Submissions by faithmairee (Faith Elizabeth Brigham)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I eat, sleep and breathe poetry. My dream was always to see my name in print below something I wrote. I'm happy to say I'm living my dream since I not only got published but became a professional writer.
i may not like you better
i may not like you better
when i've come to know
what's really going on
inside your head for i know
how easily paradise is lost
when out of sight means
you're all but forgotten
i may not like you better
when i've come to know
the truth and i've
lost my last appeal but
i'll remember the moments
of magic not to mention
the gentleness of your touch
when i've come to know
what's really going on
inside your head for i know
how easily paradise is lost
when out of sight means
you're all but forgotten
i may not like you better
when i've come to know
the truth and i've
lost my last appeal but
i'll remember the moments
of magic not to mention
the gentleness of your touch
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one blue rose
i guess that i will never know
why it is you had to go
you never even said goodbye
you just left me one blue rose
on the pillow where your head had been
until i awoke i had never thought
that i would wake up all alone
so now i see as days go by
there's nothing left to do but cry
and think of how the rose will die
it's beauty soon to fade away
i'll place the rose between the pages
of my favorite poetry book
then someday when i'm feeling brave
i will open the book and take a look
at the one blue rose you left for me
whose...
why it is you had to go
you never even said goodbye
you just left me one blue rose
on the pillow where your head had been
until i awoke i had never thought
that i would wake up all alone
so now i see as days go by
there's nothing left to do but cry
and think of how the rose will die
it's beauty soon to fade away
i'll place the rose between the pages
of my favorite poetry book
then someday when i'm feeling brave
i will open the book and take a look
at the one blue rose you left for me
whose...
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like a snake
i thought i knew you
but i guess i don't
i'd love to love you
but i'm sure i won't
(chorus)
you are just like
a snake crawling in the grass
you don't even
have an ounce of class
you're the kind of man
a woman loves to hate
you can't be faithful
that's something i can't take
i don't want you there
hanging 'round my door
now it can never
be the way it was before
you are just like
a snake crawling in the grass
you don't even
have an ounce of class
spoken:
it's time you...
but i guess i don't
i'd love to love you
but i'm sure i won't
(chorus)
you are just like
a snake crawling in the grass
you don't even
have an ounce of class
you're the kind of man
a woman loves to hate
you can't be faithful
that's something i can't take
i don't want you there
hanging 'round my door
now it can never
be the way it was before
you are just like
a snake crawling in the grass
you don't even
have an ounce of class
spoken:
it's time you...
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wondrous love
nothing here ever changes
my feelings remain the same
as you give your love to me
i shall give it back again
love is better than a drug
it forever makes me high
my love for you is endless
it merely intensifies
my feelings remain the same
as you give your love to me
i shall give it back again
love is better than a drug
it forever makes me high
my love for you is endless
it merely intensifies
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fire and lace
i wore a white lace dress
that hugged me
in all
the right places
you in your
long sleeved shirt
and pressed pants
that morning
i had felt your presence
long before i turned
to face you and
as our eyes locked
you moved in close
reaching toward me
with one hand
i shivered inside
as your hand closed
around my upper arm
and gazing deep in my eyes
you ran your hand so gently
up and down my arm
your touch
sent me reeling
said so much
more than words
your eyes filled
with...
that hugged me
in all
the right places
you in your
long sleeved shirt
and pressed pants
that morning
i had felt your presence
long before i turned
to face you and
as our eyes locked
you moved in close
reaching toward me
with one hand
i shivered inside
as your hand closed
around my upper arm
and gazing deep in my eyes
you ran your hand so gently
up and down my arm
your touch
sent me reeling
said so much
more than words
your eyes filled
with...
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hot desire
Dedicated to Tidespotter50 for inspiring me to write this one
alone in my bed
in a fancy miami beach hotel
i wonder what would
have happened had
i asked him his name
handsome young desk clerk
still on my mind
after leaving him speechless
in the lobby
following a heavy flirtation
holding his gaze
as he attempts to
give me change for the soda machine
oh how his hand shook as
i brushed my extended hand
against his own
the coins falling to the...
alone in my bed
in a fancy miami beach hotel
i wonder what would
have happened had
i asked him his name
handsome young desk clerk
still on my mind
after leaving him speechless
in the lobby
following a heavy flirtation
holding his gaze
as he attempts to
give me change for the soda machine
oh how his hand shook as
i brushed my extended hand
against his own
the coins falling to the...
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gadgets are a girl's best friend
forget the diamonds
just give me gadgets
i want remote controls
for all the
household appliances
give me one for the
garage door, too
a gadget that opens
the trunk to my car
would be real cool
i'd like one of those
shampooers too that
cleans the rugs
when you're in
another room doing
something else that
requires an energy
saving gadget
gadgets aren't just
for men anymore
we women have
gadgets galore
just give me gadgets
i want remote controls
for all the
household appliances
give me one for the
garage door, too
a gadget that opens
the trunk to my car
would be real cool
i'd like one of those
shampooers too that
cleans the rugs
when you're in
another room doing
something else that
requires an energy
saving gadget
gadgets aren't just
for men anymore
we women have
gadgets galore
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strength
i do not know my strength
nor see myself as other people do
i can not be all things
to others or please all for
the sake of keeping peace
death will come swiftly
when everyone wants a piece of me
and there is not enough
of me to go around
my strength slowly depletes
i turn a deaf ear to the men
whose own ears ignored my pleas
forgiving them a given
though forgetting so difficult
i release those that built this prison
i have never known my strength
to endure the unspeakable
giving life my all...
nor see myself as other people do
i can not be all things
to others or please all for
the sake of keeping peace
death will come swiftly
when everyone wants a piece of me
and there is not enough
of me to go around
my strength slowly depletes
i turn a deaf ear to the men
whose own ears ignored my pleas
forgiving them a given
though forgetting so difficult
i release those that built this prison
i have never known my strength
to endure the unspeakable
giving life my all...
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to touch
we touch
but not enough
we fear
being misunderstood
we touch
trembling unsure
we feel being rejected
would be a kind of dying
we survive
the touch and being touched
to touch is to feel
to feel is to be alive
but not enough
we fear
being misunderstood
we touch
trembling unsure
we feel being rejected
would be a kind of dying
we survive
the touch and being touched
to touch is to feel
to feel is to be alive
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like a stranger
you had no way of knowing
as you sat down next to me
you seemed just like a stranger
someone i knew just vaguely
instead of someone who said
they loved me constantly
you asked about our old dog
i relayed to you she'd died
i said i could not tell you
as all i could do was cry
you seemed to understand why
i had kept it all inside
you turned around to face me
there was sadness in your eyes
the life we'd had together
was destroyed by all your lies
i had no way of knowing
that you were going to die
no, i did not...
as you sat down next to me
you seemed just like a stranger
someone i knew just vaguely
instead of someone who said
they loved me constantly
you asked about our old dog
i relayed to you she'd died
i said i could not tell you
as all i could do was cry
you seemed to understand why
i had kept it all inside
you turned around to face me
there was sadness in your eyes
the life we'd had together
was destroyed by all your lies
i had no way of knowing
that you were going to die
no, i did not...
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journey
i met a young mother
whose skin was all whithered
a broken-hearted lover
whose eyes were all swollen
a young lady laughing
with teeth that were broken
a father singing hymns
a son whose feet were both bandaged
i heard a prophet saying
the world is full
of both gives and takers
i spoke with some men
who had no agenda
i saw chidren playing
hearts pure as the snow
'neath their boots
i saw dead people talking
and live people
walking like zombies
i heard young girls
who were weeping
saw a professor...
whose skin was all whithered
a broken-hearted lover
whose eyes were all swollen
a young lady laughing
with teeth that were broken
a father singing hymns
a son whose feet were both bandaged
i heard a prophet saying
the world is full
of both gives and takers
i spoke with some men
who had no agenda
i saw chidren playing
hearts pure as the snow
'neath their boots
i saw dead people talking
and live people
walking like zombies
i heard young girls
who were weeping
saw a professor...
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a true story
caught in traffic
in downtown orlando
on our way to meet up
with friends from
out of town
the traffic light
at livingston turns red
we are in the
right hand lane
when i notice a lone male
in the left lane
in a car same make
and model as ours
ogling me from a far
eventually my husband
sees the man stare
asks under his breath
why's this nut
staring at our car
my husbands curiosity
overwhelms him and he
calls out the window
to him asking if
he wants our car
the stranger shakes
his...
in downtown orlando
on our way to meet up
with friends from
out of town
the traffic light
at livingston turns red
we are in the
right hand lane
when i notice a lone male
in the left lane
in a car same make
and model as ours
ogling me from a far
eventually my husband
sees the man stare
asks under his breath
why's this nut
staring at our car
my husbands curiosity
overwhelms him and he
calls out the window
to him asking if
he wants our car
the stranger shakes
his...
678 reads
8 Comments
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