Submissions by TaraElizabeth (Tara Rickman)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Apr 2012 4:37am
7th Apr 2012 4:37am
You Fool
Belittleme
Iknowyouneedto.
Inordertofeedthatbeast
thathasgrowninyou.
Hitmewithwordssocold
I'llgetfrostbite.
Andasyoudothis,knowIwon'ttrytofight.
Don'tlistenwhenIspeak
becausetoyouIamfoolishandfartooweak.
Fartooweaktoopossiblyhaveanopinion
worthconsidering-notevenrevision.
Breakmedown
soyoucanbebuiltup.
Throwmearound
yes,gofullthrottle
andwhenyouaredonegoaheadandhitthebottle.
Butasyoudoyourunjustdeeds
knowthatiwillnevergotomyknees.
YoumaythinkyouareruiningwhoIam
butinrealityIdonotgiveadamn....
Iknowyouneedto.
Inordertofeedthatbeast
thathasgrowninyou.
Hitmewithwordssocold
I'llgetfrostbite.
Andasyoudothis,knowIwon'ttrytofight.
Don'tlistenwhenIspeak
becausetoyouIamfoolishandfartooweak.
Fartooweaktoopossiblyhaveanopinion
worthconsidering-notevenrevision.
Breakmedown
soyoucanbebuiltup.
Throwmearound
yes,gofullthrottle
andwhenyouaredonegoaheadandhitthebottle.
Butasyoudoyourunjustdeeds
knowthatiwillnevergotomyknees.
YoumaythinkyouareruiningwhoIam
butinrealityIdonotgiveadamn....
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1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Apr 2012 4:12pm
6th Apr 2012 4:12pm
The Hurt Hater
Icenotonlyrunsthroughyourveins,
itcoaxesyourvoice.
Annoyancedoesnotjustflowfromyourmouth,
itrevealsitselfinyoureyes.
Arrogancecouldnotbeanymorenoticeablewhenyoustare
itisalsopaintedacrossyourfacebytheexpressionsthere.
Nearbypeoplecoulddrowninyourego
Itissowelldevelopedthatitmakespeopleletgo.
Inacrowdedroomyouseekprey
inalonelyroomyoucannotstay.
Youarenotahumanbeingwhoneedsoxygentobreathe
youneedhurtandgrieffromthosewhoplead.
Pleadforyourmercyandanescapefromyourhatred
butyousimplysmirkandproceedtogetwasted.
Forwhomyouaredrinking,Inonot...
itcoaxesyourvoice.
Annoyancedoesnotjustflowfromyourmouth,
itrevealsitselfinyoureyes.
Arrogancecouldnotbeanymorenoticeablewhenyoustare
itisalsopaintedacrossyourfacebytheexpressionsthere.
Nearbypeoplecoulddrowninyourego
Itissowelldevelopedthatitmakespeopleletgo.
Inacrowdedroomyouseekprey
inalonelyroomyoucannotstay.
Youarenotahumanbeingwhoneedsoxygentobreathe
youneedhurtandgrieffromthosewhoplead.
Pleadforyourmercyandanescapefromyourhatred
butyousimplysmirkandproceedtogetwasted.
Forwhomyouaredrinking,Inonot...
617 reads
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Mar 2012 4:04am
29th Mar 2012 4:04am
I'll Be There
Each night she gazes out the window
as if she is a woman who has yet to accept the fact she is a widow.
Loneliness is in her very presence
and heartache is heavy in her essence.
The facade she carries cannot be touched
for she is so sturdy that is makes my hands clutch.
To see someone so reserved at such an age
makes me weep and long to rescue her from that horrid cage.
Her eyes are not empty but hollow.
Her body has become slouched and crippled
from the weight of her sorrow that seem to have tripled.
To simply hold her hand and let her speak
is...
as if she is a woman who has yet to accept the fact she is a widow.
Loneliness is in her very presence
and heartache is heavy in her essence.
The facade she carries cannot be touched
for she is so sturdy that is makes my hands clutch.
To see someone so reserved at such an age
makes me weep and long to rescue her from that horrid cage.
Her eyes are not empty but hollow.
Her body has become slouched and crippled
from the weight of her sorrow that seem to have tripled.
To simply hold her hand and let her speak
is...
704 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
29th Mar 2012 3:47am
29th Mar 2012 3:47am
Let Me Help
Give me a pencil
I'll draw you the sky.
Put a paintbrush in my hand
I'll paint you the wind.
Give me the time of day
I'll tell you my dreams.
Listen to me
pretend to care
I know I may not come across as flamboyant
but I'm better than what's waiting for you there.
In the place you are forced to call home
were you are locked up and struck down
to a place were you are all alone.
Let me be your save haven
let me be your vacation
let me be a small hiatus from your reality
with my words, wishes, and creativity.
I...
I'll draw you the sky.
Put a paintbrush in my hand
I'll paint you the wind.
Give me the time of day
I'll tell you my dreams.
Listen to me
pretend to care
I know I may not come across as flamboyant
but I'm better than what's waiting for you there.
In the place you are forced to call home
were you are locked up and struck down
to a place were you are all alone.
Let me be your save haven
let me be your vacation
let me be a small hiatus from your reality
with my words, wishes, and creativity.
I...
723 reads
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SELF POEM
Published
15th Mar 2012 1:46am
15th Mar 2012 1:46am
Leaving the Nest
I am different
but aren't we all?
Each of us love
and each of us fall.
We grow and develop in our own special ways
to better prepare ourselves for the following days.
Our environment has built us to stand the way we do
and our loved ones have sculpted us to do as they do.
But though I have been altered and sculpted to a par
I've also got a fire in me that sets me far apart.
To do as others I've seen do for all my time
seems boring and as sour as a lime.
These people I've been made by are so closed minded
they are like a book whose spin has...
but aren't we all?
Each of us love
and each of us fall.
We grow and develop in our own special ways
to better prepare ourselves for the following days.
Our environment has built us to stand the way we do
and our loved ones have sculpted us to do as they do.
But though I have been altered and sculpted to a par
I've also got a fire in me that sets me far apart.
To do as others I've seen do for all my time
seems boring and as sour as a lime.
These people I've been made by are so closed minded
they are like a book whose spin has...
1361 reads
1 Comment
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
15th Mar 2012 1:21am
15th Mar 2012 1:21am
Time Changes People
I've known you for some time.
Are actual friendship is four years strong.
But the longer it goes on
the more I find myself wishing you were gone.
It's not that you are cruel or deceiving.
It's just I've become more solitude loving.
I feel like you are a weight on my shoulders
like a heavy and unmovable boulder.
You are such a good person and kind
but you just happen to annoy my mind.
I am horrible for feeling this way
because you were my best friend
but I can't help that you and I have both changed.
We are growing and in different...
Are actual friendship is four years strong.
But the longer it goes on
the more I find myself wishing you were gone.
It's not that you are cruel or deceiving.
It's just I've become more solitude loving.
I feel like you are a weight on my shoulders
like a heavy and unmovable boulder.
You are such a good person and kind
but you just happen to annoy my mind.
I am horrible for feeling this way
because you were my best friend
but I can't help that you and I have both changed.
We are growing and in different...
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LOVE POEM
Published
11th Mar 2012 6:50am
11th Mar 2012 6:50am
My Shelf
Looking at you is hard,
because I know you're a wild card.
I don't know what you will do,
nor what you have done.
However, I know you have left a mark that cannot be undone.
You have beauty like no other.
I want so badly for us to be together.
I love hearing you talk,
and I love the way you walk.
To be by your side is a dream,
and being in your presence makes my heart sing.
I risk a glance in your direction,
and to my delight your eyes show affection.
Affection to me?
No, that cannot be,
but possibly... yes maybe.
Oh, who am i...
because I know you're a wild card.
I don't know what you will do,
nor what you have done.
However, I know you have left a mark that cannot be undone.
You have beauty like no other.
I want so badly for us to be together.
I love hearing you talk,
and I love the way you walk.
To be by your side is a dream,
and being in your presence makes my heart sing.
I risk a glance in your direction,
and to my delight your eyes show affection.
Affection to me?
No, that cannot be,
but possibly... yes maybe.
Oh, who am i...
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Mar 2012 3:50am
8th Mar 2012 3:50am
What Love Is
We live in a world of betrayal and bitterness
were no one trust each other to the fullest.
We do what we do to help our own selves prosper
not to make our home,and each other, better.
Better than the place we know already
were people hurt and nothing is steady.
We rock to and fro in every situation
nothing helps us not even our own cries for attention.
In friendships we beg and we envy
as if we forget there are others who live in infamy.
We throw not stones but boulders at each other
and still expect love from one another.
We call on those only...
were no one trust each other to the fullest.
We do what we do to help our own selves prosper
not to make our home,and each other, better.
Better than the place we know already
were people hurt and nothing is steady.
We rock to and fro in every situation
nothing helps us not even our own cries for attention.
In friendships we beg and we envy
as if we forget there are others who live in infamy.
We throw not stones but boulders at each other
and still expect love from one another.
We call on those only...
819 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
8th Mar 2012 00:13am
8th Mar 2012 00:13am
Why You Guys No Follow?
Day after day,
I'm in the same place.
I'm waiting,
watching,
hoping.
And no matter what occurs
I see no change in the numbers.
When all work needed to be done is finished
I quickly grab a laptop and with fingers crossed (not an easy task)
I see my hopes slightly diminish.
Yet another day of no gain
another day of no change.
Yes, I'm speaking of this site
where I hope to get a new follower
but instead find myself wanting a fight.
So many profile views
a couple comments and likes the same
but when I look at my followers I am...
I'm in the same place.
I'm waiting,
watching,
hoping.
And no matter what occurs
I see no change in the numbers.
When all work needed to be done is finished
I quickly grab a laptop and with fingers crossed (not an easy task)
I see my hopes slightly diminish.
Yet another day of no gain
another day of no change.
Yes, I'm speaking of this site
where I hope to get a new follower
but instead find myself wanting a fight.
So many profile views
a couple comments and likes the same
but when I look at my followers I am...
625 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
6th Mar 2012 2:57am
6th Mar 2012 2:57am
Silence is Killing Me
Complex does not begin to explain this.
I met you and I honestly didn't think much of it.
Weeks went by of seeing your face, hearing your words, being in your grace.
Then a wave smashed into me.
I took one last glance at your face and realized this was more than I expected.
You were in tears and I felt worried.
I knew you not; yet I wanted to stop you from hurting.
The following days I caught myself wondering-
wondering what went wrong and if you were better.
Tears stained your beautiful face that day like ink on a letter.
I thought that night of how I...
I met you and I honestly didn't think much of it.
Weeks went by of seeing your face, hearing your words, being in your grace.
Then a wave smashed into me.
I took one last glance at your face and realized this was more than I expected.
You were in tears and I felt worried.
I knew you not; yet I wanted to stop you from hurting.
The following days I caught myself wondering-
wondering what went wrong and if you were better.
Tears stained your beautiful face that day like ink on a letter.
I thought that night of how I...
742 reads
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Mar 2012 9:51pm
3rd Mar 2012 9:51pm
Nighttime
When I take a hiatus from daytime
I enter a place that I call mine.
The sky looks like the colder colors of the rainbow
as the horizon's sun lets out her last glow.
When I gaze upward I see out of this atmosphere.
As each star seems to be being hung by someone my heart holds dear.
I cast my eyes back down to earth
to see a new world has been given birth.
No longer are the birds chirping away
instead the trees are housing owls who hoot as I lay.
Upon what I lay, you may wonder.
It's no longer the rich emerald grass that bugs ponder.
Now it's...
I enter a place that I call mine.
The sky looks like the colder colors of the rainbow
as the horizon's sun lets out her last glow.
When I gaze upward I see out of this atmosphere.
As each star seems to be being hung by someone my heart holds dear.
I cast my eyes back down to earth
to see a new world has been given birth.
No longer are the birds chirping away
instead the trees are housing owls who hoot as I lay.
Upon what I lay, you may wonder.
It's no longer the rich emerald grass that bugs ponder.
Now it's...
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
3rd Mar 2012 9:09pm
3rd Mar 2012 9:09pm
Dream of Paris
Elegance. Beauty. Maturity.
Though many have seen every last inch of you,
I still am intrigued and wish to pass through.
To pass through the roads, the streets, and walkways
to hopefully stand in front of your grace.
Sturdy yet fragile.
Historical yet green.
Many words have been spoken of you.
Many memories are said to the best near you.
No matter the weather no matter the condition,
you stand strong and glamorous ready for attention.
Standing in your presence is said to be inspiring.
It's said to be a moment that's flawless and alluring....
Though many have seen every last inch of you,
I still am intrigued and wish to pass through.
To pass through the roads, the streets, and walkways
to hopefully stand in front of your grace.
Sturdy yet fragile.
Historical yet green.
Many words have been spoken of you.
Many memories are said to the best near you.
No matter the weather no matter the condition,
you stand strong and glamorous ready for attention.
Standing in your presence is said to be inspiring.
It's said to be a moment that's flawless and alluring....
611 reads
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