Submissions by amandrin
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
A girl from a small town figuring out where her life is going through poetry.
LOVE POEM
Published
27th May 2013 10:58pm
27th May 2013 10:58pm
Pretending
I remember him just standing there.
Everyone said he looked good and I had been told countless times that night that I looked wonderful but I couldn’t help but notice that his smile never really reached his eyes, and his laughter sounded like a foreign language, and not the kind you’re in the middle of learning or the kind you’ve just forgotten, or the kind you can remember, no his laughter was like a language you can never comprehend no matter how many hours you spend trying to piece it together, believe me, I would know.
I remember standing in front of him for a lifetime...
Everyone said he looked good and I had been told countless times that night that I looked wonderful but I couldn’t help but notice that his smile never really reached his eyes, and his laughter sounded like a foreign language, and not the kind you’re in the middle of learning or the kind you’ve just forgotten, or the kind you can remember, no his laughter was like a language you can never comprehend no matter how many hours you spend trying to piece it together, believe me, I would know.
I remember standing in front of him for a lifetime...
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LOVE POEM
Published
25th Jan 2013 1:42am
25th Jan 2013 1:42am
awkward (for girls with bad timing)
It’s always awkward when you overestimate things.
The first time he thinks he loves you
He tells you so.
Says, you are more than anything he has ever known
That there is no one like you anywhere
You take him for granted
Pretend you already know.
The second time he thinks he loves you
He keeps it quiet
But you are still inclined to believe him
You can see it in his eyes
He thinks you are the moon, the sun, the stars and
He is just another awkward teenage boy that does stupid things
Like fall in love with girls who take him for...
The first time he thinks he loves you
He tells you so.
Says, you are more than anything he has ever known
That there is no one like you anywhere
You take him for granted
Pretend you already know.
The second time he thinks he loves you
He keeps it quiet
But you are still inclined to believe him
You can see it in his eyes
He thinks you are the moon, the sun, the stars and
He is just another awkward teenage boy that does stupid things
Like fall in love with girls who take him for...
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LOVE POEM
Published
24th Jan 2013 10:44pm
24th Jan 2013 10:44pm
human
She knows how this will end.
Broken shards and empty heartbeats.
She knows how it will begin
Late night text messages and early morning compliments
She knows it will hurt at the end.
Seeing the world through glassy eyes and blurred vision.
She knows she will convince herself
Of things she has no proof of
She knows there will be broken promises.
Hard mistakes and misconceptions
But she knows he is everything and
She knows she knows better!
But she is also human
So she hopes
And tries again.
Broken shards and empty heartbeats.
She knows how it will begin
Late night text messages and early morning compliments
She knows it will hurt at the end.
Seeing the world through glassy eyes and blurred vision.
She knows she will convince herself
Of things she has no proof of
She knows there will be broken promises.
Hard mistakes and misconceptions
But she knows he is everything and
She knows she knows better!
But she is also human
So she hopes
And tries again.
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LOVE POEM
Published
12th Jan 2013 00:57am
12th Jan 2013 00:57am
revenge (for over-trusting teenage girls)
I hope she kisses you on your first date.
I hope her smile gives you those familiar butterflies in your stomach
I hope you grow to love her laughter more than your favorite song
I hope you do not think of me.
I hope your parents love her the first time you bring her home to meet them
I hope she lets you talk about forevers and always
And when you reach for her, interlocking your fingers together perfectly, I hope you don’t notice who she’s texting under the table.
I hope she wears makeup nicknamed things like love and desire for your six-month...
I hope her smile gives you those familiar butterflies in your stomach
I hope you grow to love her laughter more than your favorite song
I hope you do not think of me.
I hope your parents love her the first time you bring her home to meet them
I hope she lets you talk about forevers and always
And when you reach for her, interlocking your fingers together perfectly, I hope you don’t notice who she’s texting under the table.
I hope she wears makeup nicknamed things like love and desire for your six-month...
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LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Jan 2013 00:11am
2nd Jan 2013 00:11am
Missing Pieces
Forgetting you is a funny kind of thing.
I think, it is because I don't know how.
I am a loaded rifle: locked and ready. I am still waiting for the right moment to shoot.
I am the heart of a lightbulb symphony, full of endless potential.
I am still searching for some kind of electricity
Waiting still for some connection.
But you, you are missed chances, you are unwrapped presents
You are empty voicemails, you are unanswered calls
You are untold secrets, you are all my missing pieces
You are secondhand smoke: I know you will never be...
I think, it is because I don't know how.
I am a loaded rifle: locked and ready. I am still waiting for the right moment to shoot.
I am the heart of a lightbulb symphony, full of endless potential.
I am still searching for some kind of electricity
Waiting still for some connection.
But you, you are missed chances, you are unwrapped presents
You are empty voicemails, you are unanswered calls
You are untold secrets, you are all my missing pieces
You are secondhand smoke: I know you will never be...
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
31st Dec 2012 3:39pm
31st Dec 2012 3:39pm
Sunshowers (for Jeremy)
It takes a lot of courage to hold someone when they’re screaming.
Takes a lot of love to smile at someone when they’re angry.
Takes a certain amount of stupidity to make someone laugh when they’re crying.
There was once a girl who loved like a hurricane.
She breathed in tropical storms, she was all angles and sharp edges where she so desperately wanted curves, she left destruction in her wake, shouting truths to a town that had never seen her coming.
She met a boy who smiled like sunshowers.
He laughed like her favorite rock band, smoothed her...
Takes a lot of love to smile at someone when they’re angry.
Takes a certain amount of stupidity to make someone laugh when they’re crying.
There was once a girl who loved like a hurricane.
She breathed in tropical storms, she was all angles and sharp edges where she so desperately wanted curves, she left destruction in her wake, shouting truths to a town that had never seen her coming.
She met a boy who smiled like sunshowers.
He laughed like her favorite rock band, smoothed her...
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LOVE POEM
Published
16th Nov 2012 10:58pm
16th Nov 2012 10:58pm
Hurricanes
They are destruction. They are warfare and fear and danger all at once.
We are destruction. We are warfare and fear and danger and terror and love and hate, refusal and wanting all at the same time.
They remind you what is important.
I forget every reason why I hate you every time there is a chance you won't come back to me
I hate instead the chance that you won't return.
Hurricanes bring you back to me.
Spinning, drowning, falling, flailing, back to me,
And every stupid reason that you left disappears, hurricanes bring us back together
I...
We are destruction. We are warfare and fear and danger and terror and love and hate, refusal and wanting all at the same time.
They remind you what is important.
I forget every reason why I hate you every time there is a chance you won't come back to me
I hate instead the chance that you won't return.
Hurricanes bring you back to me.
Spinning, drowning, falling, flailing, back to me,
And every stupid reason that you left disappears, hurricanes bring us back together
I...
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Oct 2012 10:53pm
25th Oct 2012 10:53pm
Free
When I was thirteen, they showed me new beauty right before my eyes
Told me, I would redefine myself with new beauty too
If I really loved me
If I wanted someone to love me
If I ever wanted to be looked at as more than the girl with the pen and the paper
They decorated canvases of people we would never be and called them goals
Painted pictures of bodies we would never have and called them distant realities
Fell in love with images we could never have and called them necessary
They spun webs of lies and referred to them as personal identity
Wove...
Told me, I would redefine myself with new beauty too
If I really loved me
If I wanted someone to love me
If I ever wanted to be looked at as more than the girl with the pen and the paper
They decorated canvases of people we would never be and called them goals
Painted pictures of bodies we would never have and called them distant realities
Fell in love with images we could never have and called them necessary
They spun webs of lies and referred to them as personal identity
Wove...
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Oct 2012 10:51pm
25th Oct 2012 10:51pm
Daisy
She stares up at me starry-eyed and asks me if it hurts when you die. I stare off and tell her no. She’s quieter than she’s ever been, and she doesn’t need my brutal honesty. I hug my knees to my chest and half-smile as she does the same.
Daisy is sick.
Not the kind of love-sick that most teenage girls feel, Daisy has a sick heart. Daisy does not know if this feeling will ever pass, she tells me through her silence and starry-eyes, she doesn’t know if she will ever get any better.
She doesn’t want to talk.
She says it is easier being alone but we are teenage...
Daisy is sick.
Not the kind of love-sick that most teenage girls feel, Daisy has a sick heart. Daisy does not know if this feeling will ever pass, she tells me through her silence and starry-eyes, she doesn’t know if she will ever get any better.
She doesn’t want to talk.
She says it is easier being alone but we are teenage...
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SONG LYRICS
Published
7th Oct 2012 1:09am
7th Oct 2012 1:09am
Thinking
You walk around like you've lost all need for anyone, well don't you?
And you come around like you'll give up on everyone, well won't you?
Well I'm not afraid of anything or anyone, believe me
But I won't bend over backwards just for you to need me
Chorus:
But I don't want to be the only one to blame
If we can't, if we can't, all remain the same
Will you take, are you taking, all that remains?
Leave me with, leave me with, all that can't be saved.
Are all the shadows in the distance keeping you from finding me?
'Cos I find that the...
And you come around like you'll give up on everyone, well won't you?
Well I'm not afraid of anything or anyone, believe me
But I won't bend over backwards just for you to need me
Chorus:
But I don't want to be the only one to blame
If we can't, if we can't, all remain the same
Will you take, are you taking, all that remains?
Leave me with, leave me with, all that can't be saved.
Are all the shadows in the distance keeping you from finding me?
'Cos I find that the...
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SONG LYRICS
Published
29th Sep 2012 2:11am
29th Sep 2012 2:11am
This Circle (here we go again)
Are you too tired to talk it out?
I'm too uninspired to leave you now
Your voice is warning me to let it go
But I'm just afraid that you'll never know
Can you feel the fire? It's burning out
And they're all liars but don't look now
Your choice realizes I love you so
In ways I'd never say and you'll never know
And this circle never ends
And we're too young to have to pretend
So here we go again
A beginning not far from an end
And you're playing with my heart again
And we always have to pretend
Don't lie, you know why...
I'm too uninspired to leave you now
Your voice is warning me to let it go
But I'm just afraid that you'll never know
Can you feel the fire? It's burning out
And they're all liars but don't look now
Your choice realizes I love you so
In ways I'd never say and you'll never know
And this circle never ends
And we're too young to have to pretend
So here we go again
A beginning not far from an end
And you're playing with my heart again
And we always have to pretend
Don't lie, you know why...
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SONG LYRICS
Published
27th Sep 2012 11:54pm
27th Sep 2012 11:54pm
Come Back to Me
Maybe if I were flawless, you would've stayed
Had this world been lawless, I'd have won every game we played
But it's been so long since I've felt pretty, since I've been brave
And it feels so wrong to be alone in this city at least today
Do you remember you swore we'd never tear this apart
Wish I had the time to change your mind
Before this gets too far
Just say you will
Come back to me
Maybe if I were stronger, I'd say this is enough
'Cos I can't take it any longer, why do you insist on giving up?
But I'm no better, I won't ever, give up...
Had this world been lawless, I'd have won every game we played
But it's been so long since I've felt pretty, since I've been brave
And it feels so wrong to be alone in this city at least today
Do you remember you swore we'd never tear this apart
Wish I had the time to change your mind
Before this gets too far
Just say you will
Come back to me
Maybe if I were stronger, I'd say this is enough
'Cos I can't take it any longer, why do you insist on giving up?
But I'm no better, I won't ever, give up...
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