold
Dont try to swim back up the river
Just go on...
919 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Feb 2012 11:27pm
1st Feb 2012 11:27pm
Plagues of a Jealous Mind
I can’t stop these thoughts from forming in my head
Thoughts of you lying naked in another’s bed
I know that it could just be my imagination
But that doesn’t put an end to my frustration
Now baby you know I was born with a jealous mind
I tend to act irrationally when my hearts on the line
All those sleepless nights I spend
Wondering whose bed you’re in
Are you being a Christian?
Are you out committing sin?
And I start to toss and turn
While the heart within me burns
And my stomach sickly churns ...
Thoughts of you lying naked in another’s bed
I know that it could just be my imagination
But that doesn’t put an end to my frustration
Now baby you know I was born with a jealous mind
I tend to act irrationally when my hearts on the line
All those sleepless nights I spend
Wondering whose bed you’re in
Are you being a Christian?
Are you out committing sin?
And I start to toss and turn
While the heart within me burns
And my stomach sickly churns ...
1055 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
18th Jan 2012 00:24am
18th Jan 2012 00:24am
A letter for Her
I want to be the one you think of
When you see the elderly couple
Sitting side by side; watching days go by.
I want to be the thought that’s in your head
When you’re laying in your bed
About to close your eyes.
I want to be the face you see
In the clouds and in the leaves
Of the tall tall trees;
and puddles in the street.
I want to be that missing puzzle piece
That fits inside your heart with ease
And makes your life complete.
I wish that somehow I could show you
That I can be the one...
When you see the elderly couple
Sitting side by side; watching days go by.
I want to be the thought that’s in your head
When you’re laying in your bed
About to close your eyes.
I want to be the face you see
In the clouds and in the leaves
Of the tall tall trees;
and puddles in the street.
I want to be that missing puzzle piece
That fits inside your heart with ease
And makes your life complete.
I wish that somehow I could show you
That I can be the one...
1321 reads
9 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
18th Nov 2011 00:02am
18th Nov 2011 00:02am
Journey of Words
My head is filled with things to say
But words get stuck in the folds of my brain
Id like to open my mind one day
And free the words that are restrained
They'll bounce around my skull and then
I'll grab a paper and a pen
to round the words back up again
And preserve the message they contain
The message will travel
Unfold and unravel
And settle themselves in another's mind
The words will ignite
Explode and excite
The sleeping thoughts they'll find inside
The thoughts transform themselves into...
But words get stuck in the folds of my brain
Id like to open my mind one day
And free the words that are restrained
They'll bounce around my skull and then
I'll grab a paper and a pen
to round the words back up again
And preserve the message they contain
The message will travel
Unfold and unravel
And settle themselves in another's mind
The words will ignite
Explode and excite
The sleeping thoughts they'll find inside
The thoughts transform themselves into...
879 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
6th Oct 2011 00:02am
6th Oct 2011 00:02am
Crash
This poem is not for you
Im writing this for myself
Because holding these feelings inside
Can not be good for my health
And you will never read this
Because you will never care
And im just left with peices
of what i thought could never tear
It was never meant to last
But whyd it have to end so fast?
You took my heart out for a joy ride
And then ran out of gas
But theres no use in dwelling
on what was in the past
Staring at a faded picture
behind some dusty glass
we'll just let it slip right through our fingers
Let it fall...
Im writing this for myself
Because holding these feelings inside
Can not be good for my health
And you will never read this
Because you will never care
And im just left with peices
of what i thought could never tear
It was never meant to last
But whyd it have to end so fast?
You took my heart out for a joy ride
And then ran out of gas
But theres no use in dwelling
on what was in the past
Staring at a faded picture
behind some dusty glass
we'll just let it slip right through our fingers
Let it fall...
1182 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
27th Sep 2011 10:38pm
27th Sep 2011 10:38pm
Goddess Doom
I buried the memory of her deep inside the back of my mind; underneath the crumpled shrine that still stood as a faded reminder of some long ago tragedy. Im not sure what led me back to this place.. i swore to myself never to return. Yet here i am. A completely different person. Walking down this old path in the dark. Echoes of her voice reverberate from the sad sunken walls. The wind brings the scent of her hair, long lost but never forgotten. the hair on the back of my neck stands straight. A still small voice inside tells me i should turn around and leave this God forsaken place, and the...
933 reads
5 Comments
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