Submissions by prestonGibson (NomadsPath)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I write about what my heart breaks and beats for. My work is rough, raw, flawed and imperfect; a work of self embodiment. I can't promise perfection, but I can promise authentic.
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Aug 2015 2:51pm
19th Aug 2015 2:51pm
Wicks
We are all but candles.
We seek to find that of which
lights our wick,
and feeds the flame.
We seek to find that of which
lights our wick,
and feeds the flame.
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Aug 2015 4:43am
14th Aug 2015 4:43am
The Chandelier and The Candlestick
Hold your light in the night.
Let it be a sight to be seen.
Share it with the world
-like stars it will gleam...
But never give it away
if a light you wish to stay."
The chandelier said to the candlestick.
"For the might of your light
is a glorious thing.
One candle can ignite
nearly anything.
But give it away,
and you're but a wick.
Hold your little light,
my precious candlestick."
Let it be a sight to be seen.
Share it with the world
-like stars it will gleam...
But never give it away
if a light you wish to stay."
The chandelier said to the candlestick.
"For the might of your light
is a glorious thing.
One candle can ignite
nearly anything.
But give it away,
and you're but a wick.
Hold your little light,
my precious candlestick."
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SELF POEM
Published
5th Aug 2015 8:30pm
5th Aug 2015 8:30pm
Mirror
I think I knew him once,
or maybe it was just a dream.
He keeps on staring back at me
as if trying to say something.
His eyes seem so familiar,
lonely pools
where a stranger's soul dwell.
His face never seems to linger,
consistently changing
into something else.
or maybe it was just a dream.
He keeps on staring back at me
as if trying to say something.
His eyes seem so familiar,
lonely pools
where a stranger's soul dwell.
His face never seems to linger,
consistently changing
into something else.
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LOVE POEM
Published
1st Aug 2015 6:39am
1st Aug 2015 6:39am
Check Yes Or No
I hurled myself
into its on-coming traffic.
I dove head first,
and wouldn't see past it.
I held on so tightly that my hands could crush diamonds in their grasp.
This wasn't the first time.
This won't be the last.
I gave myself to the stars
in hopes to be a light like they are.
Is this cause a hopeless loss?
Has the world forgot?
I hear and read that romance has died. It's a fools mission to give it any time. What happened to hand written love proclamations?
When did people start buying roses instead of picking...
into its on-coming traffic.
I dove head first,
and wouldn't see past it.
I held on so tightly that my hands could crush diamonds in their grasp.
This wasn't the first time.
This won't be the last.
I gave myself to the stars
in hopes to be a light like they are.
Is this cause a hopeless loss?
Has the world forgot?
I hear and read that romance has died. It's a fools mission to give it any time. What happened to hand written love proclamations?
When did people start buying roses instead of picking...
707 reads
3 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
30th Jul 2015 9:39pm
30th Jul 2015 9:39pm
For An Hour
Today, let gravity be the only thing weighing down on your shoulders.
Life is short, and the sun only shines for a few brief hours.
Be gold.
Stay gold.
Take the lessons that we learned as children, and forever hold.
The universe whispers secrets to feed the soul that listens.
Hear the song of the sunrise,
the breeze moving swiftly past your browl, the waves that waltz with the moon at night, the way the starlight hits the pavement, the life altering effects a simple smile may posses.
Life is happening all around us.
Be a part of it.
Make...
Life is short, and the sun only shines for a few brief hours.
Be gold.
Stay gold.
Take the lessons that we learned as children, and forever hold.
The universe whispers secrets to feed the soul that listens.
Hear the song of the sunrise,
the breeze moving swiftly past your browl, the waves that waltz with the moon at night, the way the starlight hits the pavement, the life altering effects a simple smile may posses.
Life is happening all around us.
Be a part of it.
Make...
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Jul 2015 9:12pm
29th Jul 2015 9:12pm
Worn-In
There's a worn-out sharpie sketch
of a compass
drawn on those old converse.
Old shoes.
Same message.
I'm control which direction they go.
Mud stains,
and sole discoloration.
A perfection representation.
There's a story behind each scuff.
A rally of tally marks.
A diamond in the rough.
There are holes from the nights
I ran from home.
And there are holes from the days I spent trying to find my way back.
The road less traveled in packed underneath the canvas grips.
I don't know where I'm going,
but these...
of a compass
drawn on those old converse.
Old shoes.
Same message.
I'm control which direction they go.
Mud stains,
and sole discoloration.
A perfection representation.
There's a story behind each scuff.
A rally of tally marks.
A diamond in the rough.
There are holes from the nights
I ran from home.
And there are holes from the days I spent trying to find my way back.
The road less traveled in packed underneath the canvas grips.
I don't know where I'm going,
but these...
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LOVE POEM
Published
24th Jul 2015 5:24am
24th Jul 2015 5:24am
Wishful Thinking
I wish I could lasso the moon-🌝
carry it with me like a ballon;
light up all the dark crevices
hidden in these shadowy alleyways.
I wish I could wake up in the morning to smooth flesh-
unscarred by yesterday's
pocket of regrets.
I wish I could lay my head
soundly on a chest-
Hear a heart that beats for me
I wish I could scream your name
at the top of my lungs
to the diamonds lining goldmines
in the sky-
Have them hear,
and grant my pleas-
Bring you here to me.
I need you....
carry it with me like a ballon;
light up all the dark crevices
hidden in these shadowy alleyways.
I wish I could wake up in the morning to smooth flesh-
unscarred by yesterday's
pocket of regrets.
I wish I could lay my head
soundly on a chest-
Hear a heart that beats for me
I wish I could scream your name
at the top of my lungs
to the diamonds lining goldmines
in the sky-
Have them hear,
and grant my pleas-
Bring you here to me.
I need you....
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LOVE POEM
Published
21st Jul 2015 8:00pm
21st Jul 2015 8:00pm
Maze
With shoulders far too narrow
to carry this weight, I try to vacate.
Palms are sweaty.
Knuckles, and fingers are swollen;
locked into place to hold the one I have chosen.
A bit too far to turn back now.
A bit too far to imagine
sweet escape.
I'm lost amidst the maze.
I'm locked inside love's gate.
How am I to move?
Suffocating with walls closing in,
I call your name.
Echoes replacing responses.
All I hear is your name.
Desperation,
adoration,
hands that hold too tightly
onto borrowed things.
...
to carry this weight, I try to vacate.
Palms are sweaty.
Knuckles, and fingers are swollen;
locked into place to hold the one I have chosen.
A bit too far to turn back now.
A bit too far to imagine
sweet escape.
I'm lost amidst the maze.
I'm locked inside love's gate.
How am I to move?
Suffocating with walls closing in,
I call your name.
Echoes replacing responses.
All I hear is your name.
Desperation,
adoration,
hands that hold too tightly
onto borrowed things.
...
608 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Jul 2015 9:15pm
20th Jul 2015 9:15pm
I Could
I could let myself love you...
I could also let the grass in front of my suburban home grow wild
I could let myself love you...
I could also leave my windows so carelessly open in the middle of a storm;
let the rain in
I could let myself love you...
I could also run my car around on an eternal quarter tank of gas
I could let myself love you...
I could also leave the lights on 24 hours a day;
run my electric bill as high as the sky
I could let myself love you...
I could also walk around in thunderstorms...
I could also let the grass in front of my suburban home grow wild
I could let myself love you...
I could also leave my windows so carelessly open in the middle of a storm;
let the rain in
I could let myself love you...
I could also run my car around on an eternal quarter tank of gas
I could let myself love you...
I could also leave the lights on 24 hours a day;
run my electric bill as high as the sky
I could let myself love you...
I could also walk around in thunderstorms...
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Jul 2015 1:29am
8th Jul 2015 1:29am
Witnessing The Start
It was a feeling of beautiful simplicity
Held tightly in my arms
A blank-slate made from stars
The whole world lit just a bit brighter
Completely unaware he's already a fighter
It was that place I'd seen once...
A memory so distantly hung
In the corner wraps of my complexities
Something so simple...
Something so pure...
Though it was a rush of an emotion
I'd never felt before
He took me to a place
Before all of the mistakes
Before:
the bumps
the bruises
and...
Held tightly in my arms
A blank-slate made from stars
The whole world lit just a bit brighter
Completely unaware he's already a fighter
It was that place I'd seen once...
A memory so distantly hung
In the corner wraps of my complexities
Something so simple...
Something so pure...
Though it was a rush of an emotion
I'd never felt before
He took me to a place
Before all of the mistakes
Before:
the bumps
the bruises
and...
596 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Jul 2015 00:57am
8th Jul 2015 00:57am
The Most Beautiful Thing
She kept her heart placed on her sleeve
Unaware it was the most beautiful thing
Specters stared as she walked by
No tears
Nor fears
In her innocently naive eyes...
She had a blind-spot a mile wide...
She didn't see the signs...
How could she have known
His heart didn't work like her own
So when her perfectly placed heart broke
Pieces of it flew into the world...
It was the most beautiful thing
Constellations that could light up...
Unaware it was the most beautiful thing
Specters stared as she walked by
No tears
Nor fears
In her innocently naive eyes...
She had a blind-spot a mile wide...
She didn't see the signs...
How could she have known
His heart didn't work like her own
So when her perfectly placed heart broke
Pieces of it flew into the world...
It was the most beautiful thing
Constellations that could light up...
722 reads
4 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
30th Jun 2015 2:55am
30th Jun 2015 2:55am
Lost and Found
Somewhere along the way
we lose our way,
from here to there.
With forks,
Y's,
dead-ends,
and sudden bends
we misplace our roots,
and forget where we've been.
Let us not forget where we've been.
Let us remember the stars,
for they know who we are.
Hold insight the heart of heart lends.
Never are we ever
where we should not be.
A road that's chosen needs then to be seen.
Wrongs turns,
and alleyways,
flood our winding streets.
In the end, my not lost friend,
is the destination we all meet. ...
we lose our way,
from here to there.
With forks,
Y's,
dead-ends,
and sudden bends
we misplace our roots,
and forget where we've been.
Let us not forget where we've been.
Let us remember the stars,
for they know who we are.
Hold insight the heart of heart lends.
Never are we ever
where we should not be.
A road that's chosen needs then to be seen.
Wrongs turns,
and alleyways,
flood our winding streets.
In the end, my not lost friend,
is the destination we all meet. ...
605 reads
2 Comments
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