Submissions by yesteryearsrequiem
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I write therefore I am
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Oct 2013 3:27am
10th Oct 2013 3:27am
Untitled
The wretched ones
The broken
The generation you've damned
The unspoken
He sits and watches you struggle
And pleads for you to carry on
Longs to show you hope is not gone
The patron saint of both mangled and maimed
Forever there and without a name
He watches you fall and dries your tears
As much as he sees you
He sees his younger years
The boy he once was
Both mangled and maimed
The child the world deemed unfit to name
He weeps inside from the pain he's known
But his face lies cold
A fortress of stone...
The broken
The generation you've damned
The unspoken
He sits and watches you struggle
And pleads for you to carry on
Longs to show you hope is not gone
The patron saint of both mangled and maimed
Forever there and without a name
He watches you fall and dries your tears
As much as he sees you
He sees his younger years
The boy he once was
Both mangled and maimed
The child the world deemed unfit to name
He weeps inside from the pain he's known
But his face lies cold
A fortress of stone...
621 reads
3 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2013 9:06pm
2nd Oct 2013 9:06pm
Of Mr.Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary
As I wandered weak and weary
I spread my wings and flew across your plutonian shore
Your stories chilled me
Poems thrilled me
Like no writer ever had before
As Annabel Lee
Comforted me
That love will linger forever more
Deep in the pit
I sit
I sit
As pendulums swings both ripped and tore
Through delicate times
They ripped and tore
Thump Thump
Thump Thump
What's this I hear
A heartbeat hidden
Behind that page bound door
My mind it raced ...
As I wandered weak and weary
I spread my wings and flew across your plutonian shore
Your stories chilled me
Poems thrilled me
Like no writer ever had before
As Annabel Lee
Comforted me
That love will linger forever more
Deep in the pit
I sit
I sit
As pendulums swings both ripped and tore
Through delicate times
They ripped and tore
Thump Thump
Thump Thump
What's this I hear
A heartbeat hidden
Behind that page bound door
My mind it raced ...
664 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2013 8:48pm
2nd Oct 2013 8:48pm
Alone in the Crowd
Noise
So many voices
Poise myself in the defensive for the oncoming onslaught
So many faces
So many people
Chatter tearing my mind apart
And yet
I'm alone
Alone in a crowd
So caught up in their obnoxiously loud conversations
I'm invisible
But
Invisible is not invincible
The pain of raging thoughts sears my cerebellum
Why
So many faces
So many voices
And yet there is no one here
So many voices
Poise myself in the defensive for the oncoming onslaught
So many faces
So many people
Chatter tearing my mind apart
And yet
I'm alone
Alone in a crowd
So caught up in their obnoxiously loud conversations
I'm invisible
But
Invisible is not invincible
The pain of raging thoughts sears my cerebellum
Why
So many faces
So many voices
And yet there is no one here
516 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
30th Sep 2013 5:16am
30th Sep 2013 5:16am
Angels in Blue
There is a story
A story with chapters written in tears
A book with pressed roses hidden between darkened pages
This is the story of you
The story of the joy
The pain
The places and people that you once knew
Teardrops fall and fill pages with thoughts unspoken
A smile stretches from page twelve to thirty-seven
But today that ink laden memory is just a token
Of a chapter you wish you could read once more
A chapter of what came before
Your angels were clad in blue
Instead of reading back let's look at what's ahead
For it...
A story with chapters written in tears
A book with pressed roses hidden between darkened pages
This is the story of you
The story of the joy
The pain
The places and people that you once knew
Teardrops fall and fill pages with thoughts unspoken
A smile stretches from page twelve to thirty-seven
But today that ink laden memory is just a token
Of a chapter you wish you could read once more
A chapter of what came before
Your angels were clad in blue
Instead of reading back let's look at what's ahead
For it...
607 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Sep 2013 4:12am
30th Sep 2013 4:12am
Thinking of You Whoever You Are
Hey you
Yes
I mean you
Angry
Scared
Lost hurt and alone
I've been thinking of you
Yes you
Who ever you may be
You are you
The only you
I would just like to say
You are not alone
You are not unloved
You are not forgotten
You have been on my mind all day
So just remember
When you feel
Alone
Forgotten and unloved
I am here thinking of you
I am loving you
Whoever you may be
You can always know
You will forever have me
Yes
I mean you
Angry
Scared
Lost hurt and alone
I've been thinking of you
Yes you
Who ever you may be
You are you
The only you
I would just like to say
You are not alone
You are not unloved
You are not forgotten
You have been on my mind all day
So just remember
When you feel
Alone
Forgotten and unloved
I am here thinking of you
I am loving you
Whoever you may be
You can always know
You will forever have me
768 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Sep 2013 4:41am
26th Sep 2013 4:41am
Samhain
All hallows eve
As you may know
Is not what it was
So very
Long
Ago
In the days of the druids
The witches' moons
Samhain was a night
Of cheerful tunes
A spirited feast
If you get my jest
Our ghosts and our goblins may have been guests
Dance around the fire
And pray to father oak
Modern day Halloween
Seems as a joke
Speak with mother moon
As souls intertwine
As those of our coven
Partake in mulled wine
Now there is nothing wrong with this new Halloween
But Samhain
Now that...
As you may know
Is not what it was
So very
Long
Ago
In the days of the druids
The witches' moons
Samhain was a night
Of cheerful tunes
A spirited feast
If you get my jest
Our ghosts and our goblins may have been guests
Dance around the fire
And pray to father oak
Modern day Halloween
Seems as a joke
Speak with mother moon
As souls intertwine
As those of our coven
Partake in mulled wine
Now there is nothing wrong with this new Halloween
But Samhain
Now that...
969 reads
9 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
25th Sep 2013 4:33am
25th Sep 2013 4:33am
Our Dance
Our movements as one
To an otherworldly tempo
Cascading freedom soaks me to the bone
For no obstacle can stop her flow
So the same shall be said of mine
Thundering skies clap to the rhythm
The beat only the privileged may hear
Lightening splits the darkness
Illuminating this moment in eternity
Surrounded by her
And yet just out of my grasp
The others look on
Unable to hear the storms' siren song
For they listen with their ears
While I with my soul
They must think me a fool
But somewhere inside
They too
Long to dance with...
To an otherworldly tempo
Cascading freedom soaks me to the bone
For no obstacle can stop her flow
So the same shall be said of mine
Thundering skies clap to the rhythm
The beat only the privileged may hear
Lightening splits the darkness
Illuminating this moment in eternity
Surrounded by her
And yet just out of my grasp
The others look on
Unable to hear the storms' siren song
For they listen with their ears
While I with my soul
They must think me a fool
But somewhere inside
They too
Long to dance with...
674 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
24th Sep 2013 1:11am
24th Sep 2013 1:11am
I Write, Therefore I Am
I write
Therefore I am
My words are me
And not the man
My skin holds life
And death you see
But words
They touch eternity
My words they hold
My very soul
The me from now
And days of old
The me I hope that I can be
That's trapped by skin
But words
Set free
I write
Therefore I am
In life
I'm just a humble man
My body shall fade
Unto the dust
But words
Words will hold a life for me
A life into eternity
I write
Therefore I am
Therefore I am
My words are me
And not the man
My skin holds life
And death you see
But words
They touch eternity
My words they hold
My very soul
The me from now
And days of old
The me I hope that I can be
That's trapped by skin
But words
Set free
I write
Therefore I am
In life
I'm just a humble man
My body shall fade
Unto the dust
But words
Words will hold a life for me
A life into eternity
I write
Therefore I am
851 reads
6 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
23rd Sep 2013 6:48pm
23rd Sep 2013 6:48pm
Not Here
Aghast
I stare in wonderment
A light
Surly not here
Not here inside
Not in this home of darkness
Insecurity and fear's abode
Not in this place of claw gouged walls
Where the monsters run rampant
Where the beast behind the mirror's eyes
Has made his home inside
A light
Not here
It couldn't be
A growing light inside
A shred
A glow of hope
Grow
Dear god please grow
I will hide this precious light
So he will never see
For surly he'd extinguish it
The moment that he...
I stare in wonderment
A light
Surly not here
Not here inside
Not in this home of darkness
Insecurity and fear's abode
Not in this place of claw gouged walls
Where the monsters run rampant
Where the beast behind the mirror's eyes
Has made his home inside
A light
Not here
It couldn't be
A growing light inside
A shred
A glow of hope
Grow
Dear god please grow
I will hide this precious light
So he will never see
For surly he'd extinguish it
The moment that he...
784 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Sep 2013 6:41am
23rd Sep 2013 6:41am
A faithful friend
Misery my dearest muse
I fear your lessons I've abused
You see
The company you've given me
Has woken who I wish to be
And though you've told me time and again
I still find love
A faithful friend
Misery please
Understand
I know you wish to hold my hand
And one day I might
Return again
But just for now
Let me pretend
That love has been my faithful friend
For she is warm
With good intent
Though so much time
With you was spent
Misery
My dear old friend
Please
Give love and I...
I fear your lessons I've abused
You see
The company you've given me
Has woken who I wish to be
And though you've told me time and again
I still find love
A faithful friend
Misery please
Understand
I know you wish to hold my hand
And one day I might
Return again
But just for now
Let me pretend
That love has been my faithful friend
For she is warm
With good intent
Though so much time
With you was spent
Misery
My dear old friend
Please
Give love and I...
761 reads
1 Comment
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
22nd Sep 2013 6:24am
22nd Sep 2013 6:24am
Planted for Theo
Branches sway
And roots descend
Allow my process to begin
Summer's end
Brings life anew
My lovely cloak
A different hue
As snowflakes fall
I slumber fast
A dream that spring
Will come at last
From barren bough
Life sprouts forth
I stand so tall
To watch the world morph
From bleak and white
To fresh and new
The small ones scurry through morning dew
The cycle is there
I've seen it now
As my newest cloak
Drapes barren bough
And roots descend
Allow my process to begin
Summer's end
Brings life anew
My lovely cloak
A different hue
As snowflakes fall
I slumber fast
A dream that spring
Will come at last
From barren bough
Life sprouts forth
I stand so tall
To watch the world morph
From bleak and white
To fresh and new
The small ones scurry through morning dew
The cycle is there
I've seen it now
As my newest cloak
Drapes barren bough
533 reads
8 Comments
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