Submissions by eswaller
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I have been writing poetry since middle school and it has stuck with me since then. I tend to write about real life situations and everything in between.
SONG LYRICS
Published
31st Jan 2020 3:30am
31st Jan 2020 3:30am
Keep Trying
You lost your pieces trying to fix or save
Someone else and when you looked in
The mirror you are never too happy with
What you see. Baby I know that you gave
Your love, trust and it never felt like a win.
Trying is something you imagine like a myth
And do not let that keep you from giving up
Because when you are thinking that your cup
Is half empty it is really half full. You have so
Much to offer the world. Your smile and glow
Are your secret weapons. Never let the world
Take it away from you. Your toes are curled
Up in...
Someone else and when you looked in
The mirror you are never too happy with
What you see. Baby I know that you gave
Your love, trust and it never felt like a win.
Trying is something you imagine like a myth
And do not let that keep you from giving up
Because when you are thinking that your cup
Is half empty it is really half full. You have so
Much to offer the world. Your smile and glow
Are your secret weapons. Never let the world
Take it away from you. Your toes are curled
Up in...
#happiness
#hope
#lyrics
697 reads
7 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Jan 2020 5:56am
30th Jan 2020 5:56am
Surviving Rock Bottom
I knew I hit rock bottom when I sat there
And I could never defend the man I loved
Anymore, not even to my best friend or
Anyone else. I promised and would swear
To myself I would never put anyone above
Me or my health. I was choosing to ignore
Everything he put me through including
The pain and sleepless nights. He did not
See the tears I kept from him. He only saw
Me as happy until I felt like I was losing
Everything I once knew like love. The knot
Remained and in the end the final straw
Was him not caring....
And I could never defend the man I loved
Anymore, not even to my best friend or
Anyone else. I promised and would swear
To myself I would never put anyone above
Me or my health. I was choosing to ignore
Everything he put me through including
The pain and sleepless nights. He did not
See the tears I kept from him. He only saw
Me as happy until I felt like I was losing
Everything I once knew like love. The knot
Remained and in the end the final straw
Was him not caring....
#LifeStruggles
#MovingOn
#hurt
686 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Jan 2020 00:12am
27th Jan 2020 00:12am
Afterthought (Inspired by Louise Glück)
The blank pages and canvas in front of me
Remain barren and empty. Why? Maybe
I no longer feel any of the inspiration and
blood flowing through my veins like they
once did before. Maybe my voice chose
to give out. All I can do is hope for the rose
to start blooming again and for a miracle
to take me back to the empty roads where
I felt most at home. Even the changes in
scenery did not ease my mind anymore.
All I can think about is the world that tears
apart at the seams. But no one seems to
care about the darkness...
Remain barren and empty. Why? Maybe
I no longer feel any of the inspiration and
blood flowing through my veins like they
once did before. Maybe my voice chose
to give out. All I can do is hope for the rose
to start blooming again and for a miracle
to take me back to the empty roads where
I felt most at home. Even the changes in
scenery did not ease my mind anymore.
All I can think about is the world that tears
apart at the seams. But no one seems to
care about the darkness...
#LifeAsAWriter
#LifeCycle
#LouiseGluck
669 reads
6 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Jan 2020 10:58pm
26th Jan 2020 10:58pm
Your Reasons to Exist
You were made to be loved and to love
With all of your heart. Even as you are
Sinking all you have to do is look above
The dense clouds and see the North Star
Shining bright like a compass. You were
Given a reason to be born and walk with
The ground below your feet. The liqueur
Gives you courage and as the wordsmith
Inside of you emerges from the ashes it
Gives you the strength to live a life you
Dreamed about. You choose to either fit
In like the perfect puzzle piece or to do
What the world has never seen before; ...
With all of your heart. Even as you are
Sinking all you have to do is look above
The dense clouds and see the North Star
Shining bright like a compass. You were
Given a reason to be born and walk with
The ground below your feet. The liqueur
Gives you courage and as the wordsmith
Inside of you emerges from the ashes it
Gives you the strength to live a life you
Dreamed about. You choose to either fit
In like the perfect puzzle piece or to do
What the world has never seen before; ...
#love
#LifeAsAWriter
#LifeChangingMoment
564 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Jan 2020 3:20am
25th Jan 2020 3:20am
The Sky's Beauty
Painted like a picture
The sky reminds me of better times.
The stars twinkle like magical chimes,
But the sky will never waiver or flicker.
Gone are all of yesterday’s sorrows.
We only focus on the present moment
As the sky is the world’s bestowment.
There is tomorrow.
The sky reminds me of better times.
The stars twinkle like magical chimes,
But the sky will never waiver or flicker.
Gone are all of yesterday’s sorrows.
We only focus on the present moment
As the sky is the world’s bestowment.
There is tomorrow.
#sky
433 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Jan 2020 2:15am
24th Jan 2020 2:15am
Unsettled
Your bones rattle
Like unanswered
Questions
Like unanswered
Questions
#TruthOfLife
516 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Jan 2020 2:13am
24th Jan 2020 2:13am
The truth
The answer appears
On your tongue
On your tongue
#TruthOfLife
414 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
20th Jan 2020 10:50pm
20th Jan 2020 10:50pm
Her Final Breath
In this grave lays the girl who had tried
Too hard and her plea for help was never
Heard over the sound of the world that
Kept moving. People claim to have cried,
But they never knew she was so clever,
Free spirited and kind. She never sat
On the sidelines like everyone else. She
Was quiet, but no one knew she was lost
On the inside. She wandered from love to
Happiness to anger and sadness. The sea
Carried away all her sorrows, but the cost
Of love and life was too much as she grew
Tired of the shadows that...
Too hard and her plea for help was never
Heard over the sound of the world that
Kept moving. People claim to have cried,
But they never knew she was so clever,
Free spirited and kind. She never sat
On the sidelines like everyone else. She
Was quiet, but no one knew she was lost
On the inside. She wandered from love to
Happiness to anger and sadness. The sea
Carried away all her sorrows, but the cost
Of love and life was too much as she grew
Tired of the shadows that...
#death
480 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Jan 2020 6:11pm
15th Jan 2020 6:11pm
Looking For Love In the Wrong Places
I looked for love in the wrong places,
Down dark allies or unfamiliar terrain.
I looked for love in the familiar faces
I had seen before. I looked in the rain.
I searched for it in the sunshine and
All I had to was look at where I stand.
Down dark allies or unfamiliar terrain.
I looked for love in the familiar faces
I had seen before. I looked in the rain.
I searched for it in the sunshine and
All I had to was look at where I stand.
#love
#LookingForLove
1002 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Jan 2020 5:44pm
15th Jan 2020 5:44pm
Unexpected Love
People say love comes to you when
You least expect it. My best friend
Said it will find you. Sometimes you
Have to reach out and touch it. Rain
Tries to drown it as fire tries to bend
It. Unexpected love is the color blue.
You least expect it. My best friend
Said it will find you. Sometimes you
Have to reach out and touch it. Rain
Tries to drown it as fire tries to bend
It. Unexpected love is the color blue.
#love
#LookingForLove
1075 reads
4 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
10th Jan 2020 2:11am
10th Jan 2020 2:11am
In Ecstasy
Make love to me, not with just
The actions, but with the words
Too and it is when you thrust
Yourself inside of me that birds
Chirp and cry out. All the moans
Become you feel so damn good as
Our moans turn into deep groans.
As my green eyes and your topaz
Eyes meet in the middle of ecstasy
It feels like we are both coming to
Home base this time as we barely
Catch a breath. We let out the zoo.
The actions, but with the words
Too and it is when you thrust
Yourself inside of me that birds
Chirp and cry out. All the moans
Become you feel so damn good as
Our moans turn into deep groans.
As my green eyes and your topaz
Eyes meet in the middle of ecstasy
It feels like we are both coming to
Home base this time as we barely
Catch a breath. We let out the zoo.
#love
#sex
#PowerOfWords
1160 reads
7 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
6th Jan 2020 4:23am
6th Jan 2020 4:23am
Into 2020
She is walking as if she is someone brand new,
But she never forgets the lessons that she has
Learned in the past years. “Paint your sky blue,”
People say, but when she paints it with topaz,
Indigo or purple, they think she is taking a big
Risk, but isn’t that what life is all about? As she
Takes the vast world and crushes it like a twig
Without any expectations she just wants to be
Who she always wanted to be, free-spirited and
Kind. She cannot make any predictions for 2020,
But realizes she does not need anyone’s hand
To be...
But she never forgets the lessons that she has
Learned in the past years. “Paint your sky blue,”
People say, but when she paints it with topaz,
Indigo or purple, they think she is taking a big
Risk, but isn’t that what life is all about? As she
Takes the vast world and crushes it like a twig
Without any expectations she just wants to be
Who she always wanted to be, free-spirited and
Kind. She cannot make any predictions for 2020,
But realizes she does not need anyone’s hand
To be...
#learning
#SelfReflection
#redemption
623 reads
8 Comments
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