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
22nd Jan 2011 6:31pm
22nd Jan 2011 6:31pm
For the Performer
You stood before me in line
So maybe you should go ahead of me
I can’t make up my mind
So maybe you should go instead of me
I wish were like the rest
Reciting their words so readily
But my heart is beating in my chest
And my lungs are breathing heavily
I guess nervousness just got the best of me
My mind is moving faster than the rest of me
But what makes you feel this way
Is it because you’re insecure?
Is it because you’re afraid?
Afraid people will laugh at you afraid you’ll...
So maybe you should go ahead of me
I can’t make up my mind
So maybe you should go instead of me
I wish were like the rest
Reciting their words so readily
But my heart is beating in my chest
And my lungs are breathing heavily
I guess nervousness just got the best of me
My mind is moving faster than the rest of me
But what makes you feel this way
Is it because you’re insecure?
Is it because you’re afraid?
Afraid people will laugh at you afraid you’ll...
835 reads
1 Comment
DARK POEM
Published
22nd Jan 2011 6:29pm
22nd Jan 2011 6:29pm
When Friendship Fails
When friendship fails
And your best friend bails
Then you become lost
like a ship with no sails
Floating in a dark sea of dread
With dead memories in your head
Decaying
Youre praying
Praying that you'l get out of this alive
And try to survive
So that love, again, could thrive
But it seems youll end up staying
And you dont know how you got there
All you know is life is not fair
And you try to work...
And your best friend bails
Then you become lost
like a ship with no sails
Floating in a dark sea of dread
With dead memories in your head
Decaying
Youre praying
Praying that you'l get out of this alive
And try to survive
So that love, again, could thrive
But it seems youll end up staying
And you dont know how you got there
All you know is life is not fair
And you try to work...
903 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
22nd Jan 2011 4:17am
22nd Jan 2011 4:17am
Solitary Man
Often I sit and wonder why
A chance for love always passes me by
Maybe it’s because im too nice of a guy
The kind that won’t cheat
The kind that won’t lie
But the kind that gets trampled
Every time
And my heart says go ahead fall in love again
If you dare
This cycles gotta end somewhere
Cuz this shit aint fair
So I just go through each day waiting for the time
When I am blessed with a love so pure so sublime
But till then it’s just a dream
And ill just be what I am...
A chance for love always passes me by
Maybe it’s because im too nice of a guy
The kind that won’t cheat
The kind that won’t lie
But the kind that gets trampled
Every time
And my heart says go ahead fall in love again
If you dare
This cycles gotta end somewhere
Cuz this shit aint fair
So I just go through each day waiting for the time
When I am blessed with a love so pure so sublime
But till then it’s just a dream
And ill just be what I am...
902 reads
5 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
22nd Jan 2011 4:12am
22nd Jan 2011 4:12am
Monsters in the Mirror
Monsters live in the mirror
I see them every day
I can’t see my reflection
Cuz there always in the way
Silently they’re haunting me
With there lies they’re taunting me
Making me believe
That no ones ever really wanting me
There’s a man in the mirror that’s a stranger to me
I feel like he may even be a danger to me
And I think its even stranger to see
The mirror man and me do not always agree
This man is but a mirrored mirage
Put together like a...
I see them every day
I can’t see my reflection
Cuz there always in the way
Silently they’re haunting me
With there lies they’re taunting me
Making me believe
That no ones ever really wanting me
There’s a man in the mirror that’s a stranger to me
I feel like he may even be a danger to me
And I think its even stranger to see
The mirror man and me do not always agree
This man is but a mirrored mirage
Put together like a...
975 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
21st Jan 2011 7:14pm
21st Jan 2011 7:14pm
New Awakenings
Like seeks like, yet the allure of opposites attracts and ignites the
feelings erupting from deep inside illuminating the nefarious night of
the soul, stripping us bare in order to repair the tear in time and
space before love vanishes without a trace, creating new awakenings, new
beginnings, new middles, and new endings, so you don’t even know where
one thing begins and another one ends so you just start all over again
and pretend you know what you’re doing but still end up arguing with
yourself wondering if you’re doing the right thing while waiting for an...
feelings erupting from deep inside illuminating the nefarious night of
the soul, stripping us bare in order to repair the tear in time and
space before love vanishes without a trace, creating new awakenings, new
beginnings, new middles, and new endings, so you don’t even know where
one thing begins and another one ends so you just start all over again
and pretend you know what you’re doing but still end up arguing with
yourself wondering if you’re doing the right thing while waiting for an...
891 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
21st Jan 2011 7:12pm
21st Jan 2011 7:12pm
What Is Love
What is love?
It’s a pain in the ass
When your heart gets shattered
Like a piece of glass
What is love?
It’s a waste of my time
To do what she did to me should be a crime
What is love?
I don’t have a clue
One minute you’re dancing
Next you’re singin the blues
What is love?
Simply this:
Living
On
Voracious
Emptiness
...
It’s a pain in the ass
When your heart gets shattered
Like a piece of glass
What is love?
It’s a waste of my time
To do what she did to me should be a crime
What is love?
I don’t have a clue
One minute you’re dancing
Next you’re singin the blues
What is love?
Simply this:
Living
On
Voracious
Emptiness
...
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1 Comment
DARK POEM
Published
21st Jan 2011 4:27am
21st Jan 2011 4:27am
Vacant Dreams
I hate these things
That cruel fate brings
Flying out from the pit
With flaming wings
Out of Pandora’s Box
It springs
Like a jack-in-the-box
From your darkest dreams
Where nobody can hear you scream
In my heart are many vacancies
That I fill with vacant dreams
These broken dreams are breaking me
Can someone please awaken me?
Fond memories escaping me
Your voice is gently raping me
Taking me to that vacant sea
Of lost...
That cruel fate brings
Flying out from the pit
With flaming wings
Out of Pandora’s Box
It springs
Like a jack-in-the-box
From your darkest dreams
Where nobody can hear you scream
In my heart are many vacancies
That I fill with vacant dreams
These broken dreams are breaking me
Can someone please awaken me?
Fond memories escaping me
Your voice is gently raping me
Taking me to that vacant sea
Of lost...
913 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
21st Jan 2011 4:21am
21st Jan 2011 4:21am
Who Killed Me
As my life is snatched away from me
A mystery is born
The one to blame for this tragedy
Is amongst the ones who mourn
I have to solve this mystery
Although I’m just a ghost
And ill make sure the one that did this
Is the one who mourns the most
At the fall of dusk
My life is dust
Swept away by deaths black broom
To the dust bin of forgotten ones
Waiting for the tomb
Silent and invisible I glide around the room
Now’s the...
A mystery is born
The one to blame for this tragedy
Is amongst the ones who mourn
I have to solve this mystery
Although I’m just a ghost
And ill make sure the one that did this
Is the one who mourns the most
At the fall of dusk
My life is dust
Swept away by deaths black broom
To the dust bin of forgotten ones
Waiting for the tomb
Silent and invisible I glide around the room
Now’s the...
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2 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
20th Jan 2011 6:37pm
20th Jan 2011 6:37pm
Free
I soar high on black wings of indigenous idiosyncrasy
And dive deep into the precipice of esoteric erudition
Making my way out of the Babylonian wastelands
Finding adventure in the monotonous miasma of daily life
Rebuilding the inoperative voice of the forsaken spirit
Entering a new mindset of judicious perspicacity to find
Everythings meant to be. Just like me... I am free
And dive deep into the precipice of esoteric erudition
Making my way out of the Babylonian wastelands
Finding adventure in the monotonous miasma of daily life
Rebuilding the inoperative voice of the forsaken spirit
Entering a new mindset of judicious perspicacity to find
Everythings meant to be. Just like me... I am free
1061 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Jan 2011 6:36pm
20th Jan 2011 6:36pm
The Nothingness
I hate this feeling
But its all i know
Living inside of me
I feel it start to grow
Reaching into my brain
With a pain i cant explain
Burning me inside
Driving me insane
The worst kind of pain to feel is really self inflicted
It hurts too much to love her
but i cant stop cuz im addicted
Does she have any idea what shes doing to me?
Shes killing me
Everything i own means nothing
So id trade it all willingly
Just to have her to myself and drain the darkness...
But its all i know
Living inside of me
I feel it start to grow
Reaching into my brain
With a pain i cant explain
Burning me inside
Driving me insane
The worst kind of pain to feel is really self inflicted
It hurts too much to love her
but i cant stop cuz im addicted
Does she have any idea what shes doing to me?
Shes killing me
Everything i own means nothing
So id trade it all willingly
Just to have her to myself and drain the darkness...
820 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Jan 2011 8:13am
20th Jan 2011 8:13am
The Friend Zone
I always think i'm gonna make it to the end zone
But instead I just get stuck in the friend zone
The pretend zone
Pretending everything’s alright
But then again I just might
Fall apart from my plight
The friend zone
Where there’s no end in sight
To this darkest of nights
Walking around in circles
Trying to find the light
But ill just end up right…
Back in the friend zone
And until the end of time
When I’m declined
...
But instead I just get stuck in the friend zone
The pretend zone
Pretending everything’s alright
But then again I just might
Fall apart from my plight
The friend zone
Where there’s no end in sight
To this darkest of nights
Walking around in circles
Trying to find the light
But ill just end up right…
Back in the friend zone
And until the end of time
When I’m declined
...
8098 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Jan 2011 8:01am
20th Jan 2011 8:01am
Desert Heart
She appeared unto me as if a mirage
In my desolate desert heart
I thirst for her love
My radiant dove
But alas my soul is parched
If she could only trust
the possibility of us
Shed quench my thirsty soul
Then id become whole
Lest my heart crumbles into dust
I tried to resist her lure
But my strength could not endure
Who knew love could cause one so much stress
Buzzards overhead they soar
...
In my desolate desert heart
I thirst for her love
My radiant dove
But alas my soul is parched
If she could only trust
the possibility of us
Shed quench my thirsty soul
Then id become whole
Lest my heart crumbles into dust
I tried to resist her lure
But my strength could not endure
Who knew love could cause one so much stress
Buzzards overhead they soar
...
1522 reads
11 Comments
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